Flight to Turkey makes emergency landing due to fight
A plane headed to a holiday hotspot in Turkey had to make an emergency landing after a British man allegedly punched a another passenger.
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Power outage hits Cannes Film Festival
The south of France is practically plunged into darkness: 160,000 homes were left without power
Hong Kong-London flight makes emergency landing in Baku
The Airbus A350 Cathay Pacific flight heading from Hong Kong to London had to put the brakes on and make an emergency landing at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku, the airport's press service reported. The decision was …
Cuba extends shutdowns after blackouts and hurricane
Authorities in Cuba decided to extend shutdowns of workplaces and schools through Sunday after the country’s electrical grid collapsed four times last week due to the failure of the country’s largest power plant. The …
Five Russian climbers die in Nepal
Five Russian mountaineers who appeared to have slipped and fallen on the world’s seventh-highest peak have died, an expedition organizer in Nepal said. The Russians were climbing 8,167-meters high Mount Dhaulagiri during …
Greece tourist port flooded with dead fish
Greek authorities have started collecting hundreds of thousands of dead fish that poured into a tourist port in the city of Volos this week after being …
Greece tackles last of wildfire near Athens, assesses damage
Greek firefighters battled to extinguish the remnants of a wildfire near Athens that killed a woman, torched buildings, devoured woodland and forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Most of the fronts had eased three days after …
Tourists from Kazakhstan cause forest fire on Greek island - report
Greek authorities arrested 13 yacht crew members and passengers yesterday after fireworks launched from the vessel allegedly sparked a forest fire on the Greek island of Hydra. Firefighters got the blaze, which burned part of the …
Trains collide in Czech Republic, people killed
A passenger train collided head-on with a freight train in the Czech Republic, killing at least four people and injuring 27 others, officials said …
Slovak PM Fico’s life out of danger - deputy PM
The life of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has survived an assassination attempt, is out of danger, Slovak Deputy Prime Minister Tomas Taraba said. According to him, the surgery was successful. Fico's condition is …
Erdogan's motorcade gets into fatal accident
A presidential motorcade and a police jeep collided in Türkiye
Mona Lisa splattered in soup: another protest at Louvre museum
Protesters hurled soup at the “Mona Lisa” painting in Paris on January 28, but it was protected from damage by its glass casing. The environmental group Riposte Alimentaire (“Food Response”) said two protesters …
Driver crashes into White House exterior gate
A driver was taken into custody Monday night after crashing into a White House exterior gate, according to a U.S. Secret Service spokesman. …
Former chancellor's grave desecrated in Germany
The grave of German ex-chancellor Helmut Schmidt has been desecrated in the Hamburg cemetery where he lies buried, police said. …
Six-story apartment partially collapses in New York
A six-story corner of a Bronx apartment building collapsed in New York, leaving apartments exposed like a stack of shelves. Firefighters said they had searched the 12-foot-tall pile of debris left by the collapse of a …
U.S. Air Force terminates Minuteman III ICBM
The U.S. military terminated a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile due to an anomaly discovered during a test launch from the Vandenberg Air Base in California, the Air Force Global Strike Command said in a statement. …
Nearly 160 vehicles crash in Louisiana
At least seven people were killed this week in a slew of crashes along Interstate 55 in Louisiana that involved at least 158 vehicles, state police say. More than 25 people were taken to hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to …
Tanker collision disrupts traffic at Suez Canal
Two tankers carrying oil products and liquefied natural gas collided in the Suez Canal, disrupting traffic through the global waterway, Egyptian …
Bus crash in Mexico leaves 18 passengers dead
At least 18 people died in western Mexico when a passenger bus plunged off a highway into a ravine on August 3, state officials said, adding the passengers …
Soldier in Congo kills 13 after son’s burial takes place without him
A soldier in Congo opened fire on family members and others who had buried his son before he could arrive home to attend the ceremony, killing 13 people, including 10 children, officials said. The attack late on Saturday left the …
