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2026-09-27 Southeast Asia

Flight from Tel Aviv to Mauritius said canceled after local authorities barred it for political reasons

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1 The Times of Israel has more on the story here.

Separately, a geography question: I have never been certain whether Mauritius should be filed under Sub-Saharan Africa, as it is of the East African coast beyond Madagascar, or if it properly belongs in Southeast Asia, since it is in the Indian Ocean. The Chagos Islands were separated from them when they sre given independence, but in recent years Chagos Islands stories have been filed under Britain, because it seems to be the only one interested in them.

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