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Search for answers in deadly South Korean plane crash mystery
SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images (SEOUL) — A team of U.S. investigators arrived in South Korea to assist local aviation officials as they comb the wreckage of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft that crashed [Read More…]
Survivor of South Korea plane crash is awake and speaking: Hospital official
Seongjoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images (SEOUL) — A 33-year-old flight attendant, one of just two survivors of the Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea that killed 179 people, is awake and talking to medical staff, according [Read More…]
2 survivors recovering as South Korean officials probe Jeju Air plane crash
Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images (SEOUL and LONDON) — The two survivors of South Korea’s deadliest plane crash in decades were recovering at separate hospitals in Seoul on Monday, as investigators began far-reaching probes into both [Read More…]
South Korean investigators seek to arrest President Yoon over martial law declaration
South Korean Presidential Office via Getty Images (SEOUL) — South Korean investigators are seeking an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived imposition of martial law, according to the Yonhap news agency. [Read More…]
Middle East live updates: Gaza hospitals become ‘battlegrounds,’ WHO says
DECEMBER 30: Palestinians taking shelter in tent camps are battling harsh weather conditions as heavy rainfall has flooded their tents on December 30, 2024 in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. The ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza are [Read More…]
Biden announces $2.5 billion in Ukraine defense assistance
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden announced on Monday that the United States would offer almost $2.5 billion in defense assistance to Ukraine, a move that will bring an “immediate influx of capabilities” [Read More…]
179 dead, 2 rescued after plane crashes while landing in South Korea
ABC News All 181 passengers and crew aboard a passenger jet that crashed upon landing in South Korea on Sunday morning are presumed dead except for two people rescued from the wreckage, authorities said. Jeju [Read More…]
Mexico developing app for migrants to send alert if about to be detained in the US
Jose Luis Torales/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Mexico is developing a cellphone app that will allow migrants to inform family members and local consulates if they think they are about to be detained [Read More…]
Survivors of Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash report hearing bangs, explosions during flight
Issa Tazhenbayev/AFP via Getty Images (KAZAKHSTAN) — Survivors of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan reported hearing thuds and explosions from outside the aircraft during the flight, as the cause of the deadly catastrophe remains [Read More…]
US citizen sentenced to 15 years by Moscow court on espionage charges, Russian media says
Contributor/Getty Images (MOSCOW) — An American citizen, Evgeny “Eugene” Spector, was sentenced to 15 years in a high-security prison by the Moscow City Court on espionage charges on Dec. 24, reported Interfax, a Russian news [Read More…]
Middle East live updates: Israeli forces strike Houthi targets in Yemen, IDF says
Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON)– Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. Meanwhile, the ceasefire in Lebanon [Read More…]
Russian anti-aircraft system may have struck Azerbaijan plane: US official
Issa Tazhenbayev/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — There are early indications that a Russian anti-aircraft system may have struck the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing dozens, a U.S. official told ABC News. If these [Read More…]
Christmas blackouts in Ukraine after ‘massive’ Russian strike
Rescuers of the State Emergency Service work to put out a fire in a private house after a drone strike in Kharkiv, on December 25, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by SERGEY [Read More…]
Dozens dead as passenger plane crashes in Kazakhstan
Emergency specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet near the western Kazakh city of Aktau on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Issa Tazhenbayev / AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — [Read More…]
Middle East live updates: IDF troops killed in Gaza as hospitals ‘besieged’
Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON)– Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. Meanwhile, the ceasefire in Lebanon [Read More…]
Swiss Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger killed in avalanche
Millo Moravski/agence Zoom/Getty Images (LONDON) — Swiss Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger was tragically killed in an avalanche on Monday, according to the Swiss-Ski federation. Hediger, 26, got caught in an avalanche at the mountain resort [Read More…]
Hanna Katzir, Israeli hostage survivor who spent 49 days in captivity, has died
Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images (JERUSALEM) — Hanna Katzir, an Israeli hostage survivor who was released last year after 49 days of captivity in Gaza, has died, officials said. Katzir, 78, struggled with a “complex [Read More…]
Just 1 hospital providing humanitarian services in northern Gaza, say health officials
AFP via Getty Images (BEIT LAHIA, Gaza) – Health officials in Gaza say there is only one hospital remaining that is providing humanitarian aid services in the northern part of the strip amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. [Read More…]
Middle East live updates: Israel to act against Houthis in Yemen, Netanyahu says
Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON)– Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. Meanwhile, the ceasefire in Lebanon [Read More…]
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says 3,000 North Koreans killed or wounded in Russia fighting
ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that more 3,000 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been killed or wounded fighting for Moscow in Russia’s western Kursk region. Zelenskyy [Read More…]