Author: Ayesha Mehta

It appears amazing that anyone survived the Japan Airlines crash at Tokyo's Haneda airport after seeing the video. Nevertheless, all 379 passengers and crew members on board the Airbus A350 have survived the disaster, despite the heartbreaking loss of five of the six crew members on the Japan Coast Guard Dash 8 jet that it impacted during Tuesday's landing. Experts claim that a mix of contemporary safety regulations and Japan Airlines' strict safety culture is responsible for the smooth evacuation, even if investigations into the events leading up to the incident—which saw the JAL jet explode in a fireball—are still underway. According to the video, "I was surprised and relieved that everyone got out," says Graham Braithwaite, a safety and accident investigation professor at Cranf...

Japan's state network NHK reported that 57 people have died as a result of the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that slammed the country's west coast on Monday. The report cited officials from Ishikawa prefecture. An earthquake that rocked the Noto Peninsula in the central prefecture of Ishikawa on Monday afternoon resulted in building collapses, fires, and the sending out of tsunami warnings as far as away as eastern Russia. The northern area of the remote Noto Peninsula has had restricted access for more than 24 hours after the earthquake, although the Meteorological Agency of Japan canceled all tsunami advisories on Tuesday throughout parts of the nation's western coast. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told the reporters at a disaster emergency meeting on Tuesday that the place was inacce...

For months, Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, has presented his 2024 presidential campaign as an effort to unseat Donald Trump. Christie is now reinforcing that message and isn't planning to withdraw anytime soon, despite mounting concerns that his campaign would unintentionally assist the former president. Christie poses the question, "Who do we want to be as a country?" is a recent commercial that presents voters' choice in the election as a moral one. "Donald Trump - he will sell the soul of this country," Christie declared in a pointed speech delivered directly to the camera. "I'm not flawless. I'm not perfect. However, I'll always be honest with you. The 30-second commercial, titled "The Choice," is the second installment of the campaign's recent $7k ad purch...

So far, a major part of Donald Trump's legal strategy in his federal 2020 election meddling case has been to try to push up the start of his March trial until after the election of November 2020. However, other defence acts have surfaced in recent court filings, according to people familiar with the Trump team's strategy. These tactics centre on distancing the front-runner for the GOP nomination, Trump, from the US Capitol attack and painting him as the victim of misinformation and overzealous government investigators. In late November, two discreet court documents from Trump's legal team provided the most lucid insight into the arguments that the former president's attorneys may make to a jury in the momentous case. According to the pleadings, his attorneys intend to use the trial t...

In an extraordinary decision, the Israeli Supreme Court on Monday overturned a contentious government plan to curtail the judiciary's authority. This development heightened tensions in the nation as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued to fight Hamas in Gaza. By a decision of eight to seven, the court decided that the government's modification to the so-called reasonableness statute should be rejected. The measure, which was the first significant component in a multipronged campaign to undermine the judiciary, was approved by the Knesset, Israel's parliament, last year. It had taken away the Supreme Court's power to deem decisions made by the government to be illogical. The decision reignited a passionate and intense discussion that had raged in Israel during 2023 but had been...

Tuesday saw a Japan Airlines aircraft catch fire upon touchdown at Tokyo's Haneda airport; all passengers were safely evacuated, according to national broadcaster NHK. The passenger plane was captured on camera as it moved and then burst into a massive blaze. Then, as firefighters attempted to put out the raging fire, the jet was seen coming to a stop and people were escaping using emergency slides. NHK said that the aircraft had about 400 passengers and staff members. CNN is reaching out to officials to confirm more details. Japan Airlines flight 516 took off from New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, according to NHK. Japan Airlines says the plane collided with what appears to be a Japan Coast Guard aircraft upon landing, according to NHK. According to the f...

As a New Year's concert in Rochester, New York was coming to an end, two cars crashed and smashed into a crowd in a fiery catastrophe, killing two people and wounding five more. The FBI is looking into the incident. Authorities claimed that thousands of people were leaving the Kodak Centre as the celebrations for the new year were clouded by sadness after the terrible incident. At approximately 12:50 a.m. on Monday, revellers were using a crosswalk outside the venue when a Ford SUV collided with a Mitsubishi Outlander that was departing a neighbouring parking lot, according to Rochester Police Chief David Smith during a press conference on Monday. According to Smith, the power of the collision sent the cars "through" a gathering of people using the crosswalk. The driver of the ...