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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Dubai-based Emirates, the Middle East's biggest carrier, is the latest airline to stop flying over Egypt's Sinai until more is known about the crash of a Russian airliner. A militant group claims responsibility but Russia says the claim is not credible. Two major European airlines, Germany's Lufthansa and Air France, also stopped using the airspace after Saturday's crash that killed all 224 people aboard. Russian officials and workers are at the site, and the airline that owned the plane is temporarily grounded.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Officials say al-Shabab Islamic extremists in Somalia launched an attack on a hotel in the capital, killing at least nine people and wounding 10, before security forces killed all the militants. The attack in Mogadishu started at dawn when a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle laden with explosives at the gate of the Sahafi Hotel and then gunmen on foot shot at people in the hotel.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Authorities in Romania's capital, Bucharest, are still collecting evidence at the scene of a nightclub fire. The death toll rose today to 29, as two of the 180 people injured died from their burns. Officials say people trying to flee the flames ended up in a panicked stampede Friday night toward the only exit. A spark from the band's pyrotechnics ignited the fire.
PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says prospects for reconciliation with North Korea are dim, but he's calling on Pyongyang to shrink and eventually eliminate its nuclear weapons program. During a visit to the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, Carter emphasized the U.S. alliance with South Korea is "iron clad."
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's foreign minister says international talks aimed at reviving the peace process failed to convince his government's foes to curb their support for "terrorism." Walid al-Moallem's comments came after a briefing on the details of the international talks in Vienna. Neither the Syrian government nor the opposition was directly represented at the talks. Syria's government refers to the entire armed opposition as "terrorists."
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