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Kabul airlift is accelerating but still hampered by chaos

by Darlene SupervilleRobert Burns
| August 22, 2021 9:30 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the “hard and painful” airlift of Americans and tens of thousands of others from Afghanistan's capital is accelerating, but he would not rule out extending it beyond the Aug. 31 deadline he set before the Taliban's swift takeover.

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