Scottish police are appealing for witnesses after an incident on an Emirates flight from Dubai to Glasgow on Thursday.
Officers at Glasgow International Airport received reports that a man exposed himself to a passenger during the flight. Officers were waiting when the plane arrived.
In a tweet, the Scottish Border Police urged people who were travelling on the flight to come forward with any information about the incident.
“Police at @GLA_Airport are appealing for witnesses after a male exposed his genitals in a sexual manner towards a female during @emirates flight between Dubai and Glasgow on 4th August,” it said.
“Were you on this flight and did you see anything? If so please get in touch with us on 101.”
The EK027 flight departed Dubai at 7.50am on Thursday and arrived in Glasgow shortly after the scheduled landing time of 12.45pm.
In a statement to The National, Emirates confirmed the incident but said it was being handled by police.
“Emirates can confirm local authorities were asked to meet flight EK27 on arrival in Glasgow on 4th August to assist with a disruptive passenger on board the aircraft,” the statement read.
“As the matter is now under police investigation, Emirates cannot comment further on the incident.”
Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
The burning issue
The internal combustion engine is facing a watershed moment – major manufacturer Volvo is to stop producing petroleum-powered vehicles by 2021 and countries in Europe, including the UK, have vowed to ban their sale before 2040. The National takes a look at the story of one of the most successful technologies of the last 100 years and how it has impacted life in the UAE.
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