The British military has so far evacuated 7,109 people out of Afghan capital Kabul, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said. The figure includes embassy staff, British nationals, those eligible under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) programme, and a number of nationals from partner nations, the MoD said late on Monday. Armed forces minister James Heappey said UK nationals and more than 2,200 Afghans who helped British forces are the “focus” of the government’s evacuation efforts. “We will get out as many as we possibly can but we have been clear throughout that there is a hard reality that we won’t be able to get out everybody that we want to,” Heappey said on Monday. He added, “The airlift is not the only route out of Afghanistan, not the only route to the UK.” Leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) countries will hold an emergency summit …
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