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EU countries have continued to evacuate their citizens from Lebanon as hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah escalate and fears of a wider regional war in the Middle East grow. Germany flew another 130 of its citizens out of the country on board a military plane that landed in Frankfurt late on Wednesday evening. The foreign and defence ministries said the Airbus A330 belonging to the Multinational Multi Role Tanker Transport Unit an international air transport fleet was sent to Beirut to bring back particularly endangered Germans. It was a risk. So every time we went out on the stre