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PARIS (AP) — One of the black boxes from the Air Algerie flight that crashed in northern Mali is in the hands of French troops today and officials aren't ruling out any possible cause. They say bad weather is the more likely culprit. The crash killed at least 116 people. Nearly half of the passengers aboard the flight were French.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's air force is calling it an "aerial target" but witnesses say it was a drone shot down near the Syrian border today. It's not immediately clear where the object came from, but there have been reports of intense fighting in the southern Syrian province of Daraa that borders Jordan. A Jordanian official says the target was followed by Jordan's air force and shot down over an empty area.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The head analyst of Norway's intelligence agency says the country has been "concretely named" as the target for a planned terror attack on the West. The official tells Norwegian broadcaster TV2 that intelligence suggests a group of people is en route from Syria to stage some sort of attack.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An official says Taliban insurgents yanked people off minibuses and shot them dead in western Afghanistan after determining they were Shiite Muslims, who are shunned by Sunnis. The buses were traveling from Kabul and carrying around 30 passengers, many of whom had gone to the capital to shop ahead of the holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The militants killed all 14 people they took off the buses.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli aircraft pounded an area of the Gaza strip again today, striking multiple sites and killing a militant leader and two of his sons. The dead leader is from the Islamist Jihad militant group. Elsewhere in Gaza, Israeli troops fought it out with Hamas militants in intense battles in the north and center of the territory.
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