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Nepali hospitals return bodies from air crash to grieving families
AFP, Published on 17/01/2023
» POKHARA (NEPAL) - Nepali hospital staff began the grim task of handing over bodies to grieving families on Tuesday after a plane with 72 people on board crashed, the country's worst aviation disaster in three decades.
Nepal mourns victims of deadliest plane crash in decades
AFP, Published on 16/01/2023
» POKHARA, Nepal: Nepal observed a day of mourning on Monday for the victims of the nation's deadliest aviation disaster in three decades, with 67 people confirmed killed in the plane crash.
Tanzania pays tearful tribute to plane crash victims
AFP, Published on 07/11/2022
» BUKOBA (TANZANIA) - Grieving Tanzanians paid emotional tribute Monday to 19 people killed when a passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria in the country's deadliest air crash in decades.
Tanzania pays tearful tribute to plane crash victims
AFP, Published on 07/11/2022
» BUKOBA, Tanzania: Grieving Tanzanians paid emotional tribute Monday to 19 people killed when a passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria in the country's deadliest air crash in decades.
Robot reminds Japan shoppers to wear masks
AFP, Published on 19/11/2020
» TOKYO - Asking someone to put on a mask is a touchy subject, so one shop in Japan has enlisted a robot to make sure its customers wear them during the pandemic.
Flight of fancy? Aviation industry tries to go green
AFP, Published on 16/02/2020
» SINGAPORE - From an emissions-reducing model jet that looks like something from a sci-fi movie to electric aircraft and sustainable fuel, the aviation industry is ramping up efforts to go green as consumer pressure grows.
European losers in new Iranian sanctions game
AFP, Published on 05/08/2018
» PARIS: US President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran and reimpose a raft of sanctions will hit European businesses working in Iran.
Iran protesters attack religious school
AFP, Published on 04/08/2018
» TEHERAN: Iranian protesters have attacked a religious school in Karaj province near Tehrran, the conservative Fars news agency reported on Saturday, as sporadic protests simmered ahead of the reimposition of US sanctions.
Iran Air to receive 5 ATR planes before US sanctions
AFP, Published on 04/08/2018
» TEHRAN - Iran Air said Saturday it was set to take delivery of five new planes from Franco-Italian firm ATR just before renewed US sanctions go into effect.
Ukraine staged fake murder of journalist
AFP, Published on 31/05/2018
» KIEV: "Murdered" anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko appeared alive and well at a press conference in Kiev on Wednesday as Ukraine admitted it had faked his death to expose an alleged Russian plot to kill him.