A Singapore Airlines (SIA) Boeing 777 that caught fire after an emergency landing remained on Singapore’s Changi Airport’s tarmac on Monday (June 27). The SIA flight to Milan caught fire early on Monday after returning to Singapore’s Changi airport following an engine oil warning message, but all passengers were safe, the airline and airport officials said. The aircraft’s right engine caught fire after the aircraft, a Boeing 777-300ER, touched down at Changi airport at around […]
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Australian conservatives edge ahead in Brexit shadow
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s ruling party Monday used the Brexit vote to warn against voting for Labor in upcoming elections as a poll showed the Liberals ahead for the first time in a drawn-out campaign. The country goes to the polls on Saturday with economic management assuming added significance in the wake of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, sparking global instability. “There will be considerable uncertainty for some time. You’re seeing that […]
Trudeau to host Obama, Pena Nieto for North Americas summit
by Michel COMTE OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada, Mexico and the United States will look to dovetail their climate and other policies into a continental strategy when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosts Barack Obama and Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday. But Britain’s shocking vote to quit the European Union has also abruptly shoved itself onto the agenda of the summit, which the countries tend to hold once a year. Trudeau and Obama had both called […]
UK Labor leader defies revolt over Brexit strategy
by Michael THURSTON LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s opposition Labor party leader Jeremy Corbyn has insisted he will not quit despite the resignation of 11 members of his top team Sunday over his handling of the EU referendum campaign. Corbyn, widely criticized for his lukewarm support for the Remain camp, said he will not betray the trust of the party members who elected him, and vowed to “reshape” his shadow cabinet starting on Monday. […]
Grieving Remain campaigners gather in London’s Parliament Square
(Reuters) — Londoners who voted to stay in the European Union gathered in Parliament Square on Saturday (June 25) to share their grief and sorrow at the country voting to leave in Thursday’s (June 23) referendum. Draped in EU flags and holding placards reading “Yes to EU” the disappointed group of a few hundred listened to impromptu speeches from people deploring the result. Some still wearing their official ‘IN’ campaign T-shirts said their shock […]
No hurry for Britain to trigger EU exit process – Merkel
(Reuters) — There is no desperate rush for Britain to trigger the process for it to leave the European Union, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday (June 25), leaving London some space to work out its next move after a referendum vote to leave the bloc. “Great Britain must for themselves define — and surely there will also a discussion process — what relationship it wants to have with the European Union. We […]
Germany says ‘won’t let anyone take Europe from us’
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Saturday that the EU would weather the shock of the British vote to leave the union as he convened crisis talks. “I am confident that these countries can also send a message that we won’t let anyone take Europe from us,” he said heading into a meeting in Berlin of his counterparts from the EU’s six founding members. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
US Navy keeps electromagnetic cannon in its sights
by Thomas WATKINS WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — The US Navy is quietly pushing ahead with a radical new cannon that one day could transform how wars are fought, even though some Pentagon officials have voiced concerns over its cost and viability. Named the railgun, the weapon in question represents a paradigm shift in ballistic technology. Instead of using gunpowder and explosive charges to shoot a shell from its barrel, it employs vast amounts […]
Two dead in California fires, thousands evacuated
LOS ANGELES , United States (AFP) — At least two people have died in a fire in central California that has destroyed 100 structures and prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency, officials said Friday. The fast-moving blaze that erupted late Thursday afternoon in the Lake Isabella area of Kern County had spread to about 30,000 acres (121 square kilometers) by Friday afternoon and was five percent contained, authorities said The Kern County […]
French woman who left baby to drown gets 20 years in jail
by Zoé LEROY SAINT-OMER, France (AFP) — A woman who claimed that witchcraft caused her to leave her baby to drown on a beach in northern France was on Friday sentenced to 20 years in jail. Fabienne Kabou, 39, had faced life imprisonment for the November 19, 2013, murder, but the court deemed that she suffered from impaired judgement. The court in the town of Saint-Omer, near Calais, also ordered Kabou to undergo psychological treatment […]
Two China media staff still held after Xi ‘resign’ call: letter
by Tom HANCOCK BEIJING, China (AFP) — A Chinese media outlet that carried a call for President Xi Jinping to resign has been shut down and two of its staff have been detained for more than 100 days, according to a social media post Friday. Wujie News website in March published an anonymous letter accusing the Chinese leader of a litany of policy mistakes and asking him to step down for the good of the […]
Obama confident UK ‘committed to orderly transition’ out of EU
PALO, ALTO, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama said Friday he was confident that Britain would make an “orderly transition” out of the European Union, and insisted the special relationship between Washington and London would not change. “Yesterday’s vote speaks to the ongoing changes and challenges that are raised by globalization,” Obama told an audience at Stanford University, one day after British voters opted to leave the bloc in a historic referendum. After […]
