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Europe seeks to restart travel with COVID ‘pass’ despite vaccine squeeze
The European Union will on Wednesday unveil a COVID-19 pass to allow free travel this summer and support the struggling tourism sector ...Israeli PM avoided Saudi airspace because of Houthi missiles
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was deterred from flying to the United Arab Emirates through Saudi Arabian airspace last week ...Pope Francis arrives in Iraq and calls for an end to divisions, amid huge security ...
Pope Francis, beginning the first trip by a pontiff to Iraq, made an impassioned call on Friday for an end to the ...Italy blocks export of AstraZeneca doses to Australia
Italy said Thursday it has blocked a shipment to Australia of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine in the first such export ban under an ...Nigerian air force passenger plane crash kills 7 people
A small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport after reporting engine failure on Sunday, killing all seven people ...United Airlines Boeing 777 lands safely in Denver after engine failure
A United Airlines flight landed safely at Denver International Airport on Saturday after its right engine failed, the Federal Aviation Administration said, ...Syrian who fled to Germany 5 years ago runs for parliament
Five years ago, Tareq Alaows crossed the Mediterranean in a flimsy rubber dinghy and trekked north through the Balkans toward Germany, fleeing ...No masks and no social distancing as lockdown ends on the Isle of Man
By Eleanor Mannion RTÉ Life on the Isle of Man is returning to ‘near normal’ after the island exited a 25-day lockdown. ...UN urges countries to repatriate 27,000 children from Syria
The U.N. counterterrorism chief is urging countries to repatriate the 27,000 children stranded in a massive camp in northeastern Syria, many of ...West tells Russia to free Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Moscow pushes back
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s arrest as he arrived in Moscow after recovering from his poisoning with a nerve agent drew criticism ...