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An environmental activist campaigning against a third runway at Heathrow Airport is detained by police officers after throwing paint against the walls of the Supreme Court in London on December 16, 2020 after the verdict on a legal challenge to the proposed runway. London Heathrow airport won Wednesday a Supreme Court challenge over a ruling made earlier this year to block a third runway at Europe's busiest hub on environmental grounds Britain's highest court has overturned February's Court of Appeal ruling that the UK government had failed to take into account climate change commitments when it gave the green light for the third runway in 2018. (Photo by Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP Photo)
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