Flight data has suggested that smoke alarms were set off on EgyptAir Flight 804 minutes before it crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early on Thursday. The Aviation Herald website, which tracks the aviation industry, said it received information that smoke alarms went off in the toilets of the Airbus A320[…]
There are conflicting reports over whether debris found by Greek authorities in the sea belong to the EgyptAir plane which went missing while travelling from Paris to Cairo. The , passenger jet was flying at 37,000ft with 66 people on board when it disappeared on Thursday immediately after entering Egyptian airspace,[…]
A second schoolgirl who was among more than 200 others kidnapped by Boko Haram during an attack on their school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok more than two years ago has been found, the army said Thursday. The news comes just days after the first of the missing[…]
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have issued an arrest warrant for an opposition leader, Moise Katumbi accused of recruiting mercenaries, a government spokesman, Lambert Mende confirmed. The warrant was issued by the Attorney General of the DRC. The opposition leader has been questioned by prosecutors on several[…]
A prominent Islamic State figure suspected of staging high-profile bomb attacks in Turkey appears to have offered hospitality to members of the Syrian opposition, tapped phone calls apparently ignored by Ankara’s security forces show. Transcripts of the phone recordings were handed to the international media by Turkish opposition MP Eren[…]
Greek defence sources have reported the discovery of two large plastic objects in the sea 80km south of Crete, just hours after an EgyptAir jet travelling from Paris to Cairo went missing with 66 people on board. The Airbus A320 passenger jet was flying at 37,000ft when it disappeared on[…]
EgyptAir has confirmed that flight 804, traveling from Paris to Cairo, has disappeared with 56 passengers and 10 crew members on board. According to EgyptAir, the plane took off from Paris’ Charles De Gaulle Airport shortly after 11pm local time. Three of those on board were children, including one infant,[…]
Iranian parliament has passed a bill demanding that the government seek damages from the United States’ “hostile action and crimes” committed since 1953, citing “material or moral damage” caused by Washington’s policy toward Iran. Among the “hostile actions” mentioned in the bill are the US support for the coup against[…]
Two Chinese fighter jets carried out an “unsafe” intercept of a U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, a further escalation of tensions in and around the contested waterway. The incident took place in international airspace on Tuesday as the U.S. maritime patrol[…]
The extremist armed group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has unlawfully executed at least 49 people in its Libyan stronghold of Sirte since February 2015, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Those killed, by means such as decapitating and shooting, include captive fighters, political opponents, and[…]
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