Emergency
Matar, the Qatar Company for Airports Operation and Management, announced it will be conducting its sixth full-scale emergency exercise at Hamad International Airport (DOH), on January 8 (Monday) from 5pm to 8pm. The simulation is part of Matar..
beIN SPORTS, the leading sports broadcaster in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), will use the power and reach of all its platforms – TV and digital channels – to appeal to its millions of viewers and followers to support emergency ..
A QATAR Airways flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Scotland after an "incident on board". The aircraft was travelling from Los Angeles to Doha, Qatar, when the alarm was raised. Flight QR740 departed shortly before midn..
Medical services unable to resuscitate child on flight from Istanbul to New York An 11-year-old child died after losing consciousness on board a Turkish Airlines flight en route to New York from Istanbul, with medical services unable to resuscitat..
Asiana Airlines will no longer sell tickets for certain emergency exit seats of its Airbus A321-200 aircraft, the airline said Sunday, following a recent incident in which a man allegedly opened a jetliner door during a flight. The seats are numbe..
Monkeypox is no longer a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, almost a year after the threat was raised. The virus is still around and further waves and outbreaks could continue, but the highest level of al..
The World Health Organization ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday more than three years after its original declaration, and said countries should now manage the virus that killed more than 6.9 million people along with other infe..
A state of emergency was declared in Karachi and other airports in the country on Sunday due to the monkeypox virus disease. The Airport Security Force (ASF) has issued standard operating procedures (SOPs) to protect against infection. All ASF sta..
US President Joe Biden has approved an emergency declaration for California, as storms have pounded the State since Dec. 26, killing at least 19 people and bringing floods, power outages, mudslides, evacuations and road closures. Biden ordered feder..