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NNA - Saudi Ambassador Ali Awadh al-Asseiri said on Thursday, in a phone call with the National News Agency, that the Embassy urged Saudi nationals to leave Lebanon, considering the alarming security situation.

A pair of suspected U.S. drone strikes killed four al Qaeda militants in Yemen as the United States maintained a heightened security alert in the country and urged all Americans to leave immediately. Security sources told CNN about the strikes but didn't offer additional details. A Yemeni official said four drone strikes have been carried out in the past 10 days. None of those killed on Tuesday were among the 25 names on the country's most-wanted list, security officials said. It is unclear whether the strikes were related to the added security alert in the country after U.S. officials intercepted...

Pinni Shendorfi, the Haredi soldier from Nahal who refused the orders of his commanders to evacuate Jewish residents from three residential buildings in Yitzhar last Thursday, was brought before a court Tuesday and was removed from his combat position. Shendorfi refused the orders, saying he will not take part in a "mission against Jews." Pinni's mother, Ronit, said her son was not worried about possible jail time but was more worried that he would be taken out of combat, where he very much wanted to remain. ....

An alert has been declared at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County. Orange County Sheriff’s officials say that there was an incident at the plant at approximately 3:10 p.m. Tuesday, prompting an alert. Southern California Edison tells CBS 2 that the incident is “an ammonia leak that is being contained.” The leak occurred in a steam system used to drive the station’s turbines, SCE said. The leak is not nuclear. No radiation is currently escaping from the power plant, Lt. Roland Chacon said. The Orange County Emergency Operations Center has been activated. No evacuations have been...

Tsunami Warnings/Advisories Occurred at 14:46 JST 11 Mar 2011 Region name Sanriku Oki Depth about 20km Magnitude 8.8 Issued at 1350 JST Issued at 13:50 JST 12 Mar 2011 *******************Text******************** Changed; Tsunami Warning --> Tsunami Warning Tsunami > EASTERN PART OF PACIFIC COAST OF HOKKAIDO CENTRAL PART OF PACIFIC COAST OF HOKKAIDO WESTERN PART OF PACIFIC COAST OF HOKKAIDO IBARAKI PREF. WAKAYAMA PREF. KOCHI PREF. Tsunami Warning --> Tsunami Advisory Tsunami Advisory> JAPAN SEA COAST OF AOMORI PREF. KUJUKURI AND SOTOBO AREA, CHIBA PREF. UCHIBO AREA, CHIBA PREF. IZU ISLANDS OGASAWARA ISLANDS SAGAMI BAY AND MIURA PENINSULA SHIZUOKA PREF. TOKUSHIMA...

State Department to Americans in Egypt: Get out now Monday, February 7, 2011 - 12:24 PM Share Despite what appears to be greater calm on the streets in Egypt over the weekend, the State Department sent out a new Travel Warning on Sunday, Feb. 6, that instructs all American citizens to leave Egypt now. The new, stronger alert replaces a previous Travel Warning from Feb. 1 that called for the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel and their families. The State Department had been chartering planes to help evacuate American citizens from Cairo, but those flights have now stopped. Nevertheless,...

Thousands of passengers were stranded at Cairo's airport on Saturday as flights were canceled or delayed, leaving them unable to leave because of a government-imposed curfew. Several Arab nations, meanwhile, moved to evacuate their citizens. As Egypt's unrest neared its sixth day, the cancelations of flights and the arrival of several largely empty aircraft appeared to herald an ominous erosion of key tourism revenue for the country, hitting hard at its pocketbook even as protesters centered many of their grievances on the grinding poverty they endure daily. Europeans and Russians account for a major chunk of the tourists to Egypt,...

KABUL, April 16, 2010 – Afghan and international forces captured several insurgents, evacuated civilians after an explosion, and seized enemy weapons stockpiles in recent operations, military officials in Afghanistan reported. -- A combined Afghan-international security force detained several suspected militants in a rural area of northeaster Marja in Helmand province this morning. -- In the Tarini Kot district of Uruzgan province this morning, a combined force found a 105 mm artillery round, a grenade and four mortar rounds. -- In Kandahar City last night, the International Security Assistance Force helped Afghan forces in evacuating and treating wounded civilians after a...

SAN MATEO, Calif. (CBS) - An apparent pipebomb exploded Monday morning inside Hillsdale High School in San Mateo [California] but there were no injuries, according to authorities. Lt. Mike Brunicardi of the San Mateo Police Dept. said the person believed responsible for setting off the explosive device was in police custody and being questioned.

'We'll evacuate 23 outposts very soon'

TYLER, Texas - Hurricane Gustav didn't barrel ashore as the devastating terror everyone feared, leaving some of the 2 million people who evacuated second-guessing their decision to flee. Better safe than sorry? Definitely, evacuees said. But better home than stranded elsewhere, too.

BEIRUT (AP) - United Nations peacekeepers were dispatched Friday to evacuate about 350 Lebanese soldiers and police detained by Israeli forces in Marjayoun after Israeli soldiers swept into the southern Lebanese town, the UN command said. Two armoured vehicles from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, a 2,000-member peacekeeping force deployed in southern Lebanon, headed to Marjayoun, which Israeli forces occupied on Thursday, "to facilitate" the withdrawal of the Lebanese force to government territory in the north. But the UN unit, which made it to the Marjayoun barracks, was unable to leave with the Lebanese force because the roads out...

WASHINGTON, July 21, 2006 – Military aircraft and sea vessels will evacuate more than 4,000 Americans from Lebanon today, DoD officials said. Officials expect the USS Trenton, the USS Whidbey Island and the contract carrier Rahmah to carry around 4,200 American citizens to safety, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Gary Keck said. The Navy ships will carry evacuees to Cyprus, and the Rahmah will carry roughly 1,400 Americans to Mersin, Turkey. Cypriot officials said they expect roughly 60,000 evacuees of all nationalities in the country, and the evacuation is straining its resources. Turkey has offered the seaport of Mersin as an...

JAKARTA (AFP) - Thousands of people have evacuated from the slopes of Indonesia's menacing Mount Merapi as lava flows spread further around the slopes of the volcano, officials have said. The volcano was put on red alert -- indicating a feared imminent eruption -- on May 13 but residents have been particularly nervous since a deadly earthquake rocked the region 10 days ago. A natural ridge formed by an eruption early in the last century and known as Geger Boyo which had so far helped contain larger lava flows to the southwest and west of the mountain has collapsed, they...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2006 – Coalition forces conducted several medical evacuations of Afghans yesterday, officials said. The medical evacuations occurred for three separate incidents. Two Afghans were injured by an anti-personnel mine near Deh Rawod, in Uruzgan province, an Afghan was injured in a blasting incident during a reconstruction project and a taxi struck another. All four individuals were listed in stable condition. "We provide the major medical treatment first and then we will release the patient to local medical facilities," Capt. Michael Ball, the medical logistics officer for the coalition's Combined Joint Task Force 76, said. Coalition forces conducted...

WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Just weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast region, Hurricane Ophelia threatened communities along the East Coast, forcing military bases to act fast. As of Sept. 14, 48 F-15E Strike Eagles, three KC-135 Stratotankers and 180 people had evacuated from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., to here. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., sent four C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and 45 people. Aircraft and people began arriving Sept. 12. "(This base) provides a safe haven for other bases to protect their aircraft," said Col. Peter Oertel, 88th Operations Support...

AP Photo GAGB101Associated Press WriterATLANTA (AP) - As Valerie Bennett was evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs. She pleaded. ``I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring,'' the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday. They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a plastic tub containing the medicines her husband, a liver transplant recipient, needed to survive. Such emotional scenes were repeated perhaps thousands of times along the Gulf Coast last week as pet owners were forced to...

“You should have much success and do not evacuate.” So wrote soldiers of the 51st battalion of the Golani Brigade in a fax sent to the residents of Gush Katif. The letter, signed “Liron and Gal from Car 51,” began the letter with words of thanks for the refreshments area set up by residents to provide soldiers with a place to rest. It went on to urge the residents not to leave their homes. “You give us strength to continue,” the soldiers wrote, by hand, on the official stationary with hearts drawn for emphasis. “We have not met many people...

Fla. Key Residents Evacuate As Ivan Nears NewsMax Wires Friday, Sept. 10, 2004 KEY WEST, Fla. -- Before Florida could catch a breath from a furious hurricane double-whammy, residents of the Keys were sent scurrying Friday under new evacuation orders as powerful Hurricane Ivan took aim at the state. In South Florida, long lines reappeared at gas stations while shoppers snapped up hurricane supplies at home building stores and supermarkets in preparation for the possibility of a third strike in a month - this time by Hurricane Ivan, which forecasters said could slam Florida's narrow island chain as early as...

A senior U.N. Security Council diplomat has told NewsMax that, in effect, Kofi Annan’s decision to evacuate the U.N. center in Baghdad was no more than a political stunt. The pullout by the U.N. only involves 16 people in Baghdad, who will leave for 6 weeks and go to Cyprus. 45 others in the northern city of Erbil will remain, so we asked, "With only 16 people left out of almost 300 before the attack in August, why the move to evacuate?” We were told that this is no more than "political window dressing;" it is more PR than anything...