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France grieves for sportsmen and other citizens lost in Argentina air crash
Two helicopters carrying French sports stars filming a popular European reality show crashed in a remote part of Argentina, killing 10 people, including two Olympic medal winners and a sailing champion, authorities said. The helicopters apparently collided in midair Monday near Villa Castelli in La Rioja province, about 730 miles (1,170...
British Foreign Minister Warns of Threat From Russia
Russian actions in Ukraine are undermining the security of nations in Eastern Europe, British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond is to warn in a speech today. …read more Source:...
64 Soldiers Killed Since February 15 Ceasefire: Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko
A total of 64 soldiers have been killed in eastern Ukraine since a ceasefire deal between Kiev and pro-Russian rebels went into effect on February 15, President Petro Poroshenko said Monday. …read more Source:...
Vladimir Putin says plan to take Crimea hatched before referendum
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he ordered officials to start work on taking control of Crimea weeks before a referendum which, the Kremlin has asserted until now, prompted the region’s annexation from Ukraine. Russian state television channel Rossiya-1 aired a brief extract of an interview in which Putin said he had called an...
German foreign minister sees reduction of violence in east Ukraine
Violence in eastern Ukraine has reduced significantly since a ceasefire deal was agreed in Minsk, Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Monday during a visit to Romania. “A clear beginning was made,” he said, according to a Romanian interpreter. “There’s a significant reduction of violence after...
Few accidents, More deaths: 2014 saw lesser but more deadly air accidents tell IATA reports
The number of deaths in jetliner disasters spiked last year despite there being fewer accidents in total, an international airline industry group said Monday. The International Air Transport Association said in its annual safety report that 641 people died in airline accidents in 2014. Its figures don’t include the 298 people killed when...
Deaths increase, but air travel in general becomes more ‘safe’: IATA report
The number of deaths in jetliner disasters spiked last year despite there being fewer accidents in total, an international airline industry group said Monday. The International Air Transport Association said in its annual safety report that 641 people died in airline accidents in 2014. Its figures don’t include the 298 people killed when...
Nemtsov friend says Islamist motive for Moscow killing is nonsensical
A colleague of Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition figure shot dead near Moscow’s Red Square, said suggestions he was killed by Islamists were nonsensical and useful for the Kremlin because they deflected accusations that officials were involved. Speculation about an Islamist link strengthened after investigators charged a man from the...
Air accidents 2014: Fewer accidents, death toll increase credited to Malaysian disasters
The number of deaths in jetliner disasters spiked last year despite there being fewer accidents in total, an international airline industry group said Monday. The International Air Transport Association said in its annual safety report that 641 people died in airline accidents in 2014. Its figures don’t include the 298 people killed when...
Air travel ‘safer’ in 2014 despite Malaysian disasters: Air Transport Association
Last year was by some measures the safest in the history of commercial aviation, despite two high-profile crashes involving Malaysia Airlines aircraft in which hundreds of people were killed, a leading industry body said on Monday. While more people died in air accidents in 2014 than the average in recent years, the number of fatal accidents...
