Subject: Morning Brief: First Bodies from AirAsia Crash Returned
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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:43:59 -0500 (EST)

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TOP NEWS

First Bodies from AirAsia Crash Returned 

First Bodies from AirAsia Crash Returned 

<p><b>Top News</b>: The first two bodies from the AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crash arrived in the Indonesian city of Surabaya, where relatives are waiting. The plane, carrying 162 people from Surabaya to Singapore, disappeared on Sunday. On&nbsp;Tuesday, rescue workers discovered&nbsp;wreckage from the plane, including aircraft parts and luggage in the Karimata Strait, near the Indonesian part of Borneo. So far, seven bodies have been retrieved, though bad weather has slowed recovery efforts.</p>
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<p>On Tuesday Indonesian President Joko Widodo pledged a "massive search" with the focus on finding the bodies. Nearly all the victims were Indonesian.</p>
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<p>Days after the crash, the cause of the disaster remains unclear. The plane&rsquo;s last communication was a request from air traffic control to climb to avoid bad weather. The pilot did not respond when given permission.</p>
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<p><b>Italy</b>: A cargo ship reportedly carrying 700 migrants <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKQLd0mOBC7bUK07Acb39>docked</a> in the Italian port of Gallipoli. The Italian coast guard took control of the ship, which left from Turkey, after its crew abandoned it at sea. According to reports, the ship was carrying Kurdish and Syrian asylum seekers.</p>
 
Asia

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;A former Korean Air executive who <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKQLd0mOBC7bUK08Af259>delayed</a> a plane over how nuts were served was detained on charges of violating aviation safety law.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;After days of heavy rain, flash floods and landslides have <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKQLd0mOBC7bUK09Af8de>killed</a> at least 53 people in the Philippines.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;A Chinese court <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKQLd0mOBC7bUK0-A9ec7>fined</a> six companies 160m yuan ($26m) for polluting rivers. According to the report by state media, the fine was the highest ever in the country as a result of public interest litigation against polluters.</p>     
Middle East

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;The UN Security Council <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKP-asPocp9-whI3A7d09>rejected</a> a resolution stipulating an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within three years.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Five men -- three Yemenis and two Tunisians -- <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKQLd0mOBC7bUK0_Aa36d>held</a> at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay for more than a decade were sent to Kazakhstan for resettlement.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;A suicide bomber <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKP-asPocp9-whI-Adaae>killed</a> at least 33 people at a cultural center in central Yemen.</p>     
Europe

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Russian police <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKQLd0mOBC7bUK1AAdb4f>arrested</a> more than 100 demonstrators, including opposition leader Alexei Navalny, at a rally. The protest was organized after a Moscow court sentenced Navalny&rsquo;s brother to over three years in prison.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Two Albanian seamen <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKQLd0mOBC7bUK1BA9599>died</a> during a salvage mission of the ferry that caught fire off Greece's Adriatic Coast earlier this week. Eleven people were killed in the disaster and dozens more are believed to be missing.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Austrian prosecutors <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKQLd0mOBC7bUK1CA4e70>charged</a> Rakhat Aliyev, a former son-in-law of Kazakhstan&rsquo;s president who later became a prominent opponent, with murder.</p>     
Africa

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Gambia's President Yayha Jammeh <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKPxIcPoDAF_aa-NA7845>returned</a> to the country after a reported coup attempt.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;The first victim of the current Ebola outbreak, a two-year old Guinean boy, was likely <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKPxIcPoDAF_aa-QA399f>infected</a> after playing in a hollow tree housing a colony of bats, according to a team of scientists who traveled to the boy&rsquo;s village.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Liberia <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKQLd0mOBC7bUK1DA1978>opened</a> a new national cemetery in the capital of Monrovia to provide safe burial sites for victims of the Ebola epidemic.</p>     
Americas

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;After contracting for three consecutive quarters, the Venezuelan economy <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKQLd0mOBC7bUK1EA45b2>entered</a> a recession.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Facing protests over long-delayed elections, Haitian President Michel Martelly reached a <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKQLd0mOBC7bUK1FA1ed1>agreement</a> with lawmakers to extend the government&rsquo;s mandate.</p>
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<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cuban security forces <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c724o0b.262c/VKQLd0mOBC7bUK1GAdea8>arrested</a> several dissidents for an alleged unauthorized political protest. The detentions, which were condemned by the US state department, signaled the first crackdown on Cuban activists since the Obama administration announced renewed diplomatic ties with Castro&rsquo;s government.</p>     
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