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UK plea for US to extend Kabul airlift may fall on deaf ears

by Jill Lawless
| August 23, 2021 5:51 AM

LONDON (AP) — Britain urged the United States on Monday to extend its evacuation effort in Kabul past the Aug. 31 deadline — but conceded that if the U.S. ignores the request, an international airlift of thousands fleeing the Taliban takeover will end within days.

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