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More than 240 killed as Air India plane crashes after take-off in Ahmedabad
By Sumit Khanna, Shivam Patel and Aditi Shah Reuters More than 240 people were killed when an Air India plane bound for ...London-bound passenger plane carrying 242 people crashes after take-off in India
An Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad, the airline and ...Sweden eases alcohol monopoly one bottle at a time
If Anna Anerfalt gets a license to sell gin, whiskey and schnapps to visitors at her family’s distillery near Norrtalje in Sweden, ...Starship megarocket blows up over Indian Ocean in latest bumpy test
By Moises Avila, with Issam Ahmed in Washington AFP SpaceX’s prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping another bumpy ...Portugal to expel some 18,000 illegal migrants ahead of snap national election
Portugal’s caretaker government plans to expel some 18,000 foreigners living in the country without authorization, a minister said Saturday in the buildup ...Massive disruption after power outage shuts London’s Heathrow airport
By Helen ROWE AFP Britain’s Heathrow airport — Europe’s busiest — shut down early on Friday after a major fire at an ...Thousands of Australians without power as storm Alfred lashes Queensland
Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia’s Queensland state were without power on Sunday after Alfred, a downgraded tropical cyclone, brought damaging ...Major flight disruptions hit Munich and Hamburg airports as union strike begins
Germany’s Munich and Hamburg airports were hit by strikes by public sector union Verdi on Thursday and Friday, with airlines cancelling about ...Colombia caves on deportations after Trump threats
By Shaun Tandon with David Salazar in Bogota AFP Colombia on Sunday backed down and agreed to accept deported citizens sent on ...Death toll rises to 179 in South Korean plane crash
BY HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG AP The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday, when an airliner belly-landed ...