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LBCI
6 days ago
- Politics
- LBCI
Lebanon's Parliament votes to refer three former Telecommunications Ministers to investigative committee
Lebanon's Parliament voted with 88 votes in favor to refer former Telecommunications Ministers Boutros Harb, Nicolas Sehnaoui, and Jamal Jarrah to a parliamentary investigative committee.
Washington Post
18-07-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Iraq makes 'decisive findings' about drone attacks without identifying who targeted its bases
BAGHDAD — Drones used to attack military bases in Iraq during the recent Israel-Iran war were manufactured outside Iraq but were launched inside its territory, according to the 'decisive findings' of an investigation published on Friday. The report of an investigative committee formed under the directive of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani did not identify who was behind the attacks that targeted radar and air defense systems last month.
New York Times
14-06-2025
- General
- New York Times
Investigators Comb Wreckage for Clues to the Air India Crash
Indian authorities said they had found the flight data recorder of the Air India plane that crashed, killing hundreds of people, as teams at the site continued to sift through wreckage on Saturday. Data extracted from an aircraft's so-called black boxes is crucial in investigations of aviation accidents, and the flight data recorder can give insight into such details as timing, altitude and airspeed. 'This marks an important step forward,' said India's civil aviation minister, Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu. 'This will significantly aid the inquiry.' The aviation ministry, in a statement late Friday, said the government had formed a high-level investigative committee, which would focus on 'preventing and handling such occurrences in the future.' Flight AI171, bound for London's Gatwick Airport, crashed moments after takeoff from Ahmedabad, in India's western state of Gujarat. There was only one survivor from the 242 onboard, and dozens of people on the ground also were killed. In a sign of the alarm caused by the crash, India's aviation regulators, in an order Friday, directed Air India to carry out 'additional maintenance actions' on its Boeing fleet 'with immediate effect.' It could be months before a definitive explanation emerges, but videos of the accident and other evidence have begun to offer clues about what might have brought down the plane. Among the initial questions: whether the plane's wing flaps and slats were properly extended, and why the landing gear, which creates drag, remained down. Distraught relatives waited at Ahmedabad's main hospital to claim the bodies of their loved ones for funerals. By late Friday, fewer than a dozen bodies had been released, as medical staff ran DNA tests to determine identities. On its way down, the plane skidded into the buildings of a medical college near the airport, its tail striking a dining hall where dozens of medical students and junior doctors were having lunch. On Saturday, a crane was still trying to extract the tail of the aircraft from the badly damaged building, and rescuers pulled out another body from one of its rooms. Late Friday, the damaged area remained cordoned off after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited to survey the wreckage. Earth-moving machinery was clearing debris as students from the college came out carrying personal belongings like books and clothing that they had retrieved. Many said they had spent the night elsewhere, in hotels. While the death toll among the passengers was clear by the end of Thursday, the day the plane went down, exactly how many on the ground died in the impact and fire caused by the crash is still uncertain. The government has remained tight-lipped, but security officials at the site and medical doctors say as many as three dozen people were probably killed in addition to those onboard the plane. The official death toll stands at 269.
Yahoo
01-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Seven dead as two bridges in Russia collapse after explosions
Explosions caused two bridges to collapse and derailed two trains in western Russia overnight, officials said on Sunday, without saying what had caused the blasts. In one of the incidents, seven people were killed and dozens were injured. The first bridge, in the Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine, collapsed on top of a passenger train on Saturday, causing the casualties. Hours later, officials said a second train was derailed when the bridge beneath it collapsed in the nearby Kursk region, which also borders Ukraine. In that collapse, a freight train was thrown off its rails on to the road below as the explosion collapsed the bridge, acting governor Alexander Khinshtein said on Sunday. The crash sparked a fire, but there were no casualties, he said. Russia's investigative committee, the country's top criminal investigation agency, said in a statement that explosions had caused the two bridges to collapse, but did not give further details. Photos posted by government agencies from the scene in the Bryansk region appeared to show train carriages ripped apart and lying amid fallen concrete from the collapsed bridge. Other footage on social media were apparently taken from inside vehicles on the road, which had managed to avoid driving on to the bridge before it collapsed. In the past, some officials have accused pro-Ukrainian saboteurs of attacking Russia's railway infrastructure. The details surrounding such incidents, however, are limited and cannot be independently verified. In a statement on Sunday, Ukraine's military intelligence, known by the Ukrainian abbreviation GUR, said a Russian military freight train carrying food and fuel had been blown up on its way to Crimea. It did not claim the attack was carried out by GUR or mention the bridge collapses. The statement said Moscow's key 'artery' with the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region and Crimea has been destroyed. Russian forces have been pushing into the region of Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine since Moscow's invasion in February 2022. They took Crimea and annexed it in 2014.
BreakingNews.ie
01-06-2025
- General
- BreakingNews.ie
Seven dead as two bridges in Russia collapse after explosions
Explosions caused two bridges to collapse and derailed two trains in western Russia overnight, officials said on Sunday, without saying what had caused the blasts. In one of the incidents, seven people were killed and dozens were injured. Advertisement The first bridge, in the Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine, collapsed on top of a passenger train on Saturday, causing the casualties. Hours later, officials said a second train was derailed when the bridge beneath it collapsed in the nearby Kursk region, which also borders Ukraine. Rescue workers at a damaged bridge in Russia's Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine (Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office telegram channel/AP) In that collapse, a freight train was thrown off its rails on to the road below as the explosion collapsed the bridge, acting governor Alexander Khinshtein said on Sunday. The crash sparked a fire, but there were no casualties, he said. Advertisement Russia's investigative committee, the country's top criminal investigation agency, said in a statement that explosions had caused the two bridges to collapse, but did not give further details. Photos posted by government agencies from the scene in the Bryansk region appeared to show train carriages ripped apart and lying amid fallen concrete from the collapsed bridge. Other footage on social media were apparently taken from inside vehicles on the road, which had managed to avoid driving on to the bridge before it collapsed. Seven people were killed when the bridge collapsed (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service telegram channel/AP) In the past, some officials have accused pro-Ukrainian saboteurs of attacking Russia's railway infrastructure. Advertisement The details surrounding such incidents, however, are limited and cannot be independently verified. In a statement on Sunday, Ukraine's military intelligence, known by the Ukrainian abbreviation GUR, said a Russian military freight train carrying food and fuel had been blown up on its way to Crimea. It did not claim the attack was carried out by GUR or mention the bridge collapses. The statement said Moscow's key 'artery' with the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region and Crimea has been destroyed. Advertisement Russian forces have been pushing into the region of Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine since Moscow's invasion in February 2022. They took Crimea and annexed it in 2014.
