Pre-flight checks found 'no issues' before S Korea air crash
A pre-flight inspection of a Jeju Air passenger plane hours before it crashed in South Korea, killing 179 people, found "no issues", the airline has said.
"Nothing abnormal was noted with the landing gear," the airline's CEO Kim Yi-bae told a news conference in Seoul, as investigations continue into why the wheels were not down when it performed an emergency landing.
The plane was travelling from Bangkok when it crash-landed at Muan International Airport on Sunday, bursting into flames and killing everyone onboard, save for two crew members, after skidding into a wall.
Israel’s hospital attacks have put Gaza healthcare on brink of collapse, says UN
Tue 31 Dec 2024 15.39 GMT
Israel’s pattern of sustained attacks on Gaza’s hospitals and medical workers has brought the coastal strip’s healthcare system to the brink of “total collapse”, according to a report by the UN’s human rights office.
The report, which catalogues the besieging and targeting of hospitals and their immediate grounds with explosive weapons, the killing of hundreds of medical workers, and the destruction of critical life-saving equipment, said that in certain circumstances the attacks could “amount to war crimes”. Israel has consistently denied committing war crimes in Gaza.
The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, said the report’s findings pointed to “blatant disregard for international humanitarian and human rights law”.
Trinidad and Tobago declares gang crime state of emergency
Trinidad and Tobago's government empowered its police to conduct searches and arrests without a warrant for 48 hours, citing the heightened danger of gang violence.
"The circumstances warranting the declaration of the public emergency are based on the advice of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service to the National Security Council of heightened criminal activity which endangers the public safety," Prime Minister Keith Rowley's office said in a statement issued on Monday.
Year of deadly weather: Climate change added 41 extra heat days and supercharged disasters
Scientists say 26 of 29 most severe disasters this year were intensified by climate crisis
The world suffered an extra 41 days of dangerous heat in 2024 which fueled catastrophic disasters that scientists say would have been virtually impossible without the climate crisis.
Scientists also say that 26 of the 29 most severe disasters this year were intensified by the climate crisis driven by the use of fossil fuels.
The disasters, which included hurricanes, floods, wildfires and droughts, mark a dangerous “new normal” driven by rising global temperatures, according to a new report published by World Weather Attribution, or WWA, and Climate Central late last week.
Improved way to gauge radiation doses developed for Fukushima
By KEITARO FUKUCHI/ Staff Writer
December 31, 2024 at 07:00 JST
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said it has developed a more accurate method to estimate radiation exposure doses among people who spend time around the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
The JAEA has adapted the method, based on daily life patterns, into program format and is offering it for free on a municipal government website and elsewhere.
When the central government designated evacuation zones following the 2011 triple meltdown at the plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., it estimated radiation doses among residents using a simple evaluation method that assumed they spent eight hours outdoors and 16 hours indoors a day.
Israel continues to block Gaza aid
- The United Nations has accused Israel of continuing to “systematically” hinder aid to Gaza as local authorities say a seventh forcibly displaced Palestinian has died of hypothermia amid plummeting temperatures.
- The US army says it carried out a number of strikes on Yemeni territory, hitting targets belonging to the Houthis, who have launched several attacks on US military ships and on Israeli territory in recent days.
- The family of Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the detained director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, has pleaded for his release as Palestinian authorities announce that five more detainees from Gaza have died in Israeli custody.
- Israeli forces have killed four Palestinians in an attack on besieged Jabalia in north Gaza after a day of bombings that killed at least 27 people across the Strip.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,541 Palestinians and wounded 108,338 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
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