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PERTH, Australia (AP) — A British navy ship fitted with sophisticated sound-locating equipment is heading to an area where a Chinese ship twice detected signals in the past two days. An Australian navy ship with high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. Navy will also head there, but officials say it will first investigate a sound it picked up today in another part of the Indian Ocean. They hope to determine whether the sounds are coming from the missing Malaysian jetliner.
PERTH, Australia (AP) — A senior Malaysian government official says investigators have determined that the missing jetliner skirted Indonesian airspace as it flew from Peninsular Malaysia to the southern Indian Ocean. The official says Indonesian authorities have confirmed that the plane did not show up on their military radar. He says the plane could have deliberately flown around Indonesian airspace to avoid radar detection, or may have coincidentally traveled out of radar range.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The United Nations says it is alarmed at "violent nature" of a demonstration in a massive Syrian refugee camp in Jordan that killed one person and wounded dozens. The U.N. refugee agency says a "heated demonstration" in Jordan's sprawling Zaatari refugee camp turned violent yesterday after hundreds, possibly thousands of refugees started throwing rocks at a police post.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian police have filed criminal charges against a teenager who allegedly grabbed a terrified middle-aged woman by her bathrobe collar and swung her around while his friends chronicled it on video. The case has shocked Romania in the days since the teens posted the video on Facebook. The video, displayed by a host of Romanian websites, shows a grainy image of a teen swinging a screaming and disorientated woman dressed in a peach bathrobe and headscarf while his friends laugh.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Fire has destroyed a historic wedding venue outside Boston. Authorities say the three-alarm fire at the Lakeview Pavilion in Foxborough broke out at the end of a wedding Saturday night, just after the bride and groom were pronounced husband and wife. About 150 guests were in attendance. The justice of the peace says everyone got out safely.
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