In recent years, British newspapers have withdrawn staff reporters right across Europe, and not only to save money.
They say, however, that the same technology that let reporters and camera crews arrive ahead of aid shipments will let them withdraw staff from the country but return with relative ease when events call for it.
Sweden yesterday signalled it would withdraw staff from Sri Lanka following the departure of Danish and Finnish monitors, who pulled out of the unarmed mission after the EU classified the Tamil Tigers as "terrorists".
Since May 2006, UNICEF has received reports of 23 incidences of non-governmental organizations – essential implementing partners for our agency – being forced to withdraw staff from areas of Darfur because of growing insecurity.
Senate Republicans eventually withdrew their staff support.
ROME — Italy closed its consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and withdrew its staff because of security concerns, after an attempted ambush of the Italian consul over the weekend.
Nearly all foreign embassies withdrew their staff from Tripoli last summer when the capital was taken over by the Libya Dawn coalition.
The United Nations withdrew its staff from a portion of the troubled western region of Darfur, citing threats to attack aid convoys from militias aligned with the government.
And though critics now attack the report as partisan, it was only made so when the Republicans withdrew their staff from participation (thereby shirking their constitutional responsibility).
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The United States closed its embassy in Syria on Monday and withdrew its staff in the face of escalating mayhem for which American officials blamed the Syrian government's unbridled repression of an 11-month-old uprising.
