India has announced it will ground all domestic flights from Tuesday night in stepped up efforts to battle the Covid-19 outbreak. The latest measure was confirmed by the Ministry of Home Affairs. The restrictions will apply to “domestic scheduled commercial airlines,” a post on the ministry’s Twitter account said. “Airlines have to plan operations to land at their destination before 2359,” on March 24, the post […]
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Saudi Arabia has suspended all travel for residents and grounded flights to a number of coronavirus hotspots across Europe and Asia, Saudi state media reported on Thursday. One the kingdom’s most significant steps yet to stem the lethal outbreak, the move will cut off travel to the whole of the European Union, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Sudan and South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Djibouti, Somalia […]
BERLIN—Martina Angermann was a popular mayor in Arnsdorf, a picturesque little town of about 5,000 people east of Dresden. She’d been in office since 2001. But when a conservative carpenter named Detlef Oelsner, whom she’d bested in past elections, and a businessman who blamed her for sabotaging his real estate development plans launched a hate-filled campaign to take her down, no one in her town stood […]
‘We have tried to expose the fact that there were people who could have been killed as a result of foreign mercenaries being hired by the UAE,’ Hakan Camuz says Yemen has been driven to the brink of famine during fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis based in Sanaa, and the Saudi-backed government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. Of the 20 million civilians under threat in […]