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Google News — Business

Flight disruption: Airlines criticise air traffic control over second glitch in a month

Flight disruption: Airlines criticise air traffic control over second glitch in a month BBCRYANAIR CALLS ON NATS CEO MARTIN ROLFE TO RESIGN AFTER ANOTHER SYSTEM FAILURE, LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AFTER LAST NATS COLLAPSE Ryanair corporateUK outage affected at least 200 flights — BBC News UA.NEWSSome flights across Belfast airports and Londonderry hit by ‘technical issue’ The IndependentTechnical Fault Grounds Belfast Flights And Sparks Outrage Evrim Ağacı

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Al Jazeera

Putin’s party wins supermajority in Russia’s parliamentary vote

Victory of United Russia party strengthens Putin’s hand even as the war with Ukraine grows more unpopular.President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has won a record supermajority in tightly orchestrated parliamentary polls that excluded virtually any genuine opposition, near complete official results show.With over 58 percent of votes secured, United Russia, which has dominated Russian politics for 25 years, is on track to win more than three quarters of the seats in the lower house, the State Duma, according to the results announced on Monday after three days of voting that ended on Sunday.The polls were the first parliamentary vote since Russian forces invaded Ukraine in 2022 and the first to include residents of four Ukrainian regions that were seized and illegally annexed by Moscow later that year.Reporting from Moscow, Al Jazeera’s Dmitry Medvedenko said the results, along with a high voter turnout of almost 60 percent, “is likely to be seen by Moscow as emboldening, as public support for what it is doing, especially for what it’s doing in Ukraine for the continuation of the war”.Ella Pamfilova, chair of the Central Electoral Commission, said Yabloko, the only registered anti-war party in Russia, did not win any seats at the national level. It had been removed from the ballot last month by Russia’s Supreme Court and only had a few dozen candidates in single-seat races.Yabloko did enter the regional parliament in western Russia’s Novgorod region. It said on social media that it received about 12,000 votes – just over six percent of votes and enough to enter the regional legislature.Yabloko and the Communist Party, which has criticised some aspects of government policy but carefully avoided any criticism of Putin, said many of their observers were turned away from polling stations.The Communists made it into parliament with 13.8 percent of the vote, securing 40 Duma seats. The nationalist LDPR party won 25 seats and the New People party 20.Russia did not invite observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which the Foreign Ministry has accused of “double standards” for its criticism of the country. OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Pere Joan Pons said the decision to exclude observers violated Russia’s commitments as a member.“In the morning, I saw that ⁠⁠United Russia was winning. It probably comes as a surprise to nobody,” said Moscow resident Tatyana.Asked what she would like to change, she said: “Well, I guess everyone knows the most acute thing – the conflict in Ukraine. I’d like to see it end sooner, with peaceful methods if possible”.The continuation of the war risks entrenching policies, which are increasingly affecting average Russians and the parliamentary supermajority may struggle to change the dynamic.“Putin, of course, will interpret United Russia’s results as confirmation of the (public) support of the war, even though it is not the case: The overall demand for ending the war is growing,” said Tatyana Stanovaya of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in an online commentary.“The main question is: What now? There are great concerns about mobilisation, new repressions, harsher measures and escalation,” she wrote.“The Kremlin silenced dissent, barred the only registered party that opposed its war in Ukraine and shut out international election monitors. The veneer of democracy is all that remains in Russia,” Kallas said.In a joint statement, five countries, including Australia, Britain and Canada, condemned Russia’s “sham” parliamentary elections in areas of occupied Ukraine, branding them “part of a wider system of occupation”.

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The Straits Times

Moldovan leaders say will seek parliament's ok to declare energy, water emergency

Vasile Tofan speaks during his oath-taking ceremony as the country's new Prime Minister, in Chisinau, Moldova, July 22, 2026. REUTERS/Vladislav CuliomzaCHISINAU, Sept 21 - Moldova's pro-European leaders said on Monday that they were asking parliament to declare a state of emergency for energy and water supply in connection with dangerously low levels on the Dniester River it shares with Ukraine.Prime Minister Vasile Tofan, writing on social media after a meeting of Moldova's Security Council, said the government would present the appeal to the chamber on Tuesday to give the administration the powers needed to tackle difficulties.He said giving the government a free hand to act was critical as Moldova secured much of its gas, oil and electricity from outside the country."We can't afford to wait for a crisis to start looking for solutions. This will give the government the necessary tools to step in at the first sign of need—and only where it's truly necessary," Tofan wrote."The government will be ready to provide the economy and citizens with water, electricity, and heat, and vulnerable households with the support they need."President Maia Sandu, who has spearheaded a drive for Moldova to join the European Union by 2030, had earlier chaired the Security Council meeting and said its members had recommended introducing emergency regulations quickly."The share of renewable energy sources has increased, but we still don't have the necessary capacity to cover consumption during peak hours," she told a press conference."However, we need to be ready for any changes and provide solutions, no matter what is going on outside the country."Moldova's government has been concerned with low levels on the Dniester for months.A joint meeting of Moldovan and Ukrainian experts last month reduced flows through the Dniester hydropower station in southern Ukraine to permit irrigation of crops in Moldova.The situation on the Dniester was further complicated last March by a Russian attack on the hydropower plant that triggered an oil spill and polluted water systems in Moldova. REUTERS

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Al Jazeera

US man convicted in 2023 shooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont

Jason Eaton faces up to life in prison after a jury rejected his insanity defence.A jury in the US state of Vermont has convicted a man of attempted murder for shooting three Palestinian college students in 2023, rejecting his defence that he was not guilty by reason of insanity.Jason Eaton, 51, faces up to life in prison for the attack near the University of Vermont campus in Burlington. It left Hisham Awartani paralysed from the waist down and wounded his friends Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid.The jury deliberated for several hours on Monday before reaching its verdict after a week-long trial that included testimony from the three men and psychiatric experts called by both the defence and prosecution.Awartani and Aliahmad, who were sitting in the front row of the courtroom, smiled and hugged people around them as the verdict was read.Eaton did not dispute that he shot the three men in November 2023. Instead, his lawyers argued that he should be found not guilty by reason of insanity.The defence said Eaton was suffering from a delusional psychotic disorder and believed the CIA and Israel’s Mossad were transmitting messages to him through FM radio.Joshua O’Hara, the supervising attorney at the Chittenden County Public Defender Office, told jurors that Eaton believed the intelligence agencies had enlisted him to “overwatch duty” to protect a Jewish family living across the street and that God was commanding him to act.Prosecutors rejected the insanity defence, telling jurors that a state psychiatrist had concluded Eaton did not have a mental disease or defect and that the evidence showed he intended to kill the three men.Awartani, Aliahmad and Abdalhamid, now 23, grew up together in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank before moving to the US for university.They were visiting Awartani’s grandmother in Burlington over the Thanksgiving holiday when they went for a walk near the University of Vermont campus after dark.Awartani testified that the friends were smoking cigarettes and speaking a mix of English and Arabic. Two of them were wearing keffiyehs.He said Eaton was standing on the porch of the apartment building where he lived before approaching the friends without saying anything.When Eaton was about five to 10 feet (1.5 to three metres) away, Awartani testified, he pulled out a handgun and began shooting.Awartani, then a student at Brown University, was shot in the chest and left paralysed from the waist down. Aliahmad, who attended Trinity College, was shot in the collarbone, while Abdalhamid, a Haverford College student, was shot in the right buttock.The shooting prompted calls for a hate crime investigation, but no hate crime charges were filed.Police later found three shotguns in Eaton’s apartment as well as a Ruger .380-calibre handgun that crime laboratory testing identified as the weapon used in the shooting.

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Google News — Sports

Holliday (wrist) unlikely to play again for O's in final week of '26 season

Holliday (wrist) unlikely to play again for O's in final week of '26 season MLB.comMichael King moved up in Padres rotation NBC SportsOrioles place IF Jackson Holliday (wrist inflammation) on IL ReutersOrioles place 2B Jackson Holliday on injured list with left wrist inflammation couriernews.comOrioles Announce Jackson Holiday Injury News Ahead of Matchup vs. Mets Yahoo Sports

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The Straits Times

US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fibre line cut at construction site

Planes at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey. All three major New York-area airports faced significant ground stops after a telecom circuit failed.WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration halted traffic on Sept 21 at busy US East Coast airports, snarling more than 1,000 flights after a telecom circuit failed, and a backup fibre cable was accidentally cut.The issue at one point forced a halt to incoming flights at all three major New York-area airports as well as Philadelphia and Boston and two smaller airports in the New York area.The flights were halted on the day that 130 world leaders and dozens of ministers were arriving in New York for the annual high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.The incident demonstrated the fragility of the ageing US air traffic control system, which Congress awarded US$12.5 billion (S$15.9 billion) for upgrades in 2025.FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said a replacement circuit had also failed but said they were resuming traffic to John F. Kennedy Airport and LaGuardia Airport. He said it was not clear when flights might resume at airports in Philadelphia and Newark.A ground stop at Boston, which stopped accepting flights because of spillover volume, was also lifted.The FAA will not restart the system for incoming flights at the affected airports “until we make sure the airspace is safe,” Bedford said.The loss of communications was tied to some frequencies at a Philadelphia air traffic control facility that handles air traffic for the airports, Bedford said. Then authorities discovered that a backup fibre line was accidentally cut by a construction crew in New Jersey.At Newark alone, more than 1,000 flights had been delayed or cancelled. Throughout the US there were nearly 4,000 delayed flights and 500 cancelled.“When it went to flip into the backup, we discovered that the backup fibre had a break, and that fibre break is probably 13 hours to repair. It’s massive, I’m told. Meanwhile, we’ve got the new circuit ready to install now,” Bedford said.FlightAware, a flight-tracking site, said more than 600 flights at Newark and Philadelphia, or more than 20 per cent, had been delayed at Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control. Newark is a major United Airlines hub, while Philadelphia is an American Airlines hub.The issue has also forced the diversion of a number of flights to other airports. Flightradar24, a flight-tracking site, said flights were being delayed by an average of 112 minutes at Newark.In May 2025, the facility that guides air traffic in and out of Newark airport suffered a series of significant communications outages.The FAA said in 2025 a telecommunications outage impacted communications and radar displays at Philadelphia TRACON.In 2025, Congress approved US$12.5 billion to ⁠address the ageing air traffic control system, and boost controller hiring following decades of complaints over airport ​congestion and flight delays and a series of technology ​issues ⁠in recent years. REUTERS

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Al Jazeera

FAA halts flights to major US East Coast airports amid outage

FAA halts East Coast flights due to equipment outage, affecting major US airports in New York, Newark, and Philadelphia.The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has halted flights to several busy East Coast airports amid an equipment outage, snarling more than 1,000 flights.On Monday, the FAA issued ground stops at large commercial airports, including New York’s John F Kennedy International (JFK) and LaGuardia; Newark Liberty International in New Jersey, as well as Boston Logan and Philadelphia International Airport.The flights were halted on the day that 130 world leaders and dozens of ministers were arriving in New York for the annual high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a post on social media platform X that flights have resumed into New York’s LaGuardia and into Philadelphia, but that ground stops are still in effect at Newark, JFK, and Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. The ground stop has also been lifted in Boston.FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford told reporters on Monday that it had “lost the primary circuit” at what is called Philadelphia TRACON, or Terminal Radar Approach Control, which controls air traffic into Philadelphia and airports across the busy northeast US airspace.Bedford said that the backup fibre had a break and told reporters that it could take up to 13 hours to repair. He said the cut was between the city of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Newark, New Jersey, which is home to Newark Liberty International Airport.“An Amtrak construction crew accidentally cut into a fiber line in New Jersey which caused a telecom outage and forced FAA to pause flights in the Northeast,” Duffy said in a post on X.At Newark alone, more than 1,000 flights had been delayed or cancelled. Throughout the US, there were nearly 4,000 delayed flights and 500 cancelled.United Airlines said it would waive change fees for impacted travellers. Newark serves as a major hub for the airline.“Flights that had been destined for Newark have either been held at their departure airport or diverted to alternative airports. Once the FAA outage is resolved, we will work to safely get our customers to their destinations and have issued a travel waiver to give our customers flexibility to manage their travel plans,” a representative for United Airlines said in a statement provided to Al Jazeera.Newark has recorded the highest levels of delays and cancellations of any airport, according to FlightAware, which tracks flight disruptions in real time. As of 3pm Eastern Time in the US (19:00 GMT), 31 percent of departing flights from Newark had been cancelled, along with 29 percent of inbound flights. Meanwhile, 17 percent of departing flights from the United hub had been delayed, as had 17 percent of inbound flights.A ground stop was also issued at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, a private airport neighbouring New York City.

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Citizen Digital

US networks halt Trump coverage over White House ban

Broadcasters CNN and MS NOW, along with news outlet Politico, filed suit after Trump last week ordered them to be barred from the presidential complex. U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One after attending the Republican Midterm Convention on September 10, 2026 at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Texas. U.S. President Donald Trump headlined the Republican National Committee's first-ever midterm convention as he aims to highlight his administration’s achievements and rally support for GOP candidates just two months before the upcoming elections being held on November 3. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFPMajor American television networks on Monday suspended their involvement in a rotation of broadcasters covering President Donald Trump, as three leading news outlets went to court over being banned from the White House.Broadcasters CNN and MS NOW, along with news outlet Politico, filed suit after Trump last week ordered them to be barred from the presidential complex."This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment nor a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles," the organizations said in a court filing.Shortly afterward, the five major US broadcasters said they were halting "pool" coverage of the White House in solidarity with CNN.CNN had been scheduled to serve Monday as the White House TV pool, a rotating assign...

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