A second runway at Gatwick has been approved by the government, as well as a third runway at Heathrow
Planned airport expansion that would result in hundreds of thousands of extra flights a year could risk the government’s own net zero goals, a committee of MPs has found.
The report from the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee said the government had also “not demonstrated” that the negative climate impact of expansion would be outweighed by the economic growth created.
The government has approved several airport expansion schemes, most recently a third runway at London Heathrow and a second runway at Gatwick.
The Department for Transport said airport expansion plans would “only go ahead if it aligns with our legal obligations on climate change”.
Ministers are expected to announce which of two rival proposals is preferred for the expansion of Heathrow within weeks.
The Gatwick decision could lead to an extra 100,000 flights per year. If Heathrow gets permission to build a third runway, that could mean another 276,000 flights a year, with approval for an expansion of Luton airport also potentially adding tens of thousands.
Three people are in court accused of damaging Stonehenge
A Just Stop Oil supporter accused of spraying Stonehenge with orange powder told a jury he had “no intention to do anything harmful”.
Rajan Naidu, 74, and Oxford University student Niamh Lynch, 22, are accused of using two fire extinguishers filled with cornflour, talc and an orange dye to spray the prehistoric stones on June 19 last year.
They are on trial at Salisbury Crown Court, along with Luke Watson, 36. The three defendants deny charges of damaging an ancient protected monument and causing a public nuisance.
Giving evidence, Mr Naidu said it was “vital” the group got their message across as the planet was in “a climate and ecological crisis”.
Mr Naidu told the court he had “no intention to do anything reckless or harmful in any sense” to the “sacred” monument.
A US Navy missile destroyer docks at the Amador International Cruise Terminal in Panama City, Panama on September 2, 2025 amid a broader US military buildup in the Caribbean. (Photo by Daniel Gonzalez/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“The long history of external interventions in Latin America must not be repeated.”
A group of United Nations experts on Tuesday condemned US President Donald Trump’s recent threats to wage war on Venezuela and said his decision to bomb at least seven boats in international waters—killing dozens of people accused without evidence of drug trafficking—amounted to “extrajudicial executions.”
Trump’s repeated threats against Venezuela “violate the fundamental international obligations not to intervene in the domestic affairs or threaten to use armed force against another country,” said the trio of experts, warning that the US president’s belligerence represents “an extremely dangerous escalation with grave implications for peace and security in the Caribbean region.”
Even if the Trump administration had substantiated its drug trafficking claims, the experts continued, “the use of lethal force in international waters without proper legal basis violates the international law of the sea.”
The statement from the UN’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, and special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism came amid growing alarm over Trump’s actions and posturing against Venezuela.
Earlier this month, Trump authorized covert CIA operations in the country and declined to answer when asked whether the move amounted to a green light for the agency to assassinate the nation’s president, Nicolás Maduro.
The Trump administration has also amassed an “unusually large force” in the Caribbean consisting of thousands of troops, at least eight warships, and a squadron of jets.
“Trump has said nothing to dispel concerns that the United States could launch a full-scale military operation,” The Washington Postreported Tuesday.
In their statement, the UN experts called Trump’s warmongering against Venezuela a violation of the UN Charter, which they note “prohibits the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”
“The long history of external interventions in Latin America must not be repeated,” the experts said. “The lessons from history must be learned and not repeated. The international community must stand firm in defending the rule of law, dialogue, and the peaceful settlement of disputes.”
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US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and head of CENTCOM Admiral Brad Cooper, in Gaza days after the ceasefire was announced. Now they are back to salvage the deal. Photo: Steve Witkoff / X
The US administration has dispatched Witkoff, Kushner, and Vance to Israel to salvage the shaky ceasefire deal.
US President Donald Trump confirmed to reporters on Sunday, October 19, that the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal, which he announced on Wednesday, October 8, is still in place.
Trump’s confirmation came after Israel launched a renewed aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip during the past several days with a series of airstrikes and shooting attacks, which left dozens of Palestinians killed.
Israel claimed that its warplanes waged the deadly airstrikes in retaliation of an alleged shooting attack by Hamas fighters against two personnel of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), leaving them dead. Aid entry into the starved enclave was halted as a response to the purported shooting attack as well.
“We want to make sure that it’s going to be very peaceful with Hamas. As you know, they’ve been quite rambunctious. They’ve been doing some shooting, and we think maybe the leadership isn’t involved in that, that it’s some rebels within, but anyway it’s going to be handled properly. It’s going to be handled toughly, but properly,” Trump told reporters.
When he was asked: “Is the ceasefire still in place?” The US President replied: “Yes.”
Israel has committed scores of violations since the ceasefire started
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that after the renewed Israeli aggression, the death toll in the war-torn strip has risen to 68,216 fatalities since October 7, 2023.
Trump sends Witkoff, Kushner, Vance to Israel to bolster the fragile ceasefire deal
In an effort to salvage the fragile ceasefire deal, the US administration dispatched its “Middle East” envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to Israel on Monday, October 20, to meet Israeli officials, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and two IOF major generals.
Meanwhile, US Vice President JD Vance is set to arrive in Israel on Tuesday, October 21, to join the discussions on the deal.
Israeli media outlets reported that Witkoff and Kushner warned Netanyahu against taking any action that may jeopardize the first phase of the deal.
“Do not act in a way that would endanger the ceasefire. We want to do everything to reach the second phase,” the two US envoys were cited saying while addressing Netanyahu. “Self-defense is acceptable, risking the ceasefire is not,” they insisted.
Maintaining the first phase of the ceasefire deal was not the only topic to be discussed during the meetings. The “entire mechanism for dismantling and demilitarizing postwar Gaza”, and “all the preparations necessary to carry out the second phase of the agreement” were also on the table.
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