(Reuters) – There is U.S. intelligence that Russia may have mistakenly shot down an Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday after misidentifying it as an incoming drone, MSNBC reported on Friday, citing two unidentified U.S. military sources. (Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones)
(Reuters) – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the island of Mindanao in the Philippines on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), GFZ said. (Reporting by Rajveer Singh Pardesi in Bengaluru; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
By Joanna Plucinska, Gleb Stolyarov and Nailia Bagirova (Reuters) – A passenger jet operated by Azerbaijan Airlines crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, after diverting from an area of southern Russia where Moscow has repeatedly used air defence systems against Ukrainian attack drones. At least 38 people were killed while 29 …
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By Gerry Doyle (Reuters) -Blurry images of two seemingly new Chinese military aircraft with stealthy characteristics appeared online on Friday, with defence experts saying they were clearly advanced designs, but there was not enough detail for definitive conclusions. Both designs are tailless, meaning they do not have vertical stabilisers to help maintain control. Such aircraft …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The driver who rammed his car into a crowd in southern China’s Zhuhai city, killing at least 35 people, has been sentenced to death, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday. The attack on Nov. 11 was one of the deadliest attacks in contemporary Chinese history. Fan Weiqiu, discontented with how …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s aviation watchdog said on Friday that an Azerbaijan Airlines plane which crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday had decided to reroute from its original destination in Chechnya amid dense fog and a local alert over Ukrainian drones. Rosaviatsia, the wathdog, said that the captain of the plane had been offered other airports …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Azerbaijan Airlines said on Friday that preliminary results showed that one of its planes which crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday experienced “external physical and technical interference”. (Writing by Felix Light; editing by Jason Neely)
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s diseases control authority said on Friday that it was piloting a monitoring system for pneumonia of unknown origin, with cases of some respiratory diseases expected to rise through the winter. The move to establish a dedicated system is aimed at helping authorities set up protocols to handle unknown pathogens, in contrast …
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By Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok became on Friday South Korea’s second acting president in two weeks, as lawmakers voted to impeach the current acting leader, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, fuelling political uncertainty in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Han was replaced amid disagreements with the opposition on appointing justices to the Constitutional …
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(Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, impeached for his decision to briefly impose martial law, is building a legal team to represent him at the Constitutional Court that will decide his political fate, as well as in looming criminal investigations. Here are some members of the ex-prosecutor’s legal team, drawn from allies and …
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