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BEIJING — The cockpit was in chaos. About an hour into a Sichuan Airlines flight headed from southwestern China to Tibet on Monday morning, the pilot heard a piercing sound, and then the windshield inexplicably shattered. Captain Liu Chuanjian found himself in a turbulent struggle to maintain control of a plane full of 119 passengers. |
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12.36am. At Scampton, the ground crews and waiting WAAFs hear the sound of Merlin engines. It’s W-Willie, piloted by Kiwi Les Munro, returning home after their aircraft was damaged. Squadron adjutant Harry Humphries can see, in the gloom, figures running away from the stationary Lancaster. |
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A ustralia’s prime minister yesterday rejected a former diplomat’s opinion that the country needs a new foreign minister to thaw relations with China. Geoff Raby, who was Australia’s ambassador to Beijing from 2007 to 2011, used a scathing column in The Australian Financial Review newspaper to call for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to be replaced. |
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Sharon Hofisi Legal Letters We often hear that “interest is the mother of attention and attention is the mother of memory”. I have this extraordinary tendency of paying attention to new things. I love to institutionalise memory. I am privileged to be one of those who enjoy the worlds of politics, philosophy and law. |
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It was, as the local public radio station said, the day “Seattle Nice” died. On May 2, the residents of Seattle were hit with a one-two punch. For months, the city council had been debating a new tax on large employers to raise $75 million for new affordable housing and services for the homeless,.... |
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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — The TV news has a familiar feel to it here in west-central Pennsylvania. News stories broadcast on WJAC, the NBC affiliate in town, have appeared on nearby station WATM, the ABC affiliate. And many of those stories are broadcast on WWCP, the Fox station here, as well. |
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Bishop Urame: collective approach needed to address sorcery-related killings, involving government, churches, civil society and community leaders. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, October 14, 2016) – The head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Papua New Guinea says that.... |
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In a remarkable book and a remarkable bit of reporting, the focus has turned to the voters who elected Donald Trump president. On Sunday, The Post published “Loyalty, unease in Trump’s Midwest,” Dan Balz’ 15,000-word investigation into the Trump supporters of the Upper Midwest. |
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BEIJING — The cockpit was in chaos. About an hour into a Sichuan Airlines flight headed from southwestern China to Tibet on Monday morning, the pilot heard a piercing sound, and then the windshield inexplicably shattered. Captain Liu Chuanjian found himself in a turbulent struggle to maintain control of a plane full of 119 passengers. |
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Brother Ali, one of Minnesota's top live music draws, is critically acclaimed nationally for his deeply personal, socially conscious, inspiring brand of hip-hop. "Brother Ali is an evangelist for love and a powerful preacher of positivity," said local celebrity David Campbell , the former Twin.... |
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Theodore White invented a genre with his groundbreaking book "The Making of the President, 1960," and news junkies ever since have eagerly awaited postmortems from inside the operations of the various Republican and Democrat presidential campaigns. There have been 14 presidential elections since.... |
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