A US judge rejected a criminal settlement with Boeing over the 737 MAX crashes on Thursday, slamming diversity policies at the aviation giant and the Justice Department that made him “skeptical” of a fair outcome. In the ruling, US District Judge Reed O’Connor blocked Boeing’s guilty plea under a deferred prosecution agreement in the case […]
A woman accused of evading airport identity and ticket checks and sneaking onto a flight from New York to Paris was charged Thursday with being a stowaway. Svetlana Dali, a Russian with US residency, is alleged to have bypassed a checkpoint at New York’s JFK airport, before sneaking aboard a Delta Airlines flight to the […]
Islamist-led rebels captured the central Syrian city of Hama on Thursday in a new blow to President Bashar al-Assad’s forces days after they lost the country’s commercial hub Aleppo. The rebels led by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched their offensive little more than a week ago, just as a ceasefire in neighbouring Lebanon […]