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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch investigators say the voice recorder from the Malaysia Airlines plane shot down over Ukraine was damaged but not manipulated, and its data is still intact. The investigators handed two so-called black box flight recorders to a lab in southern England today. The Dutch Safety Board says the information on the recorder will now be studied. Investigators will also star studying the other recorder, containing flight data, tomorrow.
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) — Forty coffins containing remains of Malaysia Airlines crash victims are being escorted to a military barracks in the Netherlands, where forensic experts will begin the painstaking work of identifying them. Church bells rang as two military transport planes carrying the coffins arrived. It's a national day of mourning in the Netherlands, which was home to 193 of the 298 people aboard the jetliner that was shot down in Ukraine last week.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's transport minister says 47 people are feared dead after a plane crashed on a small Taiwanese island while trying to land in stormy weather. Another 11 people were injured. About 200 military personnel have been sent to the crash scene, where people are said to be trapped in the wreckage.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A police officer in Afghanistan who's charged with killing Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus (AHN'-yuh NEE'-dring-hows) and wounding veteran AP correspondent Kathy Gannon has been convicted and sentenced to death. The ruling announced today by a court in Kabul followed a two-hour court hearing yesterday. Under Afghan law, the verdict and sentence are subject to several stages of review.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has scaled back its forecast for U.S. economic growth this year, mostly because of a sharp contraction in the first quarter. The global lending organization projects growth will be just 1.7 percent this year, down from a 2 percent estimate in June. That would make 2014 the weakest year since the recession ended in June 2009. The IMF's outlook is more pessimistic than the Federal Reserve's, which expects growth of at least 2.1 percent.
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