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World Briefing: January 30, 2025
World Briefing: January 30, 2025

An American Airlines passenger aircraft carrying 64 people collided midair with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC. No survivors are expected to be found. Egypt will not participate in the displacement of Palestinians. 

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World Briefing: December 29, 2024
World Briefing: December 29, 2024

A Boeing passenger plane carrying 181 people crashed while landing at an airport in southwestern South Korea on Sunday. As of 10am GMT, there were at least 176 dead. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: July 27, 2024
WORLD BRIEFING: July 27, 2024

The Olympics get underway in Paris with an unprecedented outdoor ceremony but marred by an arson attack on the French high-speed rail system and athletes complaining of lousy food 

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 26, 2024
WORLD BRIEFING: January 26, 2024

Ukraine and Russia have contradicted each other over whether there had been proper notification to secure the airspace around an area where a military transport plane Moscow says was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs crashed, killing them and nine others on board. Israel and Qatar are in a major diplomatic spat over Gaza. 

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