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Is a miserable pissant of epic proportions. Sir Keir Starmer is blocking a request by President Trump to allow American planes to use British bases to attack Iran, telling him that it would be in breach of international law. In a rift with Washington, the prime minister is understood to have told Trump that the UK would not allow the use of British facilities at Diego Garcia and RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, which is home to America’s fleet of heavy bombers in Europe. Under the terms of long-standing agreements with Washington, these bases can only be used for military operations...

The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) continued its investigation of an incident in which passengers were thrown from their seats and objects hit the cabin ceiling during a harrowing few minutes that forced the Toronto-bound flight from Shanghai to stop in Calgary for medical help. ... Rod Hayward, an aviation expert at the University of the Fraser Valley, said sudden turbulence in clear skies can sometimes be caused when a plane flies through a jet stream, a kind of narrow, fast-moving current of air. That sudden increase in air velocity, sometimes reaching 100 knots, can cause aircraft to shake violently, he...