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Airport employee IN BEAR COSTUME scares loitering langurs off airfield in India (VIDEO) An Indian airport has devised a highly creative – and reportedly effective – method to keep vexatious langurs off their runway: have an employee dress up as a bear and scare them off. An extremely busy international airport in India’s western Ahmedabad city deployed the unorthodox tactic after struggling to prevent langurs from swarming the grounds of the air hub – and creating a potential safety hazard for passengers. The idea was reportedly hatched after the airport’s management learned that langurs are terrified of bears. The airport already has a team dedicated to chasing off birds and wildlife, so using a bear costume to increase results was perhaps a logica...

Climate protesters take a literal TROJAN HORSE to British Museum (PHOTOS, VIDEOS) Climate activists have wheeled a real-life Trojan Horse into the courtyard outside the British Museum to protest oil and gas giant British Petroleum’s (BP) sponsorship of a new exhibition about ancient Troy. The activist theater group ‘BP or Not BP’ built a replica of the Trojan Horse, built from reclaimed timber and discarded rope, which can seat 10 people. @BBCNews Protestors breaking into The British Museum with a Trojan horse.....BP seemingly the target of their attention pic.twitter.com/qteYb8cIVs— Freebs The Tree (@FreebsTheTree) February 7, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js #BPMustFall @drop_BP pic.twitter.com/Lce3c8y2Dt— Vic...

Next Syria summit in Astana format may take place in March – Ankara A new summit on Syria in the Astana format may take place in March, Ibrahim Kalin, a spokesperson for the Turkish president, said. “A meeting in the Astana format may take place in March, work is underway on that issue,” he told reporters in Ankara on Thursday. Kalin added that a military delegation from Russia was expected to arrive in Turkey to discuss Syria, TASS reported. The Astana trio – Russia, Iran and Turkey – held a summit in Turkey in mid-September 2019. The three countries also maintain contacts within the framework of high-level meetings on Syria in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. The most recent meeting was held on December 10-11. It was decided then to hold the next Astana format summit in March 2020.&#...