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Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Boeing 737-800 that was flying to Kiev crashed some minutes after it took off from Iran’s Imam Khomeini airport on Wednesday, killing all 176 people (167 passengers and 9 crew) on board. The plane’s two black boxes (the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder) had been found. Ukrainian President
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday launched 22 missiles on Ain al-Asad air base that houses U.S.-led coalition troops in the western Anbar province and another military base in Erbil (the Iraqi Kurdish capital). According to the report our correspondent in Baghdad gathered, 17 missiles fell on Ain al-Asad air base while five missiles
Egypt’s flag carrier, EgyptAir announced on Tuesday that it will suspend its flights to Baghdad for three days starting from Wednesday, 8 January 2020 due to security problems in Iraq. The company said that the decision to suspend its flights to Iraq’s capital was taken for the safety of its passengers and planes. Meanwhile, Germany
German Defence Minister, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told a gathering of German conservatives in Bavaria on Tuesday that Iran has responsibility to de-escalate tensions with the United States. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer blamed Iran for increasing tensions in the region and she advised the country (Iran) to avoid escalation of tensions in the middle east after the U.S airstrike
Our (Viewers Corner News) correspondent in Islamabad reported that Pakistan military aircraft crashed on Tuesday, 7 January near an air base in Mianwali district and two pilots were killed in the crash. According to the report, the pilots killed were Haris bin Khalid (Squadron Leader) and Flying Officer Ibaad-ur-Rehman. Pakistan authority said that a board
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Iran announced that the country would no longer abide by any of the limits of the 2015 nuclear deal. The announcement was made after one of its officials said that the country would consider taking harsher steps over the U.S killing of General Qassem Soleimani. Iranian government also stated that the country will not be
The former prime minister of Croatia, Zoran Milanovic (53 years) has defeated the incumbent president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic (51 years) in the run-off of Croatia’s presidential election. Mr Zoran Milanovic, the Social Democrat candidate won the presidential election with 52.7 percent of the vote while his opponent, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic got 47.3 percent of the vote. After
The United States president, Donald Trump has warned Iran that if the country retaliates for the killing of General Qassem Soleimani by attacking any U.S citizen or assets, the United States would hit 52 chosen Iranian sites very fast and very hard. The U.S has also dispatched another 3,000 troops to Kuwait. President Trump who
It was reported that the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson will meet European Union President, Ursula von der Leyen in London on Wednesday ahead of the opening rounds of trade talks that will commence immediately Britain formally leaves the European Union on 31 January 2020. According to the report, the two leaders would discuss whether
Iran’s supreme leader appointed the deputy commander of the Quds Force, Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, as the replacement for General Qassem Soleimani, head of Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) after he was killed on Friday in an airstrike carried out by the United States military near Baghdad’s International Airport. The Iranian