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UN staff evacuated with flights from Egypt

Cairo, Egypt - By yesterday the government eased the curfew

Today the United Nations moved to Cairo to evacuate much of its staff in Egypt. About 160 Americans were at the airport out of 5,000 passengers of various nationalities, waiting for commercial or government-chartered flights the day after the protests on the streets of the Egyptian capital degenerated into a bloody brawl. The U.N. has sent in two chartered aircraft to take 350 staff and...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1125445
Rome, Italy, 02/03/2011 19:50
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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