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This came after President Joe Biden refused his request to extend the time frame for US troops departing Afghanistan.
Germany currently has some 148,000 – or around 5.5 percent – of Afghan refugees counted in late 2020.
Germany has said it will continue evacuation flights as long as possible, and by early on Thursday morning, the German military had evacuated 5,193 people on 34 flights.
Overall, Germany had said it had identified 10,000 people who needed to be evacuated, including Afghan local staff, journalists and human rights activists.
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