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Russian team optimistic about finding black boxes of crashed Air Asia plane

​A senior Russian official said here on Saturday that the equipment and personnel it deployed in search for the wreckage and black boxes of a crashed AirAsia jetliner would be "very much" capable in carrying out its mission.

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No CIA black site ever exists in Thailand: gov't

​There has never been a secret prison run by a United States agency in Thailand where suspected terrorists might otherwise have been held or tortured, said a high- level Thai government official on Thursday.

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European media, experts slam U.S. handling of Ferguson incident

The Ferguson incident in the United States, which has sparked persisting protests, has triggered widespread criticism in Europe.

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Finnish scientists identify new type of black hole

Finnish researchers have discovered a new type of low-mass black hole, which is a bright celestial body that emits X-ray, said the University of Turku in a press release published on Thursday.

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Supermassive black hole found in smallest galaxy

An international team of researchers has found a supermassive black hole at the heart of an ultracompact dwarf galaxy, making this tiny galaxy the smallest ever found to host such a massive light-sucking object.

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MH17 black boxes to be analyzed in Britain, victims' bodies back to Netherlands

The black boxes from the crashed flight MH17 have been handed over to Dutch investigators in Ukraine, and will later be sent to the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) for forensic analysis.

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Endangered Asiatic black bear found again in central Vietnam

Camera traps installed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently recorded another Asiatic black bear (Ursus Thibetanus) in Vietnam's central province of Quang Nam, about 650km south of capital Hanoi.

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India launches new aviation regulation amid MH370 fear

India has set up new civil aviation regulation for local airlines to ensure real time tracking of aircraft, following the missing of a Malaysian passenger plane in March, said local daily The Times of India Wednesday.

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British navy vessels continue hunt for missing Malaysian Airlines plane

British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Echo and submarine HMS Tireless continued their hunt for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that went missing on March 8, the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced Wednesday.

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Confirmation of debris location critical: Australian search operation commander

The critical step to search the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at this moment is to confirm the place of debris, Australian search operation commander Peter Leavy said on Sunday.

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Doubts arise over sustainability of Syrian central bank's intervention

Contrary to many's expectation, the latest intervention by the Central Bank of Syria (CBS) has succeeded in scaling down the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar against the Syrian pound by nearly 50 percent within a very short period of time. Yet, experts think that the measure is only temporary and the Syrian pound may soon depreciate again.