Abdul Latheef

Journalist. Aviation, travel and photography enthusiast. Views are my own.

[OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives @OECD]

Scientific output from #OECD countries in energy & environmental domains has stagnated, while China's share of the top 10% most-cited publications in these fields rose from 15 to 40% between 2012 & 2022.

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[Ahmed Shihab-Eldin @aseisfree]

The Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, selected by @FIFAWorldCup and distinguished by CAF as the best African referee of 2025, was rejected upon arriving in the United States at Miami airport and deported back to Istanbul.

This World Cup is the worst.

[Abdul Latheef @tkalatheef]

Xiamen Airlines will host the 83rd IATA Annual General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit in Xiamen, China, from May 30 through June 1, 2027. The AGM was previously held in Shanghai (2002) and Beijing (2012).

#Aviation #Airlines #Transport #China #Xiamen @IATA #IATA #Rio

[World Meteorological Organization @WMO]

An El Niño is emerging. What do you know about it?

El Niño is a powerful natural climate pattern that warms ocean waters in the central and eastern Equatorial Pacific. It typically occurs every 2-7 years, but no two El Niños are exactly alike.

More ➡️ https://t.co/htyps0XfsE

[Airbus Newsroom @AirbusPRESS]

World's longest-range aircraft, the Airbus A350-1000ULR takes to the skies.
Read more ➡️ https://t.co/fKwTyDLWzE

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy? | #CBarchive

Read here: https://t.co/XbwGMH7FYv

[Aviation @xAviation]

Lufthansa's A380 generates visible condensation as low pressure forms over its wings during descent into foggy Munich! 🌫️😶‍🌫️

📹: swissaviation on yt

[Abdul Latheef @tkalatheef]

Air New Zealand has named celebrated chef Josh Emett its Culinary Ambassador. The Michelin Stars holder will design a selection of signature dishes for long-haul flights.
@FlyAirNZ #NewZEaland #aviation #airlines #travel #food #Auckland

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

A tip for the American people:

Whenever your politicians invoke a grievance against Iran - for example, "Iran seized our embassy", "Iran attacked our troops in Iraq" - just ask two simple questions:

What happened before? And what happened after?

Ask what happened before, and you get historical context. Those Iranian students didn't storm your embassy out of gratuitous hostility. They stormed it because two decades earlier, your government ran a coup from that same building to destroy their democracy and install a brutal monarchy in its place.

Ask what happened after, and you'll find that America took its revenge many times over, even when the matter had been formally settled. The hostage crisis was resolved by the 1981 Algiers Accords. Yet your government proceeded to arm Saddam Hussein to invade Iran, then looked the other way while he gassed Iranian soldiers and civilians for eight years straight.

Do this for every allegation on the list. You'll find that none happened in a vacuum, and all were repaid in Iranian blood well beyond any proportion.

Then ask yourself a third question: why are you never told the full story?

Because unresolved grievances are useful. They justify permanent hostility. And if you look carefully at who works hardest to keep them alive - who funds the think tanks, fills the panels, writes the op-eds - you'll find they are largely not acting in America's interest at all. They are mostly agents and apologists of Israel with a vested interest in ensuring that tensions never truly subside, regardless of the consequences of war.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me!
As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest".
Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far.

Together we are One.

[Mao Ning 毛宁 @SpoxCHN_MaoNing]

Deep in NW China’s Gansu Province, a high-speed railway winds its way through rolling loess hills.

Boring tunnels through mountains has never been an easy feat—yet China makes it happen, all for the people waiting beyond the peaks.

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Ted Turner, the billionaire media entrepreneur and philanthropist who launched the 24-hour cable TV news revolution when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87. https://t.co/61G2Kuh8Vz

[Airbus Newsroom @AirbusPRESS]

AirAsia places landmark order for 150 A220s. Read more ➡️ https://t.co/IpHz616CUZ

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Congratulations to the Honourable Louise Arbour, who will serve as Canada’s 31st Governor General.

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

We are excited to announce that Sarvam is partnering with @PixxelSpace to power the AI backbone of India's first orbital data centre satellite.

This is a first for the country, with India-built AI models running on an India-built satellite and both training and inference happening directly in orbit, without any dependence on foreign cloud or ground infrastructure.

[idrw @idrwalerts]

GalaxEye Space launched Mission Drishti aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on Sunday. The satellite brings OptoSAR imaging to India's private space push with all-weather, round-the-clock Earth observation.

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

China's rail system in 25 years jumped two centuries

It's the same guy on both photos!

[Abdul Latheef @tkalatheef]

Biman, the national carrier of Bangladesh, has ordered 10 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and four 737 MAX aircraft.
#Bangladesh #Dhaka @BimanAirlines #Biman @BoeingAirplanes #Boeing #airlines #aviation #travel Boeing photo

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power | #CBarchive

✍️@Josh_Gabbatiss @MollyLempriere
🎨 @tomoprater @joejgoodman Tom Pearson

Read here: https://t.co/hbadjvJ57L

[Copernicus EU @CopernicusEU]

🌡️ The European State of the Climate 2025 report is out, highlighting growing risks.

🛰️ Rapid warming is exposing Europe to increasing climate impacts. #CopernicusEU data provide key insights.

👉 Full report: https://t.co/tnVSC7KeEZ
👉 Image of the day: https://t.co/Q2TdNGe2mD