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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.
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.
On Sunday Ban Ki-moon paid his respects to victims of the terrorist attack in Paris last month. The UN chief laid flowers outside the Bataclan Theatre, where 89 people were killed by terrorists.
The attacks on 13 November left 130 people dead and more than 360 wounded.
With bowed head, Secretary-General laid a bouquet of flowers in front of the concert hall.
Tens of bystanders applauded the gesture with chants of “Merci, merci, Monsieur Ban Ki-moon”.
Afterwards, accompanied by the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, the Secretary-General visited the nearby café “A La Bonne Biere”, where three people were killed.
Drinking coffee with city officials and community leaders, Ban Ki-moon said the United Nations stood in solidarity with Paris and all victims of terrorism across the world.
Outside, moved by the SG’s presence, A group of Parisians thanked the Secretary-General for his ‘heartwarming visit’
A glimpse behind the scenes at COP21 on Action Day!
UN Messenger of Peace on Climate Change Leonardo DiCaprio meets up with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Paris to discuss the way forward for climate action.
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
The sun rose in Paris on Saturday to a city in mourning. Coordinated attacks overnight in the heart of the city — at restaurants, near the soccer stadium and a concert hall — left at least 127 people dead.
