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    The dogs sniffing out Covid-19 at airports

    Dogs have up to 100,000 times the smelling sensitivity of humans, meaning our canine friends could be a helpful addition to Covid-19 screening measures at airports.

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    US eases travel restrictions on India, asks travellers to be cautious

    The United States has improved the travel advisory for India, lowering it from the highest Level 4, which means no travel, to Level 3, which urges citizens to reconsider travel.

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    Nearly 3,000 confined to cabins after Covid-19 case on Singapore cruise

    A Genting Cruise Lines ship on a "cruise to nowhere" has returned to Singapore after a confirmed case of Covid-19 in a passenger, and the nearly 3,000 passengers.

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    Pakistan bans air travel for unvaccinated people

    Pakistan has imposed a ban on air travel for people who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19, a move deemed to curb the further spread of the virus, it was reported on Saturday.

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    Smokey Sydney to kick off New Year parties around the world with fireworks

    Smoke-choked Sydney was gearing up on Tuesday (Dec 31) for a huge fireworks display, kicking off a wave of New Year celebrations for billions around the world and ringing in the new decade.

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    Dubai ruler's wife flees to Europe, he writes her a furious poem in return

    Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and one of the world’s richest men at the moment, has penned an angry poem aimed at his runaway wife and the treachery and betrayal she has put him.

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    IndiGo faces server issues; 63 flights delayed

    IndiGo passengers had a difficult time on Monday after a server glitch delayed 63 flights at the Bengaluru airport for more than half-an-hour.The reservation system, which conked out at 4.29 am, could be restored only.

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    Passenger aircraft returns to airport post-takeoff, after passenger forgets baby

    A Saudi airlines aircraft turned around and returned back to the airport after taking off from Jeddah after a passenger forgot her baby at the airport, Gulf News reported on Monday.

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    British Airways to resume Pakistan flights decade after hotel bombing

    British Airways will resume flights to Pakistan next year after a 10-year absence following an Islamist militant truck bomb that killed more than 50 people at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.

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    Modi unveils towering statue of India's independence leader

    India's prime minister on Wednesday unveiled a towering bronze statue of Sardar Vallabbhai Patel, a key independence leader and the country's first home minister after British colonialists left in 1947.

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    Why flight attendants dislike Indian travellers

    Indians have a really bad reputation when it comes to air travel. After an Emirates flight from Kerala made a hard landing in Dubai last month, an ex-flight attendant referred to the panicked.

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    India's billon-dollar battle to build the world's biggest statue

    The world’s biggest statue is rising in a remote corner of India to honour an independence hero but it could quickly be outdone by a monument to a Hindu warrior king in the sea off Mumbai.

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    Asia drives rise in 2016 world tourism numbers: UN

    The number of international tourists rose by four percent worldwide to 1.2 billion in 2016 as Asians travelled more, but security fears hit visitor arrivals in Europe, the World Tourism Organization (WTO) said on Tuesday

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    37 killed in Turkish plane crash in Kyrgyzstan

    The Boeing 747 crashed near the Manas airport outside Bishkek at around 7:30 a.m. local time (0130 GMT) as it was attempting to land in poor visibility because of dense fog on Monday.

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    Iran receives 1st Airbus plane after JCPOA

    The head of IranAir took delivery in France on Wednesday of the first Western airliner under an international sanctions deal, calling it a "sunny day" for relations between Iran and Europe.

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    Air India ranked third-worst airline in the world

    Indian national flag-carrier Air India has been named the world’s third-worst airline in a list by aviation insights company FlightStats. The 10 worst airlines of 2016.

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    Goat sacrificed near Pak airlines aircraft to ‘ward off’ the evil eye

    As Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) resumed its ATR flights for commercial travel after the fatal crash of December 7, the carrier’s staff sacrificed a black goat near the first aircraft to fly.

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