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Travelers wait at the Mexico City International Airport, where 22 flights were canceled due to an ash cloud from the Popocatepetl volcano. Authorities have warned ash is likely to fall in the states of Morelos, Puebla and Mexico, as well as in Mexico City, which lies some 55 miles (90 kilometers) from the volcano. IMAGES
Images from the airport in Moscow as flights are cancelled following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has entered its fifth day. 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
Scenes of a passenger plane engulfed in flames as it sits on the tarmac in Moscow's busiest airport. At least one person has died and several more are injured after a passenger plane caught fire after making an emergency landing in Moscow, Russian media reports. IMAGES
Seventy one people, including three foreign nationals and six crew members, were killed when Saratov Airlines flight 6W703 crashed shortly after take-off. The plane was flying to the city of Orsk when it vanished from radar screens shortly after it took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, before crashing some 50 miles south-east of the capital. According to the Russian Transport Ministry a special committee is investigating the cause of the deadly crash.