UK bans protest group Palestine Action after 'disgraceful attack' on airbase
British interior minister Yvette Cooper announced on Monday that she will ban campaign group Palestine Action, after its activists broke into the UK's largest air force base last week.
Cooper said the vandalism of two aeroplanes at RAF Brize Norton in southern England on Friday was "disgraceful" and the group had a "long history of unacceptable criminal damage".
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