Flight TK204 took off from Seattle shortly after 19:00 on Tuesday evening. The pilot appears to have got into trouble over the Canadian territory of Nunavut, before his colleagues took over and headed for John F Kennedy airport. Pehlivan had flown with Turkish Airlines since 2007 and had been given …
Read More »Serbian schoolboy shooter testifies at parents’ trial in Belgrade
He was questioned as a witness, by the judge, the prosecutor and defence lawyers for the familes of the dead and wounded. He also answered questions from the mother of a murdered child. Parents of the murdered children attended the hearing in the hope of shedding light on the motive …
Read More »Dutch museum finds beer can artwork in bin
Once a curator spotted that the artwork was missing, staff were tasked with searching for it, the museum said on its website., external Eventually it was discovered in a bin bag and “miraculously, both cans were found intact”, it said. The cans were cleaned and placed at the museum’s entrance. …
Read More »Drug-related killings shake French city of Marseille
According to prosecutors, a member of the DZ Mafia, who is currently in prison, hired the boy for €2,000 ($2,192; £1,676) to “intimidate” a competitor by setting fire to his door. The teenager was spotted and searched by rivals from the Blacks gang, who then stabbed him and set him …
Read More »Russia jails US citizen Stephen Hubbard, 72, on mercenary charges
Hubbard, a native of Michigan, pleaded guilty to the charges last week, according to Russian state media. However, his sister Patricia Fox told Reuters that Hubbard held pro-Russian views and was unlikely to have taken up arms at his age. “He is so non-military,” Ms Fox told Reuters, adding that …
Read More »Ukraine strikes oil depot in occupied Crimea
Footage circulating on social media appeared to show smoke rising over the Feodosia terminal. Local Russian-installed officials told RIA Novosti that efforts to extinguish the fire were ongoing. Meanwhile, the defence ministry in Moscow said that 12 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the peninsula overnight out of a total …
Read More »Oasis on the Adriatic where Ukrainians and Russians have gone to escape war
Other parts of Europe have seen occasional friction. At the start of the war, Germany recorded a rise in attacks on Ukrainians and Russians. But there has been little of that so far in Montenegro. There is a sense of tolerance here and Pristaniste and its volunteers have had a …
Read More »Gisèle Pelicot: Judge rules public can view French mass rape trial video evidence
The judge last month banned the broadcasting of such footage to the public and press on the grounds that the images were “shocking and indecent”. However, he decided to lift the restrictions following calls from Ms Pelicot’s lawyers for the trial to be open to the public. “If these same …
Read More »Bayesian sinking: Mike Lynch drowned but daughter’s death probed
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch drowned but the cause of his daughter’s death when a yacht sank off the coast of Sicily is under investigation, an inquest has heard. A total of seven people died when the Bayesian, a 56m (184ft) sailing boat, was hit by bad weather in the …
Read More »Treasure hunt for golden owl ends in France after 31 years
The world’s longest treasure hunt appears to have come to an end, after an announcement in France that a buried statuette of a golden owl has finally been unearthed – after 31 years. “We confirm that the replica of the golden owl was dug up last night, and that simultaneously …
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