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Turkish Airlines extends flight suspension into June amid pandemic

Photo: Credit Reuters Turkey’s national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines (THY) announced late Wednesday it was extending the cancellation of its flights amid the coronavirus pandemic. Domestic flights will be grounded until June 4 and international flights until June 10, the carrier said in a statement. The company, which carried more than 74 million passengers last

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EasyJet reveals ‘sophisticated’ hack of customer details

U.K.-based budget airline easyJet said Tuesday that “highly sophisticated” hackers accessed the email addresses and travel details of approximately 9 million customers. It also said that following a “forensic” investigation, it found that the credit card details of only 2,208 people were accessed and that those affected have already been contacted. It added that all

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162 Somali-American, Canadian and British travellers left Mogadishu

Photo/Somali Times Ethiopian Airlines has taken off about 162 people trapped in the city of Adan Adde after being stopped by most of the world, due to Coronavirus. These are Somali-American, Canadian and British who have been isolated in the Somali capital in recent weeks. The US embassy, ​​who had originally arranged the flight, wanted

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Light Kenyan Aircraft Brought Down by Rocket Propelled Grenade in Somalia

A light Kenyan aircraft with 6 crew members has been brought down after getting hit with a rocket-propelled grenade in Somalia while landing. The Embraer 120 plane with tail registration 5Y AXO and belonging to African Express was landing in Bardale town when it was hit with an RPG in what is now believed to

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Trump says immigration measure will be in effect for 60 days, will be evaluated afterward

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will be issuing a temporary suspension of immigration into the United States and the measure will be in effect for

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Coronavirus; State extends ban on foreign flights

The government has extended the ban on international flights by 30 days as it intensifies the fight against spread of coronavirus. An earlier two-week ban that came into effect on March 25, will expire on midnight Sunday. “After serious consideration of the situation, the government has extended the ban [on international flights] for another 30

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Saudi official urges Muslims to delay hajj plans over virus

Muslims circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, March 7, 2020. Few worshippers were allowed to enter after dawn prayers to circumambulate the Kaaba over fears of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) A senior Saudi official urged more than 1 million Muslims intending

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Somali Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation says, ‘Ethiopian Airlines does not comply the decision to suspend international flights’.

Photo/Somali Times Somali Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Mohamed Abdullahi Salat Omar for the first time talked about why Ethiopian Airlines failed to comply with the Somali government’s decision to suspend international flights to the country. The minister acknowledged that the aircraft had been regularly scheduled to land in Hargeisa, Somaliland, and that the

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Kenya: Uhuru, Ruto travel bill up Sh203 million in six months

President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) with his deputy William Ruto as he left for a State visit to the US in the past President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto increased their travel expenditure by 62.4 percent or Sh203 million in the six months to December 2019 despite the government’s austerity drive to curb spend.

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KQ suspends flights to Bangkok, Mogadishu and Djibouti over coronavirus

Earlier, Kenya Airways’s CEO Allan Kilavuka agreed to a 35 per cent pay cut to reduce costs in a bid to optimise operations. Also, daily flights from Nairobi to Kigali Rwanda has been reduced from two to one. Kenya Airways has suspended its flights on four routes in the wake of coronavirus. In a statement

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