The beloved 85-year-old priest murdered by jihadists in his church last week was mourned by thousands of people at his funeral Tuesday amid tight security.

Mourners filled Rouen Cathedral to bid farewell to Rev. Jacques Hamel, who was knifed to death at the altar of his church in the Normandy town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray as he led mass on July 26. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve attended the service, during which Hamel’s coffin was carried through the “Door of Mercy” and placed on an ornate rug before the altar, Reuters reported.(nypost.com)…[+]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board crash-landed at Dubai’s main airport on Wednesday, sending black smoke billowing into the air and halting all traffic at the Middle East’s busiest airport. Dubai authorities said all passengers were evacuated safely.

Dubai-based Emirates said the accident happened as Flight EK521 was arriving from the southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram. The airline gave no details on the fate of those onboard. The Dubai government’s official media office said on Twitter that all passengers were “evacuated safely and no injuries have been reported so far,” however.(nypost.com)…[+]

The Obama administration quietly shipped $400 million stacked on wooden pallets in an unmarked plane to Iran in January — just as Tehran was releasing four Americans who had been detained there, according to a report.

The huge cash load represented the first payment of a $1.7 billion debt that Iran, at an international tribunal in The Hague, claimed it was owed over a failed 1979 arms deal signed before the fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Tuesday night.

The Obama administration was accused Tuesday night of making the cash-for-hostages deal by timing the payout to the release — but US officials said the money was simply part of settling the nearly 40-year-old debt under the terms of the historic nuclear agreement hammered out in 2015.(nypost.com)…[+]