Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, is reportedly in a coma-like condition and close to death at his home in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.
As part of a simmering political conflict, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, and Egypt have severed ties with Qatar, disrupting the region's aviation industry.