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The last group of 27 Thais are finally heading home from war-ravaged Ukraine, the Royal Thai Embassy in Warsaw announced in a Facebook post on Monday.

Civilian evacuations via humanitarian corridors halted in two Ukrainian cities on Saturday, causing a temporary setback to a truce between Russia and Ukraine.

Another 61 Thai nationals returned home safely from war-ravaged Ukraine on Saturday. So far, 203 Thais have been brought back since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.

The Foreign Ministry has established an evacuation centre for Thais in Ukraine at the Tsisar Hotel in Lviv.

The Foreign Ministry has drawn up an emergency plan to evacuate Thai nationals from Ukraine if diplomatic efforts for a peaceful resolution to the ongoing crisis with Russia fail.

Some former residents have begun “preparatory stays” in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, staying overnight for the first time since the 2011 nuclear disaster, as part of preparations to return there permanently.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden said Sunday that the U.S. military is "executing a plan" to move stranded American citizens to the Kabul airport in greater numbers, including through an expansion of a safe zone around the facility and by creating conduits for people to access the compound "safely and effectively."

The wildfire started with a car that caught fire after a crash, and has forced the evacuation of at least 1,500 people from their homes. It has devastated some 20,000 hectares of land so far.

Authorities urged people in Hawaii Wednesday to evacuate an area at risk of being cut off by a flood of lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano.

LANDSLIDES HAVE continued in a waste dump zone at the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) Mae Moh mine in Lampang province.

Residents of a community alongside the Mul River in Ubon Ratchathani are now living in tents after being flooded out of their homes.