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Egypt announces first flight to Qatar after 3-year hiatus
Travel
January 13, 2021
Egypt announces first flight to Qatar after 3-year hiatus
Chairman and CEO of EgyptAir Holding Company Roshdy Zakaria announced on Wednesday that the first flight from Cairo to Doha…
Jordan sentences man to death for stabbings at tourist site
Middle East
January 12, 2021
Jordan sentences man to death for stabbings at tourist site
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan on Tuesday sentenced a man to death by hanging for a 2019 stabbing attack at…
Egyptian winner of Spain’s Best Young Entrepreneur Award: “My mother is my role model”
Egypt
January 12, 2021
Egyptian winner of Spain’s Best Young Entrepreneur Award: “My mother is my role model”
Starting in Cairo’s Shubra neighborhood, young engineer Omar Abdel-Gayed left Egypt after graduating from Helwan Engineering Faculty in 2009 to…
Indonesia retrieves ‘black box’ from crashed Sriwijaya Air plane -official
World
January 12, 2021
Indonesia retrieves ‘black box’ from crashed Sriwijaya Air plane -official
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian authorities have retrieved one of the black boxes from a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into…
Qatar Airways flight lands in Saudi Arabia for 1st time in years
Middle East
January 12, 2021
Qatar Airways flight lands in Saudi Arabia for 1st time in years
A passenger plane flew from Qatar to Saudi Arabia on Monday, making it the first direct flight between the two Gulf states…
Lebanon tightens lockdown, imposes 24-hour curfew, as hospitals buckle
Middle East
January 12, 2021
Lebanon tightens lockdown, imposes 24-hour curfew, as hospitals buckle
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon announced a tightening of its lockdown on Monday, introducing a 24-hour curfew from Thursday as COVID-19…
The world’s most powerful passports for 2021
Travel
January 11, 2021
The world’s most powerful passports for 2021
(CNN) — The days of strolling into an airport, flashing a passport, then hopping on a flight to wherever one…
Bahrain says it will open airspace to Qatar from Monday
Middle East
January 11, 2021
Bahrain says it will open airspace to Qatar from Monday
DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain will open its airspace to Qatar as of January 11, the civil aviation affairs authority said…
Indonesian divers find parts of plane wreckage in Java Sea
World
January 10, 2021
Indonesian divers find parts of plane wreckage in Java Sea
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian divers on Sunday located parts of the wreckage of a Boeing 737-500 at a depth…
Indonesia jet carrying 62 goes missing on domestic flight
World
January 9, 2021
Indonesia jet carrying 62 goes missing on domestic flight
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A Sriwijaya Air passenger jet carrying 62 people lost contact with air traffic controllers after taking…