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ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT -Egypt’s interior ministry released footage on Tuesday (March 29) of a man they described as the hijacker of an Egypt air plane, passing through airport security before boarding the flight. The footage was posted on the interior ministry’s social media accounts. It shows a screen showing people by a luggage x-ray machine before a person circled in red passes through. He appears to place his bag on the machine and pass through an […]
(Reuters) — Former Canadian Cabinet minister Jean Lapierre died on Tuesday (March 29) in a plane crash that also killed his wife and three of his siblings on the way to his father’s funeral in eastern Quebec. The TVA network, for which Lapierre worked as a political commentator, said all seven people on board Lapierre’s twin-engined chartered aircraft were killed when it crashed in bad weather as it was coming in to land on […]
The hijacking of an EgyptAir plane to Cyprus on Tuesday is not related to terrorism, the island’s President Nicos Anastasiades said. “The hijacking is not terrorism-related,” he told a joint news conference with the visiting president of the European Parliament Martin Schultz. Anastasiades said the Cyprus government had done everything it could to ensure the safe release of the passengers, most of whom were reported to have been set free. AFP
CYPRUS, Egypt (AFP) — Unidentified hijackers seized an Egyptian airliner on Tuesday and diverted it to Cyprus, where it landed at Larnaca airport on the south coast, Cypriot police said. The hijackers contacted the control tower at 8:30 am (0530 GMT) and the plane was given permission to land at 8:50 am, the police said. The hijackers made no immediate demands and a crisis team has been deployed to the airport. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
(Reuters) A man thought to be strapped with explosives hijacked an Egyptian plane on a flight between Alexandria and Cairo on Tuesday and forced it to land in Cyprus, Egyptian officials said. After the EgyptAir plane landed at Larnaca airport, the hijacker released all the people onboard except four foreign passengers and the crew, EgyptAir said. About 60 people, including seven crew, had been onboard, Egyptian and Cypriot officials said. Cyprus broadcasting (CYBC) reported that […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — The Taiwanese coastguard said Monday it had arrested 41 Chinese fisherman in possession of 15 tonnes of illicit coral reef and endangered turtles near a disputed atoll in the South China Sea. Taiwanese authorities detained the fishermen on March 22 after their 300-tonne vessel was discovered operating illegally off the shore of Tongsha island, the coastguard said, in the island’s largest mission targeting rampant poaching in the contested waters. Officials later […]
Washington, United States (AFP)—United States President Barack Obama will this week meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit, with North Korea on the agenda, the White House said recently. The trilateral meeting on Thursday in Washington comes the same day that Obama is scheduled to meet one-on-one with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “This meeting will be an opportunity for the three leaders […]
MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections opened to the public the profiles of the national candidates by uploading said information in the COMELEC’s official website. Said act aims to inform the public regarding the candidates, especially their platforms. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/mi2cLOO7yK4
BRUSSELS, Belgium – After the attack on the Brussels airport, temporary check-in desks were installed although there are still no reports on when said airport will resume its operation. Most flights were re-routed to other regional airports in Belgium. According to authorities, the death toll is now at 30, with 300 injured. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
DHAKA, Bangladesh – The new governor of the Central Bank of Bangladesh sent a formal letter to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas as well as the Anti-Money Laundering Council to ask for assistance in recovering the stolen $81 million in what was touted as the biggest money-laundering scandal in financial history. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
(Courtesy Reuters/CCTV) — A suicide blast killed at least 70 people and injured more than 300 others in a public park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday evening. A large number of the victims were women and children, as many mothers had taken their children to the park to celebrate Easter. After the explosion, pools of blood could be seen at the blast site and people, mostly women and children, were rushing […]
PALMYRA, Syria (AFP) — Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State out of Palmyra on Sunday (March 27), inflicting what the army called a mortal blow to militants who seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples. The loss of Palmyra represents one of the biggest setbacks for the ultra-hardline Islamist group since it declared a caliphate in 2014 across large parts of Syria and Iraq. The army […]
