LISBON (Reuters) - Two stunt planes collided in midair on Sunday during an air show in the Portuguese city of Beja and one of them crashed and exploded into flames, killing its Spanish pilot, the Portuguese Air Force (PAF) said.
The PAF, which organized the show at an air base in Beja, 180 km (110 miles) south of Lisbon, said the accident involved aircraft from the YAK STARS aerobatic patrol.
The patrol includes Portuguese and Spanish... (continue reading...)
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A 29-year-old policeman stabbed on Friday in the German city of Mannheim during an attack on a right-wing demonstration has died, authorities said on Sunday.
The attack was carried out by a 25-year old man with a knife, who severely injured six individuals, according to police in the German state of Baden Wuerttemberg, where Mannheim is located.
"He stabbed the police officer several times in the head," the police... (continue reading...)
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The head of Dubai airline Emirates urged Boeing to pick an engineering and business heavyweight to lead a deep overhaul of the U.S. aerospace giant and said the task of ending the planemaker's recent confidence crisis "must get done".
"Is it fixable and salvageable? Yes it is. Will it get things back to where it needs to? It must. And you'll only do that with very strong leadership,... (continue reading...)
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Former Israeli foreign minister David Levy, whose rise from manual labourer to the international stage inspired fellow Mizrahi Jews of Middle Eastern descent, died on Sunday aged 86.
Born in Rabat, Levy was among a wave of Moroccan Jews who moved to Israel in its early years. Many felt sidelined by the mainly Ashkenazi, or European Jewish, leadership - an ethnic resentment that resurfaced in a recent constitutional crisis.
... (continue reading...)FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Europe must work more closely on defence projects and raise investment in production capacity, the chief executive of Airbus told a German newspaper.
Guillaume Faury told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the European Union was buying five times less armaments than the United States and that up to three quarters of those were not produced in Europe but mostly in America.
"There is too little investment in... (continue reading...)
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