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Cargo flight operations were halted for about three hours at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport in the early hours of Thursday due to a protest by Last Generation climate activists. Five of the demonstrators glued themselves to the ground in the airport’s southern area and two more were prevented from doing so, a police spokesman said. The activists were eventually removed from the tarmac around 5 am (0300 GMT), he said, adding that officers had discovered holes in the fence at the edge of the site. As a result of the action, cargo flight operations were halted for about three hours after midnigh…

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