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MH370: Searchers confident ‘signals’ are from missing
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Ukrainian PM vows more power to regions
UK giving ‘cold shoulder’ to foreign students
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Myanmar holds first census in three decades
UK lists Lanka as ‘country
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MH370: Searchers confident ‘signals’ are from missing
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Perth/Beijing, April 11 Abbott said searchers were "confident" about the position of the missing jet's black box and they have narrowed down the search area based on a series of signals detected recently. Abbott, who arrived in Beijing today, met Chinese President Xi Jinping and briefed him about the Australia-led multi-nation search for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. He told Xi that he had "high-level confidence of strong detections" of the black boxes but there were huge challenges remaining in what would likely be a "long, slow and painstaking process" to locate it. The Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 - carrying 239 people, including five Indians, an Indo-Canadian and 154 Chinese nationals - had mysteriously vanished on March 8 after taking off from Kuala Lumpur. Abbott told Xi about the four pings consistent with that of a black box had been identified and that the search area had narrowed to just a matter of kilometres in the southern Indian Ocean. "We are confident that we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within some kilometres (miles)." However, the head of the agency coordinating the search sounded a note of caution in Perth, saying there had been "no major breakthrough". "On the information I have available to me, there has been no major breakthrough in the search for MH370," said Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, the head of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) which is leading the search. Houston said, "I will provide a further update if, and when, further information becomes available." Fifteen aircraft and 13 ships were deployed to search the missing plane today, a day after an Australian AP-3C Orion aircraft detected a ping signal. — PTI |
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Ukrainian PM vows more power to regions
Donetsk (Ukraine), April 11 Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's promise during an unannounced visit to the blue-collar coal mining region of Donetsk came as militants armed with Kalashnikovs barricaded themselves inside the local administration building and demanded a referendum on joining Russia. A similar occupation of the state security office of the hardscrabble eastern city of Lugansk has confronted the untested leaders with their biggest challenge since their February ouster of a Kremlin-backed president and decision to strike an alliance with the West. But Russian President Vladimir Putin -- his troops already massed along Ukraine's eastern frontier following their seizure of Crimea -- only upped the stakes yesterday by threatening to cut off Ukraine's gas over unpaid bills. The decision could limit the supplies of at least 18 European nations for the third time since 2006. Each of the previous interruptions also coincided with attempts by Kiev to pull itself out of the Kremlin's historic sphere of influence. Putin's warning came after Russia had already hiked Ukraine's energy price by 81 per cent and demanded that his neighbour rewrite its constitution in order to give eastern regions the right to set their own economic and diplomatic relations with Moscow. The Kremlin's emphatic response to its possible loss of control over the nation of 46 million has plunged its relations with the West to post-Cold War lows and forced NATO to step up the defence of former Soviet states. The rattling has set an ominous tone to the first round of negotiations on Europe's worst crisis in decades that US and EU diplomats had managed to convince both Moscow and Kiev to join in Geneva on April 17. — AFP Russia says no plans to invade Ukraine
Moscow: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday Russia did not want to take over more Ukrainian territory. "We cannot have such a desire. It contradicts the core interests of the Russian Federation. We want Ukraine to be whole within its current borders, but whole with full respect for the regions,” Lavrov said
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UK giving ‘cold shoulder’ to foreign students
London, April 11 "We have seen quite significant growth in China and Hong Kong in particular, while in India and Pakistan in particular we have seen some reductions. Those reductions have been throughout STEM and non-STEM," the report said in its country-wise analysis. It added: "The number of students from India increased rapidly from 2003/04, reaching a peak of nearly 12,000 in 2008/09. In the last two years, there has been a dramatic fall in the number of Indian students coming to study in the UK to around 5,000 students. "The data show a volatile recent history in student numbers from both India and China. STEM subjects that Indian students were most likely to study were the three which showed the greatest recent declines in numbers of new entrants: engineering and technology, computer sciences.” — PTI
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Myanmar holds first census in three decades
Yangon, April 11 On the final day of the census, estimated by rights groups and other groups to cost $74 million, volunteers went door-to-door in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital. Trucks with loudspeakers blared reminders for people to be counted and shops, buildings, ferries and buses were plastered with posters encouraging people to take part. Susu Win, a volunteer tallying numbers in Yangon, said she worked 12 hours a day and interviewed, on average, 100 families. " — Reuters |
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UK lists Lanka as ‘country
of concern’
London, April 11 The British foreign office's 2013 annual report has noted that the human rights situation in Sri Lanka was of serious concern. The report lists Sri Lanka as a "country of concern". "Attacks against journalists continued, and Sri Lanka fell in indices on press freedom and women's rights," the report said. Britain stressed on the need for accountability for alleged war crimes, respect for human rights and a political settlement as essential elements of post-conflict reconciliation. — PTI |
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Shoe hurled at Hillary during speech in LA
Los Angeles, April 11 The woman was immediately taken into federal custody by the Secret Service. Clinton, who is widely expected to run for the 2015 presidential elections, had to dodge as the protester hurled her footwear at her during her keynote address to the annual convention of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries. "Is that somebody throwing something at me?" Clinton asked, putting her right hand above her eyes to cut the glare of lights from the stage, Las Vegas Review Journal reported. — PTI
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Search for the missing Malaysian plane is homing in on the black boxes, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott today said, even as the official heading the hunt for Flight MH370 cautioned there was "no major breakthrough".
Ukraine's embattled Prime Minister today vowed to give more powers to the country's regions in an effort to stamp out a separatist insurgency as a new gas war with Russia threatened European supplies.
