{"id":13981,"date":"2020-02-17T09:28:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T06:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=13981"},"modified":"2020-02-17T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T06:28:49","slug":"sudan-allows-former-foe-israel-to-fly-over-its-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/17\/sudan-allows-former-foe-israel-to-fly-over-its-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Allows Former Foe Israel To Fly Over Its Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel\nsays it has begun flying commercial aircraft through Sudanese airspace under an\nagreement with the Khartoum government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nIsraeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told a group of visiting US Jewish\nleaders that the first Israeli plane crossed Sudan on Saturday, bound for South\nAmerica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\nsaid the new air corridor would cut the flying time on the route by three\nhours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sudan\nsaid in early Ferbruary that it had given initial approval for Israeli planes\nto fly over its territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr\nNetanyahu said Israel was discussing rapid normalisation of ties with its\nformer foe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sudan,\nwhich has close ties with the Palestinians, has stopped short of referring to\nimproving ties with Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel says it has begun flying commercial aircraft through Sudanese airspace under an agreement with the Khartoum government. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told a group of visiting US Jewish leaders that the first Israeli plane crossed Sudan on Saturday, bound for South America. He said the new air corridor would cut the flying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":13982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-13981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13983,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981\/revisions\/13983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}