Company hails start of the ‘electric aviation age’ after 15-minute test flight in Vancouver The world’s first fully electric commercial aircraft has taken its inaugural test flight, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver and flying for 15 minutes. “This proves that commercial aviation in all-electric form can ... Read More »
Authorities vow to return to recover eight bodies but ‘significant increase’ in volcanic activity leads to delays New Zealand police have vowed to return to White Island to retrieve the bodies of eight tourists who died there, as the first Australian victims of the volcanic eruption were named. Police ... Read More »
Venite Bernard’s feet are bloodied and torn because, she said, she had no time to grab her sandals when she fled her shack with her youngest children as gangsters roamed the Haitian capital’s most notorious slum, shooting people in their homes. Now the 47-year-old Bernard and her family are camped ... Read More »
Iran and the United States appear to be easing tensions as both countries head into political volatile election years, with the threat of an armed conflict that seemed increasingly likely just months ago fading away. A weekend exchange of detainees between Iran and the United States brokered by diplomats indicated ... Read More »
President Michel Aoun on Monday expressed relief over the meeting that the International Support Group for Lebanon will hold Wednesday in Paris, thanking France for making the initiative in coordination with the U.N. Aoun’s remarks were voiced in a meeting with U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis. The president ... Read More »
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he wanted changes to the Ukrainian constitution to give a special status to the Donbass region after the first bilateral talks with his Ukrainian counterpart in Paris. Putin, who said the meeting in Paris had been useful, said he needed more points of ... Read More »
The Presidency on Sunday postponed the binding parliamentary consultations for naming a new PM from Monday, Dec. 9 to Monday, Dec. 16, after Dar al-Fatwa told the candidate Samir Khatib that there is Sunni consensus on re-nominating Saad Hariri for the post. “In light of the developments, at the desire ... Read More »
A vote on impeachment charges against Donald Trump could take place this week, according to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Jerrold Nadler said draft articles were already being prepared based on the evidence heard during the inquiry over the last months. However, a decision on the final charges will ... Read More »
A strike that crippled public transport and closed schools across France entered a second day on Friday, with trade unions saying they planned to keep going until President Emmanuel Macron backs down from a planned reform of pensions. Rail workers voted to extend their strike through Friday, while labor unions ... Read More »
Cases doubled between between 2017 and 2018, reports say A global measles crisis caused more than 140,000 deaths last year, with most of them children under the age of five, figures suggest. A new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ... Read More »
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