11.   Aid agencies evacuate staff from Liberia.

12.   Aid agencies planned to evacuate nonessential staff.

13.   As the storm approached on Wednesday, some offshore oil rigs had shut down, and evacuated nonessential staff to land.

14.   At the American Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, some staff were evacuated and others were isolated after a suspicious package was delivered to the office.

15.   At Stormont, the center of British administration for Northern Ireland in east Belfast, meanwhile, staff were evacuated after a telephoned bomb threat.

16.   Company officials said they were considering evacuating their staff.

17.   Embassy spokesman Richard Gong said all visa services were stopped last Friday when the embassy closed its counselor office and began evacuating non-essential staff.

18.   Forty staff were evacuated.

19.   Israel closed its airspace to foreign flights and evacuated staff from diplomatic missions and Jewish institutions around the world.

20.   Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil Corp. suspended operations in the region last week and evacuated its staff after repeated attacks by rebels.