Students, teachers, parents and labor unions joined demonstrations across France Tuesday, as protesters clashed with police and hundreds of schools were closed or blockaded. NBC News’ Richard Engel reports from Paris.
Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, killed her mother and stepbrother and then five students and a teacher at a secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in February.
Tens of thousands of high school students have flooded the streets of Paris and other French cities, joined by teachers and union activists demanding better learning conditions. NBC News’ Richard Engel reports from the scene as about 6,000 people have been arrested and hundreds more injured amid the escalating demonstrations.
Protests have spread across India in the past week as opposition parties and civil society groups demand the resignation of the country’s election chief over alleged manipulation of voter lists.
Spain’s government on Tuesday approved urgent measures on the country’s housing crisis, after an outbreak of violence the night before in the coastal city of Barcelona saw tens of thousands taking to the streets.
In Europe, NATO members are boosting training exercises and even prepping civilians as countries close to Russia’s borders see increasing threats. NBC News’ Richard Engel reports.
A middle east official tells NBC News that the co-pilot who stabbed the flight’s captain had planned to fly the plane into Tel Aviv’s airport before heroic passengers intervened. NBC News’ Keir Simmons reports.
U.S. officials are closely monitoring a situation in Russia after a woman died last week. Authorities say she worked at a lab that studied the plague. NBC News’ Anne Thompson has the story.
About 30 minutes into its journey, the aircraft dropped from 36,000 feet to 9,000 feet in around seven minutes, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.
Germany’s foreign intel chief warns it could become embroiled in a conflict with Russia as Moscow steps up its “shadow war” against European democracies.
The female staffer at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East died from a “pneumonia of undetermined” origin last week, according to a regional governor.
Early indications suggest the Flydubai co-pilot accused of attacking his captain and trying to seize control of an Israel-bound plane was a ‘lone wolf’ acting alone, rather than as part of a larger organization or on behalf of a foreign government, multiple U.S. officials briefed on the investigation and a former Israeli security official told NBC News. NBC News’ Raf Sanchez reports.
Officials cautioned that the investigation remains in its early stages and that possible links to an organization or foreign government haven’t been definitively ruled out.
TEL AVIV — A Flydubai pilot attacked his flight captain using a crash ax and tried to take control of the aircraft’s controls in an attempted terrorist attack, an official with the United Arab Emirates said Saturday.
