If Khamenei falls the Islamic Revolution may unravel
Events are running in Iran, and the revolutionary system is too divided, too much at war with itself to retrieve the initiative.
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For now it is the Eid holiday. A pause. A time to try and drink in what has happened across this city, where another simple grafitti slogan captures the mood, the practicality, the possibility of the new reality: “I love this year – 2011”
Tripoli airport is a quiet place these days. Colonel Gaddafi’s golf buggy used to transport him to his jet, lying on a pavement outside the terminal building, blogs Alex Thomson.
French investigators say that the pilots of the Air France jet, which crashed into the Atlantic two years ago and left no survivors, ignored warnings and failed to follow basic procedures.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive in Canada to begin their first overseas tour as a married couple, as one poll suggests young Canadians are indifferent about the trip.
Jonathan Miller learns that some of the failed Sri Lankan asylum seekers may not be deported by the UK on Thursday after all.
Black box recordings reveal how Air France AF447 stalled and dropped 38,000 feet in three minutes as it plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing everyone on board.
A senior aviation official resigns after a string of cases in which air traffic controllers were found napping on the job at airports across the country.
German security is stepped up as Namibian police find a suspected bomb in the luggage of an Air Berlin plane bound for Munich, according to authorities.
Qantas says its fleet of A380 airbuses will remain grounded for at least the next few days as investigations continue into last week’s mid-air engine failure.
A plane carrying 68 people has crashed in Cuba, with no initial reports of survivors.
A Qantas Airbus A380 Superjumbo flying from London to Sydney was forced into an emergency landing in Singapore when an engine shut down. The airline has grounded its A380 fleet to investigate.
David Cameron chairs an emergency Cobra meeting as the aviation industry reassesses its security system for cargo shipments following a failed airline bomb plot on Friday.
A bomb travelled onboard two passenger jets before being seized in Dubai. Lord Carlile tells Channel 4 News the UK’s counter-terrorism review must focus on the dangers of radicalised individuals.
As fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir appears at the Old Bailey after he fled Britain to Northern Cyprus, Home Affairs Correspondent Andy Davies reports on a the case that’s been “adjourned” for 17 years.
Events are running in Iran, and the revolutionary system is too divided, too much at war with itself to retrieve the initiative.