Family, friends of Indonesia plane crash passengers await news
As flight recorders of crashed Indonesian plane located, families and friends of those on board say they continue to ‘hope’.
Families and friends of the passengers on Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182 which crashed into the Java Sea soon after takeoff on Saturday have spoken about the deadly incident, saying they still have hope despite the plane’s flight recorders, which record cockpit voice and flight data, being located.
Five members of Yudi Qurdani’s family were among the 62 people on board the plane – according to the flight’s manifest – which lost contact with air traffic control just four minutes after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta.
Johnson’s sycophancy over Trump has diminished Britain, says Nandy
Tory leadership abandoned British values in a ‘nauseating’ embrace of American populism, says shadow foreign secretary
Boris Johnson and other Tory cabinet ministers who spent years “queueing up to pour praise” on Donald Trump, despite his objectionable views have achieved nothing other than to diminish the UK’s reputation in the world, the shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said.
Calling for a new UK foreign policy with a “moral centre”, Nandy attacks key figures in the Conservative leadership for the way they lauded Trump as a means of advancing their own careers, forgetting that his attitudes amounted to a rejection of British values of tolerance, democracy and the promotion of minority rights.
The Dimming Light of DemocracyTrump's Army and the Attack on America
Trump supporters sought to reverse the result of a democratic election on Wednesday at the behest of the president himself. DER SPIEGEL has reconstructed the events of a day that will live in infamy.
By Max Hoppenstedt, Janne Knödler, Britta Kollenbroich, Roland Nelles, Ralf Neukirch, René Pfister, Maximilian Popp, Mathieu von Rohr, Alexandra Rojkov, Marcel Rosenbach, Alexander Sarovic und Christoph Scheuermann
Suddenly, there he stands. On the podium of the United States Senate, in the heart of American power. A bearded man with a fur hat and horns on his head, his bare torso a medley of chest hair and tattoos, a heavy metal chain dangling from his neck and his face striped with red, white and blue makeup. Like a harbinger of hell. He is holding an American flag in his hand and looking around. All of the Senators who had been there just minutes before have fled and the room is empty aside from the handful of other men who had breached the Senate floor along with him. "Where is Pence? Show yourself!" the intruders call out.
At least six DR Congo park rangers killed in attack
At least six rangers in DR Congo's Virunga national park, famous for its mountain gorillas, were killed Sunday in an attack officials blamed on a militia group.
The UNESCO World Heritage site is caught up in persistent unrest in the eastern North Kivu province, where a plethora of armed groups are battling for control of rich mineral deposits.
"Mai-Mai (militia) carried out an ambush at Nyamitwitwi. The provisional toll is six park rangers killed along with two Mai-Mai," local government delegate Alphonse Kambale told AFP,.
'The Safety Slam': The Australian Open's bid to reassure us all
By Scott Spits
When it came to convincing the world’s leading tennis players that they would need to spend weeks locked in compulsory hotel quarantine in Melbourne if the Australian Open was to get off the ground this year, Tennis Australia had one secret weapon.
Safety.
A tournament that for years has marketed itself as the Happy Slam would, in 2021, become the Safety Slam.
China keeps promising its African allies that coronavirus vaccines for the continent are a priority. But where are they?
Updated 1333 GMT (2133 HKT) January 10, 2021
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi concludes his tour of Africa this weekend without making a single concrete vaccine commitment to a continent hoping a benevolent Beijing will help inoculate its population out of the global coronavirus pandemic.
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