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America and Israel’s attack on Iran continued to cause severe disruption to flights across the Middle East and beyond on Sunday. Countries across the region closed their airspace and three of the key airports that connect Europe, Africa and the west to Asia halted operations.
Hundreds of thousands of travellers were either stranded or diverted to other airports after Israel, Qatar, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain closed their airspace. There were also no flights over the United Arab Emirates, the flight tracking website FlightRadar24 said, after the government announced a “temporary and partial closure” of its airspace.
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