Malawi vice-president and nine others killed in plane crash

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Wreckage of plane carrying Chilima and former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri found after weather warnings, says President Chakwera

Malawi’s vice-president, Saulos Chilima, and nine other people have been killed in a plane crash, the country’s president, Lazarus Chakwera, said in a live televised address.

The wreckage of the military plane carrying Chilima and the former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri to a funeral of an ex-minister on Monday was found on a hillside in the Chikangawa forest, a mountainous area in the north of the country.

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Revealed: drug cartels force migrant children to work as foot soldiers in Europe’s booming cocaine trade

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Exclusive: Guardian investigation shows white powder trail linking hundreds of vulnerable African minors with ruthless gangs

Hundreds of unaccompanied child migrants across Europe are being forced to work as soldiers for increasingly powerful drug cartels to meet the continent’s soaring appetite for cocaine, a Guardian investigation has found.

EU police forces have warned of industrial-scale exploitation of African children by cocaine networks operating in western Europe in cities including Paris and Brussels as they seek to expand Europe’s £10bn cocaine market.

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Hong Kong is ‘slowly becoming a totalitarian state​’, says UK judge

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​L​ord Sumption, who last week quit territory’s top court​, speaks out on ‘paranoid atmosphere’ under Chinese rule

A British judge has described the “paranoid atmosphere” in Hong Kong as he explained his decision to step down from the territory’s top court.

Jonathan Sumption, along with another British judge, Lawrence Collins, last week resigned from Hong Kong’s court of final appeal (CFA).

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South Korean troops fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly crossed land border – The Associated Press

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  1. South Korean troops fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly crossed land border  The Associated Press
  2. North Korea Sent Excrement Balloons. South Korea's Response: Blasting BTS Hits.  The Wall Street Journal
  3. South Korea Fires Warning Shots at North's Troops Crossing Border  Bloomberg
  4. South Korean troops fired warning shots after brief border incursion from North  NPR
  5. South Korea resumes broadcasting anti-North Korea propaganda at border in response to trash balloons  Yahoo! Voices
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Singapore Airlines offers compensation of at least $10,000 to passengers of turbulence-hit flight – CNBC

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  1. Singapore Airlines offers compensation of at least $10,000 to passengers of turbulence-hit flight  CNBC
  2. Singapore Airlines offers compensation to passengers injured by severe turbulence  CNN
  3. Singapore Airlines offers $25,000 to seriously injured passengers in turbulent flight  Financial Times
  4. Singapore Airlines offers $10000 compensation to those injured in turbulence flight  The Guardian
  5. Singapore Airlines turbulence victims offered thousands by firm  BBC.com
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Singapore Airlines offers $10,000 compensation to those injured in turbulence flight

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The airline has said that anyone who sustained serious injuries on SQ321 last month could be entitled to a larger payment

Singapore Airlines has offered US$10,000 compensation payments to passengers who suffered minor injuries during a flight last month that hit sudden, extreme turbulence.

On Tuesday, the airline announced that it had sent compensation offers to passengers who were on board flight SQ321 from London to Singapore on 20 May, which dropped 54 metres in altitude in less than five seconds while flying over Myanmar.

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