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FlyDubai orders 150 Airbus A321 aircraft while Etihad orders 16 Airbus aircraft at Dubai Air Show

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — FlyDubai, the lower-cost sister airline to long-haul carrier Emirates, announced an order Tuesday for 150 Airbus A321 aircraft at the Dubai Air Show — a major purchase that will see the carrier for the first time expand its fleet beyond Boeing.

Airbus and FlyDubai offered no value for the deal, but it will be well into the billions of dollars. It also represents a major purchase for the airline as Dubai prepares across both carriers to expand as it builds a new five-runway airport in this desert sheikhdom in the United Arab Emirates.
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Australian prisoner sues for right to eat Vegemite

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A prisoner is challenging an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite, claiming in a court suit that withholding the polarizing yeast-based spread that most of the nation reveres as an unfairly maligned culinary icon breaches his human right to “enjoy his culture as an Australian.”

Andre McKechnie, 54, serving a life sentence for murder, took his battle for the salty, sticky, brown byproduct of brewing beer to the Supreme Court of Victoria, according to documents released to The Associated Press on Tuesday.

While more than... Read More

Mayor says federal immigration agents will expand enforcement action in North Carolina to Raleigh

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Federal immigration authorities will expand their enforcement action in North Carolina to Raleigh as soon as Tuesday, the mayor of the state’s capital city said, while Customs and Border Protection agents continue operating in Charlotte following a weekend that saw arrests of more than 130 people in that city.

Mayor Janet Cowell said Monday that she didn’t know how large the operation would be or how long agents would be present. Immigration authorities haven’t spoken about it. The Democrat said in a statement that crime was lower in Raleigh this... Read More

How a top New Zealand police officer's downfall provoked public fury and scrutiny of police powers

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — He was one of the most powerful police officers in New Zealand and a year ago almost won the country’s top law enforcement job. But the public didn’t know Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming was facing claims of sexual abuse during an affair with a young staffer and would soon be charged with viewing illegal sex images, including of child abuse, on his work computer.

The case has provoked public outrage and reignited a debate about police power two decades after a national outcry about how the force handled another young woman’s... Read More

Global Anglican ties are under stress. It's unclear if they're at the breaking point

After decades of fierce controversies over sexuality and theology in the Anglican Communion, some leaders of a conservative coalition say it's time to make a final break from what has long been one of the world's largest Protestant church families.

That would make a slow-growing Anglican schism complete — if it happens.

But how many church provinces go along with the rupture remains to be seen. Some of the communion’s largest and fastest-growing churches in Africa belong to the conservative group that announced the break — known as the Global Anglican Future But... Read More

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FlyDubai orders 150 Airbus A321 aircraft while Etihad orders 16 Airbus aircraft at Dubai Air Show

Australian prisoner sues for right to eat Vegemite

Mayor says federal immigration agents will expand enforcement action in North Carolina to Raleigh

How a top New Zealand police officer's downfall provoked public fury and scrutiny of police powers

Global Anglican ties are under stress. It's unclear if they're at the breaking point

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