A small plane involved in upgrading a runway at Dubai International Airport crashed Thursday night, killing four people and halting traffic at the world’s busiest airport for international travel for nearly an hour. Authorities gave no explanation for what caused the crash of the Diamond DA62 aircraft with a tail number belonging to Flight Calibrations […]
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HONG KONG — The Twitter accounts of a Japanese mascot whose naughty antics charmed the internet and drew praise from the comedian John Oliver were abruptly suspended this week. Fans are bereft. But still kind of amused. The cutesy-looking unsanctioned mascot, Chiitan, was modeled on a real-life otter that was itself an official honorary tourism
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Viral video star C.J. Cron and Byron Buxton fueled a seven-run fourth inning with homers, and Michael Pineda pitched the Minnesota Twins past the Seattle Mariners 11-6 on Thursday night. The Twins hit four home runs to extend their streak to 11 straight games with a long ball and made Seattle pay for a pair
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[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] In the video announcing his presidential run, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, described his hometown as “legendarily tough and big and complicated.” Soon after, New Yorkers proved just how apt that was. As Mr. de
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Attorneys for Idaho prison officials argued Thursday that a transgender inmate who is suing for access to gender confirmation surgery is too mentally unstable to receive the irreversible medical procedure. Lawyer Brady Hall told a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Idaho has no policy barring gender confirmation surgery for
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Image copyright Reuters/BBC Image caption Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the poisoning attempt The BBC has commissioned a two-part drama inspired by the 2018 Novichok poisonings in Salisbury. The currently untitled drama will tell the story of “how ordinary people reacted to a crisis on their doorstep, displaying extraordinary heroism”. Former Russian spy
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Image copyright Getty Images More than two-thirds of LGBT people in the UK have been sexually harassed at work, a survey suggests. Of 1,151 polled by the Trades Union Congress, 68% said they had experienced harassment, with 42% reporting they had received unwanted comments about their sex life from a colleague. More than a quarter
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There are around 1.2 million Australians with Chinese heritage but there has never been a Chinese-Australian MP in the lower house. When Australians go to the polls on 18 May in a federal election, history could well be made in the seat of Chisholm in Melbourne, where two Chinese-Australian candidates are running against each other.
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A user must trigger this feature, though. Additionally, if a safety claim has been made against an organization, a notification will automatically appear at the top of a review, alerting users to the issue. “TripAdvisor has its own posting guidelines to ensure the integrity of our content,” Desiree Fish, a spokeswoman for the company, said.
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The Trump administration’s decision to restrict all U.S. technology sales to Chinese telecommunications powerhouse Huawei for national security reasons doesn’t just up the ante in the China trade war. Interested in China? Add China as an interest to stay up to date on the latest China news, video, and analysis from ABC News. It’s also
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