NAIROBI – Five people are in custody following the al-Shabab attack in eastern Kenya on Thursday which left almost 150 people dead, officials say. Some of the suspects were arrested while trying to flee to neighbouring Somalia, the internal security ministry said. At least 148 people – mostly students – were killed when gunmen attacked…
RIYADH – Saudi Arabia has evacuated dozens of its own and foreign diplomats from Yemen’s southern city of Aden. The move comes after a third night of airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition failed to halt the advance of Houthi rebels towards the city. Yemen President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi fled from Aden to Saudi Arabia on…
PARIS – One of the two pilots of the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps was locked out of the cockpit, according to reports. Early findings from the cockpit voice recorder suggest the pilot made desperate efforts to get back in, sources close to the investigation say. The Airbus 320 from Barcelona to…
PARIS – The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday appeared to want to “destroy the plane”, French officials said. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, citing information from the “black box” voice recorder, said the co-pilot was alone in the cockpit. He intentionally started a descent while the pilot was…
PARIS – Audio from the mangled voice recorder of Germanwings Flight 9525 reveals the captain was locked out of the cockpit while the co-pilot appeared to make a deliberate attempt to destroy the plane, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said Thursday. The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight “activated the descent” of the plane when he…
PARIS – A search and recovery operation has resumed in the southern French Alps after Tuesday’s crash of a Germanwings plane with 150 people on board. Officials warn the operation could last for days in a remote mountain ravine between Digne and Barcelonnette. The leaders of Germany, France and Spain are due to visit the…
BERLIN – A Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner has crashed in the French Alps between Digne and Barcelonnette, aviation officials and police have said. The plane, flight 4U 9525, had been en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf with 144 passengers and six crew. No one is expected to have survived. The plane crashed after an eight-minute…
JERUSALEM – Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has said he hopes to form a new governing coalition within two or three weeks after securing a surprise win in elections. His Likud party comfortably beat the centre-left Zionist Union, despite exit polls forecasting a dead heat. Mr Netanyahu has not yet been asked to form a government, but…
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party has won a surprise victory in Israel’s election. Exit polls had forecast a dead heat but with almost all votes counted, results give Likud a clear lead over its main rival, the centre-left Zionist Union. The outcome gives Mr Netanyahu a strong chance of forming a…
WASHINGTON – Ten US aid workers who were possibly exposed to Ebola are being evacuated back to America from Sierra Leone. On Friday it was announced that a US aid worker back from Sierra Leone had tested positive and was being treated in hospital near Washington DC. The evacuees may have been in contact with…
