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Smoke and flames rise following an Israeli military strike on a target in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March, 25, 2026.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

British police have arrested two men in connection with an arson attack on four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity. Authorities are investigating the fire as an antisemitic hate crime. The Metropolitan Police said the two men were arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life and both men have been taken to a London police station for questioning. The blaze early on Monday morning in Golders Green, a London neighborhood with a large Jewish population, consumed four ambulances belonging to the volunteer organization Hatzola Northwest. Oxygen cylinders on the vehicles exploded, breaking windows in an adjacent apartment block.

The pilots killed in a collision between a jetliner and a fire truck on a New York runway have been identified as Mackenzie Gunther and Antoine Forrest. Gunther and Forrest were operating an Air Canada jet that was landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport when it collided with the fire truck Sunday. Officials still haven’t identified the two men publicly, but a relative who spoke to The Associated Press and a Canadian college confirmed their identities separately. Forest's great aunt told AP that he always wanted to be a pilot. And Toronto college Seneca Polytechnic said Gunther graduated from an honors aviation technology program in 2023 and will be deeply missed.

Federal investigators looking into the collision between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport are reviewing the cockpit voice recorder and the actions inside the control tower. The National Transportation Safety Board plans to share more details at a news conference Tuesday. The plane carrying more than 70 people slammed into the fire truck while landing late Sunday night. The two pilots were killed and several passengers were injured. But most were able to escape the mangled aircraft.   Investigators want to know more about the role of the air traffic controllers and whether they were distracted by an emergency with another plane just before the crash.

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Forensic experts get ready to investigate the area in Golders Green, London, Monday, March 23, 2026 after an arson attack on four vehicles belonging to a Jewish ambulance service, Hatzola Northwest.(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)