CAIRO, (APP/AFP) – The damaged black box flight recorders of an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month are to be sent to France for repairs, the Egyptian investigative committee said Thursday. It said the memory units were damaged of the two recorders recovered from the seabed almost a month after the crash […]
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Crashed EgyptAir black boxes to go to France for repairs: investigators
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One killed in PKK car bomb in Turkey’s southeast: official
ISTANBUL, (APP/AFP) – One person was killed and 16 others wounded in a car bomb attack against the Turkish security forces Thursday in the southeast of the country carried out by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), officials said. A passing civilian truck driver was killed when the car bomb went off in Omerli in the […]
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Stay or go? Britain decides in EU vote
LONDON, (APP/AFP) – Millions of Britons voted Thursday in a bitterly-fought, knife-edge referendum that could pull the island nation out of the EU and spark the biggest crisis in the bloc’s 60-year history. A record 46.5 million voters have registered to decide Britain’s future in the 28-nation European Union, which was born out of a […]
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi visits troubled diaspora in Thailand
BANGKOK, (APP/AFP) – Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi arrived Thursday in Thailand where she is expected to be garlanded by her adoring compatriots, hundreds of thousands of whom have sought work and sanctuary from war across the border. It is Suu Kyi’s highest profile overseas visit since her pro-democracy party took power in April, ending […]
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Voting starts in Britain’s EU membership referendum
LONDON, (APP/AFP) – Millions of Britons began voting Thursday in a referendum on the nation’s membership of the European Union, with opinion polls suggesting the result is too close to call. Polling stations remain open until 2200 (2100 GMT) and initial results could start to give an indication of the overall outcome by around 0400 […]
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Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker charged with corruption
HONG KONG, (APP/AFP) – A veteran pro-democracy lawmaker was charged Thursday by Hong Kong’s corruption bureau over a payment from one of the city’s best-known anti-China media tycoons, in a case he described as a political move. Leung Kwok-hung — known locally as “Long Hair” — is a prominent activist from the League of Social […]