ADDIS ABABA: The crew of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last month killing 157 people, repeatedly followed procedures recommended by Boeing, but were unable to regain control of the jet, according the investigators’ report released yesterday. The initial report, unveiled by Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges, cast further doubt
WASHINGTON: A teenager told police that he escaped from captivity on Wednesday and identified himself as a boy who has been missing for seven years, US media reported. The 14-year-old gave his name as Timmothy Pitzen and said he had been held by two men with bodybuilder physiques at a
MONTREAL: A Quebec couple won Can$1 million in the lottery after finding a winning ticket that had been forgotten in a book for months, the province’s Loto-Quebec organization said Wednesday. Nicole Pedneault and Roger Larocque only realized last weekend that they had a winning ticket from an April 5, 2018
SYDNEY: Social media executives risk jail for failing to take down violent extremist content quickly, under controversial laws passed in Australia yesterday – a “world first” in the wake of the Christchurch mosques massacre. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favour of the laws, which hold firms like Facebook and YouTube –
PARIS: Football legend Pele told Kylian Mbappe on Tuesday that he believes the French World Cup winner can emulate his own achievement of scoring 1,000 career goals. The 78-year-old Brazilian claims to have netted over 1,000 goals in his career, while Mbappe has so far managed 103 in total, with
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP on Tuesday appealed against results in Istanbul and Ankara following a weekend election after tallies showed the ruling party lost both key cities. Erdogan’s AKP and coalition partner won more than 50 percent of votes nationwide in Sunday’s local ballot, but defeat in
OTTAWA: Canada is doing too little to combat climate change, a parliamentary report warned Tuesday, a day after government scientists warned the country was warming at twice the global rate. The rebuke came as Canada’s independent environment auditor released a new report on government efforts to end fossil fuel subsidies,
SEOUL: South Korea will launch the world’s first fully-fledged 5G mobile networks on Friday, a transformational leap that already has superpowers sparring for control of an innovation that could potentially change the day-to-day lives of billions of people. The superfast communications heralded by fifth-generation wireless technology will ultimately underpin everything
MANCHESTER: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he has been assured by star midfielder Paul Pogba that the Frenchman does not want to leave Manchester United despite mounting speculation over a switch to Real Madrid. United midfielder Pogba last week described Madrid, managed by France great Zinedine Zidane, as a “dream club
MEXICO CITY: The government of Mexico, Latin America’s second largest economy, has cut its growth forecast for this year and 2020, but also projected a fall in inflation. For 2019, the finance ministry estimated growth would be between 1.1 and 2.1 percent compared to its previous forecast of 1.5 and
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