Pakistani airliner carrying 99 plunges into Karachi houses
A Pakistan International Airlines Airbus jet with 99 people aboard crashed into a crowded residential district of the city of Karachi on Friday afternoon after twice trying to land at the airport, a witness said.
Karachi hospitals receive at least 56 bodies from plane crash site: hospital officials
Karachi hospitals received 56 bodies from the site of a commercial jet that crashed into a residential neighbourhood while landing in Pakistan’s largest city, hospital officials said on Friday.
Ireland to review 14-day quarantine for travellers on June 18
Ireland’s new regulations requiring incoming travellers to provide the address at which they will self-isolate for 14 days will initially be in effect from May 28 to June 18, Health Minister Simon Harris said on Friday.
Migrants stuck in Hungary can take walks after ‘transit zones’ shut
Pale, thin but in high spirits, Yemeni engineering student Wesam Al-Hadrami emerged from the unlocked gate of a new migrant centre in Hungary on Friday to take his first walk after nine months of detention.
Confirmed Pakistan plane crash death toll at 41: airline CEO
At least 41 people are confirmed to have been killed in a plane crash in a residential area of Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA) chief executive said on Friday.
France – No daily coronavirus death toll, to be updated on May 25
For the first time since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, French health authorities did not report the daily additional deaths linked to the infection, adding in a statement published on Friday those figures will be updated Monday, May 25.
Factbox: The details of Britain’s impending quarantine scheme
The British government plans to introduce a 14-day quarantine period for almost everyone entering the country from June 8.
Nicaragua-Costa Rica coronavirus dispute stalls hundreds of trucks at border
Hundreds of freight trucks were stuck on the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua on Friday as the two countries remain locked in a squabble over measures to contain the coronavirus.
European NATO allies voice concern over U.S. plan to quit Open Skies
European members of NATO told the United States on Friday they were uneasy about its plan to withdraw from the 35-nation Open Skies treaty that allows unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, an official of the defence alliance said.
South America is a new COVID ‘epicentre’, African deaths still low: WHO
South America has become a new epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic with Brazil hardest-hit, while cases are rising in some African countries that so far have a relatively low death toll, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
