By Associated Press FLIGHT recorders from a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight arrived in France for analysis Thursday as frustrated relatives of the 157 people killed stormed out of a meeting with airline officials in Addis Ababa. Sunday’s crash was the second fatal flight for a Boeing 737 Max 8 in less than six months. More
BBC- The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has said it will not suspend Boeing 737 Max aircraft despite mounting pressure from senators and workers’ unions. The move comes amid a global scramble to clear the skies of Boeing’s latest offering 737 Max aircraft following the Ethiopian air disaster at the weekend that killed all 157
BBC- British Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU withdrawal deal has been rejected by MPs by an overwhelming majority for a second time, with just 17 days to go to Brexit. The PM’s deal was defeated by 391 to 242. Some 75 Conservative MPs voted against it, compared with 118 who voted against it in January.
AP Britain’s Parliament delivered a crushing defeat to Prime Minister Theresa May’s European Union divorce deal on Tuesday, plunging the Brexit process into chaos just 17 days before the UK is due to leave the bloc. Lawmakers rejected the deal 391-242, ignoring May’s entreaties to back the agreement and end the political chaos and economic
By AFP China on Monday ordered domestic airlines to suspend commercial operation of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, citing the Ethiopian Airlines crash and another deadly accident of that same model in Indonesia. Noting the “similarities” between the two accidents, China’s Civil Aviation Administration said domestic airlines had until 6:00 pm local time (1000 GMT)
By Associated Press President Donald Trump is reviving his border wall fight, preparing a new budget that will seek $8.6 billion for his signature project, impose steep spending cuts to other domestic programs and set the stage for another fiscal battle. Budget documents like the one Trump is releasing Monday are often seen as just
CNN- Satellite images of a facility near Pyongyang suggest that North Korea may be preparing to launch a missile or a satellite. The increase in activity is around a site known as Sanumdong, where North Korea assembled most of its ballistic missiles and rockets. It comes after reports earlier this week that North Korea’s main
AFP– Vladimir Putin’s defence minister has compared the British army to Nazi Germany, as relations between Russia and the West continued to deteriorate. Sergei Shoigu claimed British troops had started to use Russian-made tanks and Russian military uniforms in training exercises to designate the enemy. The general also dubbed Nato exercises “anti-Russian” and said the military
BBC- Schools and workplaces in Venezuela have closed as an electricity blackout continues into a second day. The power cuts, which started on Thursday afternoon, have been caused by issues at a major hydroelectric plant. The government of President Nicolás Maduro has blamed the opposition, accusing them of sabotage. It comes amid rising tensions
BBC– US President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort has been given a 47-month prison sentence for fraud. He was convicted last year of hiding millions of dollars of income earned by his political consulting in Ukraine. The charges stem from an inquiry into alleged Russian election meddling in the 2016 US elections. None of
By BBC About 1,500 children are being detained by federal and Kurdish authorities in Iraq for alleged links to the Islamic State group, Human Rights Watch says. A new report says the children are often arbitrarily arrested and tortured to force confessions. HRW urges the Iraqi and Kurdistan Region’s governments to amend anti-terrorism laws to
By Associated Press The European Union said Wednesday that “difficult” talks with Britain have failed to break the Brexit deadlock, less than a week before U.K. lawmakers are due to approve or reject the government’s divorce deal with the bloc. Britain’s chief law officer claimed the two sides were holding “robust” discussions on new British
By BBC A UK patient’s HIV has become “undetectable” following a stem cell transplant in only the second case of its kind, doctors report in Nature. The London patient, who was being treated for cancer, has now been in remission from HIV for 18 months and is no longer taking HIV drugs. The researchers say
By BBC Hillary Clinton has ruled out a second US presidential run in 2020. “I’m not running, but I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe,” Clinton told New York’s News 12 TV channel. As the Democratic candidate in 2016,Clinton was widely expected to become the first female
By CNN When firefighters arrived at Freedom Ministries Church in Grandview, West Virginia they were left stunned by what they saw. A devastating fire so hot that firefighters had to back out at one point was ravaging through the building, the Coal City Fire Department said in a Facebook post. But as they went through
By BBC A man has been mauled to death by a lion caged at his family home in the eastern Czech Republic. Michal Prasek owned the nine-year-old big cat and another lioness for breeding, reportedly drawing concern from local residents. Mr Prasek’s father found his body in the lion’s cage and told local media it
By Associated Press In a slashing speech packed with braggadocio and grievance, President Donald Trump denounced Democrats as the party of “the socialist nightmare”, relitigated his crowd sizes back to the inauguration and took on “sick”, ”lunatic” and “dirty” foes at every turn, earning him the unvarnished adoration of cheering conservatives. After a trying week
By CNN The US and South Korea have canceled major war games that have long been a source of tensions on the Korean Peninsula in order to “support diplomatic efforts” with North Korea. News of the cancellation comes after the second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended
By Aljazeera Indonesian authorities have warned that up to 100 people could still be trapped and feared dead inside a collapsed gold mine despite a painstaking rescue effort that has so far plucked 19 people alive from the rubble, but also seen nine deaths. Search teams at the unlicensed mine on Sulawesi island have been
CNN David Ibbotson, the pilot whose plane crashed while carrying footballer Emiliano Sala in January, dropped out of training for a commercial pilot’s license, the director of his aviation training school told CNN Saturday. Ibbotson studied at the Cranfield Aviation Training School (CATS), based near Milton Keynes, north of London, but left “a third of
