The A350F freighter (MSN 700), the first of two test aircraft, has completed its first flight. The aircraft, fitted with special flight test instrumentation, flew for 4 hours and 10 minutes reaching an altitude of 25,000 feet. The aircraft was flown by a dedicated Airbus Flight Test crew. “This maiden flight is a major milestone […]
Artificial intelligence may have been used in a string of cyberattacks targeting South Korea’s financial sector, the president said today, as police announced the launch of an investigation. More than seven financial institutions, including some of South Korea’s biggest banks, have reported customer data breaches in the past week, reports AFP....
•US President Donald Trump President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 people at a military base in 2009, the Pentagon said today. Hasan’s execution for the attack at Fort Hood in Texas — which also wounded more than two dozen people […]
•US President Donald Trump The United States yesterday warned foreign financial institutions that if they conducted any business with Iran or its banking sector they could be sanctioned by Washington. “Foreign financial institutions continuing to transact with sanctioned Iranian financial institutions could be targeted at any time without adva...
•A ship in the Black Sea Two crew members died, and 11 were rescued after a fire broke out on a ship in the Black Sea, which later sank, Romania’s interior ministry announced today, without specifying what caused the blaze. “At around 11:00, Coast Guard border police officers were informed that a fire had broken […]
•ICC in The Hague, Netherlands The International Criminal Court today unsealed arrest warrants for two Afghan education ministers accused of committing crimes against humanity through the Taliban government’s restrictions on women and girls. The warrants, for Habibullah Agha, minister of education, and Neda Mohammad Nadeem, minister of higher ...
•Andrew Britain’s former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has taken his legal battle to the High Court, seeking to overturn search warrants obtained by police ahead of his arrest earlier this year, the UK judiciary confirmed today. The London court is set to hold a private hearing on Thursday, the judiciary said in a statement, as the [&hel...
•Migrants travel in an inflatable boat across the English Channel, bound for Dover on the south coast of England  Two men died off the French coast overnight from yesterday to today while attempting to cross the Channel into Britain, while two women were hospitalised with burns, French authorities said. The two migrants who died were […...
•The mayor of Saint-Denis Bally Bagayoko addresses High school students during their general assembly amid a nationwide protest movement over school conditions in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, yesterday Up to 500 schools across France will be totally or partly closed today because of a wave of student protests that has shaken the country, the ...
•Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Indian pilot Smit Machchhar Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday invited to Israel, as a guest of honour, the Indian captain of a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight who saved the plane by opening the cockpit after being attacked. Netanyahu said he wanted Captain Smit Machchhar and Indian Prime...

