One of the two survivors of a Ukrainian military plane crash died in hospital as the death count climbed to 26 on Saturday after three more bodies were found. President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the scene of the tragedy near the eastern city of Kharkiv where an Antonov-26 transport plane carrying 20 young cadets and seven crew members crashed Friday evening.
Berlin: Hundreds of anti-coal protesters entered a mine in western Germany on Saturday to protest the continued extraction and use of fossil fuels. Environmentalists object to the German government’s decision to allow the mining and burning of coal in the country until 2038, a deadline the activists say is too late to effectively tackle climate change.
Beirut: Lebanon’s PM-designate resigned on Saturday amid a political impasse over Govt formation, nearly a month after he was appointed to the job. The announced by Moustapha Adib deals a blow to Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to break a dangerous stalemate in the crisis-hit country. Macron has been pressing Lebanese politicians to form a Cabinet made up of independent specialists that can work on enacting urgent reforms to extract Lebanon from a devastating economic and financial crisis.