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Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images (TOKYO) — As a Japan Airlines plane caught fire on a runway in Tokyo on Tuesday, the flight crew directed hundreds of passengers off the aircraft using megaphones and “their own voices,” the airline said Wednesday. “The aircraft’s announcement system malfunctioned during the evacuation,” the airline said in a […]
Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images (TOKYO) — At least 14 passengers requested medical consultations after a Japan Airlines passenger plane caught fire on a runway in Tokyo, the airline said Wednesday. One person had bruising and 13 others requested consultations “due to physical discomfort,” the airline said in a press statement. All 367 passengers […]
Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — South Korea’s Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-Myung is hospitalized in an intensive care unit after going through surgery for internal jugular vein reconstruction on Tuesday, officials said. Only one person a day can visit the patient, therefore no further information about his health status […]
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended on Dec. 1, and Israel has resumed its bombardment of Gaza. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage during the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel. In exchange, […]
Gary S Chapman/Getty Images (TOKYO and LONDON) — At least four people have died after a powerful earthquake struck Japan’s west coast on Monday afternoon, officials said. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 struck at about 4:10 p.m. local time, with its epicenter on the Noto Peninsula, along the Sea of Japan, according […]
Firefighters inspect collapsed wooden houses in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2024, a day after a major 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Noto region in the prefecture in the afternoon. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — At least 48 people had been confirmed dead after a massive earthquake and dozens of aftershocks […]
Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea enters Seoul Plaza, the memorial site for 2022 Itaewon disaster victims, during a memorial event of the first anniversary on Oct. 29, 2023 in Seoul, South Korea. (Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (SEOUL, South Korea) — An opposition leader in South Korea was attacked during a […]
This photo provided by Jiji Press shows a Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 2, 2024. (STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images) (TOKYO) — A Japan Airlines plane was engulfed in flames after landing at Haneda Airport on Tuesday. The flight, JL516, which was traveling from Chitose, Hokkaido, […]
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Russia launched an attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities early Tuesday, continuing its escalated large-scale attacks on residential areas, local officials said. Air raid sirens in Kyiv began to sound just before 6 a.m. The attacks, which also hit Kharkiv, lasted about four hours, with Russia launching about a […]
Gary S Chapman/Getty Images (TOKYO and LONDON) — At least four people have died after a powerful earthquake struck Japan’s west coast on Monday afternoon, officials said. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 struck at about 4:10 p.m. local time, with its epicenter on the Noto Peninsula, along the Sea of Japan, according […]
