Europeans start leaving Lebanon
Foreign governments are drawing up plans for a voluntary evacuation of their nationals from Lebanon as Israel kept up air strikes against its neighbour in retaliation for attacks by Hezbollah militants.
Britain is to send two Royal Navy warships to the Middle East as part of the contingency plans for a possible evacuation, the ministry of defence said in London on Saturday.France, Italy and Sweden followed Britain's lead in preparing to evacuate their citizens, mainly by land to Syria or by ferry to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.France began deploying some 800 military personnel plus aircraft to Lebanon, chartered a ferry and dispatched two warships as part of its major operation to evacuate its own citizens and others to Cyprus.
Cyprus as a European Union member said on Friday that it was ready to support a joint EU-coordinated mass evacuation of Europeans stranded in Lebanon.
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