Ahmedabad (India) (AFP) – Air India CEO Campbell Wilson was seen visiting at the crash site in Ahmedabad on Friday morning, after a London-bound passenger jet crashed into a residential area. At least 265 people on board and on the ground were killed when the Air India 787-8 Dreamliner smashed into a residential area soon after takeoff on Thursday. Just one passenger miraculously survived the giant fireball. IMAGES
Portadown (Royaume-Uni) (AFP) – Northern Ireland police and protesters face-off at a planned anti-immigration march and protest in Portadown, after a wave of unrest rocked the town of Ballymena, some 30 miles (48 kilometres) northwest of Belfast, for three nights. IMAGES
Bogotá (AFP) – Colombians pray outside the clinic where Miguel Uribe, a senator and presidential hopeful who was shot in the head while campaigning in Bogota, is currently hospitalized. An altar has been erected in front of the clinic’s bay windows, where people have been lighting candles or leaving messages and flowers over the past few days. His wife, Maria Claudia Tarazona, makes a brief public appearance to greet people from inside the clinic in the Colombian capital. Uribe is showing signs of improvement but remains in critical condition, doctors said in their latest report on Wednesday June 12. IMAGES
Paju (South Korea) (AFP) – A giant loudspeaker stands silently at a North Korean military outpost near the border with the South, as Seoul’s military says its neighbour appears to have stopped broadcasting strange and unsettling noises along the border, a day after South Korea ceased blaring its own loudspeaker propaganda northwards.
Ziway (Ethiopia) (AFP) – Lake Dembel, a vast lake in central Ethiopia which provides for wildlife and thousands of people, is being pumped dry, environmentalists say. The pumps irrigate farms all around the lake. “If things continue in this manner, we could indeed lose this lake in the long run,” says Desalegne Regassa, Project Officer at the Wetlands International NGO.
Ahmedabad (India) (AFP) – Firefighters and emergency response personnel are at the site of a plane crash in the Indian city of Ahmedabad. According to officials, Air India’s London-bound flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with 242 people on board, crashed shortly after takeoff.
Bogotá (AFP) – Maria Claudia Tarazona, wife of Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe, greets Uribe’s supporters gathered outside a clinic to pray for the senator’s recovery after he was shot during a campaign event in Bogota at the weekend. The 39-year-old conservative senator is showing signs of improvement but remains in critical condition, doctors said Wednesday.
New York (AFP) – Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are stationed inside a New York immigration court, prepared to detain undocumented immigrants immediately after their hearings, as President Donald Trump intensifies his crackdown on illegal immigration in his second term.
London (AFP) – Britain’s Foreign Minister David Lammy says the government is “working urgently with local authorities” to support those affected by a London-bound passenger plane that has crashed in India’s western city of Ahmedabad. The plane was carrying 242 passengers, of which 53 are British. Lammy announces that the Foreign Office has established a crisis team in the British and Indian capitals to support those affected by the crash.
Lelilief Sawai (Indonesia) (AFP) – Sitting deep in east Indonesia’s lush jungle, the Hongana Manyawa indigenous tribe once lived in a breathtaking kaleidoscope of nature that provided sanctuary and sustenance. But it is now being eaten away by one of the world’s largest nickel mining projects, as Indonesia seeks to exploit the area’s vast reserves of the metal used in everything from electric vehicles to stainless steel.
Ahmedabad (India) (AFP) – Footage shows a huge plume of smoke rising from where a plane crashed near Ahmedabad Airport in India. 242 passengers were on board the Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, that was bound for London’s Gatwick airport, India’s civil aviation authority has confirmed.
Seoul (AFP) – Tens of thousands of people are flocking to South Korea’s historic Blue House before the new president arrives. Ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol spurned the elegant compound but newly elected Lee Jae-myung plans to move the seat of power back.
