Seven people were arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb densely populated areas in Amsterdam, Netherlands, police said Thursday.
7 accused of Amsterdam bomb plot
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Defiant Sudanese president visits Darfur
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir made his first trip to Darfur since an international tribunal ordered his arrest on war crimes charges, pledging resistance Sunday to what he called efforts to "recolonize" Africa.
Boeing issues memo on 737 jets after Amsterdam crash
Boeing is asking pilots who fly its 737 jets to pay careful attention to flight instruments after Dutch investigators said a faulty altimeter contributed to the recent crash of a 737 in the Netherlands. The 737 is the most widely flown jet in commercial aviation.
Sudan’s president dances after war crimes move
Sudan’s president was seen smiling, dancing and speaking to a huge crowd of supporters Thursday, a day after a warrant was issued for his arrest on war crimes charges. The display of defiance came as international aid agencies were being ordered to leave the country in retaliation for the move by the International Criminal Court over six years of bloodshed in the country’s Darfur region
Sudan orders aid agency expulsions
Sudan ordered a number of international aid agencies to leave the country Wednesday after an arrest warrant was issued for the country’s president, a United Nations source in the capital city of Khartoum said. The International Criminal Court issued the warrant earlier Wednesday for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Faulty reading helped cause Dutch plane crash
A "faulty" flight instrument contributed to the crash of a Turkish plane last month in the Netherlands, an accident that killed nine people and injured more than 60 others, Dutch safety authorities said on Wednesday. On February 25, Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 from Istanbul to Amsterdam dropped from the sky on approach to the landing strip at Schiphol Airport, shattering into three pieces in a muddy field. Pieter van Vollenhoven, head of the Dutch Safety Board, said the instrument was one of the plane’s two altimeters, which measure altitude
Roubini Sees More Economic Gloom Ahead
Economist Nouriel Roubini, chairman of New York-based research firm RGE Monitor, earned the nickname “Dr. Doom” by warning as early as 2005 that America’s speculative housing boom could trigger an economic crisis
U.N. court to convene for Lebanon assassination
The tribunal established to prosecute people allegedly responsible for the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others will officially convene at The Hague in Netherlands on Sunday. The car bomb in Beirut in February 2005 transformed the turbulent nation’s politics and sent shock waves across the Middle East and the world
Anti-Islam film’s director goes to Washington
A right-wing Dutch politician arrived in the U.S. Thursday to show his controversial film attacking Islam.
Turkish plane crashes at Amsterdam airport
A Turkish airliner crashed at Amsterdam’s main airport about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday local time, Dutch airport officials said.