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February-2014 Malaysia Airlines plane MH17 ‘shot down’ in Ukraine – as it happened Friday 18 July 2014

Ships with sensitive sonar equipment found two large sections of AirAsia Flight 8501, Indonesian officials said Saturday. The objects were found close together at 30 meters in the Java Sea in the sixth day of the operation. Officials told reporters that sonar located the plane parts, which are about 7.2 x 0.5 meters and 9.4 x 4.8 x 0.4 meters long. Weather conditions have stalled an effort to recover the objects. At least 30 bodies of victims have been recovered, authorities said earlier. Five of the victims were found still strapped in their seats, Indonesian navy official Col. Yayan Sofiyan said. Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency, said the search would be stepped up as long as the weather allowed. "We will focus on underwater detection," said Soelistyo, adding ships from Indonesia, Malaysia ,  Singapore  and the United States had been on the scene from before dawn today to try to pinpoint the wreckage and the all-important b...

The Sigma Conseil company's exit polls, which have consistently come close to matching official results released later, gave Essebsi 55.5 percent of the vote and his opponent Moncef Marzouki, the outgoing interim president, 44.5 percent.  ................................................................................................................................ The run-off between the two candidates is the third election in the last two months and represents the final stage in the country's democratic transition since the Arab Spring revolution that overthrew long-ruling president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Alone among the countries that experienced pro-democracy uprisings, Tunisia's transition has remained on track. "It is important because we don't know ahead of time who will win, unlike in the past," said Hatem Dekali, an employee of the  national airline , as he cast his vote in the Tunis suburb of Carthage. The contest pits Beji Caid Essebsi, a...

.. .. Kashmiri women stand in a queue to cast their votes during the third phase polling of the Jammu and Kashmir state elections in Budgham, about 17 miles southwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Elections are being held in five stages to allow government forces to better guard against any violence or anti-India protests. Results are due December 23. (AP .. Australian defence officials are claiming success in the air campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and say it has helped check the group’s advances – however the assessment comes amid renewed warnings about the scale of the humanitarian crisis within Iraq and Syria . The UN has launched an appeal for aid to help the more than 2.1 million people displaced across the country and 5.2 million in need of humanitarian aid – of whom 2.2 million are in areas under the control of Islamic State. In Syria, the UN now estimates that 12.2 million people require humanitarian assistance. Australian air force F/A-1...

mnesty International’s US director demands justice over officials responsible for torturing detainees. Among them is former President George W. Bush who reportedly granted the CIA’s   request   to use waterboarding and other "enhanced" interrogation techniques. NEW YORK, December 9 (Sputnik) — Former US President George W. Bush should be investigated for his role in the CIA torture   program , Amnesty International’s US director Steven Hawkins said in a statement released Tuesday in light of the publication of a US Senate Committee report on the CIA's torture practices. “Former President George W. Bush should have been investigated long ago for his role in authorizing this program, including his assertion since leaving office that he personally granted the CIA’s request to use waterboarding and other ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ against particular detainees,” Hawkins said in the statement. ...

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