|  | | | | | | | | | Top News | | | | | | Minutes after take-off, the pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX were caught in a bad situation. Sources who reviewed the crash data said the problems started barely 12 seconds after take-off. A key sensor had been wrecked, possibly by a bird strike. As soon as they retracted the landing gear, flaps and slats, it began to feed faulty data into the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, designed to prevent stalls. Ethiopian authorities said that the pilots followed all the correct procedures in trying to keep MCAS from sending the plane into a fatal dive. But the full picture of what happened in the cockpit of Flight 302 on March 10 is emerging from a preliminary report and a newly released data plot showing how crew and technology interacted. Here is a look at what we know about Boeing 737 MAX crashes and what comes next. | | | | | | | | Saudi Arabia has arrested at least eight people, including two dual U.S.-Saudi citizens, in an apparent crackdown on supporters of women activists whose trial has drawn condemnation from abroad, an associate and a rights group said. The eleven women on trial had campaigned for the right to drive and an end to the kingdom’s male guardianship system. Their case has intensified Western criticism of Saudi Arabia’s rights record, already in the spotlight after last year’s murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents. | | | | | | | | With more followers on Instagram than France's Emmanuel Macron, Germany's Angela Merkel, Britain's Theresa May and Italy's Giuseppe Conte combined - Ukrainian comedian, TV host and actor, Volodymyr Zelenskiy is shunning traditional presidential campaign tactics. He relies heavily on social media and comedy gigs where he pokes fun at rivals and presents himself as an everyman who stands up to corrupt elites — a man to whom Ukrainians can relate. Aides say he is sticking to an unorthodox campaign routine that has torn up the play book as he prepares for a runoff against President Petro Poroshenko on April 21. | | | | | | | | British Prime Minister Theresa May wrote to European Council President Donald Tusk asking for a delay of Brexit until up to June 30, but said she aims to get Britain out of the EU earlier to avoid it participating in European elections. An EU official signaled that Donald Tusk, the chairman of EU leaders, could be willing to offer even longer: up to a year for Britain’s feuding politicians to agree and ratify a plan. France, however, indicated it was not yet ready to accept an extension unless the British presented a clear plan which would justify such a delay. | | | | | United States | | Motel 6 agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit in which Washington state’s attorney general said the chain routinely provided guest lists to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who announced the settlement on Thursday, said the money will go to roughly 80,000 people who stayed at seven of the chain’s Washington locations from 2015 and 2017. | | | | Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, who is Donald Trump’s pick for a position on the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate setting panel, runs a political fundraising group that has spent more than half its money supporting Trump’s reelection. Trump, who described Cain as “a friend” on Thursday, said he plans to nominate the former head of Godfather’s Pizza to one of two vacancies on the Fed’s seven-member Board of Governors. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tech | | Amazon.com Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos will retain voting control of his entire $143 billion stake in the company under a divorce settlement with his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, who will own 25 percent of those shares, removing uncertainty over control of the online retailer. United States securities regulators shot down attempts by Amazon.com to stop its investors from considering two shareholder proposals about the company’s controversial sale of a facial recognition service, a sign of growing scrutiny of the technology.
3 min read | | | | Central banks of South Pacific islands, joined by those of Australia and New Zealand, will focus on the impact of climate change on their financial systems and ways to respond, they said in a statement 2 min read | | | | Alphabet’s Google said on Thursday it was dissolving a council it had formed a week earlier to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. The council had run into controversy over two of its members, according to online news portal Vox, which first reported the dissolution of the council.
2 Min Read | | | | Elon Musk’s job as Tesla’s chief executive appeared safe on Thursday as a federal judge in Manhattan urged the billionaire to settle contempt allegations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over his use of Twitter. “Take a deep breath, put your reasonableness pants on, and work this out,” District Judge Alison Nathan said. The judge gave both sides two weeks to work out their differences, and said she could rule on whether Musk violated his recent fraud settlement with the regulator if they failed. 6 min read | | | | | | | | | | | | | Top Stories on Reuters TV | | | | | | | |
