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Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787 returned to Munich after takeoff incident
A Vietnam Airlines flight bound for Hanoi returned to Munich Airport on Saturday following technical problems after takeoff, the airline and airport said.
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Ukraine says it hit Russian rocket centre linked to Starlink-style network
Ukraine said on Saturday its long-range strikes had hit a Russian military airfield and a rocket centre that Kyiv says supports Russia's nascent Starlink-style satellite internet...
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Hanwha, Fincantieri shares rise after Trump opens Navy shipbuilding to foreign yards
Shares of South Korea's Hanwha Group and Italy's Fincantieri rose on Friday after President Donald Trump's directive opening U.S. Navy shipbuilding to overseas yards.
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Airlines get grounded jets flying again, but engine bills linger
Airlines are getting grounded jets back into the air. The bills left by a years-long engine crisis are proving much harder to bring down.
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Civilian deaths in Ukraine jumped in July as Russia hit cities, UN says
Civilian casualties from the war in Ukraine rose by nearly a third month-on-month, to the highest level since May 2022, as Russia struck towns and cities far from the battlefield...
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Latvia shoots down drone in its airspace, Finland restricts parts of Baltic Sea
Fighter jets on a NATO air defence mission have shot down a drone that entered the airspace of Latvia, a NATO and European Union member, early on Friday, Latvia's armed forces sa...
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Bird remains found aboard 737 engine from Ryanair Greek incident
Bird remains were found in the engine of a Ryanair Boeing 737 NG plane where a passenger was partially sucked through a broken window shortly after takeoff from Greece in July, t...
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After Trump's Turkey ruse, a look at past secret presidential trips
Closed aircraft window shades. A ballcap pulled low to hide the president's face. Seized cellphones. Strict warnings against leaks.
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'If I go, you go, right?': Traveling on the presidential plane—without Trump
From the beginning, something didn't add up.
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Credible missile threat led to secret aircraft switch for Trump, source says
A threat that Air Force One could be targeted by a shoulder-fired missile prompted the Secret Service to secretly move President Donald Trump onto an unmarked government jet durin...
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TKMS sees increased demand from Middle East following Iran war
Warship builder TKMS is seeing increased demand from the Middle East region in the wake of the Iran war, the group's CEO told journalists on Wednesday, singling out mine cou...
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Trump says his plane faced 'greater risk' in secret flight change
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he secretly switched planes in Turkey last month at the direction of the U.S. Secret Service, but that the plane he ultimately flew o...
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Boeing jet deliveries drop 17% in July
Boeing said Tuesday that it delivered 53 jets in July, five more than a year earlier, but a sharp drop from the 64 jets it handed over in June. The U.S. planemaker trailed Europe...
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Air taxi firm Joby acquires defense tech company for $500 million
Joby Aviation said on Tuesday it would buy defense technology company Resonant Sciences for about $500 million, as it looks to scale its business in a growing defense market.
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Poland interested in unused EU SAFE defence funds, deputy minister says
Poland is interested in additional money from the European Union defence financing programme (SAFE) that would not be used by other countries, Deputy Minister of National Defence...
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Trump took secret flight out of Turkey due to Iran threat, the Washington Post reports
U.S. President Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight from Turkey last month when the White House said he was flying aboard Air Force One, an extraordinary move prompted...
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North Korea condemns Japan's white paper, calling it 're-invasion paper'
In a commentary carried by KCNA titled "Japan's defense white paper is a reinvasion-minded one for the legalization of the operation of war machine," a North Korean analyst said...
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Austria breaks up sanctions-evasion scheme supplying Russian arms industry
Austria has broken up a scheme in which a Vienna-based company supplied equipment used to make engines for Russian missiles and fighter jets, in breach of European Union sanctions...
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