South Korean national flags fly at half-staff at a government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 30, 2024, a day after a jetliner skidded off a runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames at an airport the town of Muan. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) SEOUL, South Korea (AP)...
A firefighter checks the broken widows at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Dec. 30, 2024 after a fire. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) BANGKOK (AP) — A fire broke out at a hotel near Bangkok's Khao San Road, a popular tourist destination, killing three foreigners and injuring several other...
Firefighters inspect the site of a deadly plane crash at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Jeolla Province, Dec. 30. (Yonhap) The remains of 141 of the 179 people killed in this week's Jeju Air plane crash have tentatively been identified, the land ministry said Monday. During...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks at the presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 14, 2024. (South Korean Presidential Office/Yonhap via AP, File) SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean law enforcement officials on Monday requested a court warrant to detain...
Yehia al-Batran grieves as he holds the body of his 20-day-old son Jomaa, who died from hypothermia, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A fourth infant has died of hypothermia in the Gaza Strip,...
Jeju Air Flight 2216, which crashed at Muan International Airport on Sunday, claiming a total of 179 lives, is suspected to have resulted from a bird strike that disabled the landing gear. The failure to deploy all three landing gears forced the pilot to attempt an emergency belly landing, leading...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — All but two of the 181 people aboard Jeju Air that skidded off a runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames Sunday, were killed in one of South Korea’s worst aviation disasters , officials said. Relatives of passengers on a plane which...
A tragic Jeju Air plane crash occurred on Sunday morning at Muan International Airport, South Jeolla Province, resulting in numerous casualties. The aircraft carrying 181 people reportedly attempted an emergency landing after a bird strike, according to a passenger’s message. According to News1,...
FILE - During a funeral ceremony in Irpin, the Kyiv region of Ukraine, on Nov. 21, serviceman Roman bids farewell to a comrade from the 47th Brigade -- Serhii Solovyov -- who was killed during fighting with Russian Forces in Kursk on November 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) KYIV,...
FILE - A man walks past a homeless encampment in downtown Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and...
Law Connect sails down the Derwent River to win line honours in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in Hobart, Australia, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024. (Salty Dingo via AP) Champagne corks often pop and loud, boisterous cheers are usually heard around Constitution Dock when the Sydney to Hobart line honors...
ROME (AP) — The bodies of two Italian climbers have been found on Italy's Gran Sasso massif five days after they disappeared during an excursion, rescuers said. Rescue teams supported by a helicopter managed to reach the location on Friday where the two men went missing in the central...
