Brief news:

Date: 31 August 2016 - 21:35

News ID: ۳۰۶۹۸

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a half century is scheduled to fly from Fort Lauderdale to the central city of Santa Clara on Wednesday morning, re-establishing regular air service severed at the height of the Cold War.
JetBlue Flight 387 was set to take off at 9:45 a.m. EDT for a 72-minute journey that will open a new era of U.S.-Cuba travel, with about 300 flights a week connecting the U.S. with an island cut off from most Americans by the 55-year-old trade embargo on Cuba and formal ban on U.S. citizens engaging in tourism on the island.
-----------------------------------------------------
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has ordered a review of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, which is under construction and due to be delivered in November, a Defense Department spokesman said.
Defense Undersecretary for Acquisition Frank Kendall ordered the review, citing a list of problems with the ship, Bloomberg News reported.
"With the benefit of hindsight, it was clearly premature to include so many unproven technologies" on the carrier, Kendall wrote to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus in an Aug. 23 memo, according to Bloomberg.
A Pentagon spokesman confirmed to Reuters that Kendall had ordered the review. It was not immediately clear who would conduct it.
----------------------------------------------------------

KIGALI (Xinhua) -- Members of the Eastern Africa Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization (EAPCCO) are looking for smart ways to counter cyber crime that has become increasingly prevalent and sophisticated across the globe.
The law enforcement officers from 13 EAPCCO member countries made the remarks on Wednesday during the opening of the 18th EAPCCO Annual General Meeting (EAPCCO-AGM) at the Kigali Convention Centre.
The high level forum, dubbed: "Enhancing cooperation and innovation in combating transnational organized and emerging crimes," has brought together more than 100 delegates from across the African region.
--------------------------------------------------

TUNIS (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a road accident involving a heavy truck and a bus in northwestern Tunisia on Wednesday rose to 16, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said.
The accident also left 85 others wounded and caused 15 cars to collide.
It occurred on the Kasserine road when a truck skidded due to a brake failure and collided first with a bus before hitting a high-voltage-electric pole that fell, causing a dozen cars to catch fire, the ministry said.
The injured have been rushed to local hospitals and rescue operations are underway.