Air Transat pilots are arrested on suspicion of being too drunk to fly
Two pilots were arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol as they prepared to fly a transatlantic passenger jet from Scotland to Canada.Staff on board the plane raised concerns over the pilots' behaviour before the Air Transat A310, carrying up to 250 passengers on board, was due to depart from Glasgow to Toronto yesterday afternoon.Officers arrested the men, aged 37 and 39, on suspicion of being 'impaired through alcohol' before they were due to take off at 1pm.Passengers on..>> view originalISIS claims responsibility for ax and knife attack on German train that injured 5
BERLIN – The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a train in Germany that injured at least five people. The claim was posted on the group's Aamaq news agency on Tuesday. It came hours after a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker attacked passengers with an ax and knife on a train near Wuerzburg-Heidingsfeld on Monday night, before he was shot and killed by a special police unit which happened to be nearby. The statement says the attacker was "a member of the Islamic Stat..>> view originalPolice Say They Have Killed Indonesia's Most-Wanted Terrorist
Indonesia’s most-wanted terrorist, Santoso, has been shot dead in the jungle of Central Sulawesi province, Indonesian police chief Tito Karnavian has said. Santoso, who led the East Indonesia Mujahidin (MIT) and had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), died in a gunfight Monday in the remote jungle in Poso, along with another MIT member, local media reported. “For now, it’s a 90% chance that he was Santoso,” Tito, who headed the country’s counterterrorism agency, said on Tuesday. T..>> view originalChina: Disregard the South China Sea ruling. The Philippines: No.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay gestures during an interview in Manila. (AFP/Getty Images) BEIJING — Not a week after the Permanent Court of Arbitration issued a sweeping rebuke of China's maritime claims, irking Beijing and boosting Manila, the foreign ministers of China and the Philippines met on the sidelines of a Europe-Asia summit. You can guess what they talked about. On Tuesday, the Filipino foreign minister, Perfecto Yasay, went public with an account of their conversatio..>> view originalBus With Chinese Tourists Catches Fire in Taiwan, Killing 26
Photo The bus that caught fire outside Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, on Tuesday. Credit Taoyuan Fire Department, via European Pressphoto Agency TAIPEI, Taiwan — A tour bus carrying visitors from China burst into flames on a highway near Taiwan's capital on Tuesday, killing all 26 people on board, officials said, in the deadliest incident involving Chinese tourism to the island.The accident took place on the No. 2 national highway in Taoyuan county, south of Taipei, wh..>> view originalSNP calls for Trident to be removed from Clyde
Image copyright PA Image caption The UK's four nuclear-armed submarines are based at Faslane on the Clyde The SNP has called for Trident missiles to be removed from Scotland after MPs voted to renew the nuclear weapons system by 472 votes to 117.The Trident fleet is based at Faslane on the Clyde, but all Scottish MPs voted against renewal, apart from Scottish Secretary David Mundell.The SNP said Scotland's decision against renewal should be respected...>> view originalNorth Korea fires three ballistic missiles in new show of force
SEOUL North Korea fired three ballistic missiles on Tuesday which flew between 500 and 600 km (300-360 miles) into the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said, the latest in a series of provocative moves by the isolated country.The U.S. military said it detected launches of what it believed were two Scud missiles and one Rodong, a home-grown missile based on Soviet-era Scud technology.North Korea has fired both types numerous times in recent years, an indication that unlike recent ..>> view originalAP Exclusive: Document shows less limits on Iran nuke work
VIENNA — Key restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program imposed under an internationally negotiated deal will start to ease years before the 15-year accord expires, advancing Tehran’s ability to build a bomb even before the end of the pact, according to a document obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The confidential document is the only text linked to last year’s deal between Iran and six foreign powers that hasn’t been made public, although U.S. officials say members of Congress who expressed..>> view originalTurkey crisis: Cleric Gulen condemns post-coup 'witch-hunt'
Media captionExiled cleric Fethullah Gulen condemned the coup attempt as treason Rural Pennsylvania is not the sort of place you would think to look for someone accused of throwing the Middle East into further turmoil.But this is where you find the alleged mastermind of Turkey's failed coup, the Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.And he has broken his customary seclusion to give rare interviews defending himself against the accusations levelled by his nemesis, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.Who..>> view original
Friday, July 22, 2016
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