Boeing suspends production of 737 Max model involved in fatal crashes
US air watchdog said last week it would not approve plane’s return to service before 2020
Boeing is temporarily halting production of its grounded 737 Max after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said last week it would not approve the plane’s return to service before 2020.
The decision came after the US planemaker’s board held a regular two-day meeting in Chicago, which started on Sunday.
“Safely returning the 737 Max to service is our top priority,” Boeing said in a statement. “We know that the process of approving the 737 Max’s return to service, and of determining appropriate training requirements, must be extraordinarily thorough and robust, to ensure that our regulators, customers, and the flying public have confidence in the 737 Max updates.”
Tech giants including Tesla and Apple sued after Congolese children die in cobalt mines
‘These companies – the richest companies in the world, these fancy gadget-making companies – have allowed children to be maimed and killed to get their cheap cobalt,’ lawyer allegesAnnie Kelly
Comment: ‘I saw the unbearable grief inflicted on families by cobalt mining. I pray for change’
- A landmark legal case has been launched against the world’s largest tech companies by Congolese families who say their children were killed or maimed while mining for cobalt used to power smartphones, laptops and electric cars, the Guardian can reveal.Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla have been named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in Washington DC by human rights firm International Rights Advocates on behalf of 14 parents and children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The lawsuit accuses the companies of aiding and abetting in the death and serious injury of children who they claim were working in cobalt mines in their supply chain.
New Delhi students rally against ‘highly discriminative’ citizenship law
FRANCE 24 reports from a New Delhi protest against India’s controversial citizenship law, which has sparked mass demonstrations nationwide.
Late Monday night, a protest at New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University was met with a violent raid by Delhi police. As images of police brutality against protestors circulated on social media and Indian television, fresh protests broke out across the country. FRANCE 24’s Mandakini Gahlot attended one of them, at India Gate in the heart of New Delhi.
“People are being divided along religious lines and that’s highly discriminative,” said one protester.
Opposition leader Priyanka Gandhi of the Congress party staged a symbolic sit-in at India Gate earlier in the evening, throwing her party’s weight behind student protesters.
“People are being divided along religious lines and that’s highly discriminative,” said one protester.
Opposition leader Priyanka Gandhi of the Congress party staged a symbolic sit-in at India Gate earlier in the evening, throwing her party’s weight behind student protesters.
UN refugee compact receives a mixed scorecard a year on
On December 17, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Global Compact on Refugees. Has the protection of refugees around the world improved since then?
Every day, hundreds of Venezuelans begin a gruelling journey to what they hope is a better life. It takes five full days to get from the Colombian border city of Cucuta to the capital, Bogota, including a rise in altitude from 320 to 2,640 meters above sea-level. And every day, people die. Children, especially, succumb to exhaustion, or to the cold, or to the high-altitude air.
Since Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro won a power struggle with self-declared President Juan Guaido at the beginning of 2019, the world has heard less about the plight of Venezuela's refugees. But the flow of displaced people has anything but diminished. Since the crisis began, 4.8 million of them have fled the country, with 3.9 million ending up elsewhere in the region, especially in neighboring Colombia.
Lebanon delays nomination of new PM amid protests, divisions
President postpones talks which were expected to result in Saad Hariri being named as next prime minister.by Timour Azhari
The nomination of Lebanon's next prime minister has been postponed after major Christian parties said they would not support the candidacy of caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri, presenting a new impasse after weeks of political wrangling.
Hariri resigned on October 29 amid widespread protests against Lebanon's ruling elite, but had seemed set to return on Monday after all other candidates failed to secure enough support from the country's Sunni Muslim establishment.
Citizen Amendment Bill protests: The protesters standing up to police
The video is shocking: a group of unarmed young women trying to defend their friend from a group of Indian police officers in riot gear wielding bamboo poles.
Just moments earlier, the officers had dragged the man out of a house, repeatedly lifting their sticks high above their heads before bringing them down with as much force as possible.
And yet the young women seemed unafraid as they formed a human shield against the onslaught.
"We just wanted to protect our friend," Ladeeda Farzana told the BBC.
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