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Preliminary investigation into accident in Ahmedabad in June also contains details of pilots discussing the switchesFuel to the engines of the Air India plane that crashed and killed 260 people last month appears to have cut off seconds after the flight took off, a preliminary report has found.Air India Flight 171 crashed into a densely populated residential area in Ahmedabad on 12 June, killing 241 passengers and 19 others on the ground. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/11/engine-fuel-switches-cut-off-before-air-india-crash-that-killed-260-report-finds Author : Nadeem Badshah and agency Publish date : 2025-07-11 22:26:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

President and wife joined by Texas governor Greg AbottThe US state department is firing more than 1,300 employees in line with the Trump administration’s reorganization plan initiated earlier this year. The department is sending layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments in the US, a senior state department official told the Associated Press. Foreign service officers affected will be placed immediately on administrative leave for 120 days, after which they will formally lose their jobs, according to an internal notice obtained by the AP. For most affected civil servants, the separation period is

Blair, 72, led the London force from 2005-08 and was made a life peer two years laterSir Ian Blair, the former Metropolitan police commissioner, has died aged 72.Christ Church, Oxford, where Blair studied English and later became an honorary student, confirmed his death on Friday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/11/former-met-police-commissioner-ian-blair-dies Author : Nadeem Badshah Publish date : 2025-07-11 17:29:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

PM jets to Beijing to strengthen ties as multibillion-dollar US submarine deal spurred by China’s military buildup hangs in doubtGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese departs for his second trip to China with the spectre of Donald Trump looming large over meetings with Xi Jinping.While the prime minister flies to Beijing to strengthen economic and diplomatic ties with Australia’s largest trading partner, a nervous eye must stay on the US’s promised Aukus nuclear submarines: military commitments of hundreds of billions of dollars, spending spurred by China’s own military buildup, now under review by the