Month: December 2024

The 39th US president passed away in his home in Georgia on Sunday

Former US president and Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100 in his home in Plains, Georgia on Sunday.

In 2023, the Carter Center revealed that the 39th US president was fighting an aggressive form of melanoma skin cancer. He spent his last years at home under hospice care. He was the longest-lived president in American history.

“My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love,” his son, James E. Carter III, said in a statement.  

“My brothers, sister, and I shared him with the rest of the world through these common beliefs. The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you for honoring his memory by continuing to live these shared beliefs.”

Born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Carter graduated from a naval academy and served as an engineer on a submarine. He was elected governor of Georgia in 1971 and eventually served as president from 1977 to 1981.

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A passenger plane skidded off a runway at a South Korean airport Sunday, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames after its front landing gear apparently failed to deploy.

All but two of the 181 people on board died in one of the country’s worst aviation disasters.

The Jeju Air plane crashed while landing in the town of Muan, about 290 kilometers (180 miles) south of Seoul. The Transport Ministry said the plane was a 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 jet that had arrived from Bangkok and that the crash happened at 9:03 a.m.

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The flight from Azerbaijan suffered an incident in Russian airspace during a Ukrainian drone raid, the Kremlin has said

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, to express condolences for a deadly plane crash this week, the Kremlin said on Saturday.

He offered an apology for the fact that such an incident “took place in Russian airspace,” adding that it occurred during a Ukrainian drone raid, which was being repelled by air defences.

“The Azerbaijani passenger plane, which arrived on schedule, made repeated attempts to land at the airport in Grozny,”the statement said. The capital of Russia’s Chechen Republic, as well as other cities in the region, “were being attacked by Ukrainian combat drones at the time, and Russian air defences were repelling those attacks.”

Putin apologizes over deadly plane crash pic.twitter.com/K10vhVA7Zk

— SilencedSirs◼️ (@SilentlySirs) December 28, 2024

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Nineteen residential care centers are currently under increased supervision by the Care Department of the Flemish government.

This was evident from the overview on the department’s website on Friday. The Care Inspectorate identified deficiencies at residential care centers that are under increased supervision.

They received a reminder and must then draw up a step-by-step plan to comply. In the meantime, they receive extra checks, at least twice a year. Of the nineteen residential care centers currently on the list, ten will be added in 2024.

since March 2023, mainly due to staff shortages, deficiencies regarding medication safety, incomplete care records and insufficient help with daily care.

If residential care centers improve their operations, the Department of Care will lift increased supervision.

If not, they risk a suspension (where they are no longer allowed to accept new residents), a fine of up to 25,000 euros, the appointment of a provisional administrator or even a permanent closure.

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Update as from 15-09-2023

Two caretakers at a retirement home in Pecq in the province of Henegouwen have shared humiliating photos of some of the residents in a Facebook group.

The images show, among other things, a man who has fallen out of his wheelchair and someone lying on a bed in a strange position. The two employees were initially suspended, but are now allowed to return to work.

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Negentien woonzorgcentra op zwarte lijst, eentje geschorst https://t.co/N7QMy5K4xz

— Danny Thurion (@dannythurion) December 27, 2024

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Finland has shared a brutal response with Russia, after its special forces seized a Russian shadow fleet tanker believed to have carried out a destructive attack on a set of power and internet cables in the Baltic Sea. 

The Eagle S’s anchor is suspected of causing damage to the Estlink-2 power cable, which takes electricity from Finland to Estonia across the Baltic Sea, after it went down just after noon on Christmas Day.

In the latest incident involving disruption of key infrastructure, Finnish police and border guards boarded the Eagle S at just past midnight on Thursday and took over the command bridge, Helsinki Police Chief Jari Liukku said at a news conference.

Finland's brutal response to Russia after special forces seized tanker https://t.co/op6FdPeuCp via @MailOnline

— Steve Grant (@SteveGrant67) December 27, 2024

EU, Nato respond to “dark” ship detained in Finnish waters.

A Kremlin spokesperson said following the excoriating comment that it had nothing to add on the issue.  

Just In: Finnish authorities detained a Russian oil tanker, the Eagle S, as part of an investigation into damage caused to the EstLink 2 power cable on Thursday. The EstLink 2, which delivers electricity to Estonia via the Baltic Sea, was cut in the Gulf of Finland on Wednesday.

In a joint statement by the EU Commission on Thursday, Kallas described the severance of the cable as the “deliberate destruction of Europe’s critical infrastructure,” blaming Russia for the incident.

EU, Nato respond to "dark" ship detained in Finnish waters

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the EU will respond with more sanctions to target Russia's "shadow" fleet. pic.twitter.com/TrDGMNcs3W

— NORDIC NEWS (@finland227) December 27, 2024

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An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday killing 38 people was downed by a Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters.

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 came down near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from an area of Russia in which Moscow has used air defence systems against Ukrainian drone strikes in recent months.

NATO called for an investigation into the cause of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that killed 38 people https://t.co/1YlWa1KJaU

— Reuters (@Reuters) December 26, 2024

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