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MH17 crash: Malaysia Airlines ‘strikes deal on damages’, says lawyer
Malaysia Airlines has settled damages with the relatives of most victims of the MH17 crash, the lawyer representing the victims, Veeru Mewa, says. Flight MH17 was shot down exactly two years ago over territory held by pro-Russian separatists, killing all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch. Dutch media say there are no...
Two dead as Typhoon Nepartak strikes Taiwan
Severe rain and wind brought by super Typhoon Nepartak killed at least three people and injured more than 140 in Taiwan, authorities say. The storm made landfall in the southeastern county of Taitung at 5.50am (0750 AEST) on Friday. One unidentified man died after being swept off a beach in the eastern county of Hualien late...
US air and drone strikes ‘killed up to 116 civilians’
US drone and air strikes have killed between 64 and 116 civilians outside war zones since 2009, the White House says. The numbers, covering the period from January 2009 to December 2015, are significantly lower than estimates by human rights groups. Some groups say that several hundred civilians have died in US strikes. The...
Lightning strikes hurt dozens in Germany rock festival
At least 51 people were injured, eight seriously, when lightning struck at a rock festival in western Germany early on Saturday, police say. Organisers of the Rock am Ring festival, which is headlined by Red Hot Chili Peppers, said lightning hit at 00:30 local time (22:30 GMT). The event has now been suspended because of...
France industrial unrest: Air threat lifts as rail strikes continue
Threats of French air traffic disruption this weekend have been lifted, ministers say, although a rail strike is still halving services. Four of five unions have called off air traffic control action, with Transport Minister Alain Vidalies assuring there would be no disruption. Fears of the strike spreading to the Paris metro...
The President is WRONG: Grayling strikes back at Obama’s Remain threat in scorching attack
CHRIS Grayling has taken the Brexit argument to America in a blistering attack on Barack Obama’s EU Support. Speaking in Washington DC, Mr Grayling hit out at the President’s intervention, claiming that “the view from Washington” was not the best way to assess what was in Britain’s best interests....
Islamic State: Up to $800m of funds ‘destroyed by strikes’
Up to $800m (£550m) in cash held by so-called Islamic State (IS) has been destroyed in air strikes, a US military official says. Maj Gen Peter Gersten, who is based in Baghdad, said the US had repeatedly targeted stores of the group's funds. The blow to the group's financing has contributed to a 90% jump in...
Syrian government strikes on two rebel-held areas kill 23: monitor
Syrian warplanes bombed the rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus and parts of Aleppo in the north on Saturday, killing 23 people, with the death toll likely to rise, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Mediators have struggled to get combatants in Syria's five-year-old war to honour a Feb. 27 cessation of...
Ankara bombing: Turkey strikes against Kurdish rebel PKK
Turkey has launched air strikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq following a bomb attack in Ankara that killed 37 people. No group said it carried out the attack but PM Ahmet Davutoglu said evidence "almost certainly" pointed towards the banned PKK Kurdish separatist group. One of the bombers, who also died in...