4 h. ago Plane full of tourists forced to repeatedly circle airport after traffic controller fell asleep

Passengers on a flight from Paris to Corsica were left hanging mid-air after the airport staff member on the ground took a mid-shift snooze.

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4 h. ago Air traffic control warns flight to turn away from Air Force One as it brings Trumps to London

Air traffic control warns flight to turn away from Air Force One as it brings Trumps to London  Sky News

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9 h. ago Pilots are told to 'get off the iPad' and steer away from Trump's Air Force One jet 'immediately' in 'close encounter' on flight to UK

An air traffic controller was forced to intervene when he saw the path of a Spirit Airlines jumbo converging with the president's over Long Island.

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12 h. ago Air Force One jumbo carrying Donald Trump to Britain 'is involved in "close encounter" mid

An air traffic controller was forced to intervene when he saw the path of a Spirit Airlines jumbo converging with the president's over Long Island.

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28 h. ago The Guardian view on the UN’s genocide finding: Britain – and the world – can no longer look away | Editorial

A UN commission has found Israel’s war in Gaza ranks among history’s greatest crimes. The UK government must stop hiding behind legal fictions and recognise the realityA United Nations commission of inquiry has now said what Israeli, Palestinian and international human rights organisations, as well as many genocide scholars, have already argued: that Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide. The commission finds that mass killings, attacks on vital infrastructure, starvation, displacement and denial of medical care meet the legal definition of history’s gravest crime. It finds genocidal intent “the only reasonable inference” from both the statements of Israel’s leaders and the conduct of its forces in Gaza.Against this, Israel’s repeated assertions that it is acting in lawful self-defence ring hollow in the face of overwhelming evidence and a deliberate pattern of destruction. The UN’s conclusion imposes moral clarity. It also demands political action, especially from those, includi...

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31 h. ago Labour MP reveals daughter’s ‘horrendous’ experience at scandal

Richard Quigley said his teen daughter was force-fed and repeatedly restrained at hospital where a young girl was unlawfully killed

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58 h. ago UK tourists warned of new strike dates as French air traffic control industrial action delayed

Staff had planned to walk out this week but the strikes have been postponed until October

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60 h. ago Flight chaos postponed as French air traffic controllers delay – and extend – strike

October walkout could cause thousands of cancellations, including from the UK to Spain and Portugal

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63 h. ago Australian PM blames ‘aggressive protesters’ for closure of local electorate office

Anthony Albanese says site next to church ‘became untenable’ after repeated protests against Gaza war in inner Sydney suburbThe Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has closed his inner-Sydney electorate office after almost 30 years, saying his hand had been forced by repeated protests outside the office.Albanese’s office in Marrickville, in his electorate of Grayndler, has long been a target of demonstrations, particularly over the war in Gaza, including a months-long sit-in outside the office in 2024. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘I was told I had two weeks to live’ – why are so many young, fit, non

For decades, lung cancer has been viewed as a disease of older men who smoked. Now, cases among young women are on the rise and doctors are baffled. Could air pollution be behind it?Towards the end of 2019, Becca Smith’s life was full and hectic. At 28, she had taken on a unit in Chester to convert into a yoga studio, poured in all her savings and hired teachers, while at the same time working as a personal trainer. Her days started at 5am; she was driven, stressed, excited, and had no time for the back pain that just would not subside.“It kept moving around,” she says. “Every day it would be in a different part of my back. I was strapping on heat packs and ice packs just to get to work.” Smith saw her GP, her physiotherapist and a chiropractor, all of whom suspected a torn muscle. “What really worried me,” she says, “the worst-case scenario, was a slipped disc.” One day in March 2020, the pain was so intense that Smith took to her bed, fell asleep and woke with a crashing migraine ...

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3 d. ago ‘I kept asking: “Why? What did I do?”’ How come so many young, fit, non

For decades, lung cancer has been viewed as a disease of older men who smoked. Now, cases among young women are on the rise and doctors are baffled. Could air pollution be behind it?Towards the end of 2019, Becca Smith’s life was full and hectic. At 28, she had taken on a unit in Chester to convert into a yoga studio, poured in all her savings and hired teachers, while at the same time working as a personal trainer. Her days started at 5am; she was driven, stressed, excited, and had no time for the back pain that just would not subside.“It kept moving around,” she says. “Every day it would be in a different part of my back. I was strapping on heat packs and ice packs just to get to work.” Smith saw her GP, her physiotherapist and a chiropractor, all of whom suspected a torn muscle. “What really worried me,” she says, “the worst-case scenario, was a slipped disc.” One day in March 2020, the pain was so intense that Smith took to her bed, fell asleep and woke with a crashing migraine ...

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6 d. ago What Scots travellers need to know about French air traffic control strike as 24 hours of chaos looms

Nearly 200 flights to and from the UK could be disrupted, as passengers are told to plan ahead.

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8 d. ago Kemi Badenoch warns debt crisis could force UK to seek 1970s

The Tory leader said she was 'really worried' the UK was risking a repeat of 1976, when chancellor Denis Healey was humiliatingly forced to seek help to keep the UK going.

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8 d. ago Ryanair tells passengers hit by flight delays to email the UK government

Ryanair has launched a public campaign urging passengers affected by air traffic control (ATC) delays to email UK Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander directly to voice their complaints.

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1 week ago Message to UK holidaymakers as Ryanair urges passengers to lodge official complaints

Ryanair has set up a website called Air Traffic Control Ruined Your Flight

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1 week ago Airline tells delayed passengers to email minister with their complaints

Ryanair is urging passengers affected by air traffic control (ATC) delays to email Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander directly with their complaints. The Dublin-based airline has published the Cabinet minister’s personal parliamentary email address on a website named ‘Air Traffic Control Ruined Your Flight’.

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1 week ago French air traffic control strikes to bring CHAOS for millions across Europe

Talks between France's Civil Aviation Authority and SNCTA, which represents air traffic controllers in France have proved 'fruitless', with hundreds of flights set to be affected.

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1 week ago British tourist forces plane to make emergency landing after 'repeatedly punching Turkish passenger'

A flight departed from Manchester airport to the Turkish city of Antalya, but was forced to make an emergency landing after a Brit, 35, allegedly punched Turkish passenger, 45, repeatedly.

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1 week ago Trump’s domestic troop deployments aren’t about crime – they’re about intimidation | Moira Donegan

The president is targeting Chicago in his latest bid to assert authority over Democratic governance and racial pluralism“We’re going in,” Donald Trump said on Tuesday, when asked whether national guard troops would be sent to invade Chicago. The comment came as reports emerged that national guard troops from Texas – not yet federalized under direct presidential control – were preparing to deploy to Chicago in the coming days, in defiance of the opposition repeatedly and forcefully expressed by the Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson, and the Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, both Democrats.The White House and the president’s allies have claimed that the deployment is a response to violent crime in Chicago. This is a lie. Crime in Chicago has dropped dramatically over the past decades, as it has in every major American city – including Los Angeles, where Trump deployed the national guard and the marines earlier this year, and Washington DC, where armed federal agents have patrolled the stre...

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2 w. ago UK tourists warned of strikes in holiday destinations including Spain and Portugal

Baggage handlers and air traffic controllers are among the workers across several European countries that have planned strikes this September

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