5 h. ago Trump orders custom Air Force One but 'the Gulf version' with gold spiral staircase

President Trump has bought a new custom aircraft, previously owned by the Qatari government and once on the market for a cool $400million, to act as a stand-in for his 'aging Air Force One'

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31 h. ago See inside Trump's magnificent new Air Force One jet... acquired from an unlikely source after Boeing failed

President Donald Trump is done waiting for Boeing to make the new Air Force One, instead tasking a new defense contractor with the job of retooling a jet once used by a Middle Eastern government.

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34 h. ago Russian drone attack injures 47 in Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv

Russia fired nearly 200 exploding drones and decoys overnight, Ukraine air force says

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44 h. ago Ukrainian troops to join London procession to celebrate VE Day anniversary

The Ukrainian armed forces will join around 1,000 UK armed forces personnel, including soldiers on horseback and seven military bands.

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59 h. ago Naga Munchetty apologises for technical blunder as BBC Breakfast is pulled off air

BBC Breakfast was briefly taken off air this morning as Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt were forced to apologise for a technical blunder on the popular morning show

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59 h. ago Israel launches airstrikes near Syrian presidential palace in Damascus

Benjamin Netanyahu says strike intended to deter Syria’s new leadership from any hostile move against the DruzeIsrael’s air force launched airstrikes against unidentified targets near Syria’s presidential palace, in what Israeli officials said was a warning to the Syrian government after days of bloody clashes near Damascus between pro-government militia and fighters from the Druze minority sectBenjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and the defence minister, Israel Katz, said in a joint statement that the strike early on Friday, the second this week in Syria, was intended to deter the country’s new leadership from any hostile move against the Druze. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago BBC Breakfast abruptly taken off air as Naga Munchetty forced to step in amid blunder

BBC Breakfast was briefly taken off air as Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt were forced to issue an apology during the live election coverage as the screen cut off completely

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65 h. ago Israeli military strikes near Syria's presidential palace after warning over sectarian attacks

Israel’s air force struck near Syria’s presidential palace early Friday hours after warning Syrian authorities not to march toward villages inhabited by members of a minority sect in southern Syria

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3 d. ago Trump is tired of waiting for Boeing to make him a new Air Force One so the government is refurbishing a Qatari plane

‘We may buy a plane or get a plane, or something,’ Trump said in February after voicing his frustration toward Boeing

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3 d. ago BBC presenter panics on air after rude email from viewer as they're forced to move on

BBC Look North newsreader Peter Levy was left blushing live on air after reading out a cheeky email from a viewer about weatherman Paul Hudson, and he had to stop reading

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4 d. ago Coleen Nolan forced to apologise to emotional Loose Women co

Coleen Nolan was forced to make an on-air apology after she made an awkward blunder.

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6 d. ago Family speaks out after Air Force veteran, 62, was ‘left to die by American Airlines crew who allowed entire plane to deboard before he got help’

Exclusive: “They never even gave him a chance,” Kyle Cannon said of his late father, John William Cannon, who died after American Airlines crew allegedly delayed calling for help until after the entire plane had disembarked

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6 d. ago Family of Air Force vet ‘left to die by American Airlines crew’ says ‘traumatized’ medics pushed them to sue after seeing how he was treated

Exclusive: “They never even gave him a chance,” Kyle Cannon said of his late father, John William Cannon, who died after American Airlines crew allegedly delayed calling for help until after the entire plane had disembarked

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7 d. ago BBC Breakfast taken off air for second day running as presenters forced to address chaos

It is the second day in a row there has been major disruption to the flagship programme

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8 d. ago The veiled message beneath Donald and Melania's sartorial schism at the funeral of Pope Francis

Landing at Fiumicino Airport last night ahead of attending the funeral for Pope Francis, Donald and Melania Trump briefly hesitated as they prepared to disembark from Air Force One.

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8 d. ago Police storm Wizz Air flight on runway at Luton before realising huge error

Passengers aboard a Wizz Air flight from London Luton to Tirana were forced to wait for 88 minutes after staff allegedly accused someone of stealing a security guard's phone

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8 d. ago Donald Trump reveals why he attended Pope's funeral – and it's all about him

Donald Trump has upset several people online with comments made on Air Force One where he admitted why he has made the journey to Rome for Pope Francis' funeral

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8 d. ago Donald Trump leads world's political elite ahead of Pope Francis' funeral: US president touches down in Rome overnight with wife Melania

US president Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have arrived in Rome ahead of Pope Francis' funeral. 

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8 d. ago Donald Trump lands in Italy for Pope Francis' funeral: US president looks solemn as he steps off of Air Force One with wife Melania

US president Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have arrived in Rome ahead of Pope Francis' funeral. 

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9 d. ago In Kyiv, we don’t believe in the fantasy of Trump's ‘peace deal’. Our reality is more dead civilians | Nataliya Gumenyuk

At the scene of the deadliest attack on our capital this year, I see the war on Ukraine is still very real – and Putin shows no signs of ending itWar teaches you to believe only in what happens, rather than what is merely said or promised. A day after the “peace talks” in London, which the US secretary of state Marco Rubio didn’t even turn up for, Ukrainians were not anxiously waiting for the results of a possible deal, which looked unfeasible anyway. Instead, they were counting their dead.According to Ukraine’s air force, in the early hours of Thursday morning Russia launched 11 Iskander ballistic missiles, 37 KH-101 cruise missiles, six Iskander-K cruise missiles, 12 Kalibr cruise missiles, 4 KH-59/KH-69 missiles and 145 drones. For Kyiv and Kharkiv residents that night, this was not just a case of reading numbers on a news feed, but hearing and feeling explosions rock their cities. It turned out to be the deadliest night for the Ukrainian capital this year.Nataliya Gumenyuk is a ...

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