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Added on the 07/04/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Bangkok, May 4 (EFE/EPA).- A total of 133 passengers, including 87 Spanish nationals, were allowed to return to Spain Monday on a special flight organized by the Spanish Embassy in Thailand after all flights were halted in an effort to stem the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the COVID-19 disease. (Camera: DIEGO AZUBEL).SHOT LIST: PASSENGERS PREPARE TO CHECK IN ON A SPECIAL FLIGHT TO MADRID, SPAIN, AT SUVARNABHUMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
Thai authorities in Surat transport the body of Australian cricket star Shane Warne via ambulance en route to Bangkok, for repatriation to Australia, where he will receive a state funeral. The legendary Australian leg-spinner died on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui on Friday after being found unresponsive at a luxury villa. Initial reports suggested the 52-year-old suffered a heart attack and autopsy results confirmed he died of natural causes. IMAGES
Japanese tourists, relatives, friends, and members of Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's team visit the launchpad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan where a Russian Soyuz rocket launch will send Maezawa and his production assistant Yozo Hirano to the International Space Station, marking Russia's return to space tourism after a decade-long pause that saw the rise of competition from privately held US companies. Their journey aboard the three-person Soyuz spacecraft piloted by cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin will take just over six hours, capping a banner year that many have seen as a turning point for private space travel. IMAGES
A group of migrants wait at Minsk airport, Belarus, for the first Iraqi repatriation flight with somewhere between 200 and 300 people on board, heading first to Erbil and then to Baghdad. Thousands of migrants, mainly from the Middle East, are camped out or staying close to the Poland-Belarus border in dire conditions aiming to cross into the European Union, in a crisis that began over the summer. IMAGES
Some foreign visitors are returning to Bangkok's tourist destination Grand Palace as Thailand reopen to vaccinated tourists from "low-risk" countries. IMAGES