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Nora AlMatrooshi Just Became The UAE’s First Woman Trainee Astronaut
The United Arab Emirates has selected its first woman astronaut in Nora AlMatrooshi, who will join the UAE Astronaut Program.
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IBM Sells Face Recognition Surveillance To A Dictatorship: Report
The United Arab Emirates is one of the 21st century’s most modern and forward thinking surveillance states.
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Yes, Vanilla Ice Really Was On That Quarantined Flight From Dubai
Last night, a flight that had left Dubai in the United Arab Emirates landed at JFK International Airport in New York with 549 passengers and crew on board — and was promptly quarantined due to a mysterious ailment spreading throughout the cabin. In the neighbourhood of 100 people on board showed symptoms including coughing, fever…
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Someone Brought A Bird Army On A Flight And Everyone Seems Pretty Chill About It
Reddit can feel like a cesspool of hate most days, but occasionally it turns up some internet gems. Today, for example, a user posted a bonkers photo of a posse of large, intimidating-looking birds chilling on an aeroplane.