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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Australian maritime officials say one of two objects spotted in the Indian Ocean that could be from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is about 80 feet in size. Four military search planes are headed to the area to determine whether those objects are from the Boeing 777 that disappeared March 8 while on its way from Malaysia to Beijing. Officials say the objects picked up by satellite are about 1,550 miles from Perth, Australia.
BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide attack inside a cafe in Baghdad has killed at least 12 people and wounded 38. Police say the bomber today set off his explosives-laden belt in a group of people watching sports on a cafe TV. Iraq has been struck by a surge in violence unseen since 2008. The relentless attacks have become the Shiite-led government's most serious challenge.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A brazen Taliban assault on police station in Afghanistan's east has killed 10 police officers and a civilian. An Afghan official says this morning's attack in Jalalabad involved a suicide bomber, two remotely detonated bombs and seven insurgents. He says the attack triggered a gunbattle with the Afghan forces that lasted four hours. The Taliban have taken responsibility for the attack.
BEIJING (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama plans to avoid politics and focus on education and people-to-people contacts on her first visit to China. Mrs. Obama is due to arrive in the country today, with her mother and two daughters, on the seven-day, three-city visit. Her schedule includes a speech to Chinese and American students at Peking University and visits to the cities of Xi'an (SHE'-ahn) in the west and Chengdu in the southwest. On Friday, Mrs. Obama will spend the day with the Chinese president's wife.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — It's been almost 25 years since the Exxon Valdez (val-DEEZ') oil spill in Alaska. On March 24, 1989, the 987-foot tanker, carrying 53 million gallons of crude, struck a reef. Within hours, it unleashed an estimated 10.8 million gallons of thick, toxic crude oil into the water, polluting the coastline of Prince William Sound. Robert Spies, a chief science adviser to governments on the oil spill restoration program from 1989 to 2002. But some wildlife, as well as the people who live in the region, are still struggling.
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