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Search crews on Monday recovered the black boxes from Yeti Airlines NYT 691, which crashed in Nepal on Sunday with 72 people on board. KATHMANDU and LONDON -- Search crews on Monday recovered the black boxes from Yeti Airlines NYT 691, the short-haul flight that crashed in Nepal on Sunday with 72 people on board. Both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recover ed as more than 300 people combed the site of the crash , near Pokhara International Airport, officials said. The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder are displayed after they were retrieved from the site of the crash of a passenger plane in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, Jan 16, 2023. Anish Bhattarai/AP One additional body was recovered, bringing the death toll to 69. Three people were still counted as missing on Monday, although officials said they didn't expect to locate survivors. The search-and-recovery mission has been made more difficult because much of the wreckage from the downed plane was i...

The use of drill music in U.K. criminal trials is highly controversial. MANCHESTER -- Ademola Adedeji had a place secured to study law at a top university in England. As part of a charity initiative, he had authored a book about inspiring his local community in Moston, Manchester, made an address to parliament and was seen by family and friends as driven by a "passion for helping people." But in July 2022, Ademola -- known by those close to him as Ade -- was sentenced to prison as part of a gang along with nine other young Black men. Prosecutors alleged that Ade belonged to a gang, named M40 after their local zip code, who had plotted a revenge attack after one of their members, Ade's friend Alexander John Soyoye, was stabbed to death in 2020. But, according to his family and defense team, the gang was not a "gang" at all -- but instead a loose music collective creating songs as part of the young but increasingly popular genre of U.K. drill music. Ade, who was 1...

Two of three NATO surveillance planes deployed temporarily to Romania have arrived at an air base near Bucharest BUCHAREST, Romania -- Two of three NATO surveillance planes deployed temporarily to Romania have arrived at an air base near Bucharest, from where they will fly missions to monitor Russian military activity near the borders of the 30-nation military alliance. The Airborne Warning and Control System planes landed at Otopeni air base on Tuesday afternoon, with one more expected later. They are due to be based there for several weeks. The AWACS aircraft, which NATO refers to as its “eyes in the sky” belong to a fleet of 14 usually based in west Germany. They have large fuselage-mounted radar domes and can detect aircraft hundreds of kilometers away. Germany’s ambassador to Romania, Peer Gebauer, said on the airfield after the first plane landed that the deployment "underlines our resolve to stay strong in this time of crisis.” “This AWACS surveillance mission, which is t...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is appointing a regional official as Germany's new defense minister following the resignation of the much-criticized Christine Lambrecht BERLIN -- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday he will appoint a regional official as the new defense minister following the resignation of the much-criticized Christine Lambrecht. The defense minister -designate, Boris Pistorius, is a member of Scholz’s Social Democratic Party and has served as interior minister of Lower Saxony state since 2013. “I am very pleased to have won Boris Pistorius, an outstanding politician from our country, for the post of defense minister," Scholz said in a written statement. "Pistorius is an extremely experienced politician who has administrative experience, has been involved in security policy for years and, with his competence, assertiveness and big heart, is exactly the right person to lead the Bundeswehr through this change of era,” the chancellor added. Pistorius...

The National Hurricane Center on Monday issued a rare tropical weather outlook for January. The National Hurricane Center on Monday issued a rare tropical weather outlook for January: a strong, non- tropical low pressure system in the Atlantic Ocean. The powerful storm, located about 300 miles north of Bermuda, will soon lose steam. It was unable to transition to a sub tropical or tropical cyclone as it moved north on Monday. The National Hurricane Center has issued a rare tropical weather outlook for January: a strong non-tropical low pressure system that had been churning in the Atlantic Ocean, about 300 miles north of Bermuda. ABC News MORE: California braces for 1 more day of heavy rain in wake of devastating flooding This system was responsible for the blast of snow to coastal New England on Sunday and Monday. Parts of Massachusetts picked up 4.5 inches of snow. Boston, which has had a below-average snowfall this winter, got their biggest hit of snow with 3.5 inches. It'...

The trial of American David Barnes, who's being held in Russia on allegations that weren't substantiated by U.S. authorities, is scheduled to resume this week. Over the last two months, following lengthy periods of detention in Russia, Americans Brittney Griner, Sarah Krivanek and Taylor Dudley were all allowed to return home -- but Alabama native David Barnes continues to be held by Russian authorities. Now, after more than a year of incarceration in Russia, Barnes' trial is scheduled to resume this week before a judge in Moscow. Court filings show that Barnes, a 65-year-old father who was living in The Woodlands, Texas, prior to his arrest during a trip to Russia, is due back in district court on Jan. 19. MORE: Trial begins for David Barnes, Texas man detained in Russia Griner was released from a Mordovia penal colony in December 2022 through a highly-publicized prisoner exchange. Krivanek's detention ended the same day while Dudley was transported across the bord...

A Japanese court has found three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company not guilty of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdowns and subsequent deaths of more than 40 elderly residents during their forced evacuation TOKYO -- A Japanese court on Wednesday found three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company not guilty of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdowns and subsequent deaths of more than 40 elderly residents during their forced evacuation. The Tokyo High Court ruling upheld a 2019 lower court decision that also acquitted the three former top TEPCO officials noting that a tsunami of that magnitude was unforeseeable. The case is the only criminal trial related to the nuclear accident that led the former TEPCO executives to face charges. Minutes after Wednesday's court session for the verdict opened, supporters held up posters saying: “All found not guilty. Unjust Ruling.” The court said ex-TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 82, and...

"Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller" is a National Geographic documentary series that explores the complex inner workings of black markets around the world. The first hurdle to covering black markets is gaining access to a world operating under the radar by design. That's no easy feat, according to Peabody Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller. "It takes a lot of work. It takes months, sometimes even years of just waiting around for things to happen, knocking on doors, relentlessly pursuing people who live, work and operate in these underworlds that don't want there to be a light shone on them," van Zeller told ABC News. Since 2020, van Zeller has been at the helm of "Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller," serving as both host and executive producer. The National Geographic documentary series explores the complex inner workings of the global underworld. Each episode follows van Zeller's investigations into a different black market , from...

Lawyers for sprinter Usain Bolt say more than $12.7 million is missing from his account with a private investment firm in Jamaica that authorities are investigating SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Lawyers for Usain Bolt, one of the world’s greatest sprinters, said Wednesday that more than $12.7 million is missing from his account with a private investment firm in Jamaica that authorities are investigating. Attorney Linton P. Gordon provided The Associated Press with a copy of a letter sent to Stocks & Securities Limited demanding that the money be returned. Gordon said Bolt’s account once had $12.8 million but now reflects a balance of only $12,000. “If this is correct, and we are hoping it is not, then a serious act of fraud larceny or a combination of both have been committed against our client,” Bolt’s attorneys say in the letter. They threaten civil and criminal action if the money is not returned within 10 days. Stocks & Securities Limited did not immediately respond to a requ...

Palestinian media say Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank, as Israeli-Palestinian violence continued to surge RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians during a Military raid in the occupied West Bank early Thursday, Palestinian media reported, as Israeli-Palestinian violence continued to surge. The official news agency Wafa identified the dead as Jawad Bawatqa, 58, and Adham Jabarin. They were shot in the Jenin refugee camp in northern West Bank. The Palestinian media said Bawatqa was a teacher, while the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade — an armed militia affiliated with Fatah, the secular political party that controls the Palestinian Authority — claimed Jabarin as a fighter. The Israeli Military said it had no immediate comment. Palestinian media also reported that the Israeli forces arrested a local official of the militant group Islamic Jihad in Jenin. Tensions have soared in the West Bank, where the Israel...

China has accused “some Western media" of bias, smears and political manipulation in their coverage of China's ending of its strict “zero-COVID" policy BEIJING -- China on Thursday accused “some Western media ” of bias, smears and political manipulation in their coverage of China’s abrupt ending of its strict “zero-COVID” policy, as it issued a vigorous defense of actions taken to prepare for the change of strategy. The move in December to end mass testing and quarantines led to a sharp rise in cases, with some hospitals and crematoriums overwhelmed with victims. An editorial in the ruling Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily outlined what it called China’s “optimization and control measures” and blasted reports by media outlets they didn’t identify as “completely biased hype, smear and political manipulation with ulterior motives.” Since the initial wave of new cases, life in much of China has largely returned to normal, although officials have expressed concern ab...

South Korea and Iran have summoned each other’s ambassadors in a diplomatic spat triggered by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s comments describing Iran as the “enemy” of the United Arab Emirates during a trip to that country this week SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea and Iran have summoned each other’s ambassadors in a diplomatic spat triggered by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s comment s describing Iran as the “enemy” of the United Arab Emirates during a trip to that country this week. While visiting South Korean special forces stationed in the UAE on Monday, Yoon described the hosts as South Korea’s “brother nation” tied by growing economic and military cooperation, and then compared the threat he said UAE faces from Iran to the threat South Korea faces from nuclear-armed North Korea. “The security of our brother nation is our security,” Yoon said. “The enemy of the UAE, its most-threatening nation, is Iran, and our enemy is North Korea.” Yoon’s remarks triggered an irr...