South Korea extends Boeing 737-800 inspections following fatal crash
Seoul, South Korea Reuters South Korea’s transport ministry has extended special inspections of all 101 of the Boeing 737-800 jets run by the country’s airlines by a week, after the worst aviation disaster on the country’s soil, a ministry official said on Friday. The ministry launched the inspections following Sunday’s crash of a Boeing 737-800 […]
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Indian village that changed its name to honour Jimmy Carter pays tribute
New Delhi, India Reuters Thousands of miles from Washington, where the funeral of Jimmy Carter is set for next week, an Indian village named after the former US President fondly remembers his visit almost 50 years ago, paying tribute. A one-term president from 1977, Carter, who died on Sunday aged 100, is to be given […]
Updated: South Korea authorities in standoff in bid to arrest President Yoon
Updated: 3:40pm (AEST) Seoul, South Korea Reuters Authorities entered impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk’s compound on Friday to execute an unprecedented arrest warrant, evading a crowd of protesters outside, but were confronted with presidential security forces inside. It was unclear whether the Presidential Security Service (PSS), which has previously blocked access by investigators with […]
Investigators seek clues to New Orleans attacker’s path to radicalisation
Washington DC, US Reuters As investigators learn more about the man who pledged allegiance to Islamic State and killed 14 people with a truck on New Year’s Day in New Orleans, a key question remains: How did a veteran and one-time employee of a major corporation become radicalised? FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia said […]
US Episcopal Presiding Bishop resolves complaint against predecessor Michael Curry
RNS An Episcopal Church investigation into possible misconduct by former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and Bishop Todd Ousley, a former Office of Pastoral Development official, concluded on Monday with a pastoral response, according to an announcement from Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe. Curry and Ousley were the subjects of a clergy misconduct complaint brought by the […]
Venezuela opposition leader to travel to Argentina ahead of planned Maduro inauguration
Reuters Venezuela opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, who says he resoundingly won a July presidential election but has been living in Spain after a warrant was issued for his arrest, said on Thursday he will travel to Argentina this weekend. Gonzalez’s “international tour” comes days ahead of the planned 10th January inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro […]
Dutch online archive identifies suspected World War II Nazi collaborators
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Reuters A Dutch project called ‘War in Court’ digitally released a list of names of nearly half a million suspected wartime Nazi collaborators on Thursday after the expiry of a law that had restricted public access to the archive. The archive, consisting of 32 million pages, includes about 425,000 mostly Dutch people […]
Israeli airstrikes kill Gaza head of police, 67 others, Gaza authorities say
Updated: 12:10pm (AEDT) Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli airstrikes killed at least 68 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including at a tent camp where the head of the enclave’s Hamas-controlled police force, his deputy and nine displaced people died, Gaza authorities said. Israel said the deputy was the head of Palestinian militant group Hamas’ […]
Oil spill in Black Sea smaller than first thought, Russia says
Moscow, Russia Reuters Russian investigators have determined that an oil spill from two tankers in the Black Sea last month was smaller than initially thought, the Transport Ministry said on Thursday. The oil leaked from two ageing tankers that were hit by a storm on 15th December. One sank and the other ran aground. People […]