Submarine at air crash scene to hunt black boxes (AP)

Filed Under (Europe) by admin on 10-06-2009

AP - A French nuclear submarine reached the crash zone of Air France Flight 447 on Wednesday to join the search for the plane's black boxes, the key to determining what brought the Airbus down in the sea off Brazil with 228 people on board.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

Could the U.S. be drawn into a New Korean war? (Time.com)

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Time.com - The North Korean regime's belligerence has forced military planners to think about what a resumption of hostilities, however unlikely, would look like

Original post by Time.com and software by Elliott Back

Aid workers among 11 dead in Pakistani hotel blast (AP)

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AP - Investigators searched a wrecked luxury hotel in northwestern Pakistan for evidence Wednesday after a bold suicide bombing killed 11 people, including aid workers, in what the U.N. condemned as a "heinous terrorist attack."

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

52 killed in intensifying Afghan insurgency (AFP)

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AFP - Security force assaults on insurgents in Afghanistan have killed 47 militants while five Afghan police and soldiers have also died in an intensifying insurgency, authorities said Wednesday.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

Turkey: Life in prison for 6 al-Qaida suspects (AP)

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AP - A Turkish appeals court has upheld a verdict sentencing six al-Qaida militants to life in prison for the deadly 2003 bombings in Istanbul.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

Israeli woman mistakenly junks $1 million mattress (AP)

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AP - An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress with $1 million inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites, Israeli media reported Wednesday.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

Palau to take Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay (AP)

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AP - The tropical Pacific island nation of Palau announced Wednesday it will accept up to 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay despite a Pentagon determination that they are not "enemy combatants."

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

China’s Crackdown on Internet Porn Sows Anger, Confusion (Time.com)

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Time.com - Beijing orders computer makers to install filtering software, adding another row of bricks to the Great Firewall of China

Original post by Time.com and software by Elliott Back

SKorea pinpoints 20 illegal NKorean bank accounts (AP)

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AP - South Korea has informed the U.S. of up to 20 overseas bank accounts suspected of being used by North Korea for counterfeiting, money laundering and other illegal transactions, a report said Wednesday.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

Car bomb kills 35 in southern Shiite area in Iraq (AP)

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AP - A car bomb ripped through a market district Wednesday in a mainly Shiite area in southern Iraq, killing as many as 35 people and wounding dozens, officials said.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back