UK plans mass evacuation as Middle-East air-space closures leave 76,000 Britons stranded
Britain awoke on 1 March to the largest sudden disruption of its citizens’ freedom of movement since the Covid-19 border closures. Overnight, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Syria and the United Arab Emirates shut their skies after U.S.-Israeli strikes inside Iran triggered retaliatory missile attacks. With Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha—three of the world’s…