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The United Arab Emirates on Monday started allowing a handful of flights to depart primarily to evacuate stranded passengers.
Air routes closed, airports damaged and hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded: the new war in the Middle East has again highlighted the global aviation sector's vulnerability to geopolitical upheaval.
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On Dubai's artificial island, empty beaches stand in stark contrast to frantic hotel lobbies, where stranded tourists have taken shelter as they wait for a way home.
From Barron's
For a movie in which his character gets stranded in the jungle for weeks, he mostly stopped eating.
“We have currently crews and people on our ships in the Persian Gulf stuck in a war zone,” said Jansen, adding that Hapag-Lloyd has several ships stranded in the region.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
