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1. Evacuation flight have assumed with a new urgency a day after two suicide bombings targeted thousands of desperate people seeing the Taliban's takeover. 2. US forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule braced for more attacks on Friday after an Islamic State suicide bomber killed 85 people, including 13 US soldiers outside the gates of Kabul airport. 3. US President Joe Biden pledges Thursday to hunt down the perpetrators of the suicide bombings that killed 12 American troops in Kabul and said the United States will not be deterred from its mission to evacuate thousands of civilians from Afghanistan. 4. Britain says Friday that it plans to complete its evacuations out of Afghanistan "in a matter of hours". Germany ends its evacuation mission. 5. The country adds 44,658 fresh cases over the last 24 hours while deaths from COVID-19 rose by 496. Kerala contributed 30,077 cases in the past 24 hours to take the total number of those affected in the state by the viral infection to 39,13,506. 6. Malvinder Singh Mali quits as Punjab Congress branch chief Navjot Singh Sidhu's adviser today, day after the party threatens to dismiss him over his controversial remarks if Mr Sidhu fails to remove him.