Travel nightmare: Another 2,000 flights canceled Monday By Chris Liakos and Sonnet Swire, CNN Business
Updated 1632 GMT (0032 HKT) December 27, 2021
Of the more than 2,400 canceled flights, nearly 900 were within, into or out of the United States, according to FlightAware. More than 6,500 flights are delayed.
Globally, airlines
canceled more than 6,000 flights on Christmas Eve , Christmas and the day after Christmas. In the United States, more than 1,200 flights were canceled and more than 5,000 were delayed on Sunday alone as staff and crew call out sick.
Afghan ex-BBC journalist stranded for months due to Home Office scheme delays Mudassar Kadir said ‘zero progress’ made since he and his family arrived at Dubai refugee centre
Mon 27 Dec 2021 12.25 GMT
An Afghan former BBC journalist who managed to flee the Taliban has been stranded in a refugee camp for months because of delays to a resettlement scheme promised by the UK government.
Mudassar Kadir* is the only one of 14 former BBC employees to have escaped Afghanistan since the Taliban took over in August. The other 13 remain in hiding in fear of their lives.
Kadir, who also spent time working for the World Bank and the former Afghan government, had hoped he and his family could begin a new life after leaving Afghanistan , but since escaping in early October with the help of a US charity, Kadir and his wife and two young sons have been stuck in a refugee centre on the outskirts of Dubai.
Polish president vetoes law aimed at muting US media group Discovery Government critics said the proposed media law was aimed at silencing dissent. President Andrzej Duda said it would have dealt a blow to Poland's reputation as a place to do business.
Polish President Andrzej Duda said Monday that he had decided to veto a bill that would have forced the US media group Discovery to give up its controlling stake in Polish broadcaster TVN.
Duda said he recognized that the bill was unpopular with many Polish citizens and would have been a blow to his country's reputation as a place to do business.
The bill, recently passed by the lower house in Warsaw, would have blocked any non-European outlet from owning a 50% share or more in a Polish broadcaster.
A year in review: The women who shaped 2021
They blazed trails, set new records, called out injustice and faced down oppression: FRANCE 24 takes a look at the inspirational women who shaped the past 12 months.
The year Peng Shuai was at the heart of the biggest #MeToo scandal to rock the country’s political establishment.
There were new faces and emotional departures in politics, with Tunisia’s Najla Bouden becoming the Arab world’s first woman prime minister, even as Europe bid farewell to its most powerful female politician for the past 16 years, Germany’s Angela Merkel .
Iraq’s Supreme Court ratifies October election results Iran-backed factions, including powerful armed groups, had alleged irregularities in October’s parliamentary vote.
Iraq’s October’s parliamentary election after it rejected earlier appeals by Iran-backed Shia factions against the poll results.
Monday’s ratification, following a delay of more than two months, clears the way for a new parliament to hold its inaugural session within two weeks, under the Iraqi law.
Delta: Flight to Shanghai turned back because of COVID rules Mon, December 27, 2021
Delta Air Lines
An emailed statement said the new mandates at Shanghai Pudong International Airport “require significantly extended ground time and are not operationally viable for Delta.”
It wasn't clear what the rules are and what prompted the change, but it comes as China tightens its already strict COVID-19 travel restrictions in the face of a growing outbreak in the city of Xi'an and ahead of the Winter Olympics in Beijing in six weeks.
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