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02.10.26 - 22:09
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Airlines Plan ′Rescue Flights′ For Stranded Israelis In UAE After FlyDubai Incident (ZeroHedge)
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Airlines Plan 'Rescue Flights' For Stranded Israelis In UAE After FlyDubai Incident
Via The Cradle
Israeli national airline El Al announced on Friday that it had canceled flights scheduled to bring Israelis home from Dubai after the UAE withdrew landing permits for Israeli carriers.
"Due to the cancellation of approval for Israeli companies to land in Dubai, as was reported by the authorities in Israel, we are forced to cancel, at this stage, our rescue flights," the airline said in a statement posted on social media.
AFP/Getty ImagesEl Al said it remains prepared to operate charter flights to Dubai to bring Israeli citizens home as soon as it receives official approval.
The Israeli airline did not explain why the landing permits had been withdrawn. Emirati authorities have not provided an explanation.
Israeli passengers were stranded in the UAE after an incident on a FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The plane's copilot allegedly stabbed the captain and tried to crash the a...
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02.10.26 - 11:36
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FlyDubai Pilots Moved to UAE as Investigators Seek More Clues (Bloomberg)
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The pilots who fought in the cockpit of a FlyDubai jet during an apparent murder-suicide mission were moved to the United Arab Emirates for further questioning while investigators seek additional information from the plane's voice and data recorders to replay the fateful final hour of the flight....
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02.10.26 - 08:06
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Fixer, financier, spymaster: how the UAE′s Sheikh Tahnoon is setting his sights on AI dominance (The Guardian)
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The Emirati royal is increasingly influential on the world stage. Some see him as a visionary. Others compare him to a Bond villain. Who is he?On the night of 12 November 1993, a slim, young Brazilian named Royce Gracie stepped into an octagonal cage in Denver, Colorado, and found himself staring up into the eyes of a giant. Gerard Gordeau, a Dutch kickboxer, stood five inches taller, weighed almost three stone more than him, and had an extra decade of fighting experience under his belt. Now the pair were about to engage in bare-knuckle combat: no judges, no separation of opponents by size, no respite until someone either got knocked out cold or begged for mercy.The fight lasted barely 100 seconds. In that time, Gracie calmly tripped Gordeau up, jumped on his back, and clutched at his throat, forcing the big man to hammer the floor in submission. Continue reading......
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01.10.26 - 07:00
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"Zero Hormuz": Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Readies Tens Of Billions To Turn Fujairah Into Hormuz Bypass (ZeroHedge)
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"Zero Hormuz": Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Readies Tens Of Billions To Turn Fujairah Into Hormuz Bypass
On March 3, just days after the first US and Israeli strikes on Iran, when most of the market was still busy pricing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as a temporary inconvenience, we pointed out something that seemed rather obvious (to us): the UAE's oil port of Fujairah, which sits on the Gulf of Oman and bypasses the strait completely, was far too small for its strategic importance - and that would change.
Surprising Fujairah is not a bigger oil terminal: it bypasses the straits completely.
Expect major infrastructure push here after the war. https://t.co/Do1gK7KBDQ
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 3, 2026
Six days later we went one step further:
After this crisis, every Gulf pipeline has to end either in Yanbu or Fujairah alongside massive terminal infrastructure https://t.co/fNBywD3Wr1
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 9, 2026
Seven months later, the "major infrastructure pu...
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