U.S. to require negative COVID-19 tests for arriving international air passengers

By Reuters,

Under the rules taking effect Jan. 26, nearly all travelers including U.S. citizens must show a negative test within three days of departure or docume...

coronavirus

Indonesia finds body parts, debris, detects emergency signal of crashed jet

By Reuters,

Indonesia detected signals on Sunday that could come from a flight recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea after taking off from the...

boeing , Indonesia , plane crash

U.S. will require negative COVID-19 tests for all UK passengers

By Reuters,

The U.S. government will require all airline passengers arriving from the United Kingdom to test negative for COVID-19 within 72 hours of departure st...

coronavirus , COVID-19

U.S. charges Kenyan man with researching 9/11-style airplane hijacking

By Reuters,

U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday they had charged a Kenyan man with terrorism-related offences including conspiring for a 9/11-style airplane hijack...

9/11 attacks , Cholo Abdi Abdullah , Dusit

Pfizer Inc announces 90% effective COVID-19 vaccine

By Reuters,

Pfizer Inc said on Monday its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has kill...

Trump says catching COVID-19 was ‘blessing from God’

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump declared that catching the coronavirus was a “blessing from God” that exposed him to experimental treatments he vowed ...

coronavirus , Trump

Trump cuts WHO funding over coronavirus as global death toll mounts

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday halted funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, drawing condemna...

Donald Trump , who

Global coronavirus cases surpass 1 million

By Reuters,

Global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday with more than 52,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the United States and the de...

coronavirus , italy

Uganda mulls spraying visitors with disinfectant to stop coronavirus

By VOA,

Uganda's Health Minister Ruth Aceng has announced new measures aimed at preventing the coronavirus from entering the country. She says authorities may...

coronavirus

Coronavirus pandemic “could be over by June” if countries act, says Chinese adviser

By Reuters,

The global coronavirus pandemic could be over by June if countries mobilize to fight it, a senior Chinese medical adviser said. This as China decla...

coronavirus

Story of Jared and Mercy who were killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash, leaving behind a baby daughter

By Reuters,

Frustrated by incompetence and corruption in his native Kenya, Jared Babu, a 28-year-old activist and entrepreneur, set up a program to train high sch...

Ethiopian Airlines

Ethiopian draft report blames Boeing for 737 MAX plane crash

By Reuters,

A draft interim report from Ethiopian crash investigators circulated to U.S. government agencies concludes the March 2019 crash of a Boeing Co 737 MAX...

Boeing 737 MAX , Ethiopian Airlines , Lion Air Crash

Six years on, families demand new search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane

By Reuters,

Six years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished from radars, relatives of the 239 people who were on board are calling on authorities to reviv...

Flight MH370 , Malaysia Airlines

Second coronavirus death confirmed in the US

By Reuters,

Health officials in Washington state said late Sunday that a nursing home resident had died after contracting coronavirus, while New York’s governor...

coronavirus

Gatherings banned, travel restricted as coronavirus cases grow worldwide

By Reuters,

Leaders in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas rolled out bans on big gatherings and stricter travel restrictions as cases of the new coronavirus...

coronavirus

Coronavirus outbreak ‘getting bigger’ after Nigeria case: WHO

By Reuters,

Coronavirus outbreak is “getting bigger”, the World Helath Organization (WHO) said on Friday after Nigeria confirmed sub-Saharan Africa’s first ...

coronavirus

U.S. warned to prepare for coronavirus pandemic as Europe lockdowns spread

By CNN,

A second European hotel was in lockdown on Wednesday as authorities around the world battled to prevent the spread of coronavirus, although a senior U...

coronavirus

Coronavirus: Facebook, LG Electronics and Standard Chartered restrict travel to China

By Reuters,

Facebook Inc and other global companies including LG Electronics Inc and Standard Chartered Plc are restricting travel to China. This as the death ...

coronavirus

‘Iran mistakenly shot down Ukraine plane’, U.S officials now claim

By Ian Omondi,

U.S government officials are now alleging that an Iran missile brought down the Ukrainian plane that killed all 176 people aboard. The Ukrainian In...

Imam Khomeini airport , Iran , Ukraine plane crash

Remains of Kenyans killed in Ethiopian Airlines plane crash arrive at JKIA

By Benjamin Muriuki,

The remains of 28 out of 32 Kenyans who perished in the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash in March this year arrived in the country on Monday morning; se...

Ethiopian Airlines , jkia