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Every time we breathe or speak, we inhale particles that may contain infectious viruses, which is why clean air should be number one on the world’s priority list right now. Expert Pierre Bi explains more.
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By AFP
Kozhikode -
Investigators have recovered the "black box" flight recorders from an Air India Express plane that crashed in southern India killing at least 18 people, the aviation minister said Saturday.
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By AFP
Paris -
Air pollution cuts life expectancy for every man, woman and child on Earth by nearly two years, according to data released Tuesday which experts said showed poor air quality is "the greatest risk to human health".
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By AFP
Ottawa -
The five missing crew members of a Canadian navy helicopter that crashed during a NATO operation this week into the Mediterranean Sea are presumed dead, officials said Friday.
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By AFP
Den Haag -
A pilot accidentally set off a hijack alarm on a plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, triggering a huge security operation by Dutch police.
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By AFP
Rawalpindi -
Eighteen people were killed when a small military plane crashed into a residential area in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi early Tuesday, officials told AFP.
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By AFP
Rawalpindi -
Fifteen people were killed when a small military plane crashed early Tuesday into a residential area in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad, a rescue official told AFP."A small plane crashed into a residential area.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
Two incidents of dangerous landings by commercial planes carrying more than 200 passengers were being investigated, Indian officials said Monday.
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By AFP
Washington -
A small twin-engine plane crashed on takeoff Sunday into a hangar at a Texas airport, officials said, killing all 10 aboard.
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By AFP
Washington -
A small twin-engine passenger plane crashed in Texas in the United States on Sunday, killing 10 people, officials said.
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By AFP
Paris -
The former head of a budget Thai airline goes on trial in Paris on Monday over a deadly 2007 plane crash that killed 90 people, nearly two-thirds of them foreigners.
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By AFP
Moscow -
Russian national carrier Aeroflot cancelled four flights that normally use the Sukhoi Superjet aircraft Wednesday, days after a deadly crash-landing in Moscow where 41 people died in a fire.
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By AFP
Moscow -
A man was killed on the runway at Moscow's largest airport when he was hit by a plane that was taking off, Russian investigators said Wednesday.
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By AFP
Jakarta -
A Lion Air passenger jet has been involved in another accident -- just a week after a plane from the Indonesian airline crashed with the loss of all 189 people on board.
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By AFP
Tarin Kowt -
NATO is investigating reports that at least nine Afghan police officers were killed in a US air strike during heavy fighting with the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, its mission said Tuesday.
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By AFP
Mumbai -
A small plane crashed into a construction site in a densely populated part of India's financial capital Mumbai on Thursday, killing five people including one on the ground, officials said.
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By AFP
Mumbai -
A small plane crashed into a construction site in a densely populated area of India's financial capital Mumbai on Thursday, killing five people including one on the ground, officials said.
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By AFP
Mumbai -
India's government announced Thursday that its auction for a majority stake in its debt-stricken airline Air India had received no bids.
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By AFP
Havana -
This is what we know about the Boeing passenger plane crash that happened in Cuba on Friday, as the aircraft was taking off from Havana to a city on the east of the island nation:- Among the 110 people killed were 99 Cubans, the six-person Mexican crew...
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By AFP
Havana -
A Cuban airliner with more than 100 people on board crashed Friday after takeoff from Havana with many feared dead.
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By AFP
Havana -
Cuba began two days of national mourning Saturday for victims of the crash of a state airways plane that killed all but three of its 110 passengers and crew.
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By AFP
Havana -
A Cuban state airways plane with 104 passengers on board crashed shortly after taking off from Havana Friday, leaving a wreck of smoldering fuselage, as the country's president warned many people were feared dead.
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By AFP
Geneva -
More than 90 percent of the global population is breathing in high levels of pollutants, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, blaming poor air quality for some seven million deaths annually.
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By AFP
Frankfurt Am Main -
Tens of thousands of air passengers were stranded Tuesday as workers at airlines Lufthansa and Air France staged strikes that crippled traffic at several major European airports.
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By AFP
Frankfurt Am Main -
Tens of thousands of air passengers were stranded Tuesday as aviation giants Lufthansa and Air France were hit by strikes that crippled traffic at several major European airports.
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By AFP
Paris -
Air France said Saturday that hundreds of its flights have been cancelled as pilots, cabin crew and ground staff pursued a fifth day of strikes aimed at securing higher pay.
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By AFP
Washington -
A Royal Australian Air Force electronic warfare plane caught fire on takeoff during an exercise in the United States Saturday but there were no serious injuries, the military said.
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By AFP
Berlin -
Four people were killed on Tuesday when a small plane and a helicopter collided in southwestern Germany, police said.
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By AFP
Oslo -
All of Norway's short-haul airliners should be entirely electric by 2040, the country's airport operator said on Wednesday, cementing the Nordic nation's role as a pioneer in the field of electric transport.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
India's navy said four bodies had been recovered on Saturday after search teams located the wreckage of a helicopter that went missing earlier in the day.
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A Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm 105 of the SAPS Air Wing flies surveillance over the Union Buildings.
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Scottish Air Ambulance on the clifftop Gordon Hatton
Toronto Highway 401, the busiest highway in North America. kennymatic (CC BY 2.0)
Air India Express - Boeing courtesy photo Courtesy Boeing
POWER FAILURE: The massive power outage that disabled computers and stranded thousands of Delta Air Lines passengers this week is said to have started here, at company headquarters in Atlanta. Bud/Wikimedia Commons
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