Vladimir Putin admitted Saturday Russian air defence was working when an Azerbaijani Airlines plane tried to land in Grozny before crashing, breaking the Kremlin’s silence as speculation mounted Russia may have...
Vladimir Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia at fault | BBC News
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has apologised to the president of neighbouring Azerbaijan over the downing of a commercial airliner in Russian airspace – but stopped short of saying Russia was responsible...
Kremlin: Air defense active during plane approach | DW News
Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized for what he called the "tragic incident" in Russian airspace leading to the downing of an Azerbaijani passenger plane. Putin told his Azerbaijani counterpart...
Snapped mast ends sailor’s round-the-world race
British sailor Pip Hare had always planned on spending Christmas alone in the ocean but sadly things didn’t work out quite the way she had hoped. The skipper was forced out of a round the world yacht race when her...
Bodycam footage shows NY officers beating prisoner before death
Newly released bodycam footage appears to show New York prison officers beating a handcuffed inmate, who died the following morning. Robert Brooks, 43, was pronounced dead in hospital on 10 December, the day after the...
How does the Golan Heights’ Druze population factor into Israel’s plans? | DW News
The fall of the Assad regime in Syria is being welcomed by many in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights — a border area where some Syrian families have lived separated from loved ones for years. Israel seized the region...
2024 hotest year in history: A look at climate disasters across the globe • FRANCE 24 English
From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate disasters in 2024. This...