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Aircraft manufacturer giant Boeing has announced plans to acquire Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion in an all-stock transaction for the firm, which was already part of Boeing’s manufacturing chain. The acquisition is worth $4.7 billion, at $37.25 per share. The total deal, however, is for $8.3 billion, which includes the subcontractor’s debt, Boeing said in a statement late Sunday. “We believe this deal is in the best interest of the flying public, our airline customers, the employees of Spirit and Boeing, our shareholders and the country more broadly,” Boeing President and CEO Dave Calhoun said in the statement. Spirit was…

The search for Jay Slater in an area of Tenerife has been called off, police have said, nearly two weeks after his disappearance.The British teenager, from Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn in Lancashire, has been missing in Tenerife since 17 June, when he vanished the morning after a rave. The Civil Guard called for volunteers to join a new search in the Masca area – near his last-known location – on Saturday.It has now confirmed to Sky News that the search has ended. Police are keeping the investigation open and could yet open up searches in the south of the island, but…

A man wielding a knife who reportedly attacked three officers in southern Germany died after police shot him at a train station on Sunday, according to a police spokesman. The man died at the scene of the incident in the Bavarian town of Lauf an der Pegnitz, despite first aid measures being initiated, according to the police spokesman. Man targeted police car before wielding knife on officers The perpetrator initially targeted a police car, the spokesman reported, and when the officers got out of the vehicle, he proceeded to attack them with a “knife.” The spokesman said the officers were unhurt in the incident, without providing details…

North Korea has launched two ballistic missiles, the South Korean military said on Monday, as Pyongyang warned of countermeasures against a joint military drill. The missiles were launched from South Hwanghae Province, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported, citing the authorities in Seoul. It said that one missile had flown about 600 kilometers (372 miles) while the second flew about 120 kilometers. “The South Korean military will maintain its capacity and posture to respond overwhelmingly to any provocation while closely monitoring North Korea’s various activities under a strong South Korea-US joint defense posture,” a military spokesperson said in a press conference.…

Extreme weather across Europe has left four people dead in storms in Switzerland and northern Italy, while wildfires force people from their homes in Greece and Turkey.The bodies of three people were recovered following a landslide in the Fontana area of the Maggia valley in the Italian-speaking Ticino state on the southern side of the Swiss Alps. The body of a man whose partner had reported him missing was found at a hotel in the Alpine resort of Saas-Grund early on Sunday. It is believed floodwater caught him by surprise.Police said another man had been missing since Saturday evening in…

Hostages from a British Airways flight that refueled in Kuwait, en route to Kuala Lumpur, in 1990 have begun legal action against the UK government and the airline, a British law firm confirmed on Monday. The passengers and crew members of BA flight 149 were hauled off the plane when it landed in Kuwait just hours after Saddam Hussein ordered Iraqi troops to invade the Gulf state on August 2, 1990. After the 367 passengers and crew disembarked, the plane was destroyed on the runway, with some of those on board spending more than four months in captivity. They were seen at the time as human shields, deployed…

A new political reality has been revealed in France, it has a new face and a new name – 28-year-old Jordan Bardella.Frontman of the hard-right, he has helped propel National Rally to a clear-cut lead in the first round of parliamentary elections. Bardella, the party’s choice for prime minister, stands on the brink of power if National Rally secures a majority in the second round of voting.”I want to tell our supporters to mobilise so that they carry out a final effort next Sunday – next Sunday’s vote will be one of the most important in the history of modern…

An “extremely dangerous” storm is approaching the southeast Caribbean amid urgent pleas from government officials for people to take shelter.Hurricane Beryl is expected to hit the Windward Islands on Monday morning. Hurricane warnings were in effect for Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.”This is a very dangerous situation,” warned the National Hurricane Center in Miami, which said Beryl was “forecast to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge”.Beryl is expected to pass just south of Barbados early Monday and then head into the Caribbean Sea as a major hurricane on a path toward Jamaica. Image: A…

Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party will get the biggest vote share in the first round of France’s parliamentary elections, according to exit polls.As polls closed on the first round of voting on Sunday, National Rally had a strong lead at 33%, followed by the left-wing New Popular Front coalition on 28.5%. President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party are polling third with an estimated 22%.Addressing supporters in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, Ms Le Pen said: “For the moment nothing is won, and the second round will determine the outcome.”She warned voters to “be careful” in the coming days, and urged them…

06/30/2024June 30, 2024Spending promises likely to overtax France’s public financesFrance’s public finances are likely to suffer whatever bloc wins the snap election, according to France’s AFP news agency. The agency has summarized each contending bloc’s spending promises, which it says are short on detail and often ignore mathematical realities. FAR-RIGHT NATIONAL RALLY If the National Rally (RN) wins, it wants to cut value-added (VAT) sales tax on energy, partly financing the move, which it plans to initiate as early as July, by contributing €2 billion less to the EU budget, even though the bloc’s 2021-2027 budget has already been voted through.…