JAKARTA, (APP/AFP) – A pilot was killed and three passengers critically wounded after a helicopter crashed in remote eastern Indonesia Saturday, officials said, the latest accident to beset the country’s beleaguered aviation sector. The Bell 206 helicopter of aircraft operator Amur went down in Paniai district, Papua province. It was not immediately clear what caused […]
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One dead, three critical in Indonesian chopper crash
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Clinton goes nuclear in bid to unpick ‘Teflon Don’
WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – Hillary Clinton this week revealed a formula she hopes will help beat presidential rival Donald Trump in November: a not-so-subtle suggestion he is unhinged. A string of 2016 presidential hopefuls have tried to land a punch on “The Donald” with little effect. Trump has brushed off earnest-sounding accusations that he is not […]
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Japanese man, 96, becomes world’s oldest college graduate
TOKYO, (APP/AFP) – A 96-year-old Japanese man is potty at the prospect of breaking more records after being recognised as the world’s oldest university graduate with his degree in ceramic arts. Spritely senior Shigemi Hirata received his Guinness World Records certificate on Friday after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kyoto University of Art […]
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Surfer dies after losing leg in Australian shark attack
SYDNEY, (APP/AFP) – A surfer who lost a leg in an Australian shark attack has died in hospital, police said Saturday, saying his injuries were too severe for him to survive. Ben Gerring, 29, was with a group of surfers at Falcon Beach in Western Australia when a suspected great white pounced on him on […]
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Turkey says Germany still ally after genocide resolution
ISTANBUL, (APP/AFP): Turkey on Friday said Germany was still a key ally despite Ankara’s fury over a parliament resolution that recognised the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide. Seeking to keep the dispute from erupting into a full-blown crisis, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim emphasised the key relationship would continue while Berlin […]
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Clinton says Trump dangerous, unfit to be commander in chief
SAN DIEGO, (APP/AFP) – US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton tore into her likely election rival Donald Trump as never before Thursday, saying his foreign policy is dangerously incoherent and labeling him unfit for office. “He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility,” Clinton said, cranking up the rhetoric […]