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The Ethiopian Airlines crew commanding the Boeing 737 Max 8, which crashed last month and killed all 157 people on board, followed all recommended procedures but couldn’t regain control of the doomed flight, Ethiopian investigators told reporters Thursday morning. Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges said preliminary findings from an investigation …

Diets lacking in healthy food are responsible for more deaths across the globe than smoking, a major new study has concluded. The research, published in the British journal The Lancet, claims that around 11 million deaths per year — or one in five — are a result of a poor …

The number of new corals on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has plunged by 89% since unprecedented bleaching events in 2016 and 2017, scientists say. The events, which damaged two-thirds of the world’s largest reef system, are now being blamed for triggering a collapse in coral re-growth last year. “Dead corals …

The Ukrainian government has banned all unscheduled direct flights to Russia following a recent visit to Moscow by two opposition politicians. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced the ban on Wednesday and said opposition presidential candidate Yuriy Boyko and chairman of the political council of the ‘Opposition Platform – For Life’ …

The Australian man who has been detained for killing scores of Muslims in terrorist attacks on two mosques in New Zealand will face 50 murder charges and 39 attempted murder charges, police say. Fifty people were shot dead and another 50 wounded — several of them critically — by 28-year-old …

Forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar have started advancing on the country’s western cities and districts, with reports of skirmishes already taking place in the south of the capital Tripoli, which is controlled by Libya’s internationally-recognized government of Fayez al-Sarraj. The media office of Haftar’s self-proclaimed Libyan National Army …

A kindergarten teacher in China’s Henan province has been detained after she allegedly poisoned 23 children by putting nitrite into their food. The victims, who were all students at Mengmeng kindergarten in Jiaozuo city, fell ill after eating porridge supplied by the school on Wednesday morning, according to a statement …

Iran has ordered the evacuation of about 70 villages in the south-western province of Khuzestan due to a growing risk of floods, state media report. At least 45 people have died in the past two weeks after heavy rains, with flooding affecting at least 23 of the country’s 31 provinces. …

Nigerians are ordering pizzas from London and transporting them over 3000 miles using British Airways, the country’s Minister of Agriculture has claimed. According to Audu Ogbeh, the African nation’s new international takeaway trend has become “annoying” and officials are desperate to bring an end to it. Speaking at a Senate …

Britain is becoming more likely to crash out of the European Union (EU) without a proper withdrawal agreement, the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator. Michel Barnier said Tuesday that recent developments in the British parliament with regards to Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce deal were paving the way for a no-deal …

Saint Petersburg’s Alexander Mozhaisky military academy was the site of a non-life-threatening explosion Tuesday, with three people injured, Russia’s Defense Ministry said. An unidentified explosive device went off early afternoon inside the staff premises of an administrative building of the academy, which trains officers for the army’s missile defense unit. …

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has approved six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, according to a copy of a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. The Trump administration has quietly pursued a wider deal on sharing U.S. nuclear power technology with …

About 150 Palestinian students threw firebombs and rocks at Israeli soldiers who responded with tear gas and rubber-coated metal bullets in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday after an Israeli raid on their university. Also on Wednesday, a 17-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops during clashes with stone-throwers …

U.N. World Food Program Director David Beasley is traveling to Mozambique Tuesday to draw attention to the devastation caused by the cyclone that recently struck the area of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in the southeastern part of Africa. The trip comes a day after the top U.N. aid chief said …

Britain’s beleaguered Theresa May gathered her ministers Tuesday for yet another emergency Cabinet meeting as the House of Commons upended centuries of constitutional practice and seized control of parliamentary business from the government in a bid to end the long-running Brexit impasse. A series of “indicative votes” planned for Wednesday …

A senior Venezuelan official has confirmed that two Russian planes have landed in the country after authorization by President Nicolas Maduro. Cabello made the remarks in a speech broadcast on state television on Monday, without providing further details. His emphasis on the legitimate government in Venezuela was because an opposition …

eople have held protests all over Syria to denounce the United States’ recent move to recognize Israeli “sovereignty” over the part of Syria’s Golan Heights that has been occupied by the Tel Aviv regime. The rallies took place in the Syrian capital, Damascus, as well as other cities in the …

Thousands of people rallied in Algiers on Tuesday calling on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to quit, keeping up the pressure in weeks of protests that threaten to topple him and the elderly elite that has helped keep him in power for 20 years. Bouteflika, among the veterans of the 1954-62 war …

Millions of Yemenis have taken to the streets of the capital, Sana’a, and other major cities to mark the fourth anniversary of the Saudi regime’s devastating war against the Arab country and reiterate their steadfastness in the face of the ongoing aggression. Many provinces and cities, including Sana’a, Sa’ada, Ta’izz, …

U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights in an election boost for visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, prompting a sharp response from Syria, which once held the strategic land. With Netanyahu looking over his shoulder at the White House, Trump signed a proclamation officially …