Section: US & Canada
AirAsia and the year’s Southeast Asian air tragedies
The AirAsia flight disappearance adds one more case to a year of tragedy and mystery for Southeast Asian airlines. More than 500 lives were lost in the March disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the July crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine. Jeff Pegues reports on a tragic timeline. …read more Source:...
Fyodor’s Guide
Tens of thousands of dragooned serfs perished while draining the swamps to lay the foundations of St. Petersburg, and residents like to remind visitors that their city, enchanting though it may be, “rests on bones.” Its charnel mansion has fed the imagination of some of Russia’s greatest writers, most notably Fyodor Dostoyevsky, whose works...
No sign yet of missing AirAsia jet with 162 on board
JAKARTA, Indonesia — An astonishingly tragic year for air travel in Southeast Asia turned worse Sunday when an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people disappeared over stormy Indonesian waters, with no word on its fate despite several hours of searching by air and sea. There was no distress signal from the twin-engine, single-aisle plane, said Djoko...
Search resumes for AirAsia jet
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — Officials say ships and planes are resuming their search for AirAsia Flight 8501 which went missing more than 24 hours ago on a flight from Indonesia to Singapore. The Naval Aviation Center commander at the Surabaya air force base says that 12 navy ships, five planes, three helicopters and a number of warships are...
Ukraine’s Parliament Approves Austerity Laws Needed For Draft Budget
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament backed on Sunday the final reading of laws that will simplify tax legislation and impose additional duties on imports, improving the chances a 2015 budget will be approved soon as required by the country’s Western backers. Voting was delayed as deputies debated the merits of the amendments,...
Merkel appeals to Russia over Ukraine
German leader Angela Merkel appealed to the Russian government to use its influence on separatists in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Visa, MasterCard pull bank-card support in Crimea
Visa and MasterCard, the world’s largest credit card companies, ended their support of Crimean banks following U.S.-imposed sanctions. …read more Source:...
Donetsk Separatist Official Warns Of Second Chornobyl
The deputy chairman of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People Republic warns that Ukraine faces a second disaster like Chornobyl due to the decision of Kyiv officials to switch nuclear fuel suppliers …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia’s Biggest Dissident Had A Scathing Critique Of The Russian State At His Trial
On the day in 1974 when Soviet secret police arrested him for treason, Alexander Solzhenitsyn published an essay (via the underground samizdat press) entitled “Live Not by Lies”. It ended with a commandment in capital letters: “DON’T LIE! DON’T PARTICIPATE IN LIES, DON’T SUPPORT A LIE!” The lie, wrote the author of...
What We Know About The Missing AirAsia Flight
NEW YORK (AP) — Rescue crews are searching Indonesian waters for AirAsia Indonesia Flight 8501, which disappeared Sunday with 162 passengers and crew onboard. The plane was flying from Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, and was about halfway to its destination, Singapore, when it vanished from radar. ___ Q: What could have happened...
