Tag: grounds

Ryanair cites environmental grounds in challenge to Dublin Airport tunnel

Bats, waterways and “very significant carbon emissions” have been cited by Ryanair in its High Court challenge to plans to construct a €200 million underground cargo tunnel at Dublin Airport. The airline also complains that the loss of two aircraft stands, as a result of the project, contradicts the Dublin Airport Local Area Plan. It […]

UChicago faculty to host rally on former encampment grounds

CHICAGO – University of Chicago faculty will host a teach-in and rally at the Hyde Park campus Main Quad where students set up a protest encampment in solidarity with Gaza earlier this month. The University of Chicago Faculty for Justice in Palestine said the rally is meant to honor the Palestinian people on the 76th […]

Protesters try to enter Tesla factory grounds outside Berlin

Activists tried to break into Tesla’s electric car factory in Germany just outside Berlin on Friday during a demonstration against a proposed plant expansion, according to police. So far, the demonstrators had not succeeded in accessing the Tesla plant grounds, a police spokesman told dpa on Friday afternoon, but had managed to overcome the first […]

China condemns suspected Israeli attack on Iranian embassy grounds

China has issued a strong condemnation of a suspected Israeli air attack on the grounds of the Iranian embassy in Damascus that claimed the lives of two Iranian generals. “China condemns the attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in Beijing. The security of diplomatic institutions must not be […]