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The European Union and India have banned the Boeing 737 Max from flying over their airspace to ensure passenger safety.

They join a long list of countries in suspending the plane, including the UK.

It comes after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed on Sunday, killing 157 people on board. It was the second fatal accident involving the 737 Max 8 model in less than five months.

US officials say the aircraft are still safe to fly.

However, the US Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union is now calling for the Federal Aviation Administration "to temporarily ground the 737 Max fleet in the US out of an abundance of caution".

India's Ministry of Civil Aviation announced that it would ground the Boeing 737-Max planes "immediately".

It said: "These planes will be grounded till appropriate modifications and safety measures are undertaken to ensure their safe operations."

It following a similar decision by the EU Aviation Safety Agency which said it is suspending the aircraft "as a precautionary measure".

Earlier today, the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it was banning the plane, joining other countries including China.

Investigators have recovered the flight recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines plane and are currently examining the data to determine what caused the crash.

EU Aviation Safety Agency said: "The accident investigation is currently ongoing, and it is too early to draw any conclusions as to the cause of the accident."

The CAA said the directive would remain in place until further notice.

It said it took the decision because it did not currently have "sufficient information" from the flight data recorder about the fatal crash.

Tui Airways and Norwegian both operate the Boeing Max 8 in the UK as part of their fleets.

One Turkish Airlines flight to Birmingham turned around and returned to Istanbul. And a Norwegian Air plane from Stockholm to Tel Aviv turned back over Romania.

A Tui statement confirmed their 737 Max 8 aircraft were grounded.

"Any customers due to fly home today on a 737 Max 8 from their holiday will be flown back on another aircraft," it read.

"Customers due to travel in the coming days will also travel on holiday as planned on other aircraft."

Norwegian said it had also suspended flights of the aircraft and apologised for the inconvenience to passengers.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has declared the 737 Max 8 airworthy.

But the largest operator of 737 Max 8s in America, Southwest Airlines, is offering passengers scheduled to fly on one of the Boeing planes the chance to change their bookings.

Rival American Airlines said its "standard policies for changes still apply".

Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running to be the Democrats' presidential candidate, called on the FAA "to get these planes out of the sky."

Boeing has confirmed that for the past few months it has been developing a "flight control software enhancement" for the aircraft, but says it is confident they are safe to fly.

More than $27bn (£21bn) has been wiped off the company's market value since the close of trading on Friday.

In the aftermath of the accident, Ethiopia, Singapore, China, France, Ireland, Germany, Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia have all temporarily suspended the 737 Max.

Singapore's Changi Airport is the world's sixth busiest and a major hub connecting Asia to Europe and the US, but only a handful of airlines operate the Max 8 aircraft in and out of the country.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47536502

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@MontereyJack,

The only coup so far has been perpetrated by the DNC and the MSM.

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@coldjoint,

Simply this. Thrre is no evidence the left id doing anything like that but there is huge evidence the right is. Trumps 8000 documented lies mistruths imaginations and inventions endlessly repeated in all media. Ditto the right wing media. Thats propaganda pure.

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@MontereyJack,

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any stinking up...from the right not the left...

Have your eyesight checked. The continued direct attacks - often with no context, other than to make the attack, has arisen quite often from the left.

It is annoying and makes wading through most of the political based threads very tiresome. I suspect it also keeps many voices from being heard.

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@MontereyJack,

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Thrre is no evidence the left id doing anything like that

The Covington kids and the pushing of racism and the demonizing of white people above all those who support Trump. That is evidence. The Russia lies for 2 years, That is evidence. Honestly why are so many people are so stupid, or completely devoid of morality is disconcerting.

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@coldjoint,

Re: Tucker Carlson-

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Do you think he deserves it?.

Yes.

It seems Fox "news" picks and chooses who receives their support and who does not.

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@MontereyJack,

MontereyJack wrote:

Any stinking up of the thread is coming from the right, not the left.

No, the smell is quite clearly coming from all of those games of Two Leftists One Cup.

MontereyJack wrote:

Since you jave repeatedly been shown to be wrong and still fail to recognize it, one does have to question whether you have ever dealt with reality.

You're lying. You cannot point out a single thing that I'm wrong about.

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@MontereyJack,

MontereyJack wrote:

nonsense, smarmy self-conceit.

Nope. Karma actually works.

The universe rewards me because I'm a kind person who always does the right thing.

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@MontereyJack,

MontereyJack wrote:

Your opinion clearly conflicts with the actual situation on the ground.

No it doesn't. It's an opinion.

Do you need a dictionary so you can look up what "opinion" means?

MontereyJack wrote:

Deal with reality.

I do. That's why you can never point out anything that I am wrong about.

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@Sturgis,

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Yes.

The first stone. Why do you get to throw it? Has your life been without error and your words harmless. If so, it hasn't much of a life, has it? Also, thank you for your civil answer to my question.

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@MontereyJack,

MontereyJack wrote:

In other words obama lried for an even handed treatment of israel and the palestinians and rhe uber right webt ballistic because equal treatment waas the laat thing they wanted.

Obama was an outright antisemite, just as most leftists are these days.

Fortunately though, Obama was incredibly inept, and was constantly outmaneuvered by Mr. Netanyahu throughout his presidency.

I was particularly amused with the 2010 incident where Obama tried to order Israel to pause settlement construction for a year without getting anything in return.

Needless to say, Mr. Netanyahu told Obama where he could stick his order.

Obama had to give Israel a stockpile of 5000-pound bunker busters before Mr. Netanyahu agreed to a temporary pause in settlement construction.

Settlement construction resumed after the temporary pause expired, and Israel now has bombs that can take out Iran's illegal nuclear sites.

Not too bad of a bargain in my opinion.

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@oralloy,

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Not too bad of a bargain in my opinion.

Israel is smarter than the average bear. I think the destruction they could unleash should not be underestimated, and happily it is not. It might be the only thing that prevents all out war.

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Minnesota: Ex-Muslim arrested after speaking with Muslims says “this should not be happening in this country”

That is Sharia being enforced. Do not let anyone tell you any different. Islam's adherents are not planning to assimilate and accept our laws.

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As The Minnesota Sun reported in November, Parsa visited Minnesota in August and was invited by one of his hosts to see “the biggest mall in North America.” While there, Parsa said he “randomly ran into some Somalis, we had a random conversation.”

“They asked me where I’m from. I told them and the conversation led to whether I was Muslim or not. I replied, ‘I used to be but I’m a Christian now,’” he said. Parsa claims that “another woman who was not part of the conversation went and complained to the security,” and he was ultimately charged with trespassing.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/03/minnesota-ex-muslim-arrested-after-speaking-with-muslims-says-this-should-not-be-happening-in-this-country

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@coldjoint,

If someone kept me in a cell for hours without justification and without letting me use a bathroom, I'd make sure I left a puddle of urine on the floor for them to mop up.

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@oralloy,

It is precisely that sort of Israeli actions that maje Israel a pariah state in the eyes of much of the world. It is precisely those sorts of illegal actions on Israel's part that aspur actions worldwide like BDS. It is precisely those sorts of actions that mean that Israel is still the target of freedom fighters who want their land bacj and wil resort to tactics like the terrorist Israel freedom fighters the Irgun used between the Now ther PLESTINIANS ARE IN THE SAME POSITION, FIGHTINNG FOR THEIR FREEDOM. bEING jEWISH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. if THE iSRAELIS HAD BEEN bSPTISTS AND DID PRECISELY THE SAME THING, THYEY WWOULD STILL BE oppressors of the Palestinians. Goddamned capslock key is too easy to press accidentally. Sorry about thsat. Youjr valiant attempts to allow the Israeilis to do any fillegal thing theywant to by falsely calling it anti-Semitic is noted and rejected. They get the blame hen they do something illegal, and the settlements are.

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Senate set to rebuke Trump on support for Saudi Arabia
BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 03/12/19 04:20 PM EDT 120

The Senate is set to break with the administration's support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen on Wednesday, likely handing President Trump his second setback from Capitol Hill this week.

"The resolution we will vote on in the Senate tomorrow to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen is enormously important and historic. This war is both a humanitarian and a strategic disaster, and Congress has the opportunity to end it," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a statement.

Three Senate aides told The Hill that they expect a resolution to come to the floor Wednesday that will call on Trump to withdraw any troops in or affecting Yemen within 30 days unless they are fighting al Qaeda.

The resolution would need only a simple majority to pass the Senate, which approved a similar resolution in December. The resolution would need to pass the House before heading to Trump's desk, where he has said he would veto the measure.

With Republicans holding 53 seats in the Senate, Democrats would need to win over at least four Republicans and keep their entire caucus united in order to pass the resolution. The 2018 resolution passed with 56 votes.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), one of the co-sponsors of the resolution, told The Hill that he expected the vote would be "tight" but predicted that supporters would again be able to pass the resolution.

"It's going to be tight," he said late last week. "But you know nothing has happened to peel Republicans away."

The Wednesday vote will come a day before the Senate likely hands a second setback to Trump, with the chamber scheduled to take up a resolution of disapproval on his emergency declaration. If both measures pass Congress it would pave the way for the president to have to use back-to-back veto measures to defeat legislation.

The House passed its own Yemen resolution last month but it ran into a procedural roadblock in the Senate after the parliamentarian determined that it was not privileged, the status that lets supporters pass the measure with only a majority support in the Senate.

Supporters have brought up the resolution under the War Powers Act, which gives it a privileged status that allows it to be fast-tracked through Congress and avoid the 60-vote legislative filibuster in the Senate.

Tensions over Saudi Arabia have been running high on Capitol Hill since last year's slaying of U.S. resident and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi, which opened up a gap between the administration and lawmakers on the issue.

Members of the Trump administration briefed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday evening about an investigation, ordered by members of the panel last year, into Khashoggi’s death.

But Republicans on the committee appeared underwhelmed by the meeting, indicating that they didn't learn new information.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a member of the panel, called the briefing a "waste of time," while Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) added that lawmakers "learned very little."

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@MontereyJack,

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Israeilis to do any fillegal

I think you mean illegal. Do you realize Israel makes it's own laws, and you have no idea what might be legal in that sovereign country.

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@oralloy,

Facts are facts. When an opinion conflicts with the facts, it is still definitely sn opinion, but it's a wrong opinion.

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@neptuneblue,

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Senate set to rebuke Trump on support for Saudi Arabia

A nothing burger when no one in that body will discuss why Saudi Arabia does these things. Who will explain to America Sharia makes these things permissible and sometimes actions like murder are seen as pious. Who will tell the American people this is what Islam teaches and Saudi Arabia and Iran enforce?
There are plenty who would explain this to the Senate but they will never be allowed to speak. They (the Senate) are bitching about something they refuse to expose or act on. So you know.

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McConnell opens door to changing president's emergency powers
BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 03/12/19 06:43 PM EDT 336

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled on Tuesday that he is open to changing the president's national emergency powers as support grows within the GOP caucus for amending the National Emergencies Act.

"We're looking at some ways to revisit the law. There's a lot of discomfort with the law. ... Was it too broad back in the '70s when it was passed? So yeah, we're discussing altering that," McConnell told reporters during a weekly press conference.

A growing number of Republican senators have expressed interest in amending the National Emergencies Act to make it easier for Congress to terminate a national emergency.

The discussion is focused on future national emergencies but comes days before the Senate will vote on a House-passed resolution of disapproval blocking Trump's emergency declaration at the border.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is expected to introduce legislation that would require Congress to vote to approve future national emergency declarations within 30 days before they automatically expire.

McConnell, asked if he would support Lee's legislation, told reporters that he "may well" back it. GOP Sen. Roy Blunt (Mo.), another member of GOP leadership, has said he's co-sponsoring Lee's bill.

Trump's emergency declaration has sparked an intense, lengthy debate among Republicans about separation of powers. Though Republicans largely support Trump's desire to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, they are worried about the precedent his actions could set for a future Democratic president to force through proposals such as climate change and gun control.

Senators say they are in talks with the White House about changes to the National Emergencies Act.

Vice President Pence met earlier Tuesday with a handful of Republican senators who are undecided on the resolution of disapproval, though members of leadership have expressed skepticism that an 11th-hour agreement would be enough sink the resolution blocking Trump's emergency declaration.

Even if they aren't able to get a deal, GOP senators said they expect the caucus debate over changing the National Emergencies Act will continue after this week.

"We're going to put forward some proposals on that," said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), one of the four Republicans who have said they will support the resolution of disapproval.

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