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| Heathrow set to announce multibillion-pound investment – as it prepares proposal for third runway |
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The UK’s biggest airport has announced a “once-in-a-generation investment” beginning this year to improve existing buildings and boost passenger numbers. The development is separate from a new runway – which the government recently announced support for – and will be funded by Heathrow shareholders with airlines and customers charged for the expanded services. Heathrow was last month criticised by Europe’s largest airline Ryanair for being “incredibly operationally inefficient”. Because of this, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said the airline had no interest in and would “never” fly from the airport, even if it were free. |
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| Egypt to present ‘comprehensive’ plan for rebuilding Gaza while Palestinians stay there |
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Egypt plans to “present a comprehensive vision for the reconstruction” of the Gaza Strip that ensures Palestinians remain on their land, the Egyptian foreign ministry says in a statement. Egypt “hopes to cooperate” with the administration of US President Donald Trump “to reach comprehensive and just peace in the region.” The statement comes as Trump continues to press for his plan to take over the Gaza Strip and resettle its population to neighboring Egypt and Jordan despite rejection from Arab states. |
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| Netanyahu says ‘intense fighting’ will resume in Gaza if hostages not released by Saturday |
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Israel will resume “intense fighting” in Gaza if Hamas doesn’t release hostages by midday Saturday, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video statement after a four-hour security cabinet meeting, noting that Hamas “breached the deal” yesterday by announcing its decision “not to release our hostages.” “If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon,” he says, “the ceasefire will end, and the IDF will return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated.” He does not specify how many hostages must be freed on Saturday. Three Israeli hostages are scheduled to be freed on Saturday under the terms of the deal. Accusing Israel of breaching the deal, Hamas announced yesterday it was suspending hostage releases until further notice. US President Donald Trump yesterday called for all hostages to be released by Hamas by Saturday at noon. Israeli statements today have taken care not to call for all 76 remaining hostages to be released by the weekend. An Israeli official said earlier that Hamas must release nine more hostages in the coming days. The security cabinet, says Netanyahu “welcomed President Trump’s demand for the release of our hostages by Saturday noon, and we all also welcomed the president’s revolutionary vision for the future of Gaza. |
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| Fearing return to war, Hamas tells senior officials to stop using phones – report |
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| Hamas gunmen stand in front of a stage before they hand over three Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on February 8, 2025. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP) |
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Hamas has reportedly instructed senior figures in the terror group to stop using cell phones amid concerns that the fragile ceasefire with Israel could fall apart, bringing with it a return of Israel’s military offensive. Sources in Hamas told the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat outlet on Tuesday that the group’s military wing and senior leadership have instructed all senior political and military figures to stop using their phones, as many had returned to using the devices after the ceasefire began last month. According to the sources, several senior officials have already stopped using their phones over fears of attempts by the IDF to track them via the devices and assassinate them. The three-stage ceasefire agreement, reached last month, halted some 15 months of fighting triggered by the group’s October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel, when Hamas-led terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages. The deal requires Hamas to release hostages, Israel to release thousands of Palestinian security prisoners — including hundreds serving life sentences — and halt the fighting in the Strip, followed by negotiations for a “sustainable calm” and an IDF withdrawal from the enclave. Hamas declared that it is still dedicated to the ceasefire, though a day earlier it had threatened not to release the next group of hostages, alleging Israeli violations of the ceasefire, in an announcement that shook the truce, prompted war preparations by Israel and prompted US President Donald Trump to remark that if the captives aren’t released by noon Saturday the ceasefire should be ended. “Hamas is committed to the ceasefire agreement that the (Israeli) occupation also committed to,” it said in a statement, adding that “we affirm that the occupation is the party that did not abide by its commitments and is responsible for any complications or delays.” The Israel Defense Forces, meanwhile, announced that it is “extensively” bolstering its forces in the Southern Command, calling up reservists and approving battle plans for the Gaza Strip in the event that the ceasefire-hostage deal with Hamas collapses. |
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