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Uncharged electronic devices to be banned from US flights

The American Transportation Security Administration will not allow cellphones or other electronic devices on US bound planes at some overseas airports if the devices are not charged up, under new airport security measures.

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Rifkind: New airport security measures 'unavoidable'

The head of the parliamentary committee which oversees the work of Britain's intelligence agencies has said that newly imposed airport security measures are "unavoidable".

MP: New airport security measures are 'unavoidable' Credit: PA

Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, said jihadi extremists were deploying "devilish technical skill" to create ever more sophisticated devices to evade existing security measures.

Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, he warned of the dangers of "complacency" among the public in the face of the failure of the terrorists to mount any successful mass casualty attack in the UK since the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005.

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