More Australians are to be stranded overseas as Emirates announces its last flight into Brisbane from Dubai will be today, while the last flights into Sydney and Melbourne will be on Tuesday, after flight caps into Australia were slashed again.
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The combination of the pandemic and the arrival of cold weather is worsening the difficulties faced by the homeless in Little Rock. According to organizations serving the homeless in the state s capital city, the number of people seeking help has increased since the onset of the pandemic.
Pastor William Holloway, CEO of the Little Rock Compassion Center, said the emergency shelter for the homeless has averaged 175 people per night in recent weeks more than 25 per people than normal for this time of year. We re getting people now that are losing their jobs in other states, and they re originally from Arkansas. Now they re trying to come back home.