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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's prime minister says a new analysis of satellite data shows that the missing Malaysia Airlines plane plunged into the southern Indian Ocean. It's a major breakthrough in the unprecedented two-week struggle to find out what happened to Flight 370, which disappeared shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew aboard. The prime minister says it appears that the plane flew "to a remote location, far from any possible landing sites." Today, ships are converging in an area where possible debris from the plane was spotted.
BEIJING (AP) — Relatives of passengers aboard the missing Malaysian jetliner are reacting with grief, to the announcement from Malaysia's prime minister that the plane ended up in the southern Indian Ocean. In Beijing, relatives were called to a hotel near the airport to hear the announcement. Afterward, women shrieked and sobbed uncontrollably.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — President Barack Obama today has been trying to rally the international community around efforts to isolate Russia over its incursion into Ukraine. Hours after he arrived in the Netherlands for a nuclear summit, Obama held one-on-one talks today with Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng). China has often sided with Russia in disputes with the West, but U.S. officials have been appealing to China's opposition to outside interference in other nation's domestic affairs.
NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor says Osama bin Laden's son-in-law was recruited to be al-Qaida's spokesman after the Sept. 11 attacks and send a message that the United States got what it deserved. The assertion came today at the start of closing arguments at the New York City trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (SOO'-lay-mahn AH'-boo GAYTH). He's charged with conspiring to kill Americans.
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — According to phone messages that have been described in court today in South Africa, the girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius told the athlete that she was sometimes scared of him. And she complained about what she described as his short temper and jealousy. A police captain testified today about the messages from Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot and killed by Pistorius in his home last year. The double-amputee track star has said he thought he was firing at an intruder. Prosecutors say he deliberately killed her after an argument.
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