Ukrainians boarded buses to flee the eastern city of Sumy on Tuesday, the first evacuation from a Ukrainian city through a humanitarian corridor agreed with Russia.

Russia and Ukraine blamed each other on Saturday for a failure to provide safe passage to civilians fleeing two cities on the 10th day of a Russian “special military operation”.

Here are the latest developments in Afghanistan following the second takeover of the country by the Taliban militant group on August 15:

Western troops at Kabul airport worked frantically on Tuesday to evacuate people from Afghanistan before an Aug. 31 deadline as U.S. President Joe Biden faced pressure to negotiate more time for the airlift of thousands trying to flee.

A group of Indian pilgrims in Iran have gathered in front of their country’s embassy in Tehran to denounce the New Delhi government’s failure to consider their demand for evacuation after more than two weeks of being stranded over fears of exposure to the new coronavirus.

The strong 7.7-magnitude earthquake registered in the waters of the Caribbean was felt in several provinces of Cuba and provoked the evacuation of people from buildings in Havana, without any immediate damage being reported.

The Syrian Army warned civilians to leave the country’s northwestern Idlib Province as it prepares for a final military campaign to flush terrorists out of the region.

India will use boats, buses and trains to evacuate 800,000 people along its east coast on Thursday ahead of an approaching cyclone that is forecast to make landfall within 24 hours, officials said.

Iran evacuated tens of thousands of residents of the southwestern city of Ahvaz on Wednesday as floodwaters entered the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan Province.

Japan will for the first time next month lift an evacuation order in one of two towns where the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is located, officials said Tuesday.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry condemned on Monday the evacuation of hundreds of trapped White Helmets rescue workers and their relatives from Syria's south through Israel.

Nearly 90 buses and several ambulances arrived in Kefraya and al-Foua, both in Syria’s northwestern Idlib Province, as part of an evacuation deal to get locals out of the Shia-majority towns, which have been besieged by terrorists since March 2015.

Terrorists and their relatives began evacuating Syria’s southern city of Dara’a on Sunday under a deal to bring the cradle of the protests that sparked the country’s seven-year war back under government control.

Asked about the latest evacuations due to the mystery illness, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the US had not formally raised the matter with Beijing.

Molten rock from several lava-spewing fissures opened by Kilauea Volcano crept toward clusters of homes and vacation rentals on the eastern tip of Hawaii's Big Island on Wednesday, prompting authorities to usher residents out of the area as a precaution. Evacuation of the area came on the 28th day of what geologists rank as one of the biggest upheavals in a century from one of the world's most active volcanoes.