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Search for Downed Plane Continues Off Indonesia

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10/31/2018

10/31/2018

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Search for Downed Plane Continues Off Indonesia

Top News: The continuing search for the downed Lion Air flight 610 has identified a possible site for the fuselage, Indonesia’s military chief Hadi Tjahjanto said Wednesday. The country’s transportation chief, Soerjanto Tjahjono, has also cited regular “pings” detected by search teams, saying the noises are coming from the aircraft’s flight recorder.

Efforts also continue to recover remains of the passengers. All 189 people on board are assumed to have been killed by the crash.

The plane crash, occurring just minutes after takeoff from Jakarta and involving a Boeing aircraft that was nearly brand-new, has puzzled experts. Lion, a rapidly expanding carrier, had ordered 50 of Boeing’s new-generation 737 MAX 8 jets, with nine in operation. Boeing’s own investigators are set to arrive in Indonesia today.

Spain: Spain’s deputy prime minister, Carmen Calvo, traveled to the Vatican this week to discuss the coming exhumation of dictator Francisco Franco’s remains. After meeting with the Vatican’s secretary of state, Calvo has said that Spain’s ruling Socialist Party will, with the support of the Catholic Church, try to stop the Franco family from reburying the remains in a Madrid cathedral.

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AFRICA

•  The European Union has agreed to renew sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes, on senior officials in Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to diplomats.

•  The World Bank has approved a $600 million grant and a $600 million loan to Ethiopia, intended to bolster financial-sector reform.

•  South Sudanese rebel leader and former vice president Riek Machar has returned to the country, two years after fleeing in 2016.

AMERICAS

•  Thousands of Venezuelans, seeking to beat a Wednesday entrance deadline for temporary residence permits, were stuck at the Peru-Ecuador border this week.

•  Argentina has resumed natural gas exports to Chile after a 12-year hiatus.

•  Colombia’s foreign minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, rejected recent reports that the country would support any effort by Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, to remove Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro using military force.

ASIA

•  Pakistan’s Supreme Court has overturned the 2010 death penalty conviction of a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, accused under blasphemy laws.

•  Australia’s inspector general of intelligence services is weighing a complaint that Australia broke intelligence laws to bug East Timor’s cabinet during oil and gas talks.

•  An Afghan army helicopter crashed on Wednesday killing 25 people on board, according to local officials. Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility.

EUROPE

•  Austria will join the United States, Hungary, and possibly Poland, by backing out of a United Nations migration pact.

•  Transport ministers from EU countries could delay a European Commission plan to scrap daylight savings time in 2019.

•  In preparation for a possible no-deal Brexit, EU diplomats have set in motion plans for a series of November seminars on citizens’ rights, aviation, ground transport, customs, border controls and financial services.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Iraq’s Shiite paramilitary groups said on Wednesday they had killed two Islamic State commanders responsible for an attack last week on Syrian Kurdish forces.

•  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for an end to missile and drone strikes from Houthi rebels and air strikes by the Saudi Arabian-led coalition in Yemen.

•  U.N. secretary general António Guterres intends to appoint Norwegian diplomat Geir Pedersen as the next special envoy to Syria, replacing outgoing envoy Staffan de Mistura.

- By Elizabeth Miles

(Resmi Malau/AFP/Getty Images)

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