ADDIS ABABA/PARIS (Reuters) - Investigators hunting for the cause of the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that killed all 157 people on board have begun studying the cockpit voice recorder, France’s BEA air accident investigation agency said on Saturday. A member of a rescue team stands at the secured wreckage of the Ethiopian Airlines…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionTrump issues first veto of his presidency President Donald Trump has vetoed a measure from Congress revoking his declaration of a national emergency at the US-Mexico border.Lawmakers, including 12 Republicans, had passed the rejection resolution on Thursday in a surprising rebuke of Mr Trump's pledge to build…
Enlarge / If approved, Purdue's new drug would compete with opioid overdose antidote, naloxone. Notorious OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma—which has been widely criticized for deceptively marketing its highly addictive painkiller and for its role in spurring the current nationwide epidemic of opioid abuse and overdose deaths—is moving ahead with a new, potent drug, one said to…
SAN FRANCISCO(Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke belonged to one of the best-known groups of computer hackers as a teenager, Reuters revealed today. In an exclusive interview with this reporter for a forthcoming book about the group, the former U.S. congressman from Texas confirmed that as a youth in El Paso, he belonged to…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJacinda Ardern: "This can only be described as a terrorist attack" Forty-nine people have been killed and at least 20 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the gunman, who had Australian citizenship, as an "extremist, right-wing" terrorist.Four people…
Enlarge / The dog is thought to have caught the plague from a dead prairie dog. At least 116 people and 46 animals in Colorado were potentially exposed to the black plague after veterinarians struggled to diagnose a critically ill dog back in 2017. The unusual case prompted health experts to issue an equally unusual—and…
PARIS/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Investigators in France will begin analyzing the crashed Ethiopian Airlines jet’s black boxes on Friday, seeking clues into a disaster that has angered scores of mourning families and grounded Boeing’s global 737 MAX fleet. Sunday’s crash after take-off from Addis Ababa killed 157 people from 35 nations in the second such…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionHow MPs rejected a no-deal Brexit MPs will vote later on whether to ask the EU for permission to delay Brexit beyond the 29 March departure date.It comes after MPs voted on Wednesday evening to reject a no-deal Brexit under any circumstances.Prime Minister Theresa May will also…
Enlarge / A Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed in October 2018; a software fix based on the investigation was delayed by the US government shutdown. It's possible that the fix could have prevented the crash of a similar aircraft in Ethiopia on March 10, 2019. Despite two crashes within six months, a growing…
SUZANO, Brazil (Reuters) - Two armed men wearing face masks entered a Brazilian elementary school Wednesday and shot and killed at least six children who were on their snack breaks, as well as two school officials, before fatally turning their guns on themselves, police said. A student reacts in front of the Raul Brasil school…
