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U.S. orders pull-out of American embassy personnel from Niger amid coup

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The decision to pull U.S. diplomats out of the West African country, which POLITICO first reported was in the works, is a difficult one politically for President Joe Biden.

Niger, which only recently transitioned to democracy, is a key U.S. partner in the battle against terrorism, and the U.S. military has a presence in the country. The Biden team is struggling with whether to even formally declare the events a coup, because doing so could endanger its U.S. military aid

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US orders family of personnel at the US Embassy in Ukraine to leave

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The State Department on Sunday ordered the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine to leave the country from today amid heightened fears of a Russian invasion.

The department told the dependents of staffers at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv that they must leave the country. It also said that non-essential embassy staff could leave Ukraine at the government’s expense due to ‘increased threats of Russian military action’. 

It comes as the UK also started withdrawing

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