Germanwings crash: German police search co-pilot's home
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Police have seized possessions of the Germanwings co-pilot who prosecutors say deliberately crashed his plane in the French Alps killing 150 people.
They found significant clues suggesting he suffered from "psychological illness", according to Der Spiegel.
Data from the plane's voice recorder suggest Andreas Lubitz had purposely started a descent while the pilot was locked out of the cockpit.
Reports in the German media indicate Andreas Lubitz had been depressed.
The Barcelona-Duesseldorf flight crashed on Tuesday.
Several airlines have now PLEDGED
to change their rules to ensure at least two crew members are present in the cockpit at all times.Location of British girls remains a mystery six weeks after disappearance
Families of three missing teenagers travel to Turkey in effort to make contact
Stephen Starr
The lawyer for the families of three British teenage girls missing and believed to be in Syria says their whereabouts remains a mystery six weeks after their disappearance and despite the families travelling to Turkey this week.
Mohammed Akunjee told The Irish Times that the families had been communicating with groups inside Syria in an effort to track down the teenagers, but so far had failed to make contact.
“We know they travelled to Urfa [close to the Turkish-Syrian border], after that we don’t yet know,” he said. “Through our own channels we have sent out messages asking for the girls to make contact with their families. At the moment we don’t know if they are even alive.”
Assad says Syria open to dialogue with United States
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said any talks with the United States would have to be based on mutual respect. Some 440,000 people in Syria are living under siege conditions, according to the UN.
In an interview with US television network CBS on Thursday, the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he is open to dialogue with the United States.
"But as principal, in Syria we could say that every dialogue is a positive thing," he told television journalist Charlie Rose, in excerpts of an interview which is to be aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes" program.
Assad also said such a dialogue needs to be based on "mutual respect." When he was asked about relations between Syria and the United States, Assad said there was no direct communication.
UN officials warn of about the high number of people besieged
Meanwhile, the UN has more than doubled its estimate of Syrian who living in besieged areas to 440,000. They risk death by starvation, dehydration and lack of medical care.
Myanmar's Kokang refugees caught between army, aged warlord and a pipeline to China
March 27, 2015 - 3:06PM
Philip Wen
China correspondent for Fairfax Media
Nansan, China: When news of the military's rapid advance filtered through to the sugarcane plantations in the remote reaches of northern Myanmar, Ying Onn and her family made the decision to run.
Gathering a few blankets and clothes, they joined a crowd of thousands fleeing by car, motorcycle and foot, all heading for the Chinese border a few kilometres away.
"The fighting had already started, we could hear the gunfire in the distance all the way as we went to China," Ying, a 26-year-old farmer and mother of three, tells Fairfax Media. "Lots of people didn't even wait to go through the immigration checkpoint and just ran straight through; they [the Chinese border guards] didn't really do anything. We were running for our lives."
For nearly two months, the Myanmar military has been locked in a nasty war right on China's doorstep, fighting the armed Kokang rebels, an ethnic Chinese group led by Peng Jiasheng, an octogenarian warlord enriched by the region's flourishing drug TRADE.
.North Korea claims it arrested 2 South Korean spies
Updated 0031 GMT (0831 HKT) March 27, 2015
North Korea has arrested what it claims are two
spies who worked for South Korea's intelligence service, a North Korean official said Thursday on condition of anonymity.
The men, identified as Kim Kook Kie and Choi Chun Kil, are accused of committing crimes of "terrorism" and bringing in "large quantities of forged CURRENCY," the North Korean source said.
," the North Korean source said.
The official said Kim had made a declaration of guilt. CNN cannot confirm the authenticity of the declaration or whether, if Kim made one, it was made under duress.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service told CNN that "the information you've obtained is not true."
"We don't have any information that members of NIS were arrested in North Korea," an NIS representative said.
China 'seriously concerned' by Philippine's building in South China Sea
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China's Foreign Ministry expressed serious concern on Friday after the Philippines said it would resume repair and reconstruction works on disputed islands in the South China Sea, saying Manila was infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
The Philippines had halted activities last year over concerns about the effect on an international arbitration complaint filed against China.
Manila called on all countries last October to stop construction work on small islands and reefs in the South China Sea, most of which is claimed by China.
China itself is undertaking massive reclamation works in the area, while Taiwan, Malaysia and Vietnam have also been improving their facilities.
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