Emirates unveils A380 livery inspired by charity foundation

Emirates unveils A380 livery inspired by charity foundation
Emirates Airlines has unveiled a new A380 aircraft livery.
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Updated 02 September 2024
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Emirates unveils A380 livery inspired by charity foundation

Emirates unveils A380 livery inspired by charity foundation
  • Foundation supports 14 NGOs in nine countries

DUBAI: Emirates has unveiled a new A380 aircraft livery to raise awareness of the humanitarian efforts of its charitable foundation.

The design draws inspiration from the foundation’s logo and features children’s artwork across the fuselage.

The phrase “Help to support children in need,” is also prominently displayed on the livery, underscoring the foundation’s mission.

On Monday, the aircraft with the new livery will fly to South Africa’s Johannesburg, a city where the foundation actively supports two key projects.

The foundation is a nonprofit charity dedicated to providing humanitarian, philanthropic aid and services for children around the world.

Over the past two decades, it has collaborated with community organizations and NGOs to provide children with safe housing, food, medical care and educational opportunities.

These efforts are funded through donations from Emirates’ customers, donors and employees.

The foundation supports 14 NGOs in nine countries, helping initiatives like the Emirates-CHES Home for 100 abandoned HIV-positive children, the IMMPACT Girls Education Project in India and the Prithipura Communities in Sri Lanka.

In the previous year, the foundation also provided more than 500 flights for volunteers taking part in medical, engineering and educational missions worldwide, helping 
provide essential services such as surgeries and healthcare in countries including India, Uganda, Lebanon, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
 


Blasts heard in vicinity of Syria’s Damascus, state news agency says

Blasts heard in vicinity of Syria’s Damascus, state news agency says
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Blasts heard in vicinity of Syria’s Damascus, state news agency says

Blasts heard in vicinity of Syria’s Damascus, state news agency says

CAIRO: Blasts were heard in the vicinity of Syrian capital Damascus, state news agency SANA reported on Sunday, adding that an investigation was being conducted to establish the cause.


French foreign minister to visit Lebanon on Sunday, foreign ministry says

French foreign minister to visit Lebanon on Sunday, foreign ministry says
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French foreign minister to visit Lebanon on Sunday, foreign ministry says

French foreign minister to visit Lebanon on Sunday, foreign ministry says

PARIS: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot will travel to Lebanon on Sunday, his office said, as Israel continued to strike multiple targets in the country.
“We confirm that the minister is going to Lebanon this weekend to talk with local authorities and provide French support, particularly humanitarian support,” the foreign ministry said.


Israeli airstrikes kill 11 Palestinians in Gaza

Israeli airstrikes kill 11 Palestinians in Gaza
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Israeli airstrikes kill 11 Palestinians in Gaza

Israeli airstrikes kill 11 Palestinians in Gaza
  • Almost 41,600 Palestinians killed in Gaza since Oct 7
  • Israeli army says it struck a Hamas command center

CAIRO: Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 11 Palestinians, health officials in the enclave said on Sunday, as Israeli planes bombarded several northern, central and southern areas.
A school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip was among buildings hit, killing four people and wounded several others, Gaza medics said.
The Israeli military said it struck Hamas militants operating from a command center embedded in a compound that had previously served as Um Al-Fahm School. It accused Hamas of exploiting civilian facilities and its population for military purposes, which Hamas denies.
In another strike, three people were killed in a house in Gaza City, medics said. Four others were killed in three separate airstrikes in Nuseirat and Khan Younis in central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces pursued their operations in Rafah, near the border with Egypt, and in Gaza City’s suburb of Zeitoun, where forces blew up several houses, according to residents and Hamas media.
On Sunday the Israeli military said forces continue the fight in a “multi-front war” and are operating in Gaza to bring Israeli and foreign hostages home and to “dismantle” Hamas.
It said troops discovered and dismantled an underground tunnel route that is approximately 1km long near residential buildings and civilian spaces in central Gaza, adding that they found several rooms and equipment used by Hamas for prolonged periods.
Fighting and Israeli military activities in Gaza have declined in the past week as Israel escalated its military offensive against Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, killing its leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on Friday. The group announced Nasrallah’s death on Saturday.
Most of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have been displaced by the war, in which 41,500 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza health authorities.
Israel and Hamas have been fighting since gunmen from the Palestinian militant group stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and capturing about 250 hostages, going by Israeli tallies.


US airstrikes on Syria kill 37 militants affiliated with extremist groups

US airstrikes on Syria kill 37 militants affiliated with extremist groups
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US airstrikes on Syria kill 37 militants affiliated with extremist groups

US airstrikes on Syria kill 37 militants affiliated with extremist groups
  • US Central Command said it struck northwestern Syria targeting a senior militant from the Al-Qaeda-linked Hurras Al-Deen group and eight others

BEIRUT: In Syria, 37 militants affiliated to the extremist Daesh group and an Al-Qaeda-linked group were killed in two strikes, the United States military said Sunday.
Two of the dead were senior militants, it said.
US Central Command said it struck northwestern Syria on Tuesday, targeting a senior militant from the Al-Qaeda-linked Hurras Al-Deen group and eight others. They say he was responsible for overseeing military operations.
They also announced a strike from earlier this month on Sept. 16, where they conducted a “large-scale airstrike” on a Daesh training camp in a remote undisclosed location in central Syria. That attack killed 28 militants, including “at least four Syrian leaders.”
“The airstrike will disrupt Daesh’ capability to conduct operations against US interests, as well as our allies and partners,” the statement read.
There are some 900 US forces in Syria, along with an undisclosed number of contractors, mostly trying to prevent any comeback by the extremist Daesh group, which swept through Iraq and Syria in 2014, taking control of large swaths of territory.
US forces advise and assist their key allies in northeastern Syria, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, located not far from strategic areas where Iran-backed militant groups are present, including a key border crossing with Iraq.


Iran vows response to Guards deputy commander killing in Lebanon

Iran vows response to Guards deputy commander killing in Lebanon
Updated 29 September 2024
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Iran vows response to Guards deputy commander killing in Lebanon

Iran vows response to Guards deputy commander killing in Lebanon

DUBAI: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday that the killing by Israel of an Iranian Revolutionary Guards deputy commander in Beirut was a “horrible crime” that would not go unanswered.
Brig. Gen. Abbas Nilforoushan was killed in the Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday in which Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah also died.
“There is no doubt that this horrible crime committed by the Zionist regime (Israel) will not go unanswered,” Araqchi said in a statement addressed to the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Hossein Salami.
Earlier on Sunday, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said that Iran-alligned armed groups would carry on confronting Israel with Tehran’s help following the killing of Nasrallah, Iranian state media reported.
An alliance known as the Axis of Resistance, built up over decades with Iranian support, includes the Palestinian group Hamas, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Yemen’s Houthis, and various Shiite Muslim armed groups in Iraq and Syria.
“We will not hesitate to go to any level in order to help the resistance,” Qalibaf said.
He also issued a warning to the United States.
“The US is complicit in all of these crimes and...has to accept the repercussions,” he said.
Iran’s Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif, asked about Nasrallah’s assassination, told state media on Sunday Iran would react at an appropriate time of its choosing against Israel.