Regulators challenge Boeing to prove its Max jets are safe Updated 28 min 33 sec ago AP March 15, 2019 04:07 NEW YORK: Aviation regulators worldwide laid down a stark challenge for Boeing to prove that its grounded 737 Max jets are safe to fly amid suspicions that faulty software might have contributed to two…
DHAKA: The father of Shamima Begum, the British teenager of Bangladeshi descent who ran away to join Daesh in Syria, said his daughter’s British citizenship should be restored, and asked that she be allowed to return to the country. In 2015, Shamima Begum left her parents’ home in the Bethnal Green district of London to travel…
DHAKA: The father of Shamima Begum, the British teenager of Bangladeshi descent who ran away to join Daesh in Syria, said his daughter’s British citizenship should be restored, and asked that she be allowed to return to the country. In 2015, Shamima Begum left her parents’ home in the Bethnal Green district of London to travel…
DHAKA: The father of Shamima Begum, the British teenager of Bangladeshi descent who ran away to join Daesh in Syria, said his daughter’s British citizenship should be restored, and asked that she be allowed to return to the country. In 2015, Shamima Begum left her parents’ home in the Bethnal Green district of London to travel…
BRUSSELS: The future of NATO’s 15-year-long military operation in Afghanistan will depend on the outcome of peace talks involving Taliban insurgents, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday, after a US envoy reported important progress from the latest round of negotiations.The longest direct talks ever held between the United States and the Taliban concluded this week.…
LONDON: British MPs will vote today on whether to ask the European Union for an extension to the March 29 Brexit deadline, with the whole process mired in chaos.It comes after MPs on Wednesday voted to reject a no-deal Brexit, in an intense week of parliamentary ballots.The government will ask British lawmakers to endorse its…
WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Wednesday dealt a stinging bipartisan rebuke to Donald Trump’s foreign policy and his alliance with Riyadh, voting to end support for the Saudi-led war effort against the Houthis in Yemen.Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled chamber approved a historic curtailment of presidential war powers that directs Trump “to remove United States Armed…
SUZANO, Brazil: Two masked men armed with a gun, knives, axes and crossbows descended on a school in southern Brazil on Wednesday, killing five students and two adults before one killed the other and then himself, authorities said.The men, identified as former students at the school in a suburb of Sao Paulo, also shot and…
WASHINGTON: The US grounded Boeing Co’s money-spinning 737 MAX aircraft on Wednesday over safety fears after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that killed 157 people, leaving the world’s largest planemaker facing its worst crisis in years.The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cited new satellite data and evidence from the scene of Sunday’s crash near Addis…
LONDON: The British parliament on Wednesday rejected leaving the European Union without a deal, further weakening Prime Minister Theresa May and paving the way for a vote that could delay Brexit until at least the end of June.After a day of high drama, lawmakers defied the government by voting 321 to 278 in favor of…
BRUSSELS: Aid organizations appealed Tuesday for funds to help Syria recover from an eight-year war that has driven almost 6 million people out of the country, as donors from nearly 85 countries readied for a pledging conference in Brussels.Agencies, non-governmental organizations, and think tanks say the conflict, which has killed more than 400,000 people and…
BRUSSELS: Aid organizations appealed Tuesday for funds to help Syria recover from an eight-year war that has driven almost 6 million people out of the country, as donors from nearly 85 countries readied for a pledging conference in Brussels.Agencies, non-governmental organizations, and think tanks say the conflict, which has killed more than 400,000 people and…
NIAMEY, Nigeria: Niger said Wednesday it had killed 33 Boko Haram “terrorists” and seized vehicles and weapons in an operation in the Lake Chad region in the country’s southeast.“Offensive actions carried out on Tuesday inflicted heavy losses on the enemy,” a defense ministry statement read on state television said.“Thirty-three terrorists (were) killed” while there were…
NEW DELHI: Holding the world’s biggest democratic election is no mean feat, with 900 million Indians across the country eligible to vote between April 11 and May 19.To iron out some of the hiccups of India’s previous 16 national ballots — and increase public trust in the democratic process — the Election Commission has introduced…
NEW DELHI: Holding the world’s biggest democratic election is no mean feat, with 900 million Indians across the country eligible to vote between April 11 and May 19.To iron out some of the hiccups of India’s previous 16 national ballots — and increase public trust in the democratic process — the Election Commission has introduced…
YANGON: Myanmar’s Rohingya militants urged their followers on Wednesday to refrain from crime in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, following reports of killings and abductions attributed to the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA).ARSA, which emerged with attacks on border posts in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in 2016, is focused on winning rights for Rohingya,…
Australia’s Cardinal Pell sentenced to 6 years jail for sexually abusing choir boys MELBOURNE: Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years in jail by an Australian court on Wednesday for sexually abusing two choir boys in the 1990s at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne.Pell, 77, is the highest ranking Catholic priest…
NEW DELHI: India’s Congress Party launched its campaign for the 2019 general election on Tuesday in Gujarat — the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Congress Working Committee (CWC) held a meeting in the city of Ahmedabad, before holding a public rally challenging the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Sonia Gandhi, the chair of the…
CARACAS: Venezuela ordered American diplomats to leave the country within 72 hours on Tuesday after President Nicolas Maduro accused US counterpart Donald Trump of cyber “sabotage” that plunged the OPEC nation into its worst blackout on record. Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said US diplomats on Venezuelan soil must leave within three days, after talks broke…
CARACAS: Venezuela ordered American diplomats to leave the country within 72 hours on Tuesday after President Nicolas Maduro accused US counterpart Donald Trump of cyber “sabotage” that plunged the OPEC nation into its worst blackout on record. Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said US diplomats on Venezuelan soil must leave within three days, after talks broke…
