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Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, declared on Monday that his country rejected the violation of its airspace by Israel. “We cannot remain silent in the face of Israeli aggressions,” Mikati said, adding that further…
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Iran’s Mehr news agency removed a report on Wednesday from its official channel on X that had said Iran was closing its airspace over the capital Tehran and denied in a new post that it had published any such news. In the original report…
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Niger’s coup leaders announced Sunday that they had closed the country’s airspace, as the deadline from the West African bloc ECOWAS for them to hand back power or face a possible military intervention approached. “Faced with the threat…
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US President Joe Biden thanked the Sultan of Oman on Tuesday for the country’s support of a UN-mediated truce in Yemen and for its decision to open its airspace to all civilian aircraft, including those flying to and from Israel, the White…
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All carriers can use Saudi airspace so long as the overflight requirements of the aviation authority are met, the General Authority of Civil Aviation announced early on Friday. The authority said in a Tweet that “all air carriers that…
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was forced to cancel a visit to Serbia on Monday after several of its neighbors prevented his plane from passing through their airspace, officials said. Lavrov had been due to hold talks with top…
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Turkey has closed its airspace to Russian civilian and military planes flying to Syria, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying Saturday by local media. The announcement marks one of the strongest responses to date by…
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Cathay Pacific is planning the world’s longest passenger flight by rerouting its New York to Hong Kong service over the Atlantic instead of the Pacific, the airline said Tuesday, in a new path that steers clear of Russia. The flight path…
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The Swedish Armed Forces said, on Wednesday, that four Russian fighters entered Swedish airspace east of the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Although Russian incursions into Scandinavian airspace occur fairly frequently, what happened…
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A drone belonging to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia crashed today, Monday, while flying over Saada Governorate, northwest of Yemen. The Yemeni Ansar Allah group said, "The air defenses managed to shoot down a Chinese-made (Wing Long To) spy…
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