Boeing and U.S. prosecutors said they are working toward a new agreement to resolve a criminal case stemming from two fatal 737 Max crashes. after a federal judge blocked an earlier plan because it included race as a consideration in selecting a compliance monitor. The Justice Department is working with Boeing to negotiate a new ...
Australian authorities have issued extreme heat warnings for the southeast and western parts of the countrysaying the thermostat in Melbourne is forecast to reach 38C (100.4F) on Sunday. “Temperatures are expected to reach the 30s and even 40s across much of inland New South Wales, much of inland Victoria and also southern Australia.”Miriam Bradbury of ...
On January 10, Nicolás Maduro will take office as president of Venezuela in a ceremony that is expected to be controversial, due to the international classification of the elections that re-elected him as “fraudulent.” Given this scenario, the presence of President Gustavo Petro at the event in Caracas has become a topic of debate and ...
South Korean police searched Thursday the offices and airport where Sunday’s deadly plane crash occurred, within the framework of a series of raids aimed at determining who is responsible for the catastrophe. Investigators from the Jeonnam Provincial Police Agency searched the Busan Regional Aviation Administration office in Muan County, as well as Muan International Airport ...
China’s BYD Co. enjoyed a year-end surge to push total sales to 4.25 million passenger cars last year, narrowing its gap with Tesla Inc. as the two compete for the crown of best-selling electric vehicle manufacturer of 2024. The Shenzhen-based automaker,which stopped manufacturing vehicles powered entirely by fossil fuels in 2022reached a new monthly sales ...
A report from the United Nations Human Rights Office on Tuesday condemned Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza and claimed that they had devastated the Palestinian enclave’s health system and raised serious questions about Israel’s compliance with international law. In the report, which documents several attacks between October 12, 2023 and June 30, 2024, this ...
The United States on Monday announced nearly $5.9 billion in military and economic aid for Ukraine, part of the last funds to be disbursed under President Joe Biden before an expected shift in support from incoming President-elect Donald Trump. The military aid includes $1.25 billion in the so-called Presidential Reduction Authority, which removes weapons and ...
At least 177 people died Sunday in the deadliest plane crash ever in South Korea, when a passenger plane belly-landed and skidded off the runway, exploding into a fireball as it crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport. Jeju Air flight 7C2216, from the Thai capital, Bangkok, with 175 passengers and six crew on ...
A federal appeals court denied Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in the lawsuit for sexual abuse of the New York writer E. Jean Carroll, which is a serious blow for the president-elect in his attempt to leave his legal problems behind before taking office. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He will undergo surgery on Sunday to remove his prostate after an infectionhis office reported in a statement. “On Wednesday, the prime minister underwent an examination at Hadassah hospital, where a urinary tract infection resulting from a benign enlargement of the prostate was discovered.”says the statement. “Since then, for a ...
