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Airbus fix disrupts flights PARIS: Asian airlines scrambled yesterday to fix a software glitch on their Airbus A320 jets as a sweeping recall by the planemaker grounded aircraft across the region after Firm apologises for inconvenience directing their carriers to remedy the A320 software problem before resuming flights. The Airbus recall, issued to 350 operators around the world, appears to be one of the biggest in its 55-year history and comes weeks after the A320 overtook the Boeing 737 as the most delivered model. completed the software reset on 160 out of 200 aircraft. Air India, which has 113 affected aircraft, has completed the reset on 42 aircraft. Both airlines warned of delays yesterday. nosedived as it travelled between Cancun in Mexico and Newark in the United States, and pilots had to land in Tampa, Florida. in-flight control issue due to a computer malfunction. The plane suddenly

Child deaths linked to jabs NEW YORK: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in an internal memo that at least 10 children had likely died “because of” Covid-19 vaccinations, citing myocarditis, or heart inflammation, as a possible cause, the New York Times reported. The Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA, did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside business hours. The memo, written by the FDA chief medical and scientific officer Vinay Prasad, did not disclose the ages or health conditions of the children or the vaccine manufacturers involved, said the New York Times . Prasad was quoted as calling the finding “a profound revelation” and announcing plans to tighten vaccine oversight, including requiring randomised studies. The findings of the new FDA review have not been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, the Times reported, adding that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine committee is to meet next week. – Reuters Probe ‘torture’ claims, Israel told GENEVA: A UN committee urged Israel on Friday to set up an independent commission to investigate claims of torture of Palestinians and warned the situation had worsened since the start of the Gaza war. The UN Committee against Torture said it was “deeply concerned about reports indicating a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture and ill-treatment” in Israel. The committee, whose 10 independent experts monitor how countries implement a convention against torture, stressed that it “condemned the attack on Oct 7, 2023”. But in a report published after a regular review of Israel, it “also expressed its deep concern over the disproportionate nature of Israel’s response to these attacks”. And it decried “a range of policies adopted by Israel in the course of its continued unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”, warning that it risked leading to “cruel, inhumane or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population”. The experts called on Israel to “establish an independent, impartial and effective ad hoc commission to review and investigate all allegations of torture and ill-treatment committed during the conflict”. – AFP

Aerospace and defence giant Thales told AFP that it makes the flight control computer, which it said was “fully compliant with the technical specifications issued by Airbus”. But it said: “The functionality in question is supported by software that is not under Thales’ responsibility.” The Airbus statement did not specify which company had designed the software. It apologised for the inconvenience. On Oct 30, a JetBlue-operated A320 aircraft encountered an

Contacted by AFP, JetBlue did not comment on the incident but said it had already begun necessary changes on some A320 and A321 models. Its competitor, American Airlines, said it had already begun updating software following Friday’s alert, and expected “the vast majority” of approximately 340 affected aircraft to be serviced by yesterday. Produced since 1988, the A320 is the world’s best-selling aeroplane. – Reuters/AFP

disrupting travel in the US during the busiest weekend of the year. The recall of 6,000 planes covers more than half of Airbus’ global A320 family fleet, the backbone of Asian short-haul aviation, particularly in China and India, where economic growth has brought millions of new travellers into the skies. Regulators around the world followed the European Union Aviation Safety Agency in

The US Federal Aviation Administration told carriers to replace or modify software that controls the elevators and ailerons on A319, A320 and A321 airplanes. India’s aviation regulator said 338 Airbus aircraft in the country were affected by the glitch but said the software reset would be completed by today. The country’s largest airline, IndiGo, said it had

Australian PM ties the knot in private ceremony SYDNEY: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese married his girlfriend Jodie Haydon yesterday,

becoming the country’s first leader to tie the knot while in office. A beaming Albanese, 62, wed the financial services worker at a private ceremony in the garden of his official residence in Canberra, The Lodge. “Married”, he said in a one-word post on social media with a video of him in a bow-tie holding the hand of his smiling bride, who wore a long, white dress, as confetti showered down. In a separate joint statement, the couple said: “We are absolutely delighted to share our love and commitment to spending our future lives together, in front of our family and closest friends.” The ceremony took place more than a year after Albanese proposed on Valentine’s Day 2024, saying at the time he had found a partner “who I want to spend the rest of my life with”. They wrote their own vows and were married by a celebrant. Albanese’s dog, a shaggy cavoodle named Toto, was the ring bearer. After the ceremony, at which guests drank beer from a Sydney brewery, the couple walked down the aisle to Stevie Wonder’s Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours) .

Albanese and Haydon at their wedding ceremony in Canberra. – AFPPIC

election victory in May this year. He joined Labor while in high school and later became deeply involved in the bruising world of student politics at the University of Sydney. – AFP

Albanese met Haydon more than five years ago at a Melbourne business dinner. The centre-left Labor Party leader secured a second three year term in office in a landslide

The newlyweds are to go on a five-day honeymoon in Australia from tomorrow. The prime minister, who divorced his previous wife in 2019 and has an adult son, Nathan.

US troops kill survivors of strike on alleged drug boat WASHINGTON: The US military conducted a follow-up strike on a boat in the Caribbean that it believed to be ferrying drugs, killing survivors of an initial missile attack, US media reported. familiar with the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” one of the sources told the Post .

were changed to rescue any survivors, the Post said. According to CNN, it was not clear whether Hegseth knew there were survivors before the second strike was carried out. The follow-up attack was initially reported on Sept 10. On Friday, Hegseth posted on social media that “operations in the Caribbean are lawful under US and international law”. – AFP

US has not offered evidence to back up the allegations behind its campaign, which has killed at least 83 people, according to an AFP tally of publicly released figures. On Sept 2, the US military saw two survivors of an initial strike clinging to the burning vessel, then proceeded to strike them again, the Washington Post reported. After the Sept 2 strike, protocols

The alleged incident occurred on Sept 2 during the first publicised strike in a series of attacks against boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific that Washington claims were trafficking drugs in international waters.

The troops had been given a directive from US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to kill everyone on board, the Washington Post and CNN reported, citing unnamed sources