A Jeju Air flight from Seoul on Monday was forced to return after encountering a landing gear problem, the airline said, a day after South Korea’s most deadly plane crash. The Boeing 737-800 involved in the latest incident was the same model as the Jeju Air plane that crashed on Sunday killing 179 people after…
Georgia’s health ministry said on Tuesday that 26 people, mostly protesters, were injured in the latest night of anti-government protest in the Caucasus country. Georgia has been locked in a political crisis since its contested October election, with tens of thousands of pro-EU protesters taking to the streets in recent days against the governing Georgian…
A stabbing incident outside a school in Wuxi, a city in eastern China, has left at least eight people dead and 17 others injured, local authorities confirmed. The attack occurred on Saturday evening at the Wuxi Yixing Arts and Crafts Vocational and Technical College, around 6:30 p.m. local time (10:30 GMT). According to police, the…
A senior Hezbollah official, Wafiq Safa has escaped an Israeli assassination attempt in Beirut, Lebanon, Reuters reports. Safa heads Hezbollah’s liaison and coordination unit responsible for working with Lebanese security agencies. He was targeted by Israel on Thursday night but survived, the report said, citing security sources. According to the report, Israeli strikes killed 22…
North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un
Late on Sunday, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets at the northern Israeli city of Haifa, injuring eight people and causing significant damage, according to Israeli authorities.Around five rockets were fired, with one striking a roundabout near a supermarket and several apartment blocks in eastern Haifa. The Israeli military reported that…
The Israel Defense Forces, IDF, early Monday said its air force attacked a command centre of the Palestinian militant organisation, Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The IDF said the command centre was located in the Deir al Balah area in central Gaza embedded within the Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital. In the same area, the army had…
Iran has said that it was fully ready for whatever Israel may come up with.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, gave the order to launch missiles against Israel. Iran launched over 180 ballistic missiles into Israel early Tuesday. The Israeli military said it has received no reports of injuries from the Iranian missile attack. The…
China said it test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday, firing it into the Pacific Ocean in a rare trial run that flexed its military might. Beijing has stepped up its nuclear development in recent years, with the Pentagon last October warning China was developing its arsenal more quickly than the United States had anticipated….
A South Korean man has been arrested after confessing to murdering his girlfriend 16 years ago and entombing her body on his balcony under a layer of cement, police told AFP on Tuesday. The man, who is now in his 50s, was charged with murdering the woman in October 2008 during an argument, according to…
