Search finds 49,000 pieces of plane in China crash
BEIJING: Chinese officials said on Thursday that the search for wreckage in last week’s crash of a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 is basically done and that more than 49,000 pieces of debris had been found. Flight MU5735 plunged from 29,000 feet (8,800 metres) into a mountainside in southern China’s Guangxi region, killing all 132 people on board. […]
Fresh shelling throws spanner in Ukraine truce hopes
KYIV: Ukraine on Wednesday accused Russia of shelling a city where it had promised de-escalation, dampening hopes of an end to a war that has killed thousands and displaced millions, including 4m who have now fled the country. Ukraine and Western powers had already cast doubt on Russia’s pledge to reduce military activity around Chernigiv […]
Hospitals in Sri Lanka running out of life-saving drugs
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s state-run hospitals are running out of life-saving medicines due to a shortage of dollars needed to import essentials as the country reels from a dire economic crisis, officials said on Tuesday. Teaching Hospital Peradeniya which serves a population of 2.4 million people in the Central province said it was suspending all routine […]
Biden sticks to suggestion Putin should step down
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden refused on Monday to back down on his weekend declaration in a major speech that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “cannot stay in power” — arguing that he was voicing personal “outrage.” “I’m not walking anything back… I want to make it clear, I wasn’t then, nor am I now, articulating […]
Thousands protest in Madrid against abortion
MADRID: Thousands of people marched though Madrid on Sunday to protest against abortion, as Spain’s leftist government prepares a law to guarantee access to the procedure at public hospitals. Carrying signs that read “Abortion is not right” and chanting “More respect for life”, demonstrators walked through the centre of the Spanish capital to Cibeles square […]
With military support high on agenda, Biden lands in Poland
RZESZOW: US President Joe Biden landed in Poland, on Friday to get a firsthand look at international efforts to help some of the millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing war in their country, and speak to American troops bolstering Nato’s eastern flank. His first stop was to meet soldiers from the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division […]
Drones, thermal scanners scour China crash site
WUZHOU: Recovery teams deployed drones and thermal imaging equipment on Thursday across a mountainous area where a China Eastern plane inexplicably crashed with 132 people on board. Four days after flight MU5735 ploughed into rugged terrain near Wuzhou in southern China, officials are still yet to declare all of the 123 passengers and nine crew […]
Ukraine pleads for help as Joe Biden heads to summit
KYIV: Ukraine on Wednesday appealed for Western military help, ahead of an emergency Nato summit, and denounced Russian “war crimes” in besieged places including the port of Mariupol where it says mass starvation is possible. Tens of thousands of residents have already fled the southern city, bringing harrowing testimony of a “freezing hellscape riddled with […]
North Korea fires multiple rocket launchers
SEOUL: North Korea fired multiple rocket launchers on Sunday, Seoul said, the latest in a series of provocations by the nuclear-armed nation to heighten tensions in the region. Pyongyang launched a string of banned weaponry this year and tested what it claimed were components of a “reconnaissance satellite” — although Seoul and Washington have described […]
No one was killed in strike on theatre, says Kyiv
Kyiv: A Russian strike on a theatre sheltering civilians in Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol badly wounded one person, but did not kill anyone, authorities said on Friday. Rescuers picked through the rubble to find hundreds of civilians feared trapped in the wreckage of the theatre, as both sides in the war and their allies […]
