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Some Greek flights resume after air traffic radio collapse
Reuters, Published on 05/01/2026
» ATHENS - Flights across Greece were grounded for several hours on Sunday after a collapse of radio frequencies crippled air traffic communications, stranding thousands of travellers and bringing airport operations to a virtual standstill.
'Organised chaos': $19bn airport megaproject takes shape in cramped NY
AFP, Published on 19/03/2025
» JOHN F. KENNEDY AIRPORT (UNITED STATES) — New York's JFK airport is an overlapping patchwork of open terminals, giant building sites and burgeoning infrastructure, wedged in by thousands of homes on one side and the ocean on the other.
Many Asean air force chiefs to skip Myanmar meeting
AFP, Published on 07/09/2023
» Several Southeast Asian air force commanders plan to shun an upcoming meeting chaired by Myanmar’s military rulers but Thailand will be represented at the talks.
Search progresses for trapped Mexican miners
AFP, Published on 11/08/2022
» AGUJITA, Mexico: A soldier made a brief incursion on Wednesday into the flooded coal mine in northern Mexico where 10 workers have been trapped for a week.
China says flyovers in Taiwan Strait a 'solemn warning'
AFP, Published on 27/01/2021
» Chinese military exercises near Taiwan are a "solemn warning to external forces", Beijing said Wednesday, after the new US government expressed strong support for the self-ruled island.
Macron hosts downsized Bastille Day, to outline crisis response plans
AFP, Published on 14/07/2020
» PARIS (FRANCE) - French President Emmanuel Macron hosted a subdued Bastille Day ceremony on Tuesday to honour the country's medical workers amid the coronavirus pandemic, before outlining his response to the country's most severe health and economic crisis since World War II.
LA indoor restaurants close as pandemic looms over Independence Day
AFP, Published on 02/07/2020
» LOS ANGELES - Some Californian restaurants shut their doors Wednesday as new measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic threaten to scupper US Independence Day plans, with beaches closed, fireworks displays scrapped and family reunions put on hold.
29 killed in bus crash on Indian expressway
AFP, Published on 08/07/2019
» AGRA, India: A bus careered off one of India's busiest roads early Monday killing at least 29 people, police said.
Trump, producer-president, makes July 4th his own show
AFP, Published on 03/07/2019
» WASHINGTON: Tanks in the center of Washington, fighter jets screaming overhead, and a speech from the Lincoln Memorial steps: welcome to President Donald Trump's tradition-wrecking Fourth of July.
France to deploy 110,000 police on Cup weekend
AFP, Published on 13/07/2018
» PARIS - Authorities will deploy 110,000 police and security forces across France this weekend to secure the huge street parties if "Les Bleus" win the World Cup on Sunday, after years of attacks targeting crowds and other so-called "soft" targets.