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The flight – one of three intended to carry 1,000 Afghans to Uganda chartered by businessman George Abi-Habib – was seen virtually empty as it took off from the Kabul airport on Tuesday night. The barren cabin was seen in a photo shared online by CNN’s Alexander Marquardt, who noted …

The individual, whose identity is being kept secret by the government, arrived in Birmingham on a British military flight, Sky News reported on Monday, citing details from a briefing for MPs by ministers and officials. According to Sky, ministers were tipped off about the arrival “overnight.” A Home Office spokesperson …

The 125 local guards, as well as around a dozen other Afghan embassy staffers, were turned away after applying for the UK’s “Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy” (ARAP), designed to help Afghans resettle after working under British agencies, according to the Guardian. The guards were told that their jobs were terminated …

Footage of the incident made waves on Tuesday as it found its way onto social media. In the clip, a flight attendant can be seen taping a passenger to their seat, even placing the tape across their mouth, while others on the plane cheer.  Frontier Airlines released a statement about …

Pilot Sergey Bogdan showed off his incredible flight skills during the MAKS 2021 Air Show in Zhukovsky, near Moscow. He performed the ‘Bell’ stunt, one of the most spectacular and dangerous aerobatic maneuvers. The jet began by doing a 90-degree vertical climb, then used its thrust vectoring technology to stay …

“Space exploration isn’t a tax-free holiday for the wealthy,” Blumenauer, a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement on Tuesday. Members of Congress also have begun thinking about regulating space tourism on concerns over public safety and air traffic, but a moratorium on such …

The routine flight from Dallas, Texas to Charlotte, North Carolina quickly became anything but normal after a female passenger began mumbling to the man sitting next to her that she did not want the plane to “fly up anymore.”  The “odd” woman “started getting more and more agitated and very …

“Congratulations on the flight,” Bezos wrote on Instagram to Branson and his crew following their successful flight to space and return to Earth on Sunday.  Bezos added that he “can’t wait to join the club.” Branson made his way to suborbital space on the Virgin Galactic Unity 22 spaceplane from …

The British daredevil entrepreneur will be among the six people on board the air-launched plane VSS Unity, which is scheduled to make its first fully crewed suborbital trip on Sunday. Musk, the head of spacecraft producer SpaceX and a space exploration enthusiast, wished Branson all the best. The billionaire appreciated …

This is a 9.6% decrease compared to last year, according to the regulator. At the end of the first half of 2020, the indicator stood at $31.2 billion. The CBR explained that “investments of other sectors in foreign assets with a slight decrease in external liabilities” contributed to the change. …