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Iran plane crash bodies returned to families

The bodies of 152 people killed in a fiery plane crash in Iran Wednesday have been returned to their families, an Iranian state broadcaster reported Sunday. Ahmad Majidi, the head of the special working group investigating the Caspian Airlines crash, also said a Russian team had arrived in Iran to help study the crash of the Russian-made plane, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting said. The plane went down in a field near the city of Qavzin Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board and leaving a huge smoldering crater

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Black boxes ‘damaged’ in Iran air disaster

A day after an Iranian passenger plane crashed in flames killing all 168 people on board, aviation officials were Thursday examining the aircraft’s damaged flight data recorders to try to determine the cause of the disaster. Caspian Airlines flight 7908 — a Russian-made Tupolev Tu-154M — plunged to the ground and disintegrated minutes into its flight from Tehran to the Armenian capital, Yerevan, officials said. Flight data recorders were recovered Wednesday from the crash site — a smoldering crater strewn with charred plane pieces and tattered passports –but Iranian media reported the so-called “black boxes” had been badly damaged

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Police Open Fire on Protesters in Honduras

The gunshots echoed around the streets of this sweltering Central American capital like a firecrackers. Amid the onslaught of bullets on Sunday afternoon, hundreds of protesters ran for their lives, taking cover behind cinder-block walls or running into the homes of kindly residents

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Survivor still haunted by 1971 air crash

Juliane Koepcke is not someone you’d expect to attract attention. Plainly dressed and wearing prescription glasses, Koepcke sits behind her desk at the Zoological Center in Munich, Germany, where she’s a librarian. Yet this unassuming middle aged woman has one of the most exciting and unbelievable stories of tragedy and survival to tell.

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Report: North Korea test fires two missiles

North Korea test-fired what appeared to be two short-range missiles off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. Bahia Bakari, 13, arrived at Paris’ Le Bourget airport early on Thursday morning on a French government plane and was met by her father. She is reported to have been transferred to an unnamed hospital suffering from shock and a broken collar bone.

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