The US Department of State continues to warn of the risks of traveling to Sudan and urges avoiding all travel to the Darfur region and the Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan states. Elements of terrorist groups remain in Sudan and have threatened to attack Western interests. 

Investigators using information from the black boxes recovered from AirAsia flight QZ8501 believe that the plane stalled after making an unusually fast and steep climb, leading to its crash into the Java Sea on Dec. 28.

Before the crash, the pilot had requested permission from ground control to climb above an approaching storm. The plane disappeared from radar before being given instructions on changing course. 

According to the flight recorder, the plane was climbing at 6,000...

As ITN went to press, the State Department had travel warnings on 37 destinations: Afghanistan, Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, El Salvador, Eritrea, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, Kenya, North Korea, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Republic of South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and...