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Israel planes hit Gaza targets after rocket fire (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

A wounded Palestinian woman is carried into a hospital after Israeli warplanes struck in the central Gaza Strip November 19, 2010. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaReuters - Israeli warplanes struck four targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday in response to militant rocket and mortar fire, the Israeli army said.


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Private Planes Flying Illegally in China’s Airspace (Time.com)

August 16th, 2010

Time.com - As planes and helicopters become the new playthings of China’s wealthy elite, illegal flights are becoming a headache for the nation’s air-traffic controllers

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Airbus gets order for 51 planes at air show (AP)

July 19th, 2010

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner lands at Farnborough airport, ahead of the Farnborough International Airshow, Farnborough, England, Sunday, July 18, 2010. Deliveries of the long-range passenger jet to the first Japanese customer have been delayed by more than two years due to production problems. Boeing executives have said they aim to deliver the first Dreamliner to Japan's All Nippon Airways by the end of 2010, but they have cautioned that the delivery could be delayed to early 2011. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Air Lease Corp. has placed a firm order for 51 Airbus aircraft with a list price of $4.4 billion.


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US, Russian planes swap 14 spies in Vienna (AP)

July 9th, 2010

A U.S., front, and a Russian plane, rear, believed to be carrying candidates for a 14-person spy swap as part of the largest spy swap since the Cold War have parked on the tarmac at Vienna's Schwechat airport, On Friday, July 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - U.S. and Russian flights involved in a 14-person spy swap landed briefly in Vienna, apparently exchanged agents, then took off again in the largest such diplomatic dance since…

Turkish activist planes land Istanbul (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks with a Turkish activist injured in Israel's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound convoy Monday, after his arrival at Etimesgut military airport in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hotly rejected calls to lift a blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza on Wednesday, insisting the ban prevents missile attacks on Israel and labeling worldwide criticism of his navy's bloody raid on a pro-Palestinian flotilla as 'hypocrisy.' (AP Photo)AP - Hundreds of activists deported from Israel following a bloody raid by Israeli commandos on a pro-Palestinian flotilla returned to a hero’s welcome in Turkey early Thursday. Nine bodies…

Israel: 5 planes take off with flotilla activists (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

Riot police stand guard as pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered near the entrance of the residence of Israeli ambassador to Turkey to protest against Israel, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Israel quickened the pace of expelling activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla on Wednesday as the diplomatic fallout from its deadly raid on the ships widened. Israeli media say the Foreign Ministry has ordered the families of its diplomats in Turkey to return home because of the uproar there over Israel's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound aid convoy.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - Israel says five planes have taken off for Turkey and Greece, carrying 503 activists from the Gaza flotilla and bodies of nine people killed in the Israeli raid.


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