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Voice data of crashed Indonesian jet depicts pilots' frantic search for a fix

Voice data of crashed Indonesian jet depicts pilots' frantic search for a fix

Reuters 2019-03-20 13:45:37

The pilots of a doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX scoured a handbook as they struggled to understand why the jet was lurching downwards, but ran out of time before it hit the water, three people with kno...

May to request short delay to Brexit: Sky

May to request short delay to Brexit: Sky

-- 2019-03-20 13:08:38

British Prime Minister Theresa May will request a short delay to Brexit in a letter to the European Union on Wednesday, Sky cited an unidentified senior government source as saying. The delay, nearly...

Australia cuts annual intake of immigrants by 15pc

Australia cuts annual intake of immigrants by 15pc

-- 2019-03-20 12:32:21

Australia cut its annual intake of immigrants by nearly 15 per cent on Wednesday, and barred some new arrivals from living in its largest cities for three years, in a bid to ease urban congestion. Pr...

Burials begin for New Zealand mosque shooting victims

Burials begin for New Zealand mosque shooting victims

Reuters 2019-03-20 10:01:13

The bodies of two victims from New Zealand’s mosques mass shooting were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of mourners into a large tent at Christchurch’s Memorial Park Cemetery on W...

New Zealand PM vows not to say gunman’s name

New Zealand PM vows not to say gunman’s name

-- 2019-03-19 19:00:57

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed never to say the name of the Christchurch mosque gunman. "He sought many things from his act of terror, but one was notoriety - that is why you w...

Money raised for ‘Egg Boy’ will be donated to New Zealand victims

Money raised for ‘Egg Boy’ will be donated to New Zealand victims

-- 2019-03-19 17:38:05

Money raised for a teenager who shot to worldwide fame after smashing an egg on the head of an Australian far-right politician will go toward the victims of the New Zealand mosque shootings, according...

Alan Krueger, economic adviser to Obama and Clinton, takes own life

Alan Krueger, economic adviser to Obama and Clinton, takes own life

-- 2019-03-19 17:32:02

Alan Krueger, a prominent Princeton University economics professor who advised US Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, took his own life over the weekend, his family said in a statement on Monday...

Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore are most expensive cities

Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore are most expensive cities

-- 2019-03-19 17:24:25

Paris has come top of a ranking of the world's most expensive cities, alongside Hong Kong and Singapore. It's the first time three cities have shared the top spot in the 30-year history of the annual...

Boat sinks off Libyan coast, 10 migrants die

Boat sinks off Libyan coast, 10 migrants die

-- 2019-03-19 16:52:36

At least 10 migrants died when their boat sank off the Libyan coast near the western town of Sabratha on Tuesday, a Libyan security official said. About 17 others were rescued, Aiman Dabbashi, Sabrat...

Australia PM calls for social media crackdown after NZ attacks

Australia PM calls for social media crackdown after NZ attacks

-- 2019-03-19 11:23:38

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for global restrictions on social media following the Christchurch mosque attacks. Facebook and other firms have been criticised for failing to blo...

Cyclone death toll could surpass 1000, Mozambique president says

Cyclone death toll could surpass 1000, Mozambique president says

-- 2019-03-19 11:14:24

The number of people killed in a powerful storm and preceding floods in Mozambique could exceed 1,000, the president said on Monday, putting the potential death toll greatly more than current figures....

Democrats target massage parlour proprietor linked to Trump

Democrats target massage parlour proprietor linked to Trump

-- 2019-03-19 10:19:42

Democratic congressional leaders have asked the FBI to investigate the founder of a Florida massage parlour chain who is an alleged acquaintance of President Donald Trump, according to a letter releas...

Dutch police arrest tram shooting suspect after three killed

Dutch police arrest tram shooting suspect after three killed

Reuters 2019-03-19 10:16:19

Dutch police arrested a Turkish man suspected of shooting dead three people and wounding five on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday. Police said the suspect, 37-year-old Gokmen Tanis, had...

1,000 feared dead in Mozambique in Cyclone Idai: President Nyusi

1,000 feared dead in Mozambique in Cyclone Idai: President Nyusi

-- 2019-03-18 21:54:08

The death toll in Mozambique from Cyclone Idai could reach 1,000, President Filipe Nyusi has said. It made landfall close to the port city of Beira on Thursday with winds of up to 177 km/h (106 mph),...

Three dead after attack on tram in Netherlands

Three dead after attack on tram in Netherlands

-- 2019-03-18 21:50:52

Three people were killed following a shooting on a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, the city's mayor says. Nine others were injured in the incident, which police said appears to be a terror...

Man opens fire on tram passengers in Netherlands

Man opens fire on tram passengers in Netherlands

-- 2019-03-18 16:59:58

Several people were injured as a man has opened fire in a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht, police in the Netherlands said. An air ambulance was dispatched to treat the injured and Dutch media repor...

Indonesia flood: Death toll rises to nearly 80

Indonesia flood: Death toll rises to nearly 80

-- 2019-03-18 16:46:21

Authorities in Indonesia raised the death toll from floods and landslides in the easternmost province of Papua to nearly 80 on Monday as the country's President Joko Widodo called for the urgent evacu...

At least 89 die as Cyclone Idai batters Zimbabwe

At least 89 die as Cyclone Idai batters Zimbabwe

-- 2019-03-18 14:17:49

At least 89 people have died in Zimbabwe after Cyclone Idai tore across the eastern and southern parts of the country, a government official said on Monday, creating a humanitarian crisis in a nation...

13,000 ‘terrorists’ arrested in Xinjiang since 2014, China says

13,000 ‘terrorists’ arrested in Xinjiang since 2014, China says

-- 2019-03-18 11:34:14

Authorities in China have arrested almost 13,000 ‘terrorists’ in the restive far western region of Xinjiang since 2014, the government said on Monday, in a lengthy policy paper again defen...

New Zealand cabinet agrees on gun law reforms

New Zealand cabinet agrees on gun law reforms

Reuters 2019-03-18 11:18:34

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that her cabinet had made in principle decisions around the reform of gun laws following the mass shooting in Christchurch “I intend to...

Similarities between Ethiopian and Indonesian jet crashes found

Similarities between Ethiopian and Indonesian jet crashes found

Reuters 2019-03-18 10:49:09

Ethiopia says the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that killed 157 people had “clear similarities” with October’s Lion Air crash, revealed by initial analysis of the black boxe...

Trump not a white supremacist: White House

Trump not a white supremacist: White House

-- 2019-03-18 10:01:02

The White House pushed back on Sunday against any attempt to link President Donald Trump to the accused shooter who killed 50 people in two New Zealand mosques, saying the act of a disturbed individua...

Around 35 tourists trapped after landslides in Indonesia

Around 35 tourists trapped after landslides in Indonesia

-- 2019-03-17 19:23:42

Around 35 foreign and domestic tourists are believed to be trapped and two others died after landslides hit a waterfall site on Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, a disaster agency...

Suspicious package shutters New Zealand airport

Suspicious package shutters New Zealand airport

-- 2019-03-17 17:43:29

New Zealand's police on Sunday closed an airport in the city of Dunedin in the south-eastern part of the country after reports of a suspicious package. Local police have confirmed in a statement that...

Gunmen attack Mali army base, kill at least 16

Gunmen attack Mali army base, kill at least 16

-- 2019-03-17 17:05:09

Gunmen attacked and briefly seized a Malian army base overnight, killing at least 16 soldiers and destroying five vehicles in central Mali’s Mopti region, two local councillors in the area where...

Pakistan train derails after blast, four dead

Pakistan train derails after blast, four dead

-- 2019-03-17 16:39:55

Four people have died and 10 others were injured in Pakistan on Sunday when a bomb went off on a train track in the resource-rich province of Baluchistan, where separatist rebels have been fighting th...

Modi, BJP leaders add 'Chowkidar' to Twitter names

Modi, BJP leaders add 'Chowkidar' to Twitter names

-- 2019-03-17 16:23:00

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's latest campaign, 'Main Bhi Chowkidar (I'm a watchman too)', on Sunday found expression in social media titles. This morning, the Prime Minister led the way, add...

New Zealand mosque attacker 'acted alone'

New Zealand mosque attacker 'acted alone'

-- 2019-03-17 15:08:40

The man charged over Friday's twin mosque attacks in the New Zealand city of Christchurch is believed to have acted alone, police say. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a self-described white supremaci...

BEA says it downloaded recorder data of crashed jet

BEA says it downloaded recorder data of crashed jet

-- 2019-03-17 14:28:14

Data from the cockpit voice recorder of the Ethiopian jet that crashed last week has been successfully downloaded, France’s air accident investigation agency said on Saturday (local time). The...

China to prosecute top Uighur official for corruption

China to prosecute top Uighur official for corruption

-- 2019-03-17 13:24:18

China’s anti-corruption watchdog said it would prosecute Nur Bekri, one of the highest-ranking ethnic Uighur officials in the country, over allegations of graft during to his time as governor of...