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South Korea Police Raid Jeju Air, Airport Over Fatal Crash

Officials investigate the site where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan airport
The flight was carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea on Sunday when it issued a mayday call and belly-landed before slamming into a barrier, killing everyone aboard except two flight attendants pulled from the burning wreckage.

'Numb' New Orleans Grapples With Horror Of Deadly Truck Attack

Early morning on New Year's Day as police cordon off the intersection of Canal Street and Bourbon Street in New Orleans after a truck plowed into a crowd of revellers, killing at least 15 people
Several square blocks of the main entertainment district were blocked off after the attack, in which authorities said a US military veteran plowed a pickup truck into pedestrians, killing at least 15 people and leaving a tear in the heart of the city known as the Big Easy.
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed a law that commutes the death sentences of some 60 prisoners

Zimbabwe Abolishes The Death Penalty

There has been a moratorium on executions in the southern African country since 2005 although courts have continued to hand down the death sentence for crimes including murder, treason and terrorism.
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Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold placards during a protest in Seoul

South Korea Investigators Vow To Execute Yoon Arrest Warrant

South Korean investigators said Wednesday they would execute an arrest warrant for Yoon Suk Yeol over his declaration of martial law by the deadline of January 6, as the impeached leader's supporters rallied outside his residence.
AFP news Jan 01, 2025
Firefighters and recovery teams work at the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport

South Korea Says Will Send Jeju Air Crash Black Box To US

The plane was carrying 181 people from Thailand on Sunday when it issued a mayday call and belly-landed before hitting a barrier and bursting into flames, killing everyone aboard except two flight attendants pulled from the burning wreckage.
AFP news Jan 01, 2025
The FBI uncovered more than 150 homemade bombs on a farm in Virginia in what is thought to be the largest such seizure in the agency's history

FBI Makes Its Largest Bomb Bust On Virginia Farm

The FBI uncovered more than 150 homemade bombs on a farm in Virginia in what is thought to be the largest such seizure in the agency's history, according to court documents filed this week.
AFP news Jan 01, 2025
The accident took place in southern Ethiopia

More Than 70 Killed In Ethiopia Road Accident

The truck careered into the water at around 5:30 pm local time (1430 GMT) on Sunday some 300 kilometers (180 miles) south of the capital Addis Ababa in Sidama state.
AFP news Dec 31, 2024
Sevilla's Spanish defender Jesus Navas and family during his farewell ceremony

Emotional Jesus Navas Bids Farewell To Football Career

Retiring Spanish football legend Jesus Navas tearfully bid farewell to his playing career on Monday with songs, chants and other tributes at a ceremony at Sevilla's packed Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan stadium.
AFP news Dec 31, 2024
Mourners pay their respects at a memorial altar for victims of the Jeju Air plane crash, at Muan Sports Park in Muan on December 30, 2024

S. Korea Starts Releasing Jeju Air Crash Victims To Families

US investigators, including from Boeing, arrived at the crash site in southwestern Muan, officials said, as South Korean authorities began assessing two black boxes retrieved from the burned-out wreckage of the aircraft.
AFP news Dec 31, 2024
People cheer as Sudan's de facto leader, armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, arrives at the market in Port Sudan

Sudan Government Rejects UN-backed Famine Declaration

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) review, which UN agencies use, follows repeated warnings from the United Nations, other aid groups and the United States about the hunger situation in the northeast African country.
AFP news Dec 30, 2024
Map showing the flight path of Jeju Air Flight 2216 before it crashed on landing at Muan International Airport, South Korea, on December 29

South Korea Grieves After Deadliest Plane Crash Kills 179

The Boeing 737-800 was carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea when it crashed on arrival Sunday, killing everyone aboard -- save two flight attendants pulled from the twisted wreckage of the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil.
AFP news Dec 30, 2024
Syria's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa says 'we need to rewrite the constitution', which the UN has also called for

Syria's Leader Says Elections Could Take 4 Years: Al Arabiya Interview

In a wide-ranging interview three weeks after his Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and allied rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad from power after a lightning offensive, Sharaa also said that local Kurdish-led forces which Turkey opposes should be integrated into the national army.
AFP news Dec 30, 2024
Jimmy Carter -- seen at the Democratic National Convention in 2008 -- served one term from 1977 to 1981 as US president

Former US President Jimmy Carter Dies Aged 100

Carter had been in hospice care since mid-February 2023 at his home in Plains, Georgia -- the same small town where he was born and once ran a peanut farm before becoming governor of the Peach State and running for the White House.
AFP news Dec 30, 2024
Flags fly at half mast across South Korea as the country investigates the worst plane crash in its history

Flags Fly At Half-mast As S. Korea Probes Its Worst Plane Crash

The country has started seven days of national mourning, with the acting president flying to the crash site in southwestern Muan for a memorial as teams of US and South Korean investigators raced to establish what caused Sunday's disaster.
AFP news Dec 30, 2024
the Estlink 2 submarine cable that carries electricity from Finland to Estonia was disconnected from the grid

Finns Probe Ship From Russia For 'Sabotage' Of Cables

On Christmas Day, the Estlink 2 submarine cable that carries electricity from Finland to Estonia was disconnected from the grid, just over a month after two telecommunications cables were severed in Swedish territorial waters in the Baltic Sea.
AFP news Dec 27, 2024

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