South Korea orders safety probe of entire airline system after deadly crash
His order comes as another Jeju Air flight made a U-turn to Seoul due to a landing-gear issue.
Man dies in Canberra river as life savers warn of elevated drowning risk over summer holidays
The country has recorded more than 30 drowning deaths in December, including multiple fatalities over the weekend
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A 21-year-old man has died while swimming in a river on Canberra’s southern edge, bringing the number of drowning deaths around Australia in December alone to more than 30.
The man was swimming in the Murrumbidgee River at Pine Island reserve, near Tuggeranong, with family and friends on Sunday afternoon but failed to resurface.
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Continue reading...Biden and Trump lead tributes to ‘extraordinary’ Jimmy Carter after death
Former US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100 at his home in Georgia.
Authorities in South Korea seek arrest warrant for impeached president Yoon
Authorities plan to question Yoon on allegations of abuse of authority and orchestrating a rebellion after his short-lived declaration of martial law
South Korean law enforcement officials have requested a court warrant to arrest impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, as they investigate whether his short-lived martial law decree amounted to rebellion.
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials, which is leading a joint investigation with police and military authorities into the power grab that lasted only a few hours on 3 December, confirmed it requested the warrant from a Seoul court. They plan to question Yoon on allegations of abuse of authority and orchestrating a rebellion.
Continue reading...‘It’s unbearable’: Families mourn after S Korea plane crash
The tragedy, which killed 179 people, has left the loved ones of victims searching for answers.
‘Peace matters’: world leaders pay tribute to ‘lifelong humanitarian’ Jimmy Carter
After death of former US president at age 100, leaders from the UK, Ukraine, Australia, Egypt and France have spoken of his enduring commitment to peace
World leaders have reacted to news that former US President Jimmy Carter, who as president brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, has died at age 100.
As politicians inside the US remembered a giant, UN secretary general António Guterres said “he played a key role in conflict mediation, election monitoring, the promotion of democracy, and disease prevention and eradication. These and other efforts earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 and helped advance the work of the United Nations.”
Continue reading...Azerbaijan’s president accuses Russia of downing airliner in Christmas Day crash and covering up cause – CNN
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Joe Biden pays tribute to ‘dear friend’ Jimmy Carter
Biden praises Carter as "someone who embodied the most fundamental human values".
At least 3 migrants die trying to cross the English Channel – NPR
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South Korea authorities seek arrest of Yoon over martial law declaration
Joint investigation unit requests arrest warrant for suspended president over brief imposition of martial law.
Jimmy Carter’s death comes at a time when rancour and uncertainty prevail
The ex-president died as Biden, a fellow one-term president heads for the door and chaos agent Trump returns to power
Early in Mike Bartlett’s 2022 stage play, The 47th, the funeral of former US president Jimmy Carter is held at Washington National Cathedral. Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton are all in attendance. Donald Trump is not invited but turns up anyway – and late. “He’s here to pay his disrespects, and use / A funeral for self-promotion,” Kamala Harris observes.
Life – or rather death – is about to imitate art as Washington prepares to bid farewell to Carter, who died at home in Georgia on Sunday at the age of 100. He was the longest-lived president in US history and the first Democratic president to die since Lyndon Johnson more than half a century ago.
Continue reading...‘I can’t go on like this’: US asks what’s next for healthcare
Will the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shock the American system into change?
How Kenyan workers who earn $2 a day to grow coffee are being hit by climate change
Growers find that the changing climate is having a big impact on the size of their harvests.
How a food crisis in India enriched America’s library collections
The treasure trove of South Asian books came from PL-480, a US initiative launched in 1954.
Barbados fishing industry still reeling from hurricane aftermath
Hurricane Beryl lashed the island in July, devastating much of its fishing fleet.
Police forces report sharp rise in religious hate crimes across UK
Data shows spikes in antisemitic and Islamophobic offences after outbreak of Middle East conflict and Southport attack
Some of the UK’s largest police forces have reported increases in religious hate crimes in the past 18 months, figures reveal, with the number of incidents rising after the start of the Hamas-Israel conflict in autumn 2023 and again after the Southport attacks in England this summer.
Forces including Greater Manchester, West Midlands and the Metropolitan police recorded sharp increases in antisemitic offences in the weeks after the outbreak of the conflict in the Middle East in October last year.
Continue reading...NHS delays may drive patients to buy unsafe weight-loss drugs, says top GP
People warned against buying illegal weight-loss medicines through beauty salons or fake pharmacy websites
Long waits for NHS services could lead people to take matters into their own hands by buying potentially unsafe weight-loss jabs online, Britain’s top GP has said.
Prof Kamila Hawthorne, the chair of the Royal College of GPs, warned that buying drugs online from unregulated retailers could put people at risk and they may also miss out on wraparound support offered alongside the medication.
Continue reading...Alleged WA cocaine importing ring used small plane, remote airstrip and night-vision goggles
Two men from Victoria and South Africa are charged with trafficking the drug into Australia
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Two men are accused of trafficking 200kg of cocaine into Australia in a clandestine plot involving a small aircraft, a remote airstrip and night-vision goggles.
Australian federal police arrested a Victorian man, 48, and a South African national, 44, in Perth’s central business district at 6pm on Saturday after an investigation that began in October.
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Continue reading...More than 60 people dead after road accident in southern Ethiopia
Incident at Gelan bridge in Bona Zuria Woreda ‘claimed lives of 66 people so far’, says Sidama health bureau
More than 60 people have died after a road accident in southern Ethiopia, the local health authority said on Sunday.
Sidama state is in the south of Ethiopia, about 300km south of the capital Addis Ababa.
Continue reading...Watch the moment Carter took his presidential oath
On 20 January 1977, Jimmy Carter took his presidential oath to become the 39th president of the United States.