Ethiopian Airlines crash: carriers ground Boeing 737 Max 8 jets
Airline joins China and Cayman Islands in suspending new jets after second tragedy in four months
Airline joins China and Cayman Islands in suspending new jets after second tragedy in four months
Ethiopian Airlines has joined carriers in China and the Cayman Islands in suspending the use of Boeing 737 Max 8 jets following a crash on Sunday that killed all 157 people onboard.
Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 302, on its way to Nairobi from Addis Ababa, crashed six minutes after takeoff, ploughing into a field near Tulu Fara village outside the town of Bishoftu, 40 miles south-east of the Ethiopian capital.
The cause of the crash has not yet been determined, but the disaster was the second involving the new aircraft in the last four months. In October, a Lion Air plane crashed into the sea off the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.
'They're not listening. They haven’t asked us’: What Texas border sheriffs think about the wall Trump is threatening the US Constitution to build
Exclusive: One sheriff says his deputies found the bodies of eight migrants who tried to cross into the United States last year. They didn't need a wall to stop them
In the 100 miles or so of border land separating the US and Mexico in Hudspeth County, Texas, sheriff Arvin West says maybe half of it could do with the border wall that Donald Trump has threatened the American constitution to build.
The desert county occupies an area in the western portion of the Lone Star State the size of Qatar, and is defined on the south by the winding Rio Grande that cuts in part through desert mountains and jagged cliffs surrounded by miles of desolation.
West knows that immigrants sometimes try to illegally cross through those treacherous areas – his deputies found eight or nine bodies just last year. Even so, he says that a border wall would have little impact. There’s a natural barrier that’s all but impassable.
‘Poetic protest’: How the photo of a ballet dancer became a symbol of Algeria's protests
A photo of a 17-year-old ballerina dancing at a demonstration in Algiers has become a symbol of protesters’ defiance of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s bid for a fifth term in power.
The photo went viral. A week before International Women's Rights Day, which saw several hundred thousand Algerian women demonstrating against President Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term in power, two women made their mark with a powerful image.
On Friday, March 1, 17-year-old Melissa Ziad performed a few classical dance steps in front of a large Algerian flag at a demonstration in the country’s capital city of Algiers. The steps, like her outfit – ballet shoes with jeans and leather jacket – caught people’s attention. Rania G., the 21-year-old photographer who was with her, caught her "retiré", a classical dance step, on camera. "It's my favourite dance step," Rania, the author of the photograph she called "Poetic protest", told FRANCE 24.
'We're going to eat each other': Venezuela's pain without power
By Anatoly Kurmanaev
Sporadic looting and spontaneous protests. Desperate patients begging doctors to be kept alive. Residents bracing for wider attacks on markets and restaurants after the sun goes down.
It was the fourth day on Sunday since Venezuela's power system went down, plunging most of the country, including Caracas, the capital, into sporadic darkness and dampening hopes of imminent resolution to a devastating blackout that has brought the country to the verge of social implosion.
"We're going to arrive at a moment when we're going to eat each other," said Zuly González, 40, a resident of Caracas' Chacao neighbourhood.
Kim Jong-nam: Indonesian woman freed in murder case
The Indonesian woman accused of killing Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader, has been freed after charges against her were dropped.
Siti Aisyah had been accused of smearing VX nerve agent on Mr Kim's face in Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017.
She and her co-accused, Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, deny murder and say they thought they were part of a TV prank.
The brazen killing at an international airport left observers stunned and gripped international headlines.
Japan marks 8 years since Tohoku disaster
Japan on Monday marked the eighth anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan that left more than 15,000 people dead and triggered a nuclear disaster.
As rain and strong winds hit coastal areas in the region, people attended memorial ceremonies and offered prayers for the victims of the magnitude 9.0 quake and ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011.
"I can still vividly recall the harrowing scene after all these years," said 63-year-old Seiichi Watanabe at a park on the hill that he fled to in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, after his home was washed away by the tsunami.
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