MOSCOW (Reuters) - The speaker of Russia's parliament scolded the European Union on Saturday for banning the distribution of four Russian media outlets and said it showed how the West refused to accept any alternative point of view and was destroying freedom of speech.
The European Union said on Friday it was suspending the distribution of Voice of Europe, RIA Novosti news agency and newspapers Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the grounds that they... (continue reading...)
KABUL (Reuters) -At least 50 people are dead following a fresh bout of heavy rain and flooding in central Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday.
Mawlawi Abdul Hai Zaeem, the head of the information department for the central Ghor province, told Reuters that there was no information about how many people were injured in the rain spell that began on Friday, which had also cut off many key roads to the area.
Zaeem added that 2,000 houses... (continue reading...)
By Xinghui Kok
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will resume flying its F-16 fleet after suspending training when one of the jets crashed earlier this month, the defence ministry on Saturday.
The defence ministry said the May 8 crash was due to the plane's pitch rate gyroscopes giving erroneous inputs to the flight control computer.
"This led to the pilot being unable to control the plane at take-off," the statement said. The... (continue reading...)
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Munich's airport was briefly closed early on Saturday after climate activists breached the grounds and glued themselves to a runway, a spokesperson said.
One of two runways is now open but there will be delays, the spokesperson said.
The breach occurred during one of the busiest travel periods for the airport in southern Germany.
A series of posts on X by the climate activists Last Generation show... (continue reading...)
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Munich's airport was briefly closed early on Saturday after climate activists breached the grounds and glued themselves to a runway, a spokesperson said.
One of two runways is now open but there will be delays, the spokesperson said.
The breach occurred during one of the busiest travel periods for the airport in southern Germany.
A series of posts on X by the climate activists Last Generation show... (continue reading...)
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