59 m. ago RAF Brize Norton planes damaged as activists break into base ahead of flights

Pro-Palestine activists have broken into an RAF air base and damaged two of the air force's military aircrafts, the group has said. They used 'repurposed fire extinguishers to spray red paint into the turbine engines'

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7 h. ago RAF Brize Norton military planes damaged after activists on scooters break into base ahead of flights

Pro-Palestine activists have broken into the RAF Brize Norton air base and damaged two military aircrafts.

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8 h. ago RAF Brize Norton military planes damaged as activists break into base ahead of flights

This is a breaking news story. The group claimed to have broken into RAF Brize Norton overnight, where they say planes are flown into to Cyprus with weapons

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30 h. ago Air India crash latest: Airline says one engine on plane was new as damaged black box to be sent to US for analysis

Indian aviation regulator finds no major safety flaws in Air India Dreamliners but flags maintenance and coordination issues

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6 d. ago Air India crash likely to trigger India’s biggest aviation insurance payout

The total liability could range from £166m to £220m, according to estimates

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7 d. ago Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot

The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom?I have been saying this a lot recently: “At last!” At last, a mainstream film bluntly revealing the plunder of our seas. At last, a proposed ban on bottom trawling in so-called “marine protected areas” (MPAs). At last, some solid research on seabed carbon and the vast releases caused by the trawlers ploughing it up. But still I feel that almost everyone is missing the point.David Attenborough’s Ocean film, made for National Geographic, is the one I’ve been waiting for all my working life. An epoch ago, when I worked in the BBC’s Natural History Unit in the mid-1980s, some of us lobbied repeatedly for films like this, without success. Since then, even programmes that purport to discuss marine destruction have carefully avoided the principal cause: the fishing industry. The BBC’s Blue Planet II and Blue Planet Live series exemplified the organisation’s perennial ...

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1 week ago Madleen route tracker: Greta Thunberg’s aid boat to Gaza boarded by Israel

Climate activist Greta Thunberg, 22, says the group is attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade

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1 week ago Israel issues ominous warning that 'Greta Thunberg won't make it to Gaza' as it accuses the activist of being an 'antisemite travelling with Hamas propogandists' on her 'freedom flotilla'

Ms Thunberg, 22, is among 12 activists on board the ship, hoping to 'break [Israel's] siege on the Gaza Strip' with a delivery of humanitarian aid.

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2 w. ago Madleen route tracker: Follow Greta Thunberg’s aid boat as it sails for Gaza

Climate activist Greta Thunberg, 22, says the group is attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade

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2 w. ago Stroud Green plane tree faces axe again over root damage claims

Stroud Green plane tree faces axe again over root damage claims  BBC

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2 w. ago Climate activist Greta Thunberg sets sail for Gaza to break Israel’s blockade

Thunberg, Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham and ten other activists left Italy for the Gaza Strip on Sunday afternoon

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4 w. ago Several people dead after small plane crash in San Diego neighborhood

FAA said a Cessna 550 crashed in the early morning, damaging several vehicles and a homeSeveral people are dead after a small aircraft crashed in a neighborhood in San Diego, California, early on Thursday morning, the San Diego police department confirmed, clipping one home and damaging several vehicles.The crash killed the plane’s passengers, Dan Eddy, the assistant San Diego fire chief, said at a Thursday morning news conference. The aircraft could hold eight to 10 people but it is unknown how many were on board. No one on the ground in the military housing neighborhood was injured. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Terrified passengers scream during flight from hell as plane is hit by severe turbulence and hail storm and then has its nose smashed by a bird strike

Dramatic footage shows terrified passengers screaming as a plane suffers damage to its nose following severe turbulence and a bird strike.

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