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UAE investigators say flydubai co-pilot was planning 'terrorist act'

The United Arab Emirates’ attorney general said the co-pilot of a flydubai flight to Israel had planned a “terrorist act” and used the cockpit’s emergency axe to attack the captain, the official UAE news agency WAM reported on Saturday. The news agency quoted Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi as saying that according to the initial findings of an investigation , “the co-pilot had attempted to carry out a terrorist act” and had “attacked the captain in the cockpit with the emergency axe and t

Event date
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Coverage
4 outlets · 4 articles
first · latest
Reporting countries
New Zealand, Pakistan, Uganda, United States
English
Countries concerned
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Politics · intensity 0.9 · tone -0.36
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Covered mainly by the Western sphere (50%); silent in Sino-Russian & BRICS, Arab-Muslim world.

Western 50%Sino-Russian & BRICS 0%Arab-Muslim world 0%Global South 50%

Global sphere reading. The left / centre / right reading is shown in the coverage analysis below.

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  • Confirmed by 2 outlets in 2 countries.
  • Ignored by Sino-Russian & BRICS, Arab-Muslim world.
  • Propagation: first reported by The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand), . No word-for-word republication detected.

Headline clash across the four spheres

Western
Sino-Russian & BRICS

No outlet in this sphere covers the event: blind spot.

Arab-Muslim world

No outlet in this sphere covers the event: blind spot.

Global South

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Event sources

  1. UAE investigators say flydubai co-pilot was planning ‘terrorist act’
    The New Zealand HeraldNouvelle-ZélandeNew Zealand → Saudi ArabiaEnglish
  2. World UAE investigators say flydubai co-pilot was planning 'terrorist act'
    New VisionOugandaUganda → United Arab EmiratesEnglish