Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Missing AirAsia Plane Likely ‘At The Bottom Of The Sea’
TRISNADI MARJAN & MARGIE MASON, Associated Press SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — The search for a missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people that disappeared more than 24 hours ago on a flight from Indonesia to Singapore expanded Monday with planes and ships from several countries taking part. First Admiral Sigit Setiayana, the Naval Aviation Center...
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...
Ukraine’s Zaporozhiya Nuclear Plant Takes Unit Offline
MOSCOW (AP) — One unit of Ukraine’s Zaporozhiya nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, has been taken offline because of generator problems. State nuclear power company Energoatom says the unit was disconnected from the electricity net early Sunday to prevent internal damage to the generator. It did not give further details, but said...
AirAsia Flight From Indonesia To Singapore Loses Contact With Air Traffic Control
An AirAsia flight traveling from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore lost contact with air traffic control early Sunday morning, the airline confirmed. Flight QZ 8501 — an Airbus 320-200 — lost communication with Indonesia’s Surabaya Juanda International Airport at 7:24 Singapore time on Sunday morning, the airline said. The plane...
Vatican Frees Ukrainian Femen Activist Who Bared Breasts In St. Peter’s Square On Christmas
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Holy See has released a Ukrainian activist who bared her breasts in St. Peter’s Square on Christmas Day and snatched the statue of Baby Jesus from the Vatican’s outdoor Nativity scene. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the Holy See prosecutor, met with Yana Zhdanova on Saturday and decided to...
This Week In Pictures: Faith In Practice Around The World, December 21 – 27
Humans express their faith in a multitude of ways. These photos capture the diversity within faith practices that happen in our world in the span of just one week.New Delhi, India: December 24 Indian Christians light candles at a Sacred Heart Cathedral on the eve of Christmas in New Delhi. Christmas is a national holiday in India, marked by...
Lubyanka Runs the New Russia, Much like the Old Soviet Union
MOSCOW–Red Square is one of the world’s most iconic locales. Dominated by the Kremlin, St. Basil’s Cathedral, and, GUM Department Store, the space looks little different than during Soviet times. While Lenin’s mausoleum remains, any hint of menace is gone. Indeed, even during the worst of the U.S.S.R. the square was more...
Russia’s Economy Headed For Even More Trouble
By Darya Korsunskaya and Vladimir Abramov MOSCOW, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Slumping oil prices have put Russia’s economy on course for a sharp recession and double-digit inflation next year, government ministers said on Friday, as authorities scaled up a bailout for the first bank to succumb to this month’s rouble crisis. The economy...
Change Marches on in Tunisia and Egypt Despite Obstacles
Two events this week underscore the correction taking place in the march for change in the Arab region known as the Arab Spring, which began nearly four years ago. Tunisia, the first stop in that march, has returned to secularism — in the sense of separating religion from the state — after the Muslim Brotherhood attempted to abolish...
Putin Signs New Russian Military Doctrine
MOSCOW, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new military doctrine, naming NATO expansion among key external risks, the Kremlin said on Friday, days after Ukraine made fresh steps to join the Atlantic military alliance. Moscow’s previous military doctrine, signed by Putin in 2010, also identified NATO...
