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‘We crashed, but it’s OK’: Passenger records dramatic VIDEO after airliner skids into river

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‘We crashed, but it’s OK’: Passenger records dramatic VIDEO after airliner skids into river

© Screenshot / Alex Baysha / YouTube A passenger recorded a short video after a Russian Boeing 737 slid off a runway in Sochi, crashing into a river and catching fire on both wings. “We crashed, but it’s OK, I guess,” a man can be heard calmly saying in a short clip recorded minutes after the […]

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Trump and Arizona governor spoke following McCain’s death

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Trump and Arizona governor spoke following McCain’s death

President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ducey came as the Arizona governor weighs whom to appoint to the seat following the death of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, who passed away last week. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images President Donald Trump and Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey spoke by phone this week — a conversation […]

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Canada, U.S. scramble to meet U.S.-imposed deadline of Friday for NAFTA deal

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Canada, U.S. scramble to meet U.S.-imposed deadline of Friday for NAFTA deal

WASHINGTON—A deal on North American trade remained possible, but not certain, on early Friday morning after the Trudeau government and Trump administration met into Thursday night to try to hit a U.S.-imposed Friday deadline. President Donald Trump said a deal was “close,” and that Canada would make a deal “at some point,” but that he […]

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Russia blocks UN Security Council report on North Korea

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Russia blocks UN Security Council report on North Korea

Russian ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia © Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Russia has decided to halt discussions of a United Nations Security Council report on North Korea, due to disagreement on some of its points and concern over parts of it being leaked before publication, Moscow’s UN envoy has said. Russia has blocked the […]

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Italy asks EU to land rescued migrants at French and Spanish ports instead

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Italy asks EU to land rescued migrants at French and Spanish ports instead

Italy plans to ask the EU to rotate the ports that accept migrants rescued at sea. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFP Rome will on Thursday ask the European Union to rotate the ports where migrants rescued at sea disembark, Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta said, with France and Spain expected to top the list. Trenta will put the […]

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Russia warns US not to ‘play with fire’ in Syria – Lavrov(VIDEO)

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Russia warns US not to ‘play with fire’ in Syria – Lavrov(VIDEO)

Russia’s foreign minister is the latest official to warn the US against using a possible chemical weapons provocation to justify a new strike against Syrian forces. He said Moscow warned the West not to play with fire in Syria. Sergey Lavrov reiterated the warning that a staged chemical weapons attack in Syria’s Idlib province may […]

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Trump says would withdraw from WTO if ‘they don’t shape up’

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Trump says would withdraw from WTO if ‘they don’t shape up’

U.S. President Donald Trump makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Aug. 30, 2018. (AFP Photo) In an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would consider withdrawing from the World Trade Organization if “they don’t shape up,” in a […]

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US cracking down on citizenship for hundreds of Hispanics along border: report

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US cracking down on citizenship for hundreds of Hispanics along border: report

The Trump administration is reportedly accusing hundreds of Hispanics living along the U.S.-Mexico border of having fraudulent birth certificates, stripping some of their passports and throwing their citizenship into question. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that cases it examined and interviews with immigration attorneys suggest a dramatic increase in immigration enforcement and a decrease in the number […]

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Military Aircraft Crash in Ethiopia Kills 18, Including Children – Reports

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Military Aircraft Crash in Ethiopia Kills 18, Including Children – Reports

Among the victims of the crash were fifteen members of the country’s armed forces and three civilians, according to state-affiliated news agency Fana. All passengers onboard the ET-AIU aircraft died in the crash, which occurred in the Eastern Shoa zone, less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the capital Addis Ababa, ENA report stated. The crash occurred in the morning […]

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US calls UN’s war crimes report on Yemen ‘concerning

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US calls UN’s war crimes report on Yemen ‘concerning

© Stringer, AFP | Yemenis dig graves for children killed when their bus was hit during a Saudi-led coalition air strike that targeted the Dahyan market the previous day in the Huthi rebels’ stronghold province of Saada on August 10, 2018. A Saudi-led coalition battling in Yemen on Wednesday dismissed as inaccurate a report by […]

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