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Everest climbing continues despite reports of COVID-19

May 24, 2021979 Views

A Nepali government official said on Monday that many foreign climbers were continuing their attempts to summit Mount Everest despite reports of a COVID-19 outbreak at the base camp of the world's tallest peak. In April, a Norwegian climber was evacuated from the base camp of the 8,848.86 metres (29,031.69 feet) mountain and flown to Kathmandu where he tested positive for COVID-19. He has since returned home. Lukas Furtenbach of the Austrian Furtenbach Adventures company, evacuated his team from the mountain this month saying there was a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases at the base camp. A group of climbers just before the Everest summit May 23, 2021. Photo: @danielmazur/Twitter "So far we have about one hundred confirmed cases in Everest base camp, confirmed by doctors, by hospit...

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Virgin Galactic moves one step closer to commercial space flights

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May 23, 20211091 Views

Flying at Mach 3 and reaching more than 55 miles above the Earth Saturday, British billionaire Sir Richard Branson's private spaceship company Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc completed its first manned space flight from its new home port in New Mexico. This is a milestone in Branson's near two-decades effort to create a commercial "spaceline" to take paying customers into outer space. Touted as the first human spaceflight from the state, Branson's SpaceShipTwo craft lifted off in the desert about 45 miles northeast of Las Cruces, New Mexico, about 10:35 a.m. About 50 minutes later, traveling at more than 2,300 miles an hour, it reached a height NASA recognizes as space and attained suborbital flight status. "Welcome to space" the company posted on Twitter. !function...

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Israel reopens borders to small groups of foreign tourists

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May 23, 2021971 Views

Israel reopened its borders to foreign tourists on Sunday after a fall in COVID-19 infections but said it would take time for visitors to start arriving and to revive the tourism industry. Under an easing of coronavirus restrictions, the government went ahead with a plan to start letting in small groups of tourists from countries using vaccines it has approved. FILE PHOTO: A woman wears a face mask as she sits by the Mediterranean Sea in Tel Aviv as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions were eased in Israel May 21, 2020 REUTERS/ Amir Cohen Foreign airlines are also resuming flights they suspended when Palestinian militants began rocket attacks on Israel this month. A ceasefire has now halted the fighting, helping the government meet Sunday's target date for starting the pla...

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Italian cable car crash kills 13, injures three

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May 23, 2021611 Views

At least 13 people died and three were seriously injured on Sunday when a cable car linking Italy’s Lake Maggiore with a nearby mountain in the Alps plunged to the ground. The Stresa-Mottarone cable car takes tourists and locals from the town on Lake Maggiore, almost 1,400 metres above sea level to the top of the Mottarone mountain in 20 minutes. A crashed cable car is seen after it collapsed in Stresa, near Lake Maggiore, Italy May 23, 2021. VIGILI DEL FUOCO/Handout via REUTERS “We are devastated, in pain,” Marcella Severino, Stresa’s mayor told national broadcaster RAI, while Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi voiced his condolences to the families of the victims, “with a special thought” for the injured children. The accident happened as the cable car was travelling up the...

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Kerala charting out measures to revive tourism sector

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May 22, 2021964 Views

With COVID-19 cases showing a decline in Kerala over the past few days, the state is charting measures to revive its vital tourism sector, hit hard by the pandemic, by rolling out packages that encourage domestic travellers to visit destinations in the state. A high-level meeting presided by Tourism Minister Mohamed Riyas on Saturday decided to finalise projects and implement them at the earliest so as to inspire confidence in travellers and woo them to a whole range of places across the state, a Kerala Tourism press release said here. The initiative, which is being carried out considering that the pandemic will take time for authorities to promote international tourists, seeks to complete select tourism projects in the districts on a time-bound basis. Kerala Tourism will wor...

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Tourists invited to rural Spain to save dying villages

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May 22, 2021475 Views

Instead of the traditional sand and sea holidays, foreign tourists are invited to enjoy the charms of the Spanish countryside, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday, launching an ambitious plan to save Spain’s dying villages. The 10 billion euro ($12.18 billion) plan aims to save rural life in a nation where 42% of villages are at risk of depopulation compared to a European Union average of 10%. FILE PHOTO: A villager drinks coffee at the only bar in Peleas de Abajo, in northwestern Spain. REUTERS/Susana Vera “I would especially like to emphasize that (tourists) should enjoy the rich rural tourist attractions that our country has, one of the jewels in the crown,” Sanchez told a meeting in Madrid of mayors from rural towns. From Monday, Spain will open up to tourists fr...

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Revolutionaries and royalty showcased at revamped Paris museum

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May 22, 2021461 Views

Treasures spanning thousands of years of Paris history will get a fresh airing in the city from next week, with pistols from the French revolution showcased alongside a shoe thought to have been lost in flight by guillotined queen Marie Antoinette. Journalists visit the Hall of Signs (Salle des Enseignes) at the Carnavalet-History of Paris Museum, located in the Marais district, during a press visit after four years of renovations in Paris, France, May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier Long a hit with tourists as an introduction to Paris and its tumultuous past, the Carnavalet museum is due to reopen after four years of renovations at a time when international travel is still largely on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. Director Valerie Guillaume told Reuters the museum, ru...

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Canada extends ban on passenger flights from India

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May 21, 20211437 Views

Canada has extended its ban on passenger flights from India and Pakistan by 30 days to June 21 as part of a campaign to fight COVID-19, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said on Friday. Alghabra said Canada had seen "a significant reduction" in coronavirus infections among arriving airline passengers since Ottawa first announced the bans on April 22 as the number of cases in India soared. The move does not affect cargo flights. FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers prepare to test passengers before they arrive at Toronto's Pearson airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada February 15, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio "These ongoing measures will remain in place to help protect Canadians and to manage the elevated risk of imported cases of COVID-19 and variants of concern," he told a briefing. ...

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EU reaches deal on COVID-19 passes to rescue summer

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May 21, 2021851 Views2

The European Union reached a deal on Thursday on COVID-19 certificates designed to open up tourism across the 27-nation bloc this summer as a rapid pick-up of vaccinations allows widespread easing of coronavirus restrictions. European Parliament lawmakers and current EU president Portugal representing member states sealed the agreement after a fourth round of negotiations on Thursday afternoon. "We won't be repeating the nightmare of summer 2020," Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar, the Spanish lawmaker who headed the parliament's team, told a news conference. People arrive at Faro Airport from Manchester on the first day that Britons are allowed to enter Portugal without needing to quarantine, as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions continue to ease, in Faro, Portugal, May 17, 2...

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Hong Kong’s Art Basel fair runs with physical and virtual shows

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May 21, 20211072 Views

The Art Basel contemporary art fair opened in Hong Kong on Wednesday, offering a combination of physical and virtual shows as many art collectors and curators were not able to travel to the city because of COVID-19 restrictions. The annual fair, which also has versions in Basel, Switzerland, and in Miami Beach, Florida, was cancelled in Hong Kong last year because of the pandemic. In 2019, it had attracted over 80,000 art lovers. Visitors look at artworks displayed at the Art Basel in Hong Kong, China May 19, 2021. REUTERS/Lam Yik This year, organisers have limited the number of visitors to the fair, which runs from May 19 to 23, in compliance with government social distancing rules. On Wednesday, hundreds of local visitors meandered through galleries while overseas collectors...