U.S. authorities have restricted helicopter flights near Reagan Washington National Airport indefinitely following a midair collision that killed 67 people.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced the measure on Friday as crews worked to recover wreckage from the Potomac River. The agency said only police and medical helicopters would be allowed in the restricted zone while investigators assess the risks. It remains unclear how long the restrictions will last.
Officials confirmed that 41 bodies had been recovered by Friday, with 28 positively identified. Washington, D.C., Fire Chief John Donnelly said efforts were ongoing to retrieve all victims, noting that moving the plane’s submerged fuselage would improve access.
The crash, the deadliest U.S. air disaster in two decades, has raised fresh concerns about air traffic safety. Reagan National, one of the country’s busiest single-runway airports, has faced persistent issues with air traffic controller shortages. Airport officials said two of its three runways would remain closed for at least a week, severely impacting flight operations.
Investigators continue to examine what led to the collision as authorities face growing scrutiny over safety protocols in one of the nation's most congested airspaces.
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Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday that no cases of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week, and locals said their lives had barely been disrupted.
An Azerbaijani citizen died and another is missing after a cargo ship was attacked by a drone in the Black Sea, near the coast of Romania on Monday, 5 October, Baku's Foreign Ministry has said.
The German-Azerbaijani Connectivity Conference 2026 commenced on 6 October in Baku under the title “Mobilising Finance for Infrastructure, Transport, Logistics, Green Energy, and Digitalisation along the Middle Corridor.”
A large Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow and the surrounding region has killed two people, damaged homes and sparked a major fire at a key fuel facility, according to Russian officials and military bloggers.
Kosovo's parliament has elected economist and academic Justina Shiroka Pula as the country's new president, concluding a dramatic political process just hours before a constitutional deadline that threatened to dissolve the legislature.
The U.S. military has tightened restrictions on its personnel in Okinawa following the arrest of a Marine on suspicion of murder, a case that has reignited long-standing tensions over the American military presence on the southern Japanese island.
The arrest of former German intelligence chief August Hanning on espionage-related charges has drawn renewed attention to his past connections with Israeli security figures and a controversial cross-border child custody case generating significant public scrutiny.
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Space-agency chiefs and industry leaders met to discuss lunar exploration, satellite networks and orbital security on Tuesday as a major global space congress entered its second day.
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