Officials Probe Plane Debris From Indian Ocean Thursday July 30th, 2015 at 12:47 PM
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Man convicted of his participation in the killing of hundreds in a 1993 Mumbai attack will be hanged unless president accepts a mercy plea, amid a debate in India over capital punishment.
French investigators are probing information about plane debris that washed ashore on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, but they cautioned it was too soon to say whether the debris was linked to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Airplane debris that washed ashore on an island near Madagascar could be the first tangible evidence that investigators were on the right track in their search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
The roar of F-16 fighter jets overhead reminds Turkey’s Kurds how quickly their fortunes have turned. Airstrikes have thrown the Kurds’ newfound political power into doubt and their leadership into disarray.
Kuwait said it arrested several suspected members of a domestic Islamic State network who fought in Iraq and Syria.
Police attempt to thwart the efforts of migrants desperately trying to enter the U.K. via the Channel Tunnel.
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Authorities in the French port of Calais say they are being swamped by the numbers of migrants attempting to enter the railway tunnel linking France to the U.K. And, because the majority are from countries plagued by political persecution or war, they can’t under French law be sent back.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale to Saudi Arabia of $5.4 billion in additional PAC-3 missiles built by Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer supported a proposed nuclear deal with Iran on Wednesday, saying it reduced the risk of Tehran developing atomic arms while buying time to work with allies to confront the Islamic Republic over other "malign activities."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a rare admonishment of a close ally, the United States urged the European Union on Wednesday to speak out more forcefully to support Washington in its dispute with China over building and militarization of man-made outposts in the South China Sea.
LONDON (Reuters) - An unknown number of Londoners might have been put at risk by the 2006 poisoning of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with a radioactive isotope, which amounted to "a nuclear attack on the streets" of the British capital, an inquiry heard on Thursday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Russia will hold joint naval and air defense drills in the Sea of Japan, China said on Thursday, the latest exercises between the two countries which could concern Japan, involved in a marine dispute with China to the south.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Sima Vaknin-Gill may be Israel's last chief military censor. And she makes no secret of welcoming that.
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists accused each other on Thursday of shelling civilian areas near the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine despite a ceasefire, with four civilians and one soldier killed.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish prosecutor launched an investigation on Thursday into the head of the pro-Kurdish opposition over accusations that he "provoked and armed" protesters during demonstrations in the country's southeast last year, local media said.
US official: Debris in photo belongs to Boeing 777by By JOAN LOWY and LORI HINNANT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Air safety investigators have a "high degree of confidence" that a photo of aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year, according to a U.S. official said Wednesday....
Taliban leader Mullah Omar, reclusive in life and deathby By KATHY GANNON and PATRICK QUINN
Mullah Mohammad Omar, the secretive head of the Taliban and an al-Qaida ally who led a bloody insurgency against U.S.-led forces, eluded capture for more than a decade in spite of being one of the most-hunted fugitives on Earth....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Like a lot of teenagers, Aanya Nigam reflexively shares her whereabouts, activities and thoughts on Twitter, Instagram and other social networks without a qualm....
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10 Things to See: A week of top AP photosby By The Associated Press
Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see....
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The five countries investigating the downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine a year ago are considering setting up an independent international tribunal after Russia vetoed attempts to establish a U.N.-backed court to prosecute suspects.
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Taliban officially announces death of Mullah Omarby Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul
Senior source in militant group tells Reuters that deputy Mullah Akhtar Mansoor has been elected as successor
The Taliban have officially announced the death of their founder and spiritual leader Mullah Omar.
The confirmation of Omar’s death comes after months of increased speculation about his whereabouts. The Afghan government on Wednesday claimed it had credible intelligence that Omar died more than two years ago. After a day of silence, the Taliban confirmed his death, quoting family members.
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Putin praises nuclear deal with Iran in call with Netanyahu
UN paid millions to Russian aviation firm since learning of sex attack on girlby Paul Lewis in Washington, Oliver Laughland in New York and Roger Hamilton-Martin in London
Exclusive: Documents reveal United Nations unit uncovered possible ‘culture of sexual exploitation and abuse’ after 2010 attack by UTair crew member, but permitted company to continue receivingcontracts worth millions
The United Nations has spent half a billion dollars on contracts with a Russian aviation company since discovering one of its helicopter crews in the Democratic Republic of the Congo drugged and raped a teenage girl in a sexual attack.
Senior UN officials considered terminating the company UTair’s contract after concluding that the incident, in which the girl was dumped naked and unconscious inside the helicopter base, was indicative of a wider culture of sexual exploitation at the company.
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HARARE (Reuters) - As social media exploded with outrage this week at the killing of Cecil the lion, the untimely passing of the celebrated predator at the hands of an American dentist went largely unnoticed in the animal's native Zimbabwe.
Barrister for Metropolitan police breaks force’s silence on poisoning death, calling key suspects ‘common murderers’
Scotland Yard has contended that the Russian state was involved in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko as the force broke its silence at the inquiry into the spy’s death from poisoning.
Delivering an excoriating closing speech on the penultimate day of the public inquiry, lawyers representing the Metropolitan police tore into Russia’s record on cooperation with the investigation into Litvinenko’s murder.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that the deal on Iran's nuclear program would improve security in the Middle East and guaranteed that Tehran would not acquire nuclear arms.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A former senior Chinese military officer, Guo Boxiong, has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party for taking bribes, and his case will be handed over to military prosecutors, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday.
(KABUL, Afghanistan) — The Afghan Taliban have released a statement purportedly from the family of Mullah Omar saying he has died of an unspecified illness.
The statement, emailed to The Associated Press on Thursday, didn’t say when he died.
It followed an announcement from the Kabul government the day before. Senior Taliban figures have also told the AP that Mullah Omar died.
The statement says it’s being issued in the name of Mullah Omar’s brother, Mullah Abdul Manan, and his son, Mohammad Yaqub. It apologizes for “any mistakes Mullah Omar (made) during his rule of Afghanistan.” It also asks all Afghans and Muslims to forgive any mistakes Mullah Omar made as leader of the Taliban.
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until they were overthrown in a U.S-led invasion in 2001.
NYPD body camera pilot program should record more stops, store footage longer, review finds
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Five people died in new attacks on Turkish security forces, according to officials.
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