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- DR Congo transport minister sacked after numerous boat accidents
- Flight recorders from Air France Flight 447 found
- U.S. did not inform Pakistan of bin Laden mission because of suspicions he was being harbored by government
- 'Where is your god now?': London policemen on trial accused of beating Muslim
| DR Congo transport minister sacked after numerous boat accidents Posted: Thursday, May 5, 2011 Marie-Laure Kawanda, the transport minister for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been sacked by the government after a series of boat accidents in the country. Kawanda was dismissed after a boat sank on Monday while sailing on the Kasai River left around 100 people missing. More...   |
| Flight recorders from Air France Flight 447 found Posted: Thursday, May 5, 2011 Officials from France's aviation accident investigation agency, the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) announced on Tuesday that they had recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of Air France Flight 447 has been located and brought to surface by a Remora 6000 unmanned submarine and brought aboard the Île de Sein, one of the vessels taking part in the recovery and salvage efforts. This came two days after an announcement on Sunday that the crash-survivable memory unit of the flight data recorder (FDR) of the aircraft had been located and brought to the surface. The chassis of the FDR was located on April 27, with the memory unit missing. It was found a short distance from the chassis. It was also brought to the surface by the Remora 6000. More... |
| Posted: Thursday, May 5, 2011 The U.S. did not inform Pakistan of the operation to kill Osama bin Laden because of fears they were harboring the leader of al-Qaeda and would warn him of the mission, a senior American intelligence official has said. Pakistan has defended itself against allegations it was protecting the world's most wanted man, and expressed embarrassment after it emerged bin Laden may have been living in the compound in Abbottabad for as many as six years without being intercepted by Pakistan intelligence. Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, said cooperation between the two countries "could jeopardise the mission" because there were suspicions that elements of the Pakistani government were working with bin Laden. Panetta disclosed U.S. officials had dismissed working with the government of Pakistan early on in the planning of the mission to kill him because of fears that they might "alert" the man named responsible for the September 11 attacks. The revelation will likely raise questions over the level of trust between officials in Washington, D.C. and Islamabad. More... |
| 'Where is your god now?': London policemen on trial accused of beating Muslim Posted: Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Four officers from London's Metropolitan Police went on trial today accused of repeatedly beating a Muslim arrested on suspicion of helping "terrorist organisations operating abroad." The men deny assaulting Babar Ahmad, 36, in his home, in a police van and in a police station. More... |
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