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MOSCOW (AP) — Officials say both flight recorders have now been recovered at the crash site in southern Russia where a Dubai airliner went down while trying to land in strong wind, killing all 62 people aboard. Russia's Emergencies Ministry said the Boeing 737-800 operated by budget airline FlyDubai was carrying 55 passengers, most of them Russians, and seven crew members of various nationalities.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin says an explosion outside a local government office has killed at least four people, including a suicide bomber. The street is also home to cafes, restaurants and foreign consulate buildings. Twenty other people were injured in the attack. Turkey is on edge following two recent suicide car bomb attacks in the capital, Ankara.
BRUSSELS (AP) — France plans to request fast-track extradition for Salah Abdeslam, the top suspect in last year's deadly Paris attacks. he was arrested yesterday in Belgium and discharged from a Brussels hospital today after treatment of a gunshot wound to the leg. He'll next face official police questioning. France's president has called an emergency defense meeting today to discuss developments.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the Supreme Court is supposed to be above politics. In his weekly radio and internet address today, Obama called again for Senate Republicans to consider his nominee, Merrick Garland. For the GOP, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis repeated the party argument that they would give voters a chance to decide the next justice by postponing action until after the November election.
BEIRUT (AP) — A captive British photojournalist has appeared in a new Islamic State group propaganda video purportedly from the IS-held city of Mosul. It is the first video featuring John Cantlie to be released by IS since February 2015, when he appeared in what he said was Syria's Aleppo province. He was kidnapped with American journalist James Foley in November 2012. IS beheaded Foley in August 2014.
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