"We estimate that several hundred Britons have been evacuated, including some 300 who have been relocated to evacuations centres in the La Cala de Mijas and Calahonda areas.
Tony Abbott is holding firm against calls to send Australian medical experts to west Africa to help contain the Ebola virus, saying that other countries have yet to give firm commitments to assist in evacuations.
Between 1928 and 1964 there were at least four round-ups and forced evacuations and indigenous people were banned from entering Alice Springs.
Residents awoke to the sound of an aircraft, which appeared to be a US P-3 Orion, a manned surveillance plane, shortly before the embassy evacuations.
The result is error on the side of caution: since the 1950s, 75% of tsunami warnings that led to evacuations have turned out to be false alarms.
"The city simply cannot be in a position of subsidising the nation's housing programme for evacuations," he says.Still, it is unlikely that everyone, especially the elderly, the disabled and single mothers, will have found jobs.
The ruling junta was criticised for failing to organise evacuations ahead of the cyclone, for the slowness of its relief effort and for obstructing the arrival of foreign aid workers and supplies.
If there were another disaster tomorrow, the prime minister still could not call on specially trained experts or employ the full legal powers to cope with it, for example by ordering evacuations.
But no planes have fallen out of the sky, and evacuations and other local problems caused by the eruptions haven't been the focus of the news coverage.Instead, when non-Icelandic media cover the eruptions, they tend to use pictures and video that make the volcanoes look cool like something you might want to see for yourself.
Military experts say that Russian ships dispatched to the port of Tartus, where Russia has a naval base, look as if they are preparing for evacuations, suggesting that people in the Kremlin think things will get worse.
In what is described as the largest evacuation in California's history, some half a million people have been advised to leave their homes.The worst devastation, and most of the evacuations, have happened in San Diego county.
