**A message from Google: Google connects millions of people to UK publishers, big and small - from broadsheets to freesheets, village papers, daily red tops, and more. It means the government is working on the basis that it only has a matter of hours before fighting potentially resumes. In a tweet late last night, Cleverly reiterated that the 72-hour ceasefire is soon due to end at midnight local time (22:00 GMT). Around 2,000 of these have requested help but an official working on the evacuation told Playbook this number has grown by hundreds since the crisis began. nationals in Sudan have been airlifted out. Race against the clock: That means less than a tenth of the 4,000 U.K. Two more flights were due to take off for Cyprus, where evacuees are stopping en route to London, last night. nationals and the remaining 175 were of other nationalities, including dependents. According to internal figures seen by Playbook, 361 of these evacuees were U.K. Overnight update: A total of 536 people had been evacuated on six flights since the operation began on Tuesday, according to FCDO stats issued at 9.40 p.m. Meanwhile in a basement on King Charles Street: Officials are sitting two-a-desk and working round the clock in a Foreign Office crisis center handling the operation. DRIVING THE DAYĮVACUATION DAY 3: Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is about to embark on a tour of morning broadcast studios with the latest news on the government’s evacuation of British citizens from Sudan. Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser
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