Earlier in the day, Ethiopian Airlines, along with the Civil Aviation Administration of China, announced that they had suspended operating Boeing 737 MAX 8 aeroplanes in order to address the plane crash near Addis Ababa. Read More »

Ethiopian Airlines has released the first photo from the crash site of its Boeing 737 MAX, showing debris scattered at the location. Its publication came shortly after the airline said that all on board the plane had been killed. Read More »

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US aircraft manufacturer Boeing is confident that the 737 MAX airplanes are safe, despite a deadly crash involving a jet of the same model that killed 157 people in Ethiopia on Sunday, company Chairman, President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg said in a message to his employees. Read More »

Kurdish fighters and their allies in the Syrian Democratic Forces launched an assault on the final stronghold of the Islamic State terrorist group in Baghouz, Syria. Some IS militants have dug in, prepared to fight to the death. Read More »

Mexico's top airline has grounded its fleet of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, following in the footsteps of China and other countries that have fully or partially suspended the planes’ flights in the wake of the crash in Ethiopia. Read More »

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The situation in the Middle East remains complicated, it serves as a base for the activity of terrorist groups, and this also affects Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a final board of the Federal Security Service (FSB). Read More »

Seven-time world champion in aerobatics Svetlana Kapanina and a group called Rus (Russia) have "painted" a star in the sky with the help of smoke exhaust from the planes for the Russian premiere of the Captain Marvel movie, the aerobatic team said in a statement. Read More »

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said no militant group would be allowed to function in the country, as it cracks down on terrorist groups following a border flare-up with India. Read More »

With the bloody conflict in Yemen raging on, desperate parents choose to make their daughters child brides, feeling it is the only way to let other relatives survive the famine and destruction on the ground, Oxfam told RT. Read More »

A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report claims that Iraqi and Kurdish governments have imprisoned hundreds of children who have been forced, through torture, into confessing that they are Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) members. Read More »