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US resumes flights after a four-and-a-half-hour shutdown caused by obsolete equipment
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday night lifted the nationwide ground stop it had ordered in the afternoon, after some four and a half hours of airspace closure that left thousands of flights cancelled. Donald Trump’s administration blamed the failure...
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Politics
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Economy
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Energy & Oil
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Agriculture
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Environment
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- An unusual die-off of southern right whales in Argentine Patagonia alarms scientists
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Entertainment
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- Falklands Sports Complex, the joint effort of Government and private sector companies
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Health & Science
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- BAS researchers uncover chinstrap penguins massive colony decline in Antarctic volcanic island
Tourism
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