Smit Machchhar says in video call with Indian PM that he realised if he did not get up then ‘passengers would lose their lives’ The Indian pilot who helped thwart an apparent attempt to crash a flydubai flight has described how he fought for his life in the minutes after ...
Category: The Gaurdian
Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign
Row erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skinRow erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skin
Artwork created in Tahrir Square for Chinese president’s state visit to Egypt is painted over amid allegations it revived Afrocentric claims about Pharaohs’ origins On the eve of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to Cairo last month, the city authorities were busy removing a 66-metre-long mural from the esteemed ...
Friday briefing: How we covered the flydubai incident as it unfoldedFriday briefing: How we covered the flydubai incident as it unfolded
In today’s newsletter: When a passenger plane plunges 17,000ft amid claims of terrorism, hijacking and geopolitical intrigue, Guardian journalists have to try and separate fact from fiction in real time Good morning. Shocking news of a cockpit stabbing. Graphic footage of bloodied crew members. Mid-air testimony from terrified passengers. This ...
‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring
Returning for a 20th album of sumptuous synthpop, Andy Bell and Clarke open up about difficult recent years, being happily uncool and battling resurgent homophobia Andy Bell is rabbiting away on multiple topics. There’s his farm in Mallorca, where he and his husband Stephen Moss have had a fine year ...
US sends third aircraft carrier to Middle East amid stalemate in Iran warUS sends third aircraft carrier to Middle East amid stalemate in Iran war
Deployment underscores evolving complexity of Trump’s war against Iran as US midterm elections loom The US military is dispatching a third aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East, as President Donald Trump warned new strikes against Iran could be on the horizon. The deployment, which includes a specialist amphibious ...
How the stabbing incident unfolded on Israel-bound flydubai plane | DeconstructedHow the stabbing incident unfolded on Israel-bound flydubai plane | Deconstructed
An Israel-bound flydubai flight from Dubai made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after one of the co-pilots allegedly stabbed his captain in an apparent attempt to crash the plane. Israeli passengers intervened to stop the attack, restraining the co-pilot, while a reserve crew was able to stabilise ...
You Can See Everything review – Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes doc is a modern masterpiece of deceitYou Can See Everything review – Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes doc is a modern masterpiece of deceit
No spoilers here – TV’s grand illusionist meets his match when he moves in with Theranos founder and her family For anyone remotely near the worlds of documentary, comedy or medical fraud, there has been one thing on the mind for weeks now: a single-minute clip of Nathan Fielder, the ...
Crude oil exports from strait of Hormuz largely return to pre-war levelsCrude oil exports from strait of Hormuz largely return to pre-war levels
Alternative ways being used to move fuel out of Gulf region, but flows of refined products such as diesel still constrained Exports of crude from the strait of Hormuz have largely returned to levels seen before the outbreak of the Iran war, as oil producers and the shipping industry have ...
Co-pilot in flight stabbing had ‘Islamic radical indoctrination’, says NetanyahuCo-pilot in flight stabbing had ‘Islamic radical indoctrination’, says Netanyahu
Alleged flydubai attacker interrogated by Saudi security services as investigation into apparent crash attempt opens The Omani co-pilot who stabbed his captain in an apparent attempt to crash an Israel-bound flight from Dubai had previously undergone radical Islamist indoctrination and was suicidal, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has claimed. Israeli ...
NAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in GazaNAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in Gaza
Team behind documentary push back against IDF attempt to discredit its exposure of military systems The team behind the award-winning film NAZA, which details the Israeli military’s targeting policies in Gaza and its alleged acceptance of high numbers of civilian deaths, have revealed they spoke to more than 100 sources ...