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Eurotunnel owner Getlink wants to replicate ‘airport experience’ at Folkestone and Calais, without making people get out of cars Airport-style passport and fingerprinting controls are to be introduced at Eurotunnel in an attempt to prevent “short-term and long-term chaos” in Folkestone and Calais. In a breakthrough for travellers, the European Commission has agreed to a new system in which an “ea…

Five-year project will create wildlife corridors by building wetlands and increase access to green and blue spaces Bristol could become home to the UK’s first “wetland city” thanks to a charity’s efforts to create vast wildlife corridors that will reduce flood risk and give people more access to green and blue spaces. The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) said the five-year initiative would include…

Woman who has lived in UK for 26 years refused indefinite leave to remain under Home Office’s new settlement rules A blind Nigerian pensioner who has lived in the UK for 26 years has been told by the Home Office she can safely “go home” to India. Comfort*, 67, arrived in the UK in 2000, and shortly after suddenly went blind due to acute glaucoma. Continue reading...

Prospect of partial return to Budapest by Central European University suggests confidence in Hungary’s future A university that Viktor Orbán tried to chase out of Hungary is open to expanding its presence in Budapest, in a mark of confidence in the country’s democratic future. Carsten Q Schneider, the interim president and rector of Central European University (CEU), said it was interested in inc…

Travelers and crew feeling ‘pissed’ or ‘lucky’ depending on level of upset amid nationwide ground stop The US Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to ground all flights on Friday threw airports and travel plans into chaos across the country, as passengers on planes and in airport terminals were suddenly thrust into limbo. At New York’s John F Kennedy airport, passengers found their travel p…

Sydney and Melbourne airports say grounding of planes from US airports led to delays for some flights US flight outage – live updates Some US bound flights from Sydney Airport have been grounded in response to American authorities halting departures and delaying landings at all US airports . Flights from Melbourne Airport were also affected, with passengers expected to depart for Los Angeles shor…

The former coalminer’s claim Australians are being ‘demographically replaced’ sparked wide criticism, but his party has shown no signs of dumping him Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast In a Facebook video from a Sydney anti-immigration rally on Sunday, as a man dressed like a medieval knight watches on, One Nation leader upper house candidate Stuart Bonds launches into a…

Experts say outage exposes ‘Australia’s reliance on foreign technology’ as software giant says services being restored Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Microsoft outage could be a disaster for the Australian economy that forces some small businesses to close, with costs expected to run into the billions of dollars, experts have warned. The US software company has s…

No passengers or crew were killed or critically hurt after a tanker collided with a river cruise ship on the Mississippi River, officials say New Orleans river collision – latest updates In what the city’s mayor declared a “miracle on the Mississippi”, all passengers were accounted for – with none killed or critically hurt – after a tanker collided with a river cruise ship docked on the Mississip…

Flight 15 expected to orbit Earth about 14 times over 22 hours, before company catches it at Starbase, Texas SpaceX’s Starship megarocket blasted off from Texas on Friday afternoon, as the aerospace company sought to make history with a double catch of its reusable rocket. Starship Flight 15 is expected to orbit the Earth about 14 times over the course of 22 hours, before the company catches the …

Anti-corruption agency carried out searches as part of investigation into Orbán-era minister accused of taking bribes Hungary’s anti-corruption agency said on Friday it had seized cash worth $19.5m (£14.8m) buried in forests and hidden elsewhere while investigating an ex-minister of nationalist former leader Viktor Orbán’s cabinet. Miklós Seszták, Hungary’s minister of national development betwee…

Statement a rare instance of a prominent Jewish political leader taking a strong stand in defence of Arab Israelis Israeli prime ministerial hopeful Gadi Eisenkot accused caretaker premier Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday of fuelling a “racist” campaign against the country’s Arab minority, after he sought to delegitimise the community’s lawmakers by linking them to Hamas. Eisenkot’s statement was a r…

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy said stoppage is due to ‘communication issue’ and that FAA is looking into issue The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a nationwide ground stop for all flights that are due to take off in the US on Friday, delaying or canceling nearly 7,000 US flights, according to aviation tracker FlightAware. In a post on X, the US transportation secretary, Sea…

Kaja Kallas says Moscow is trying to divert attention from its aggression by raising issue of European security The EU’s foreign policy chief has warned against “walking into the traps that Russia is setting” as she said Moscow was trying to start a debate about European security in order to divert attention from its aggression. “We have one aggressor and one victim, and the aggressor does not ha…

No personnel, aircraft or infrastructure at Suffolk site affected, says US military The US air force has said it responded to “suspected unauthorised drone activity” on Friday night at an airbase in the east of England. No personnel, aircraft or infrastructure were affected, the air force said. Continue reading...