A Jeju Air flight. — Facebook/ @jejuairmalaysia/ File SEOUL: A Jeju Air flight from Seoul on Monday was forced to return after encountering a landing gear problem, the airline said, a day after South Korea’s most deadly plane crash. The Boeing 737-800 involved in the latest incident was the same model as the Jeju Air plane that crashed on Sunday …
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivers a lecture on the eradication of the Guinea worm, at the House of Lords in London, Britain February 3, 2016. The earnest Georgia peanut farmer who served as the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, passed away at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday at the age of 100. In recent …
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Firefighters carry out extinguishing operations on an aircraft which drove off runway at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Jeolla, South Korea on December 29, 2024. — Reuters SEOUL: As South Korea observes seven days of national mourning the investigators are probing the Jeju Air Flight 2216 crash which killed 179 passengers and crew members apart from the two flight …
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People stand as the wreckage of an aircraft lying on the ground after it went off the runway and crashed at Muan International Airport is pictured, in Muan, South Korea, December 30, 2024. — Reuters Pilots reported bird strike before fatal airport approach. Jeju Air crash kills 179, two survivors pulled from wreckage. Investigation considering bird strikes and weather as …
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Former US President Jimmy Carter delivers a lecture on the eradication of the Guinea worm, at the House of Lords in London, Britain February 3, 2016. — Reuters Beat Ford in 1976, lost by landslide to Reagan in 1980. Iran hostage crisis consumed last 444 days of presidency. In 1979, he bemoaned America’s “crisis of confidence”. Jimmy Carter, the earnest …
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Ambulances and fire brigades seen in front of the building on fire near the Mall of Emirates on December 29, 2024.— Screengrab A fire that broke out in a building near the Mall of Emirates in Dubai on Sunday night was extinguished successfully with no injuries or fatalities reported. Firefighting vehicles and ambulances reached the site of the incident within …
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Tourists watch a Danish-flagged cargo ship passing through the Panama Canal. — AFP/File PANAMA: For dozens of US tourists watching a cargo ship pass along the Panama Canal, Donald Trump’s threat to possibly wrest back control of the waterway is nonsensical. “I think it is 100% Panama, yeah, and it should stay such,” said one, Natalia Glusack, a 47-year-old accountant …
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Hawa, 20, a third-year Russian literature student at the Burhanuddin Rabbani University (which was renamed by the Taliban to Kabul Education University), reads a book as she sits on a windowsill at her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 23, 2021. — Reuters KABUL: The Taliban’s supreme leader has issued an order banning the construction of windows in residential buildings that …
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This representational picture shows a shark underwater. — Unsplash/File A tourist was killed and another was injured in a shark attack in Egypt’s Marsa Alam resort, the environment ministry said in a statement on Sunday without giving the nationalities of those involved. There are sharks in the Red Sea but encounters with them are relatively rare. The ministry said the …
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A drone view shows emergency specialists working at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan December 25, 2024. — Reuters Speculation swirls that Russia accidentally shot down Azerbaijani plane. Putin apologises but stops short of accepting that plane hit by Russia. Aliyev says civilian plane damaged from outside over Russian territory. Azerbaijan’s …
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