A Delta Air Lines plane crash landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport, ending up upside down and in flames. At least eight people were injured, one of them critically.
Security personnel investigate after a vehicle intentionally drove into a crowd on New Orleans’s Canal and Bourbon streets on January 1 [Gerald Herbert/AP Photo]
Here is the situation on Wednesday, January 8: Fighting Kyiv said its forces are still actively fighting in Kurakhove, a strategic town in Ukraine’s east that Russia said it had seized. Moscow hailed the capture of the “important logistics hub”, saying it would enable Russian forces to take the rest of the eastern Donetsk region…
The United States Senate has voted to confirm former federal prosecutor Kash Patel as the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), continuing a streak of success for President Donald Trump’s government nominees. But Thursday’s confirmation came by slim margins. Only 51 senators, all Republican, voted in favour of Patel in the 100-seat…
European officials have warned Donald Trump against threatening “sovereign borders” after the US President-elect refused to rule out military action to seize Greenland. The rebukes on Wednesday were led by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who said the principle of inviolability of borders applies to every country, no matter how powerful. He added Trump’s statements a…
During his inauguration speech, United States President Donald Trump said the “proudest legacy” of his presidency would be that of “peacemaker and unifier”. “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end,” he said on Monday before referencing the release of the first Israeli…
NewsFeed UN ambassadors reject Trump’s plan to take over Gaza The UN ambassadors of Palestine and Russia have rejected Donald Trump’s plan for the US to take over Gaza and displace Palestinians to neighbouring countries. Published On 5 Feb 20255 Feb 2025
