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Israel: Thousands of passengers crowding Tel Aviv Airport to leave the country

Approximately 70,000 passengers are at Tel Aviv’s airport, many trying to catch the last flights out of Israel as more airlines suspend passenger and commercial flights to and from Tel Aviv due to escalating tensions in the Middle East, according to Israeli media.

Many fear further flight cancellations and that they won’t be able to return to their home countries.

The end of the war? "Ukraine doesn't stand a chance"

The long-announced Ukrainian counter-offensive has been underway for several days, and the US, Great Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands are sending hundreds of missiles to Ukraine. At the same time, NATO defense ministers are discussing in Brussels the continuation of the support that the allies have been providing to Ukraine for months.

Auld lang syne: New Year brings final UK-EU Brexit split

Like a separated couple still living together, Britain and the European Union spent 2020 wrangling and wondering whether they can still be friends.

On Thursday, the UK is finally moving out. At 11 p.m. London time — midnight in Brussels — Britain will economically and practically leave the the 27-nation bloc, 11 months after its formal political departure.

New Year fireworks, smoke and tear gas as decade begins with a bang

Billions around the world cheered in 2020 after a tumultuous year dominated by demonstrations calling for political upheaval and action on climate change.

Strike-hit Paris welcomed the New Year with a huge fireworks display while London's Big Ben rang out after a long restoration, as crisis clouded celebrations elsewhere at the end of a year of upheaval around the world.

Ben Needham's mother says villagers on Kos know what happened to her missing son

Kerry Needham, the mother of a British toddler who disappeared in 1991 on Kos, says that villagers on the Greek island know what happened to her missing son.

"We know for a fact that there are people on Kos that know what happened to Ben that day," Needham said in a recent interview with Britain's Mirror newspaper.

Harrison Ford's plane crash, Indiana Jones safe but injured (photos + videos)

Harrison Ford, aged 72, has been injured after crashing a small plane and is now in hospital. Paramedics rushed to the Penmar golf course near Los Angeles after the crash on Thursday afternoon and found Ford "alert and conscious", suffering "moderate trauma".

Several hours after the crash, the actor's son, Ben, tweeted: