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Berlin, May 20 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Omer Messinger) Berlin's city government has announced that Tegel will temporarily close in mid-June amid a huge drop in passenger numbers due to the ongoing pandemic. The airport, which used to serve West Berlin before Germany's 1990 reunification, was scheduled to close permanently in October anyway, with the new BER Berlin Brandenburg international airport set to take over its traffic.FOOTAGE OF THE AIRPORT.
Berlin Brandenburg Airport is near deserted as airport security staff across Germany stage a walkout, the latest industrial action to plague Europe's biggest economy. Berlin airport has said there will be no flights departing on February 1 from the terminals which usually serve about 50,000 passengers on average daily. IMAGES
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who has spent five months in Berlin recovering from a poisoning attack, is on a plane headed back to Moscow. Navalny's flight on budget airline Pobeda took off from Berlin's BER airport at 1417 GMT. Navalny risks being arrested on arrival, but told reporters on board that he was "an innocent person". IMAGES
Images outside Berlin airport as Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is due to fly back to Moscow after spending several months in Germany recovering from a poisoning attack that he said was carried out on the orders of President Vladimir Putin. Navalny is facing imminent arrest after authorities warned they would detain him as soon as he returns to Russia. IMAGES
Scene from Berlin airport after Germany decides to restrict air travel from the UK, in bid to fight new strain of Covid-19. Countries around the world have begun banning flights and travellers from Britain as London said the spread of a more-infectious new coronavirus strain was now "out of control". IMAGES
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