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United Nations to evacuate hundreds of staff from Afghanistan

The United Nations is to start evacuating hundreds of its international staff from Afghanistan after an attack by Taliban militants last month killed five foreign staff.

UN spokesman Aleem Siddique said the United Nations would relocate about 600 of its 1,100 international staff in total.

Some will be moved to safer sites within Afghanistan while the rest will be withdrawn from the country.