Ukraine president says spoke with Canada’s Trudeau, agreed need for objective probe of plane crash
Ukraine and Canada have agreed to push for an objective investigation into the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane in Iran, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday after speaking with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Explainer: Reading ‘black boxes’ of Ukrainian jet that crashed in Iran
Iran is examining ‘black boxes’ from a Ukrainian jet that crashed on Wednesday in a fireball shortly after taking off from Tehran, sparking an international hunt for clues amid Western claims that the jet had been brought down accidentally by Iranian m…
Washington rejects Iraqi request to remove troops
Washington on Friday rebuffed an Iraqi request to prepare to pull out its troops, amid heightened U.S.-Iranian tensions after the U.S. killing of an Iranian commander in Baghdad.
Bahrain’s Gulf Air reroutes several flights to avoid Iranian airspace: spokesman
Bahrain’s state carrier Gulf Air has re-routed flights away from Iranian airspace as a safety precaution, said an airline spokesman on Friday.
Iran to analyze black box after missile blamed for crash
Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard, after Canada and others said the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile, probably by mistake.
Boy kills teacher, self in northern Mexico school; video game questioned
An 11-year-old boy armed with two guns entered a school in northern Mexico, shot dead a teacher and wounded at least six others before killing himself, possibly under the influence of a violent video game, local officials said on Friday.
French pension reform talks deadlocked ahead of nationwide protests
Negotiations between the French government and trade unions failed to break the deadlock over pension reform on Friday as both sides stood firm ahead of a fifth day of nationwide protests.
Ukraine security service prioritizing missile, terrorism as possible causes of plane crash
Ukraine’s state security service has prioritized a missile attack and terrorism as possible causes of the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane in Iran, the head of the state security service (SBU) Ivan Bakanov said on Friday.
U.S. wants independent probe into Ukrainian plane crash: U.S. official
The United States wants a thorough and independent investigation into the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane in Iran that killed 176 people, the State Department’s top diplomat for the Middle East said on Friday.
Ukraine says Iran cooperating in plane crash probe, cautious on blaming missile
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Friday that Iran was cooperating with an investigation into the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane, and that Kiev was not ruling out any version yet of what might have happened.
