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@Regrann from @goldmynetv - #BREAKING: #Egyptair says flight #MS804 from Paris to Cairo with 69 people on board “has disappeared from radar” – live updates
The plane left the French capital at 11pm local time on Wednesday
There were 59 passengers and 10 crew on board when it vanished.
An Egyptair flight heading from Paris to Cairo has gone missing.
The plane left the French capital at 11pm local time on Wednesday night and then disappeared off radar.
It was supposed to arrive in Egypt at 3:05am local time. There were 59 passengers and 10 crew on board.
The airline tweeted: ‘An informed source at EGYPTAIR stated that Flight no MS804,which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST),heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar.’ They added that the plane disappeared 80 miles (10 minutes) before entering Egyptian airspace. #Regrann
Henriette bùi Quang Chiêu was the fist female physician in Vietnam. Born into a prominent Vietnamese family, Henriette moved to Paris with her politician father as a teenager. She enrolled in medical school at the University of Paris in 1927. She graduated in 1934 and returned to Vietnam a year later. In Vietnam, she worked as a physician at a maternity hospital. Henriette faced massive discrimination as both a female physician and as a non-white physician, but she was eventually appointed head of her department.
In 1957, Henriette moved to Japan to study acupuncture. She returned to Vietnam for a year to share what she had learned before setting up a private practice in Paris. Henriette returned to Vietnam to serve as a doctor during the war, but spent the last forty years of her life in Paris. She died at the age of 105.
The theme of the contest – ““Hotter, drier, wetter. Face the Future” – was chosen to illustrate the reality of climate change. As a result of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, land and sea surface temperatures are rising. The frequency and intensity of extreme events like heatwaves and heavy rainfall is increasing. Without urgent action to cut carbon dioxide emissions, this trend will accelerate.
In the State Department, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is tasked with ensuring that the Department is functioning efficiently and maintaining its integrity at each post.
In practice, the OIG works to root out crime and abuse conducted by LSEs, or people from the host country that work at each posting, and FSOs.
You can read on at the link to learn more about the OIG and the work they do.
On this day in 1986, Haitian dictator Baby Doc Duvalier and his family left Haiti in a U.S. C-141 jet bound for France. He would not return until 2011.
The Duvalier family had controlled Haiti for much of the 20th century. Baby Doc’s rule, which lasted from April 21, 1971 until he left on February 6, 1986, was marked by his inefficient control of government responsibilities and continued violence against opposition members.
You can read about the last year’s of Baby Doc’s reign in Haiti at the link.
On this day in 1982, a military attache named Charles Ray was assassinated in Paris.
In the 1980s, a string of attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Paris meant that the City of Lights was one of the more dangerous posts in the Foreign Service. You can read more about the attacks at the link.
As France suffers the fallout from the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris, the far-right National Front party emerged as frontrunners in the regional election primaries.
“I believe the incredible results of the National Front amounts to the revolt of the people against the elite,” Leader Marine Le Pen said Monday on French radio. “The French people have had enough of being treated like a herd of sheep.”
Paris is getting ready to welcome 150 world leaders on Monday for the start of COP21, the United Nations conference on climate change. Following the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in the French capital, a state of emergency has been in place banning public gatherings across the country. In an attempt to get around the ban, the NGO Avaaz organized a symbolic and peaceful rally at Place de la Republique with thousands of pairs of shoes. Photograph by Miguel Medina of @afpphoto. Read more on TIME.com. http://ift.tt/1Ii80Wg
On this day in 1955, the Sultan* of Morocco was allowed to return from exile. 11 years before, the Istiqlal (الإستقلال, meaning independence) Party demanded freedom from French rule when the Allied victory did not result in Moroccan independence.
In 1952, riots broke out in Casablanca, and in response, France banned right-leaning parties and exiled the Sultan of Morocco, who was a revered religious leader. However, this increased tensions to the point that on November 18, 1955, France brought the Sultan back for negotiations that eventually led to France relinquishing their protectorate and giving Morocco back to the Moroccans. Accordingly, November 18 is celebrated as Independence Day in Morocco.
You can read on at the link to learn more about the negotiations that led to an independent Morocco at the link!
*Note: Mohammed V changed his title to King of Morocco in 1957. Since that time, the head of the monarchy in Morocco has been called King.
