Investigation Into Cause of Russia Crash Gets Under Way
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The black boxes from the FlyDubai jetliner that crashed in Russia have been recovered and investigations have begun, the budget carrier’s CEO said.
When he replaced his ailing big brother Fidel in 2008, Cuban President Raúl Castro pledged continuity for the island’s half-century-old Communist revolution. He has turned out to be more pragmatic, ushering in an era of economic reform and rapprochement with the U.S.
2 migrants found dead on Greek islandby Petros Giannakouris | AP
Two migrants have been found dead on a boat that arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos, on the first day of the implementation of an agreement between the EU and Turkey on handling the new arrivals.
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Sunday is the day an agreement between the European Union and Turkey on ending illegal migration goes into effect — but its implementation still remains uncertain.
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Poland’s president says he has held very good talks with U.S. senators about the security situation in Central and Eastern Europe, before a NATO summit that Poland will host in July.
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Obama begins historic visit to Cubaby Karen DeYoung, Nick Miroff
His landing Sunday afternoon at Havana marked the first visit to the island by a sitting U.S. president in almost 90 years.
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U.S. Service Member Killed by Rocket Attack in Iraqby Susannah George / AP
(BAGHDAD) — A coalition service member was killed Saturday by enemy fire in northern Iraq, the Pentagon said in a statement.
A U.S. official told The Associated Press the individual was an American stationed at the Makhmour base outside the Islamic State group-held city of Mosul.
The attack was an “indirect fire attack,” specifically rockets, the official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn’t authorized to brief the media.
Two Iraqi commanders stationed at the base also reported a rocket attack Saturday, but denied anyone had been hurt or killed.
The U.S.-led coalition has reported that the build-up of Iraqi troops at Makhmour in preparation for an assault on Mosul has brought a spike in the frequency of such indirect fire attacks.
The last U.S. service member killed in Iraq was in October 2015.
Flight recorders from the Flydubai passenger jet that crashed Saturday in southern Russia, killing all 62 people on board, are “significantly damaged,” authorities said.
Officials were working Sunday to recover the information from the damaged recorders, Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said in a statement on its website. Specialists have started inspecting, opening and extracting information from the memory modules from the recorders’ protective casings, the IAC said. The investigation could take weeks to determine the cause of the tragedy, Reuters reports.
Fifty-five passengers and seven crew members died when the Boeing 737-800, operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, crashed about 800 feet from the runway at an airport in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don during gusting winds, according to CNN.
A Cuban migrant is being helped by Mexican immigration officers, after he and fellow Cuban migrants were picked up by a cruise ship off the Florida coast, in Cozumel
A protester is violently punched and kicked by a Donald Trump supporter during a rally in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday. A man from the crowd is seen pushing a protester to the ground before attacking him. Donald Trump’s rallies have gotten increasingly unruly, drawing criticism from politicians and activists. Primaries in Arizona and Utah are scheduled to be held on 22 March
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Large crowds gather at a makeshift memorial outside Rostov-On-Don airport in Russia to pay their respects to the 55 passengers and seven crew members who died when their plane crashed on Saturday. The flight from Dubai crashed inside the airport’s perimeter, about 250 metres short of the runway. Russia’s airline regulator said on Sunday that they had started to extract information from the plane’s badly damaged flight recorders
Continue reading...Midnight passed - and still the migrant boats cameby Matthew Holehouse in Brussels
EU's grand plan to deport economic migrants and asylum seekers from Greek islands faces first test, as boats keep landing
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Several former members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party received threatening letters from a group calling itself the "AfD Army Faction"
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Smuggling, sickness, bar crawls and prostitutes all featured in the wild few days in 1928 that marked the only previous Cuban visit by a US president
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Investigators are trying to confirm the identity of the man, who carried a forged Syrian passport in the name of 'Monir Ahmed Alaaj' and a fake Belgian identity card naming him as "Amine Choukri"
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Havana has rolled out the red carpet for Barack Obama - the first American president to visit in 88 years
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In pics: President Barack Obama to make history when Air Force One touches down in the Cuban capital Havana
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Sinai attack kills at least 13 Egyptian policemen
Reuters CAIRO At least 13 Egyptian policemen were killed in the Sinai Peninsula when Islamist militants fired a mortar round at a security checkpoint in the city of Arish, security and medical sources said on Saturday. Islamic State claimed responsibility on ... Militants Kill 13 Policemen in Egypt's Northern SinaiNew York Times Egypt: Militants Kill 13 Police at Sinai CheckpointVoice of America 13 Egypt policemen killed in Sinai attack claimed by ISGlobalPost Wall Street Journal-BBC News-CNN-VICE News all 110 news articles » |
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At least 14 university students have been killed when the coach they were travelling in crashed on a Spanish road between Valencia and Barcelona. Report by Jennifer Cordingley.
Paris terror suspect was planning new attacks, Belgian official says by James McAuley,Souad Mekhennet
Salah Abdeslam, arrested Friday, may have organized a new ring while he was in hiding.
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President Barack Obama has arrived in Cuba for a historic visit to the island.
Exiled Tibetans Voting for New Leadersby webdesk@voanews.com (Anjana Pasricha)
Tens of thousands of Tibetans living in exile in India and other countries voted Sunday to elect a new political leader to spearhead the struggle for autonomy for Chinese-ruled Tibet. The second election since the spiritual head of Tibetans, the Dalai Lama, handed over political authority in 2011 of the government Beijing does not recognize was held amid concerns about the health of the charismatic leader. While about 90,000 Tibetans across the world are eligible to vote, the...
US Hotel Company Makes Deal With Cubaby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Starwood Hotels and Resorts is the first U.S. hotel company to sign a deal with Cuba since the country's 1959 revolution when Fidel Castro overthrew the island's U.S.-backed government. The multimillion-dollar deal to run and renovate three Cuban hotels was announced the day before U.S. President Barack Obama's historic trip to Cuba Sunday, and in the wake of increasing U.S. tourist travel to the island that is less than 150 kilometers off the coast of the southeastern...
The deal struck between the European Union and Turkey to try to stem the flow of refugees comes into force Sunday. New arrivals in Greece will be returned to Turkey – with the EU then taking the same number of Syrian refugees from camps on Turkish territory. But as Henry Ridgwell reports from the Greek island of Lesbos, where most of the refugees arrive, there is growing anger at what’s seen as an immoral and unworkable deal.
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