1.   Germany and the Netherlands also have encouraged their citizens to leave, and Germany was readying contingency plans to evacuate its embassy.

2.   The embassy was evacuated for several hours while sniffer dogs searched the embassy and a nearby building housing embassy offices and found nothing, a spokeswoman said.

3.   The embassy was evacuated and was expected to reopen on Sunday, Western diplomats said.

4.   The Tajik Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the U.S. government had decided to evacuate its embassy from the Central Asian nation.

5.   Turkey also decided to evacuate its embassy in Belgrade on Thursday, the ministry said.

6.   Ukraine, he said, has devised plans to evacuate its embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan if the lives and health of the personnel come in danger.

7.   He said the embassy was completely evacuated following the anonymous calls but a subsequent search, in cooperation with the Jakarta police, turned up no bombs.

8.   Holding out a carrot and a stick, Russian diplomacy is trying to re-establish its influence in Afghanistan three years after evacuating its embassy in Kabul.

9.   According to sources in Kabul, Iran evacuated its embassy on Monday.

10.   The news agency did not say when the Iranian diplomats left but according to sources in Kabul, they evacuated the embassy on Monday.