Malaysian PM: Diversion of missing airliner was a 'deliberate act'
- Search for MH370 will be extended from central Asia to southern Indian ocean
- MH370 last made contact six hours later than previously believed
- Police searching home of plane’s pilot
The Malaysian prime minister says investigators now know that the missing Malaysian airliner’s communications were deliberately disabled and that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew across Malaysia.
A newly extended, multinational search stretching all the way fromKazakhstan to the southern Indian Ocean was underway on Saturday after satellite data indicated missing flight MH370 last made contact six hours after previously believed.
Speaking for the first time about the Boeing 777 with 239 people on board one week after it vanished from civilian radar, Najib Razak said authorities believed the plane’s diversion from its original flightpath towards Beijing to be the “deliberate action by someone on the plane”.
Russians cheer Crimea’s rush to break with Ukraine
Kiev fears deeper incursion as Moscow asserts right to “protect” people in Ukraine
Crimea is poised to back unification with Russia tomorrow, in a referendum that many Ukrainians fear may only be the first stage in a Kremlin plan to carve up their country.
The Black Sea port of Sevastopol was already celebrating last night, as people gathered for a concert overlooking a bay patrolled by ships of the Russian navy, and waved Russian banners and placards thanking Moscow for “saving” them from Ukraine’s new pro-western government.
In the regional capital Simferopol, a huge Russian flag was flying outside parliament and Ukraine’s crest was removed from the assembly, which was seized by gunmen two weeks ago as Russian solders and their militia allies took control of two-million-strong Crimea.
CAR Muslims face ethnic cleansing
Revenge attacks are driving the Islamic population out of the Central African Republic and appear to be targeting children.
They brought in the bodies one by one, laying them down on a white sheet concealed behind a flimsy black curtain. Among them was a man, probably in his 20s, his head twisted left, the skull dented on one side and cracked open on the other. The others also had fatal head injuries that stained the sheet crimson. The first flies began settling on the five corpses.
In the courtyard outside, voices were raised in anger and bewilderment.
Mothers in pink and purple hijabs sobbed and wailed and a middle-aged man, possibly unused to naked shows of emotion, sat and wept. Finally the iron gate of the mosque was thrown open and the mourners surged forward to gaze at the dead. An imam, donning a plastic smock over his white robe, prepared to wash them while another man began cutting cotton shrouds for the day's burials.
Award-winning Tijuana factory offers more than just a job
Hundreds of employees at the Mexican Plantronics plant receive little more than the minimum wage, but perks like free art shows, continuing education, and fitness programs set the factory apart.
On a recent day off from her assembly plant job, Antonia Morena put on her prettiest blouse, painted her lips bright red, and returned to her factory, her fiance at her side.
There, the couple took part in a mass wedding.
The factory paid for the invitations, the white roses, photos, and wedding cake. It also took care of red tape around the marriage certificate and put on a splashy ceremony for Ms. Morena and her fiance, and 30 other couples.
It’s the sort of thing the Plantronics assembly plant here does on a routine basis, earning it earlier this year the US State Department’s corporate excellence award, one of three worldwide, and the loyalty of its 2,300-member work force.
15 March 2014 Last updated at 01:04
Syria activists undeterred by death and disillusionment
The sun is streaming through gaps in the rainclouds in the sky above Damascus.
The fresh breeze that fills the air with the fragrance of Damascene rose, the sound of the trickle of water in the bed of the parched Barada river, and the colourful blossom on the trees all herald the start of Spring in the Syrian capital.
The streets are bustling with cars, people going about their businesses and children are going to school, just like in any normal city around the world.
It would be easy to forget that you were not in a war zone, were it not for the checkpoints and increased military presence on the streets.
S Korea expresses relief over Abe's comments on Japan war apologies
South Korean President Park Geun-hye expressed relief on Saturday over remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that his government would adhere to apologies for wartime behaviour made by past cabinets, in 1993 and 1995.
Ties with South Korea and China, already strained after Abe’s visit last December to the Yasukuni shrine, have deteriorated further, with Japanese nationalist politicians urging Abe’s cabinet to rescind the apologies.
The apologies were issued by then chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono in 1993 and then premier Tomiichi Murayama in 1995.
“It is a relief that Prime Minister Abe announced his government will uphold the Murayama statement and the Kono statement,” President Park was quoted as saying by Blue House spokesman Min Kyung-wook.
Ties with South Korea and China, already strained after Abe’s visit last December to the Yasukuni shrine, have deteriorated further, with Japanese nationalist politicians urging Abe’s cabinet to rescind the apologies.
The apologies were issued by then chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono in 1993 and then premier Tomiichi Murayama in 1995.
“It is a relief that Prime Minister Abe announced his government will uphold the Murayama statement and the Kono statement,” President Park was quoted as saying by Blue House spokesman Min Kyung-wook.
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