Airline: Iraq stops landing over official’s son

Published March 6, 2014 6:01pm ET



BEIRUT (AP) — Iraqi authorities on Thursday denied permission to a plane belonging to Lebanon’s national carrier to land in Baghdad after a son of an Iraqi minister missed the flight, Middle East Airline said in a statement.

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