Thick black smoke from a nearby burning building temporarily stopped all arrivals at the airport in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday afternoon. Departures from the country’s second-busiest airport were left to the pilots’ discretion. The fire broke out at a reception facility for asylum-seekers that was under construction. “Due to a …
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EU nations would be “free to impose temporary bans on entry and on transporting passengers entering from [non-EU] countries with virus-variants areas,” the Times reported on Thursday, citing a draft proposal submitted to Brussels by Berlin. According to the paper, the move is being wholly backed by German Chancellor Angela …
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Dubai last year was attended by a record 14.9 million tourists. “Compared with 2015, an increase of 5 %, and for the period from 2012 to 2016 the average annual growth rate was 8 %. The achieved results are twice higher than the global growth of the tourism industry over …
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