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Ethiopian Airlines Crash Leaves No Survivors

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03/11/2019

03/11/2019

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Ethiopian Airlines Crash Leaves No Survivors

Top News: All 157 crew and passengers aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, Kenya, were killed when the plane went down on Sunday.

The plane carried people from at least 35 countries, including Kenya, Canada, China, Ethiopia, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Slovakia. It also carried a number of aid workers from the United Nations and other international organizations.

Authorities are still determining the cause of the crash, but the airline said the experienced pilot made a distress call shortly after takeoff and was given clearance for landing before the crash. Ethiopian Airlines has safety standards and records on par with many international airlines.

The plane was a relatively new Boeing-737-8 MAX, the same aircraft model as the Lion Air flight that crashed off of Indonesia last October, killing all 189 passengers and crew.

Malaysia: A Malaysian court dropped charges against an Indonesian woman accused of helping orchestrate the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s half brother who was living in exile. Siti Aisyah was accused with a Vietnamese woman of pushing a deadly nerve agent on Kim Jong Nam’s face at the Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017.

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AFRICA

•  Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika flew home to massive protests calling on him to step down, following two weeks in a Swiss hospital.

•  Southern Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers state suspended voting in an election for governor amid violence at polling stations.

•  A ranger was killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, home to critically endangered species including mountain gorillas.

AMERICAS

•  Venezuela entered a fourth day of country-wide blackouts, worsening the country’s humanitarian crisis.

•  A small plane carrying 12 people crashed in central Colombia, killing everyone on board.

•  President Donald Trump issued a federal budget proposal for fiscal year 2020 that included $750 billion for defense.

ASIA

•  Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar lived secretly near a U.S. base in southern Afghanistan rather than in Pakistan as the CIA had suggested, according to a new report.

•  Trump’s national security advisor, John Bolton, said the president was open to a third summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after some time has passed.

•  India’s electoral commission said the country’s upcoming elections, in which 900 million people are eligible to vote, will be held in seven phases between April and May.

EUROPE

•  Brexit negotiations between British Prime Minister Theresa May and the European Union remain in deadlock ahead of a U.K. parliamentary vote on the deal.

•  The United Kingdom said it is looking into how to help children of citizens who left the country to join the Islamic State terror group.

•  Germany’s foreign ministry condemned Turkey’s move to expel three German journalists.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fighting for reelection, said all Israeli citizens have equal rights but Israel is “not a state of all its citizens.”

•  Fighting broke out in Hodeidah, an important port city in Yemen, for the first time since December, when the United Nations helped broker a ceasefire agreement between government forces backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and Houthi rebels.

•  This week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will make his first official visit to Iraq.

- By Robbie Gramer

(MICHAEL TEWELDE/AFP/Getty Images)

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