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Added on the 31/05/2020 10:13:30 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The United States says it would resume sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, several years after they were suspended over human rights concerns in Yemen. Since the freeze, and with a truce holding in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has "met their end of the deal, and we are prepared to meet ours," State Department spokesman Vedant Patel tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Images from an arrival hall at an international airport in Shanghai as China starts issuing a range of visas to foreigners again. The move marks the latest step towards reopening China to the outside world, as Beijing breaks with the strict zero-Covid strategy that defined its pandemic response until a few months ago. IMAGES
Flights resume at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Florida, after a few hours of flight disruptions across the United States. Following a system outage, the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a no-fly order for domestic departures until 9:00 a.m. EST (1400 GMT) on Wednesday. IMAGES
Passengers arrive in Addis Ababa after Ethiopia's national carrier Ethiopian Airlines resumes commercial flights to and from Mekele, in the Tigray region. After a shutdown lasting 18 months, families and loved ones are reunited, a day after an Ethiopian delegation made the first high-level government visit to the rebel-held region since the signing of a peace deal last month. IMAGES
Images from the Delta terminal of New York's LaGuardia Airport, as over 2,000 flights have been cancelled around the world and thousands delayed -- including from Delta -- with the highly infectious Omicron variant disrupting holiday travel. IMAGES