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PARIS( Reuters)-A European arms procurement agency representing France, Germany, Spain and Italy signed a long-awaited contract with Airbus for the development of a new European military drone, Airbus said on Thursday. The contract with procurement agency OCCAR includes the development and manufacturing of 20 Medium Altitude, Long Endurance systems and 5 years of initial in-service support. Eurodrone will generate more than 7, 000 high-tech jobs and strengthen European industrial sovereignty, Mi

ROME( Reuters)-France and the United States agreed on Friday to explore making arms export rules more effective, addressing a long-running source of friction as their leaders met for the first time since a spat over a U.S. security pact with Britain and Australia." The presidents intend to launch a U.S.-France defense trade strategic dialogue to foster a shared view on defense market access and export issues," U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron said in a joint statemen

They don't tell us anything," he said. Bernard Vidick, a Belgian judicial officer, said he had been refused a connecting flight in Paris because the plane bringing stranded passengers from Dublin had also been delayed." This means we are blocked in Paris whereas we should be in New York.... We are wasting two of the few vacation days we have," he told Reuters. Carriers serving the United States are bracing for congestion and delays next week as the Thanksgiving holiday overlaps with airline lab

" We have adjusted our flight schedule to Ukraine for operational reasons only," a Lufthansa spokesperson said on Monday, while another confirmed there would be no layovers in Kyiv for the time being.... Lufthansa serves Kyiv, Lviv and Odessa in Ukraine. Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and has sided with rebels fighting government troops in Ukraine's eastern region of Donbas, where the Ukrainian government says some 14, 000 people have been killed.... It h

PARIS/ MONTREAL( Reuters)-All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines airliner escaped after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport that killed five of six crew on the smaller aircraft on Tuesday. Video showed passengers being evacuated from the burning Airbus A350 by escape slides in relative calm and apparently without hand luggage, in an operation hailed as a" miracle". Aviation safety agencies have warned for years that pausing to collect carry-on baggage risks lives du

United, the other U.S. carrier that flies this Boeing model with the panels, said its preliminary checks found bolts that needed tightening on several panels.... The disclosures heightened concerns about the production process of the MAX 9 jets that have been grounded.... Boeing is expected to revise the guidelines it submitted to airlines earlier on Monday, and the FAA would have to sign off on those changes before the airlines could begin repairs, sources said....

It’s not just about buying them, but the upkeep and operating costs will be massive over time," she added." We should seek a European solution as Switzerland is in Europe and we don’t want to be dependent on the United States.” Anti-arms campaigners say Switzerland, which last fought a foreign war more than 200 years ago and has no discernable enemies, does not need cutting-edge fighters. But supporters have said Switzerland needs to be able to protect itself without relying on others.... The l

It is improbable Ryanair would have agreed to declare" code red" in the circumstances, said the report, which concluded that the bomb threat was" deliberately false".... No person or state has been identified as the source of an apparently illegal hoax, it said. European Union leaders and human rights groups have accused Belarus of fabricating the bomb threat in order to lure the plane to its territory and enable the arrest of Protasevich.... Belarus told the investigation it received the emai

" I can only say it was a miracle, we could have died if we were late." EVACUATION CHUTES StarPicks Malaysia ‘going beyond’ with leadership on climate action Emergency protocol stipulates that crew must have permission from the cockpit to open any emergency exits.... The captain stood near the two exits up front and gave the go-ahead for evacuation.... JAL officials did not know how long the process took from the time the aircraft came to a complete stop.90 SECONDSThe crash is the first signif