The United Arab Emirates announced Thursday the opening of an investigation to determine whether the alleged attack aboard a Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv the previous day was of a "terrorist" nature.
Questions loomed on Thursday over the motives and background of a co-pilot who stabbed the captain of a passenger jet on its way to Israel, in what Israeli officials have said was an apparent attempt to crash the plane with more than 170 people on board.
At least seven people were killed Wednesday "by gunfire" against a bus in Syria's central Homs province, the official SANA news agency reported.
For Indian pilot Smit Machchhar, hailed as a hero for averting a crash of a flydubai jet bound for Israel, aviation was never part of his childhood dreams.
The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv tried to crash the plane after stabbing the pilot, but passengers subdued him while other crew members landed the aircraft safely in Saudi Arabia, Israeli officials said.
A US ceasefire proposal to pause Sudan's civil war could push the country towards a Libya-style partition in its current form, a top adviser to Sudan's army-led authorities told Reuters, in some of the strongest criticism by a Sudanese official of the plan so far.
King Mohammed VI has appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as Morocco's prime minister, making the 50-year-old the first woman ever to hold the position in the kingdom's history, and only the third woman to serve as prime minister anywhere in the Arab world.
The United Arab Emirates, represented by the UAE Winter Sports Federation, has officially joined World Curling as a Conditional Member Association, becoming the organization's 78th member following approval from the World Curling Board.
Romania's Prime Minister-designate Siegfried Muresan failed to win a parliamentary vote of confidence on Wednesday, extending a political crisis that threatens the country's investment grade rating.
Six journalists from the Egyptian fact-checking platform Matsadaash have been arrested since Monday, platform officials announced Wednesday, in information confirmed by a local human rights NGO.
US forces ended their mission in Iraq on Wednesday after more than two decades of war there, raising fears of a security vacuum that would embolden Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias and allow Islamic State to regroup.
The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv tried to crash the plane after stabbing the pilot, but passengers subdued him while other pilots landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia, Israeli officials said on Wednesday.
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