NEW YORK: Boeing’s MCAS anti-stall system, which was implicated in the October crash of a 737 MAX 8 in Indonesia, was also activated shortly before a recent accident in Ethiopia, a source with knowledge of the investigation said Friday.The information is part of preliminary findings from the analysis of black boxes from Ethiopian Airlines flight…
LONDON: British MPs on Friday rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU divorce deal for a third time, opening the way for a long delay to Brexit — or a chaotic “no deal” withdrawal in two weeks.The pound sank as MPs defied May’s plea to end the deadlock that has plunged Britain into a deep political…
LONDON: British MPs on Friday rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU divorce deal for a third time, opening the way for a long delay to Brexit — or a chaotic “no deal” withdrawal in two weeks.The pound sank as MPs defied May’s plea to end the deadlock that has plunged Britain into a deep political…
BEIJI: China has thanked Kazakhstan for supporting its crackdown on the restive far west region of Xinjiang, where Beijing is accused of rights abuses against minority groups, including ethnic Kazakhs.China is holding one million ethnic Uighurs and other mostly Muslim groups in internment camps in the heavily policed region, according to estimates cited by a…
BEIJI: China has thanked Kazakhstan for supporting its crackdown on the restive far west region of Xinjiang, where Beijing is accused of rights abuses against minority groups, including ethnic Kazakhs.China is holding one million ethnic Uighurs and other mostly Muslim groups in internment camps in the heavily policed region, according to estimates cited by a…
DHAKA: The death toll from a horrific blaze that ripped through a Bangladesh skyscraper rose on Friday to 25, including some who leapt to their deaths, as firefighters combed through the charred shell of the building.A day after flames tore through the 22-story FR Tower in Dhaka, trapping hundreds of office workers, police said they…
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand: A Maori lament echoed across Christchurch Friday as a survivor of the New Zealand mosque attacks told a national remembrance service he had forgiven the gunman responsible for the racist massacre that shocked the world.Thousands attended the service in the grieving southern city, standing silently with heads bowed while the names of…
WASHINGTON : A lawsuit against Boeing Co. was filed in US federal court on Thursday in what appeared to be the first suit over a March 10 Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash that killed 157 people.The lawsuit was filed in Chicago federal court by the family of Jackson Musoni, a citizen of Rwanda, and alleges…
US Democrats mock ‘scaredy-cat’ Republicans, demand Mueller’s full 300 pages WASHINGTON: Democrats intensified their demands for the Robert Mueller’s full report Thursday after learning the special counsel’s findings from his Trump-Russia investigation run to more than 300 pages, while President Donald Trump boasted of total exoneration based on a four-page summary by his attorney general.House…
KARACHI: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan will lay the foundation stone at a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Gwadar international airport in Balochistan on Friday. The $230 million airport project in Gurandani, 26 km east of Gwadar city, is funded by China. “The prime minister is scheduled to lay the foundation on Friday afternoon,” Mirza…
MANILA: The problem of how to handle Daesh fighters and their families looking to return to their homelands is a conundrum facing many countries, including the Philippines. On Thursday, Filipino officials said that Filipinos who had committed crimes abroad must face the consequences. Reports suggest there were Filipino nationals among the thousands of suspected Daesh…
MANILA: The problem of how to handle Daesh fighters and their families looking to return to their homelands is a conundrum facing many countries, including the Philippines. On Thursday, Filipino officials said that Filipinos who had committed crimes abroad must face the consequences. Reports suggest there were Filipino nationals among the thousands of suspected Daesh…
COPENHAGEN: Children born abroad to Danish militants will no longer receive Danish citizenship, the minority government announced Thursday after striking a deal with its populist ally the Danish People’s Party.“Contrary to current rules, children who will be born in regions prohibited to Danes... will not automatically receive Danish nationality,” the immigration ministry said in a…
MOGADISHU: A car bomb exploded near a hotel and restaurants in Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least 15 people in a busy area of the Somali capital targeted by militants before, rescue services said.The afternoon explosion sent smoke billowing into the sky and destroyed two restaurants and some cars parked in the area.A Reuters witness counted…
DHAKA: A huge fire in a Dhaka office block has killed at least 17 people, an official said Thursday, with desperate workers leaping to their deaths in the latest major inferno to hit the Bangladeshi capital."The death toll has risen to 17," Khurshid Alam, a fire service officer, told AFP, adding the toll may continue to…
VALETTA: Malta’s armed forces said Thursday they had taken control of a tanker that was hijacked by migrants it had rescued off Libya.It said a special operations team is escorting the vessel to Malta where it was expected to arrive Thursday morning, to “be handed over to the police for further investigations.”The Palau-flagged tanker Elhiblu…
ANKARA: A deal to buy Russian missiles has left Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan balancing NATO ally the United States and new regional partner Russia as he risks fallout from both Washington and Moscow.Turkey’s already soured relations with the United States could be significantly damaged with possible US sanctions if Ankara pushes ahead with the…
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani minister has branded the US ambassador to Kabul a “little pygmy” in a high-level diplomatic Twitter row that erupted over ongoing peace talks between Washington and the Taliban in Afghanistan.The furor underscores the delicate balance of regional tensions as the US steps up a push to find a way out of Afghanistan,…
LONDON: Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday pledged to step down if MPs back her EU divorce deal, in a bid to break the Brexit deadlock in Britain’s fractured parliament.Following months of pressure, May told her Conservative MPs that she would quit if they see through the withdrawal agreement she painstakingly negotiated with Brussels.Her dramatic…
MOSCOW: Russia’s Foreign Ministry says that Russian military personnel that arrived in Venezuela over the weekend has every right to be there.The rift between Russia and the United States over how to resolve the crisis in Venezuela widened following the arrival of Russian military personnel to support Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro over the weekend.In Moscow’s…
