Survivor of Air India crash jumped out of emergency exit, police say – Reuters

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  1. Survivor of Air India crash jumped out of emergency exit, police say  Reuters
  2. What Caused the Air India Crash? Experts Study Video of the Plane’s Descent.  The New York Times
  3. What led the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to crash in India with 242 people aboard?  NPR
  4. Fiery Air India crash kills 241 people aboard, leaving 1 survivor, airline says  AP News
  5. Air India flight bound for London crashes with 242 onboard, as reports emerge of a survivor  Fox News
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Israel’s Iran threat is familiar, but it is unlikely to attack without US backing

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Israel has threatened to destroy Tehran’s nuclear programme before, ultimately holding back in absence of Washington’s support

The withdrawal of non-essential US personnel from parts of the Middle East and the anonymously sourced US reports in the past 24 hours that Israel is on the brink of an all-out attack on Iran are all deeply alarming, but they are also familiar.

The Israeli government has approached the same precipice, of a war to destroy Tehran’s nuclear programme, several times in the past two decades, going as far as honing detailed plans and conducting practice air sorties.

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‘Panic and sadness’: British Gujaratis in Harrow gather to mourn Air India dead

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At community centre in north-west London, dozens share names of flight AI171 victims they knew, from relatives to dignitaries

In Harrow, north-west London, home to a large community of British Gujaratis, there was a sense of shock and profound sadness as people gathered at a community centre to mourn those who had been killed in the Air India flight.

Everyone’s phones had been buzzing all day on Thursday, said Aneka Shah-Levy, a local Labour councillor, as friends and family members across the world anxiously checked in on each other, and shared rumours and snippets of what information they knew.

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Ministers to offer olive branch on welfare plans to avert Labour rebellion

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Exclusive: Liz Kendall pledges sick and disabled people will be protected but MPs are pushing for more substantial changes to bill

Ministers are to offer mutinous Labour MPs an olive branch on the government’s welfare plans to help avert a major rebellion in a crucial vote early next month.

Liz Kendall, the welfare secretary, wants to reassure angry MPs who have threatened to rebel over fears that sick and disabled people will be hardest hit.

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Spanish PM apologises to voters after MP resigns over corruption allegations

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Pressure grows for snap election as judge finds ‘firm evidence’ of Santos Cerdán’s possible role in kickbacks

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has apologised to voters but ruled out a snap election after a senior member of his Spanish Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE) resigned hours after a supreme court judge found “firm evidence” of his possible involvement in taking kickbacks on public construction contracts.

Sánchez, who became prime minister in 2018 after using a motion of no confidence to turf the corruption-mired conservative People’s party (PP) out of government, is already contending with a series of graft investigations relating to his wife, his brother, his former transport minister, and one of that minister’s aides. All deny any wrongdoing. A former PSOE member was recently implicated in an alleged smear campaign against the Guardia Civil police unit investigating the corruption allegations.

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