Updated: Everyone aboard American Airlines jet that collided with Army helicopter feared dead Thursday, 30 January 2025, 09:14 Last update: about 5 months ago Associated Press A jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue...
Updated (2): Police say at least 30 people died in stampede at Maha Kumbh festival in India Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 08:47 Last update: about 5 months ago Associated Press Several people were feared dead and many more injured in a stampede early Wednesday as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take ritual baths in sacred rivers at the massive Maha Kumbh festival...
Passenger plane catches fire at South Korean airport. All 176 people on board are evacuated Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 07:31 Last update: about 5 months ago Associated Press A passenger plane caught fire before takeoff at an airport in South Korea late Tuesday, but all 176 people on board were safely evacuated, authorities said. The Airbus plane operated by...
A Bulgarian shipping company denies its Malta-flagged vessel sabotaged a Baltic Sea cable Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 08:52 Last update: about 5 months ago Associated Press A Bulgarian shipping company on Monday denied that one of its ships had intentionally damaged an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of...
At Auschwitz memorial, survivors see echoes of the past in rising antisemitism Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 07:45 Last update: about 5 months ago Associated Press Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of...
Auschwitz memorial holds observances on the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation Monday, 27 January 2025, 10:35 Last update: about 5 months ago Associated Press The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is widely being treated as the last major...
Belarus strongman wins a 7th term in an election the opposition calls a farce Monday, 27 January 2025, 08:30 Last update: about 5 months ago Associated Press The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give...
Sweden seizes Malta-flagged vessel suspected of 'sabotage' after undersea data cable rupture Monday, 27 January 2025, 07:57 Last update: about 5 months ago Associated Press Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated "sabotage" and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of...
The man pushed onto New York's subway tracks says he will ride again Sunday, 26 January 2025, 11:00 Last update: about 5 months ago Associated Press A man who survived being shoved onto subway tracks ahead of an oncoming train said that in spite of the physical and psychological trauma, he eventually plans to make his way back to the...
After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission Sunday, 26 January 2025, 10:30 Last update: about 5 months ago Associated Press Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old. SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle car, where...