Leipzig Airport

Moscow and Berlin closed each other's cultural centres this week, with EU countries summoning Russian envoys.

Leipzig/Halle is a major hub for international freight and for providing support to Ukraine. The planes that regularly use it include Ukrainian Antonov transport aircraft.

A spokesperson for Germany's armed forces said the drones were sighted at around 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Thursday at the base in Mechernich in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, some 35 kilometres (22 miles) from the Belgian border.

The man spotted the drone flying low while he was working at Leipzig/Halle airport late on Tuesday, then kicked out at it in what Detlef Seif described as a courageous but dangerous act.

All flights to Leipzig-Halle airport were diverted for several hours from around midnight as police deployed a bomb-disposal robot to remove the detonator from the explosive in the drone

A Syrian man arrested on a suspicion that he had planned a jihadist bomb attack on a Berlin airport was found dead in his cell Wednesday after an apparent suicide, authorities said.

Moscow and Berlin closed each other's cultural centres this week, with EU countries summoning Russian envoys.

Leipzig/Halle is a major hub for international freight and for providing support to Ukraine. The planes that regularly use it include Ukrainian Antonov transport aircraft.

A spokesperson for Germany's armed forces said the drones were sighted at around 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Thursday at the base in Mechernich in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, some 35 kilometres (22 miles) from the Belgian border.

The man spotted the drone flying low while he was working at Leipzig/Halle airport late on Tuesday, then kicked out at it in what Detlef Seif described as a courageous but dangerous act.

All flights to Leipzig-Halle airport were diverted for several hours from around midnight as police deployed a bomb-disposal robot to remove the detonator from the explosive in the drone

A Syrian man arrested on a suspicion that he had planned a jihadist bomb attack on a Berlin airport was found dead in his cell Wednesday after an apparent suicide, authorities said.