Tag: Planes

Yemeni warplanes bombed southern cities held by militants on Tuesday while a top general called in a television interview for foreign intervention to help...

TEHRAN - Iran has stopped refuelling "western passenger planes" since Europe-bound Iranian commercial planes were refused fuelling there, the first vice-president was quoted as saying in the governmental Iran newspaper on Wednesday. "Recently fuel supply for Iranian passenger planes flying to Europe was stopped," Mohammed Reza Rahimi said.
"Iran decided immediately to strike back and banned supply of fuel to Western passenger planes landing in Iran," Rahimi added without

TRIPOLI - Western warplanes hit Libyan forces at a strategically important eastern town, trying to land a crippling blow on Muammar Gaddafi's tanks in a nearly week-old campaign that NATO says could last three months.
In Tripoli, residents reported another air raid just before dawn on Friday, hearing the roar of a warplane, followed by a distant explosion and bursts of anti-aircraft gunfire.
Western-led operations to enforce a no fly zone to stop a violent crackdown against

DUBAI - The United Arab Emirates will send 12 planes to take part in operations to enforce the no-fly zone in Libya.
"The UAE air force has committed six F-16 and six Mirage aircraft to participate in the patrols that will enforce the no-fly zone now established over Libya. UAE participation in the patrols will commence in the coming days," said UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan.
The statement said the UAE planes would be an extension of the Gulf Arab

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has directed the ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs for taking appropriate and immediate steps to ensure safe evacuation of Pakistanis from Libya. On the directives of the prime minister, the PIA is sending tonight a plane to Turkey to bring back around 300 Pakistani nationals who have been evacuated with the help of the Turkish government while two others are ready to be dispatched to Tripoli and Tunisia in the next two days.

David and Victoria Beckham swapped planes at the last minute on Wednesday for "security reasons", sparking speculation they wanted to avoid a run-in with glamour model Katie Price. The former Spice Girl and her footballer husband were due to fly from London to Los Angeles on a Virgin Atlantic flight, on the same plane as the busty model.
They refused to board the plane and switched to an Air New Zealand jet, prompting reports they wanted to distance themselves from Price, who

ISTANBUL - Governments around the world scrambled on Wednesday to send planes and ships to evacuate their citizens from turmoil in Libya, whose leader Muammar Gaddafi has vowed to crush a revolt against his 41-year rule. Fears for the safety of foreigners were heightened after a Turkish worker was shot dead as he climbed a crane at a building site near the capital Tripoli, according to Turkish officials.
Turkey, with 25,000 citizens in Libya, is mounting the biggest evacuation

Taylor Momsen's mission to get home for Christmas has hit another snag - after driving from Germany to Holland in a bid to escape the travel chaos, she's now struggling to catch a flight back to New York.
The singer/actress, on tour with her band The Pretty Reckless, was stranded in Cologne after heavy snow closed airports across Europe, so she drove 132 miles along icy roads to Amsterdam on Monday.
She enjoyed a day out in the Dutch city on Tuesday, but when she headed to

HAIFA: Israel does not need any more firefighting planes to tackle the deadly forest fire raging in the north of the country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Sunday.
Netanyahu was following the advice of professional firefighters that "the fleet of aircraft currently deployed in Israel is sufficient for the task," his spokesman Mark Regev told AFP. As a result, Israel was cancelling its requests for more aircraft, although it "greatly appreciates the readiness