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Tel Aviv, Israel CNN  —  US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took a swipe at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to weaken Israel’s judicial system as protesters paralyzed two of Tel Aviv’s main travel arteries on Thursday, intensifying a nationwide movement against the controversial proposals. A CNN team at Ben Gurion …

An infant was abandoned at a Tel Aviv airport by his parents, who tried to board their flight to Belgium without him after they failed to purchase a ticket for the child, authorities said.   The unnamed parents, who both held Belgian passports, had arrived at Ben Gurion Airport in …

An airport chef who sued his employer for  £2.2million after he claimed he was left barely able to walk following an accident at work, has had his compensation claim thrown out after he was pictured on Facebook kayaking with his children.   Ferenc Sumegi, 49, who lives in Berkshire, strained his back lifting a fish …

Desperate efforts to bring into Nigeria 126.95 kilograms of cocaine and skunk concealed in herbal tea packs and imported vehicles by drug cartels from Brazil and Canada have again been thwarted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu and …

The Murtala Muhammed Area Command (MMAC) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has intercepted military and police hardware at the cargo section of the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos.     Disclosing this to newsmen, the Customs Area Controller of the MMAC, Compt. Sambo Dangaladima, said the …

A baggage handler at Montgomery Regional Airport died over the weekend after being sucked into the engine of an American Airlines regional aircraft.   The incident which happened around 3pm on Saturday, December 31, involved an unidentified American Airlines/Piedmont Airlines ground crew employee.   Two officials told Reuters that the deceased …

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted at least one million seven hundred and sixty thousand four hundred and sixty (1,760,460) pills of Tramadol and other opioids hidden in indomie noodles packs and others at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos.    Spokesperson of …

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, have intercepted parcels of cocaine concealed in different parts of a travel bag.   Spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, December 11, 2022, said the drugs were brought …

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the man who had lived inside the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport in France for years and inspired Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film “The Terminal”, has died at the same airport, according to reports.   Nasseri was pronounced dead by the airport medical team at Terminal 2F and had …

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a businesswoman, Okefun Darlington Chisom over her links with two Pakistani nationals arrested with cocaine at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos.   The Pakistanis, Asif Muhammed, 45 and Hussain Naveed, 57, were arrested with 8 kilograms of cocaine concealed in …