Section: Africa&ME
Iran is sending black boxes of downed plane to Ukraine
Iran is sending to Ukraine the black boxes of the Ukrainian passenger plane that its military shot down this month, said an aviation official.The Iranian authorities are also prepared for experts from …read more Source:: Al...
Black box of crashed Ukrainian airliner will be sent to Ukraine – report
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Donald Trump hires OJ Simpson’s lawyer to fight impeachment
London – The lawyer who got OJ Simpson off murder charges will defend Donald Trump at his impeachment trial, it was announced on Friday night. Alan Dershowitz will be joined in a new legal “Dream Team” by Ken Starr, the lawyer whose investigation of Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky led to the last presidential...
Unverified info of 6 jets on Iran’s borders at time of plane crash
On January 8, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran airport. …read more Source:: Khaleej...
Iran, Canada Discuss Handling of Ukraine Plane Disaster
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The foreign ministers of Iran and Canada in a meeting in Oman discussed consular, technical and legal cooperation among the countries whose citizens have been killed in a January 8 crash of a Ukrainian jetliner near Tehran. …read more Source:: Tasnim News...
Zarif Urges against Politicization of Flight 752 Tragedy
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has urged against any attempt at politicizing the recent tragedy involving unintentional shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane outside Tehran. “Politicization of this tragedy must be rejected. Focus on victims’ families,” Zarif tweeted on Friday after meeting with Canadian FM...
Senate Republicans Mull Speeding up Trump’s Impeachment Trial
Senate Republicans have discussed increasing the pace of US President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial by using the trial rules to decrease the number of days each side has to make opening arguments. Republicans are planning to give both Trump’s legal team and House managers 24 hours to present their case, similar to the 1999 trial of...
6 F-35 Jets Were Reportedly on Iran’s Borders at Time of Plane Crash: Russia
Acting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says there is unverified information that at least six American F-35 jets were “in the Iranian border area” at the time when Iran accidentally downed Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 last week. “This information has yet to be verified, but I’d like to underline the edginess that...
Khamenei expresses support for Guards
Iran’s supreme leader threw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards in a rare sermon yesterday after their belated admission that they had accidentally downed an airliner triggered days of protests on the streets.In his first Friday prayers sermon in eight years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also told worshippers chanting “Death to...
Canada to give $25,000 to 57 families of plane victims
Canada will give $25,000 to each of the families of the 57 victims of Flight PS752 that was shot down inadvertently by Iran, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced at a press conference Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. As he spoke, Canada’s Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif were in...
