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✈️ GPS Lands Tourists in Big Trouble in Andorra
A group of tourists so willingly followed their GPS instructions that they ended up driving up onto a ski slope. The three women from Taiwan ended up down the side of a mountain in the tiny European country of Andorra while blindly following the instructions of their car’s navigation system in their rented black Mercedes. Read more here
✈️ New US visa bond rules likely to slash African travel
New US rules that require Africans to post deposits of up to $15,000 are likely to deepen a trend of declining visa approvals for the continent’s travelers.
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✈️ Venezuela Raid Turns Travelers’ Caribbean Getaways Into Ordeals
Jan 5, 2026 - Thousands of travelers are stuck in the Caribbean for a third straight day since the U.S. military operation in Venezuela, during which the Federal Aviation Administration closed parts of Caribbean airspace to U.S. civilian aircraft.
On Sunday and Monday, major airlines were operating extra flights and, in some cases, using larger airplanes to bring back stranded passengers. But the scale of the disruption, which grounded hundreds of flights at the end of the holiday travel season, meant some passengers had to wait days for available seats. Travel insurance was unlikely to reimburse the extra expenses, since most plans exclude coverage for disruptions related to military activity.
Travelers were stuck at airports like Luis Muñoz Marín International near San Juan, P.R., after the United States closed some Caribbean airspace on Saturday during a raid to capture the president of Venezuela. Credit: Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters
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