The death toll from the crash of a passenger plane in Taiwan rose to 31 Thursday, as search and rescue operations continued for 12 people still missing. Internet video showed the twin-engine TransAsia plane moments after takeoff from Taipei’s Songshan airport on Wednesday, bound for Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen islands. The plane’s left wing, perpendicular to […]
TAIPEI—Rescue workers in Taiwan have used a crane to lift part of the wreckage of a TransAsia passenger plane that crashed outside of Taipei, killing at least 25 people and leaving nearly 20 others missing in shallow water. Rescuers in boats surrounded the partially submerged, upside-down plane and pulled at least 15 of the passengers […]
Jordan’s King Abdullah vowed a “relentless” war against Islamic State militants on their own territory on Wednesday. Abdullah’s remarks came a few hours after Jordan executed two militants at dawn Wednesday, responding to the Islamic State group’s gruesome killing of a Jordanian pilot captured after his plane went down during a mission targeting the fighters […]
A diverse group of Alaskans said a report released today on the Mount Polley mine disaster in British Columbia (B.C.) provides new evidence that mines planned and under construction in the B.C. headwaters of highly productive Southeast Alaska salmon rivers are a threat to multi-billion dollar fisheries and a way of life for thousands of […]