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Former US president Jimmy Carter dies at 100
Date: 2024-12-29 22:28:06 GMT - USA - World - SN:61 - ID:11009388
WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (MENA) - Former US president Jimmy Carter has died at age 100. Carter served as the 39th president of the United States and 76th governor of Georgia and won a Nobel Prize for his work as a global humanitarian dedicated to ....
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US magazine casts doubts over South Korea plane crash
Date: 2024-12-29 21:48:24 GMT - USA - World - SN:59 - ID:11009360
NEW YORK, Dec 29 (MENA) - Experts have raised doubts that a bird strike alone could have caused the fatal plane crash that happened in South Korea on Sunday, the US Newsweek magazine reached out to the South Korean embassy in Washington, D.C., via ....
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Biden offers assistance to South Korea following tragic plane crash
Date: 2024-12-29 20:50:24 GMT - USA - World - SN:56 - ID:11009356
WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (MENA) – US President Joe Biden expressed his country’s readiness to provide any necessary assistance to South Korea following a tragic plane crash, as reported by Alhurra News. The aircraft, operated by South Korea’s Jeju Air, ....
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Russia not satisfied with Trump team’s proposals on Ukraine — Lavrov
Date: 2024-12-29 17:04:50 GMT - Russia - World - SN:39 - ID:11009184
MOSCOW, Dec 29 (MENA) - Russia is not satisfied with the proposals of US President-elect Donald Trump's team to postpone Ukraine's membership in NATO for 20 years and to deploy a contingent of EU and UK peacekeepers there, Russian Foreign Minister ....
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South Korea secures flight data, voice recorders from crashed passenger jet
Date: 2024-12-29 10:33:45 GMT - south korea - World - SN:18 - ID:11008534
SEOUL, Dec 29 (MENA) - South Korea's transport ministry said on Sunday that its investigation unit secured the cockpit voice recorder from a crashed passenger jet that has killed at least 167 people onboard, according to The BBC. An official ....
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Jeju Air CEO apologizes for plane crash
Date: 2024-12-29 07:30:49 GMT - south korea - World - SN:8 - ID:11008343
SEOUL, Dec 29 (MENA) - The Chief Executive Officer of Jeju Air , Kim E-bae, has issued official apology through the company website after the Muan crash. “First, we bow our heads in apology to everyone who has trusted Jeju Air. At approximately ....
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Plane carrying 181 people crashes in South Korea, more than 120 dead
Date: 2024-12-29 07:17:10 GMT - south korea - World - SN:6 - ID:11008325
SEOUL, Dec 29 (MENA) - At least 120 people were killed when an airliner landed without wheels, veering off the runway and erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at South Korea's Muan International Airport on Sunday, the national fire ....
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2024 ‘one of the worst years in history for children in conflict’, UN says
Date: 2024-12-28 15:53:04 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:34 - ID:11007960
NEW YORK, Dec 28 (MENA) – The impact of armed conflicts on children around the world reached devastating and likely record levels in 2024, according to an assessment by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The study finds that the rights of a ....
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EU urges 'swift, independent' probe into Azerbaijan Airlines crash
Date: 2024-12-28 15:51:33 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:33 - ID:11007999
BRUSSELS, Dec 28 (MENA) - A European Union's top diplomat on Saturday called for a "swift, independent" probe into the Azerbaijan Airlines crash, Barron's reported2. The jet came down near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday, killing 38 of the ....
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8 people killed in collision between bus, truck on Mexico's Gulf coast
Date: 2024-12-28 08:39:42 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:7 - ID:11007479
MEXICO CITY, Dec 28 (MENA) - A collision between a bus and a truck on Mexico’s Gulf coast Friday left eight people dead and 27 others injured, ABC News said. Prosecutors in Veracruz state said the accident happened before dawn on a stretch of ....
