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  • 12 injured as Qatar Airways flight hits turbulence

    12 injured as Qatar Airways flight hits turbulence

    Six crew members and six passengers travelling on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Dublin suffered injuries during a severe bout of turbulence on Sunday.

    However, the flight landed safely and as scheduled, according to officials at the Dublin Airport.

    “Upon landing, the aircraft was met by emergency services, including airport police and our fire and rescue department, due to six passengers and six crew [12 total] on board reporting injuries after the aircraft experienced turbulence while airborne over Turkiye,” the airport authorities explained in a statement.

    NBC News talked to the passengers arriving at the airport and described the incident as frightening. “Just food all over the plane, on the ceiling, everywhere,” one of the passengers said.

    Qatar Airways said in a statement that a “small number” of passengers and crew sustained minor injuries during the flight and were receiving medical attention.

    The airline did not directly comment on the turbulence.”The matter is now subject to an internal investigation,” the statement read.

    The incident happened nearly a week after a Singapore Airlines flight from Heathrow Airport hit severe turbulence over the Indian Ocean leaving one passenger dead and 20 others injured.

    Scientists blame climate change for increased air turbulence incidents.

  • New Covid symptom only occurs at night

    New Covid symptom only occurs at night

    A leading immunologist has warned that a new Covid variant can cause a different symptom that only occurs at night.

    BA.5 was first discovered in South Africa earlier this year. It is a highly-contagious subvariant that can cause night sweats. The variant is contributing to a fresh wave of infections across the world.

    Professor Luke O’Neill from Trinity College Dublin called this symptom “strange”.

    “One extra symptom from BA.5 I saw this morning is night sweats.”

    “The disease is slightly different because the virus has changed. But if you are vaccinated and you’re boosted, it doesn’t progress into the severe disease,” Professor O’Neill added.

    BA.5’s ability to reinfect is concerning to healthcare professionals. It is pertinent to mention that previously, if a person had been infected with SARS-CoV-2, they were considered safe from the virus after one cycle ended. With the subvariants, this is not the case anymore.

  • ‘Sweetest heart’, Noor Mukadam’s Irish friends pay loving tribute

    ‘Sweetest heart’, Noor Mukadam’s Irish friends pay loving tribute

    The daughter of a former senior Pakistani diplomat, Noor Mukadam who was brutally murdered in Islamabad, spent several years in Ireland with her family when she was a young girl.

    One of her Irish friends, Kim Kearns described Noor as a “beautiful” woman having “the sweetest heart”.

    Kearns, Mukadam and another woman, Marilyn Egan, were “the three best friends” growing up, she told to Irish Times.

    Noor had attended Our Lady’s Grove primary and secondary school in Goatstown, South Dublin, after her father had been posted to serve at the Pakistan embassy in the area. Kearns said she recalled Noor joining the school when they were in first grade.

    Her family had lived in Milltown, South Dublin, before they shifted to Leopardstown, her friend said.

    “She had the heart of an angel… If anyone was ever mean to her, she would always be positive, she never retaliated,” Kearns said.

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    “She liked shopping, we’d go to Dundrum shopping centre, she liked Zara, she was into fashion,” her friend added.

    “She just fitted in, Ireland was her home,” she said.

    Kearns stated that when Mukadam was told that her family had to move again and leave Ireland she was “heartbroken”.

    “We would always keep in touch. If I posted anything on Instagram she would comment on it, saying she was thinking of me, or missing us,” she said.

    Both of Mukadam’s friends said that they were upset by the news of their childhood friend’s death.

    The friends are planning to organise a tribute walk from their old school to a pond on the University College Dublin campus. If Mukadam had continued in Ireland that was where she would have wanted to study for college, Kearns said.