PARIS. France's aviation safety agency said Saturday that the EgyptAir A320 that crashed into the eastern Mediterranean with 66 people on board had transmitted automatic messages indicating smoke in the cabin. "There were ACARS messages emitted by the plane indicating that there was smoke in the cabin shortly before data transmission broke off," a spokesman of France's Bureau of Investigations and Analysis told AFP... ....
Chittagong // Cyclone Roanu killed 23 people in Bangladesh on Saturday and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes amid strong winds and heavy downpours. Authorities took more than 500,000 people into shelters as the cyclone made landfall just after noon, packing winds of up to 88 kilometres per hour ... "Thousands of villagers were forced to flee their homes after the storm surge flooded their villages," he said....
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama departed Saturday on a weeklong, 16,000-mile trip to Asia, part of his effort to pay more attention to the region and boost economic and security cooperation. He'll spend three days in Vietnam, with stops in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, for meetings with leaders, a speech on U.S.-Vietnam relations, visits to cultural treasures and sessions with civic leaders and entrepreneurs ... ....
Welcoming the draft NationalPolicy for Women 2016, industry body Ficci on Saturday said addressing the wage gap and creating satisfactory working conditions can contribute towards increasing the women workforce ... “The newpolicy shall enable the government to recognise single women – divorced, widowed and unmarried women – as independent entities,” Ficci Ladies Organisation (FLO) PresidentVinita Bimbhet said....
Mr Rajendran told reporters here on Saturday that the LDF would bring in changes in the liquor policy. Mr Oommen Chandy has no right to enforce a lifelong alcohol policy, he said. The LDF will discuss and decide a new policy as there was a court ruling that it should be announced every April ... was against the liquor policy of the UDF government....
Elaborating on how aggressive monetary policy measures of individual countries were affecting the world economy, Rajan said good policy was the first line of India's defence against global uncertainty ... Rajan said unlike rest of the world, India is not standing still and undertaking series of policy reforms ... This is because of uncertainty in policies of other countries....
Officials expect the new use of force policy to focus on de-escalating conflict ... After 12 months and 10 drafts, a new use-of-force policy remains in the works ... "If it takes a year to get policies in place, it's going to take ... The newpolicy should become official within weeks ... "We're not waiting for the policy to be written to start changing," he said....
Elaborating on how aggressive monetary policy measures of individual countries were affecting the world economy, Rajan said, good policy was the first line of India's defence against global uncertainty ... India is fairly safe provided it continues with these policies, he said ... This is because of uncertainty in policies of other countries....
Meanwhile, a body-camera committee is working to recommend policies for using the cameras to MayorAndrew J ... Those policies could help determine which technology the city chooses ... That could be important, depending on the policies that Columbus decides to enact ... He said the creation of policies is the most important aspect ... Daniels said policy should lead the way, not the camera features....
Delivering a lecture on "The Global Economy and India", the former Chief Economist of IMF said new rules need to be evolved for international monetary policy and called for the emerging markets like India to "speak up and raise their voice louder" to have a say in setting the global agenda ... Describing a good policy as the first ......
Local rescuers have been saying that the policies and procedures at the Hillsborough County Pet ResourceCenter in Tampa, Florida, are inhumane ... "Convicted dog fighters can adopt dogs from county shelter with failed policies." ... that was against the shelter policy ... In the news clip, Trebatoski denies that he knew about that policy when he did that....
About a dozen US policy-makers, world-renowned scientists, and industry-sector experts are participating ... The workshops include presentations on health effects of air pollution, impact on industry and their mitigation efforts, and air quality management and policy ... follow a carrot and stick policy."....
Author. . Sean McFate. Sun, 2016-05-22. ID. . 1463868143996127200. President Barack Obama recently announced that an additional 250 Special Operations forces would be sent to Syria to stem the spread of Daesh. It won’t work. By now, “too little, too late” has become the moniker of the administration’s Middle Eastpolicy. To be fair, the policy of Obama’s predecessor wasn’t effective either ... An AmericanForeign Legion ... Columns ... ....
China, which has been battling air pollution for years, has issued new policy measures that could have big implications for its coal power sector ... Demassieux expects that the upcoming UNEA meeting that begins on May 23 will rally policy makers to make concrete decisions towards eradicating air pollution....
“The President of the United States is pushing a radical new policy for bathrooms and locker rooms in our schools and our attorney general has yet to say publicly whether he supports this new policy or not.” ... He said his office and the Treasurer’s Office want to retain their own anti-discrimination policies, which are broader than HB2 allows....
Hyderabad... TPCC leaders N ... . “KCR must realise that in a democracy, the Opposition has a right to criticise the wrong policies of the government ... He wants the Opposition, especially the Congress, to remain silent on his wrong policies,” Mr Reddy said ... ....