Black box confirms 'violent, sudden' demise of Russian plane: source
Paris (AFP) - One of the black boxes from the Russian passenger jet that crashed in Egypt killing 224 people showed it suffered a "violent, sudden" demise, a source close to the case in Paris told...
View Article79,000 Russians are stranded in Egypt
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Around 79,000 Russians are stranded in Egypt after the Kremlin grounded all flights to the country following a deadly Russian airliner crash, the head of Russia's state tourism...
View ArticleInvestigators think they heard something in the cockpit recording of the...
Cockpit information from the Russian jet which crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula one week ago registered a noise in the last second of recording, the head of an investigation committee into the...
View ArticleRussia to send 44 planes to Egypt to bring back stranded tourists
Russia will on Saturday send 44 planes to repatriate its nationals from two Egyptian Red Sea resorts, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said as suspicions grow that a bomb caused last weekend's...
View ArticleKey baggage scanning device at Sharm El-Sheikh airport often didn't work
The airport at Egypt's resort of Sharm el-Sheikh has long had gaps in security, including a key baggage scanning device that often is not functioning and lax searches at an entry gate for food and fuel...
View Article'ISIS already won this round': The Islamic State just staged a propaganda coup
US and European intelligence sources said Wednesday that there is a strong possibility that an ISIS affiliate based in Sinai placed a bomb on a Russian plane bound for St. Petersburg.The new evidence...
View ArticleThe 'nightmare scenario' for the Russian plane crash in Egypt is still in play
With US officials saying it's "99.9% certain" that the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was brought down by a bomb, aviation authorities are having to face the prospect that the supposed attack was...
View ArticleRussian media is peddling anti-western conspiracy theories about the plane...
Russia went there after all.The crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 in Egypt on October 31, which killed all 224 people on board, was more than the worst aviation disaster in the country's history.Once it...
View ArticleUS INTELLIGENCE: Russia believes Sinai plane was brought down by bomb
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russian communications intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies showed Russia believed the plane that crashed in Sinai, Egypt, on Oct. 31 was brought down by a bomb, U.S....
View ArticleEgyptian newspapers are blaming the Russian plane crash on a Western...
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian media have reacted with fury as Britain and the United States increasingly point to a bomb as the cause of the Oct. 31 Russian plane crash in Sinai, and many have hammered home to...
View ArticleeasyJet CEO: A bomb on board a plane is the issue that keeps 'airline chief...
The chief executive of Easy Jet has called for tightened security at a number of airports, following the possible terror attack on the Russian airliner which left 224 people dead.Carolyn McCall has...
View ArticleEgypt is a case study for the West in how not to protect democracy
The recent tragedy in which 224 passengers and crew died in the skies over Sinai points to the contradiction in so many Western governments’ policies towards the Middle East.Their rhetoric trumpeting...
View ArticleRUSSIA: It was 'unequivocally' a 'terrorist act' that caused a Russian...
MOSCOW — The Kremlin on Tuesday said for the first time that a bomb had ripped apart a Russian passenger jet over Egypt last month and promised to hunt down those responsible and intensify its...
View ArticleEgypt has detained 2 airport employees in connection with the Russian jet crash
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities have detained two employees of Sharm al-Sheikh airport for questioning in connection with the downing of a Russian jet on Oct. 31 that killed all 224 people on...
View ArticleRussia is offering a $50 million reward for information on Egypt plane attackers
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian government is offering a $50 million reward to anyone who helps it detain those responsible for placing a bomb on a Russian passenger jet which broke up over Egypt last...
View ArticleRussian passenger jet that crashed in Egypt was reportedly downed by a bomb...
MOSCOW — A bomb that downed a Russian plane in Egypt last month had been placed in the aircraft's main cabin, not in the cargo compartment as reported earlier, the daily Kommersant said on Wednesday,...
View ArticleISIS pulled off 2 of its most alarming attacks in the space of less than a month
The attacks in Paris are the deadliest terrorist incident on European soil since the Madrid bombings in 2004. But they weren't the world's most severe terrorist attack of the past month.On Tuesday, the...
View ArticleISIS pulled off 2 game-changing attacks in a span of less than a month
The attacks in Paris are the deadliest terrorist incident on European soil since the Madrid bombings in 2004. But they weren't the world's most severe terrorist attack of the past month.On Tuesday, the...
View ArticleCan Putin use the Paris attacks to mend fences with the West?
He wasn't ostracized. He wasn't isolated. And certainly nobody threatened to shirtfront him. In the space of a year, Vladimir Putin has gone from being the pariah of Brisbane to being the star of...
View ArticleAn EgyptAir mechanic is accused of planting a bomb that blew up a Russian...
LONDON (Reuters) - An EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined Islamic State in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that was blown out of Egypt's skies in late October,...
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