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UAE Travel: Air Arabia To Resume Flights To Damascus From July 10
MENAFN
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July 2, 2025
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Air Arabia announced on Monday that it will resume direct flights between Sharjah and Damascus on July 10, ending a long suspension. The Sharjah-based carrier suspended its route to the city in 2012 after the outbreak of...
Air Arabia resumes flights to Damascus starting July 10
Travel & Tourism News Middle East
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Travel, Tourism & Hospitality July 2025 142 Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier (LCC) operator, has announced the resumption of direct flights between Sharjah and Damascus, starting July 10, 2025. Air...
Travel, Security Alerts Issued for Louisiana, Texas Over Conflict
Talk Radio 960AM - Louisiana
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June 24, 2025
Highlights State Department issues worldwide travel caution following US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities Department of Homeland Security warns of heightened domestic terrorism threat through September 22, 2025 Louisiana and Texas...
U.S. Updates Travel Warning for Israel, West Bank, and Gaza
Travel Market Report - New York
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The U.S. State Department this week issued a new travel advisory for Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, as conflicts in the area continue to escalate over the past few weeks. The new update is not advising Americans to avoid travel to the region...
Trust but Verify: Syria’s New President Courts Peace After Sanctions Lifted
Media Line
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July 2, 2025
US and Israel weigh the risks of engaging with Syria’s former jihadist leader Last month, my fellow human rights activist the Rev. Johnnie Moore and I met across from UN headquarters in New York with Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani. He...
Travel chaos starts to ease as Gulf states reopen airspace
The Business Times Singapore
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June 24, 2025
[DUBAI] Air-travel disruptions started to ease in the Middle East after a ceasefire deal was reached between Israel and Iran and several Persian Gulf states reopened their airspace. National carriers in the Gulf resumed flights during the night,...
Tourist spending in Switzerland grew in 2024
Swissinfo
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June 23, 2025
Tourists in Switzerland spent more last year. Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector Select your language Close English (US) English (British) Generated with artificial intelligence. Close Share Visitors...
What will Pope Leo's 'vacation' be like?
Rome Reports
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July 2, 2025
July is the month in which most popes reduce their schedule. Many official, public, and private events are canceled. For example, general audiences at the Vatican are suspended for July. In the case of Pope Leo XIV, he has also canceled the...
A media production city is being established in Syria at a cost of $1.5 billion
Zaman Al Wsl
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June 30, 2025
Damascus witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding on Monday between the Syrian Ministry of Information and Al-Maha International Company to launch the "Damascus Gate" project, the country's first integrated city for media, film, and...
After 46 years… Syria feels free of the burden of US sanctions
SANA
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July 1, 2025
Damascus, SANA- US President Donald Trump signed yesterday an executive order to terminate the national emergency declared by Washington against Damascus in 2004 and has been renewed annually since then, which led to comprehensive sanctions...
A Demon, Peruvian Time Travel and the “Czechoslovak Tom Jones”: Eight Offbeat Films in Karlovy Vary
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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July 2, 2025
The 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), which kicks off in the Czech spa town on Friday, is once again offering up a mix of world premieres and hidden gems to discover, as well as highlights from the festival...
Syria church bombing threatens political gains of Christians and Syrian state
The National News
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Until a suicide bombing killed 20 people at a church in a low-income area of Damascus on Sunday, Christians had been spared the mass violence that has afflicted other minorities under the new Syrian state that replaced the Assad regime last year....
American tourist vanishes in tropical paradise after walking from vacation rental
Fox News
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Bryan Hagerich, who was detained in Turks and Caicos in 2024, joins ‘America Reports’ to discuss the State Department’s warning against Americans traveling there. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man from Monroe, New York, who was...
48 Hours of Progress: Syria signs strategic agreements to boost recovery and investment
SANA
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July 1, 2025
Damascus, SANA-Syria’s post-liberation recovery is accelerating, racing to overcome years of systematic destruction under the defunct regime. Within the past 48 hours, three strategic agreements were signed in the fields of media, energy, and...
Special investigationSyria's Alawite women and girls disappear in abductions
The National News
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It was a March afternoon near the end of Ramadan when Mina and her sister left their home to buy groceries for iftar from a nearby shop on the Syrian coast. They never made it to the store. What should have been a short walk turned into weeks of...
UN commission says Syria must end violence against Alawites
The National News
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The head of a UN investigative commission on Friday called commitments made by the new authorities in Syria to protect the rights of minorities “encouraging” but said attacks have continued on members of the Alawite sect in the months since a...
EU eases Schengen access for Turks, urged to revive visa-free talks
Sabah
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July 18, 2025
The European Union has eased rules for Turks to use its open-border Schengen area, the bloc's ambassador to Ankara announced on Friday, calling for the urgent revival of negotiations on visa-free travel for Turks. Turkish Trade Minister Ömer Bolat...
Investigating Inside Syria, Six Months After Assad’s Fall
Global Investigative Journalism Network
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July 1, 2025
When 54 years of Assad dynasty rule in Syria came to a somewhat abrupt end, after a series of armed rebel offensives culminated in the capture of Damascus on December 8, 2024, many Syrians were able to return to the country for the first time in...
‘We Can Eat Without Humiliation’: Syrians Respond to US Sanctions Shift
Media Line
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July 1, 2025
President Trump’s order marks a new chapter in Syria policy, but concerns about accountability and reform persist [Damascus] US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ending the general sanctions program on Syria, a dramatic...
Christian Fears Grow in Syria After the St. Elias Church Bombing
Enab Baladi
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July 1, 2025
Christian Syrians’ fears have increased following a suicide bombing at St. Elias Church in the Dweila area of Damascus. Enab Baladi – Damascus The suicide attacker carried out the attack on June 22 during the weekly Christian prayers, attended by...