{"id":29674,"date":"2024-08-03T18:50:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T15:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=29674"},"modified":"2024-08-03T18:52:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T15:52:59","slug":"29674","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/29674\/","title":{"rendered":"US, UK urge citizens to leave Lebanon immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US embassy in Lebanon urged its citizens Saturday to leave Lebanon on \u201cany ticket available\u201d, amid fears of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah and a broader regional conflict.<br \/>\nDespite flight suspensions and cancellations, \u201ccommercial transportation options to leave Lebanon remain available\u201d, the embassy statement said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe encourage those who wish to depart Lebanon to book any ticket available to them, even if that flight does not depart immediately or does not follow their first-choice route.\u201d<br \/>\nThe UK government also urged its citizens in Lebanon to leave the country immediately.<br \/>\n\u201cTensions are high, and the situation could deteriorate rapidly,\u201d Foreign Minister David Lammy said in a statement.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile we are working round the clock to strengthen our consular presence in Lebanon, my message to British nationals there is clear &#8211; leave now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 The US embassy in Lebanon urged its citizens Saturday to leave Lebanon on \u201cany ticket available\u201d, amid fears of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah and a broader regional conflict. Despite flight suspensions and cancellations, \u201ccommercial transportation options to leave Lebanon remain available\u201d, the embassy statement said. \u201cWe encourage those who &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29678,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29674\/revisions\/29678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}