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Indonesian airline whose plane crashed a low-cost high flyer
Associated Press, Published on 29/10/2018
» Lion Air, the airline whose plane crashed early Monday while traveling from Jakarta to an island off Indonesia's Sumatra with 189 people on board, is a fast-growing low cost airline with a mixed safety record.
West accuses Russia of global cyber-plots
Associated Press, Published on 05/10/2018
» BRUSSELS: The United States and other Western nations levelled a torrent of new allegations against Moscow's secretive GRU military spy agency on Thursday, accusing its agents of hacking anti-doping agencies, plane crash investigations and a chemical weapons probe as well as launching cyberattacks that rocked America's 2016 election and crippled Ukraine in 2017.
New questions, searches greet travellers flying to US
Associated Press, Published on 27/10/2017
» CHICAGO: Some were asked their hobbies and packing habits. Others were queried about what they do for a living. There were lines for security interviews and searches of carry-on bags.
Tougher screenings for all US-bound flights
Associated Press, Published on 26/10/2017
» DUBAI: All flights to the United States will be subject to new security screening procedures before takeoff, including both American citizens and foreigners possibly facing security interviews from airline employees, the US government said Wednesday.
Little US pressure amid talk of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
Associated Press, Published on 09/09/2017
» WASHINGTON - Don't expect the United States to step in and resolve what is increasingly being describing as an ethnic cleansing campaign against Myanmar's downtrodden Rohingya Muslims.
Dozens hurt as S. Koreans protest THAAD launchers
Associated Press, Published on 07/09/2017
» SEOUL -- Dozens of people were injured in clashes between South Korean protesters and police Thursday as the US military added more launchers to the high-tech missile-defence system it installed in a southern town to better cope with North Korean threats.
UN Security Council condemns N.Korea missile test
Associated Press, Published on 30/08/2017
» UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council strongly condemned North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday, reiterating demands that Pyongyang halt its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes.
Qatar Airways removed from US laptop ban list
Associated Press, Published on 06/07/2017
» DUBAI -- Qatar Airways joined two other major long-haul Gulf carriers on Thursday in getting off a US ban on laptops and large electronics in airplane cabins, despite facing logistical challenges amid the country's diplomatic dispute with several Arab nations.
US mulls global ban on in-flight laptops
Associated Press, Published on 29/05/2017
» WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Sunday he's considering banning laptops from the passenger cabins of all international flights to and from the United States.
US agents foil Chinese, spirit family out of Thailand
Associated Press, Published on 08/05/2017
» BEIJING - Stuck in a Bangkok jail with a deportation order against her, Chen Guiqiu waited with dread over what seemed certain to come next. A Thai immigration official showed her surveillance video of the jail entrance, where more than a dozen Chinese security agents were waiting.