Thursday, November 21

Month: May 2024

Twelve people injured as Qatar Airways plane hits turbulence on flight to Dublin

Twelve people injured as Qatar Airways plane hits turbulence on flight to Dublin

Twelve people have been injured, including eight taken to hospital, as a Qatar Airways plane flying from Doha to Dublin hit turbulence, airport authorities say. Dublin Airport said in a statement that flight QR017, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, landed safely as scheduled before 1pm on Sunday (10pm AEST). The airport said upon landing the aircraft was met by emergency services, including airport police and the fire and rescue department, "due to six passengers and six crew … reporting injuries after the aircraft experienced turbulence while airborne over Turkey". Twelve people have been injured, including eight taken to hospital, as a Qatar Airways plane flying from Doha to Dublin hit turbulence, airport authorities say. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File) The airport said al...
Rishi Sunak’s plan to make 18-year-olds do national service grabs attention on UK election trail

Rishi Sunak’s plan to make 18-year-olds do national service grabs attention on UK election trail

All 18-year-olds in Britain will have to perform a year of mandatory military or civilian national service if the governing Conservative Party wins the July 4 national election, the party has announced. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged on Sunday to bring back a form of national service for the first time in more than 60 years, seeking to energise his election campaign after a faltering start. The UK introduced military conscription for men and some women during World War II, and imposed 18 months of mandatory military service for men between 1947 and 1960. Since then Britain has had an all-volunteer military whose size has steadily shrunk. Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak reacts as he meets with veterans at a community breakfast duri...
Trump booed at Libertarian convention as he asks crowd to ‘nominate me or at least vote for me’

Trump booed at Libertarian convention as he asks crowd to ‘nominate me or at least vote for me’

Former President Donald Trump was loudly and consistently booed throughout a speech at the Libertarian Party's national convention, particularly when he asked attendees to "nominate me or at least vote for me." The heckling began the moment the former president took the stage on Saturday, and some of his supporters in the room tried to drown out the boos with chants of "We want Trump." "Now I think you should nominate me or at least vote for me, and we should win together," Trump said. "Because the Libertarians want to vote for me … and it's very important because we have to get rid of the worst president in history." Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Libertarian National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washingto...
Slovak prime minister has had another operation, remains in serious condition

Slovak prime minister has had another operation, remains in serious condition

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has undergone another operation two days after being shot multiple times and remains in serious condition, officials said on Friday. Fico, 59, was attacked as he was greeting supporters after a government meeting in the former coal mining town of Handlova. A suspected assailant has been arrested. FILE - Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico arrives for the V4 meeting in Prague, Czech Republic,in April. (AP) Miriam Lapunikova, director of the University F. D. Roosevelt hospital in Banska Bystrica, where Fico was taken by helicopter after he was shot, said Fico underwent a CT scan and is currently awake and stable in an intensive care unit. She described his condition as “very serious.” She said the surgery removed dead tiss...
Judge considers dismissing indictment against Alec Baldwin in fatal shooting of cinematographer

Judge considers dismissing indictment against Alec Baldwin in fatal shooting of cinematographer

A New Mexico judge is considering Alec Baldwin's request to dismiss a grand jury indictment against him at a virtual court hearing on Friday. The indictment in January charged Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on October 21, 2021, at a movie ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe. Baldwin, a lead actor and co-producer on the Western Rust, has pleaded not guilty to the charge and his attorneys have urged dismissal. They have argued that prosecutors flouted the rules of grand jury proceedings to divert attention away from exculpatory evidence and witnesses. The involuntary manslaughter charge carries a maximum sentence of one and a half years in prison. During rehearsal, Baldwin was pointing a gun a...
Power outages from Texas storms which have killed four could last weeks as temperatures soar

Power outages from Texas storms which have killed four could last weeks as temperatures soar

Power outages could last for weeks in the Houston, Texas area of the USA after a destructive complex of storms tore through the area, killing at least four people and crumpling critical power infrastructure. More than 900,000 homes and businesses lost power in Houston's Harris County during the peak of the storm's violent winds, and more than 650,000 remained in the dark Friday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.us. "For some folks, the luckier ones, (power restoration) might be days, not hours. For many, many people, it's going to be weeks and not days," Harris County Judge Lina Hildago said in a Friday news briefing. Hidalgo said the weeks-long restoration timeframe was for homes and businesses tied into the 10 steel power transmission towers downed in the state, seven ...
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