SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A Korean Air flight to Taiwan was forced to return to Incheon airport west of Seoul after a sudden depressurization on the plane, a Boeing 737 Max 8, the transport ministry said Tuesday. The ministry said 19 of the 133 people aboard the flight Saturday were sent to hospitals due […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Gamestop’s highly-anticipated shareholder meeting ran into a technical problem Thursday — resulting in many eager investors being unable to log on to the livestream. A spokesperson for Computershare, the company hosting the webcast, confirmed that “unprecedented demand” from shareholders looking to access the meeting led to a “technical issue” that prevented […]
The man who disrupted a Wisconsin high school graduation when he stormed the stage and blocked the superintendent from shaking hands with his daughter said he disliked the administrator and wanted to prevent him “from having the satisfaction” of shaking her hand, according to a police report. Matthew Eddy spoke to police at Baraboo High […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Downtown Atlanta businesses and attractions were closed Saturday as the city tried to repair water main breaks that led to water outages and low pressure. Water gushed into the street where three large water mains intersect, causing water problems at two downtown hospitals, a city jail, a county jail and local shelters, […]
TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona Democratic field office opening celebration Friday afternoon featuring high-profile politicians was interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters — four separate times. The third and fourth disruptions occurred while Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Democratic Senate hopeful, was speaking on stage. The fourth protester got inches away from the congressman, pointing her finger at […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Commuter rail service serving Barcelona and northeastern Spain has suffered major disruption because of the theft of copper cables from a train installation, Spanish rail authorities said Sunday. Thousands of commuters were stranded at train stations in and around Barcelona after trains couldn’t run on several commuter lines. The disruption to […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Broadband internet was disrupted in many parts of Nepal on Thursday as Indian vendors from whom most Nepali private operators source the bandwidth stopped providing the services because of payment defaults. Private internet service providers in Nepal issued notices saying their services were either disrupted or connections were slow. The state-run […]
Cell service in New York may be affected on the day of the eclipse by the influx of traffic to the state. Rochester is in the path of totality — where the moon completely darkens the sun — making it one of the best places to view the solar eclipse on Monday, April 8. According to local […]
Multiple states reported disrupted services at department of motor vehicles offices Thursday in a “national outage” that halted license-related transactions due to “a loss in cloud connectivity.” The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, a nongovernmental group that provides software to DMV offices, said Thursday: “The network that connects motor vehicle agencies across the United […]
A 330 kV high-voltage power line in Zaporizhzhia Oblast has been severed due to military action. Restoration efforts will commence once workers can do so safely. Source: Ukraine’s Energy Ministry Furthermore, repair is underway on the 330 kV high-voltage power line that supplied the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). The plant’s systems remain operational on […]
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said there is no threat of disruption of the programme to transfer F-16 fighter jets from Denmark to Ukraine. Source: Interfax-Ukraine with reference to Kuleba at a joint press conference with his Danish counterpart Lars Løkke Rasmussen in Mykolaiv, as reported by European Pravda Details: “I thank Lars for […]
The UN trade body sounded an alarm on Thursday that global trade is being disrupted by attacks in the Red Sea, the war in Ukraine, and low water levels in the Panama Canal. Jan Hoffmann, a trade expert at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), warned that shipping costs have already surged […]