| U.S. Revokes Visas Of Nicaraguan Officials Over Violence Against Protesters Posted: 31 Jul 2018 03:03 PM PDT  President Donald Trump's White House moved Monday to revoke the visas of
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| Former FEMA Executive Investigated For Sexual Misconduct Posted: 30 Jul 2018 02:55 PM PDT  A former personnel chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is being
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| California Firefighter's Home Burned Down In Carr Fire While He Fought Other Blaze Posted: 30 Jul 2018 05:02 PM PDT  Northern California firefighter Jason Campbell came home from battling one of
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| How one airline is helping to shave seconds to help stay on time Posted: 30 Jul 2018 02:43 PM PDT  Delta Airlines is creating a quick and effective way to keep flights on time, such as laser parking, 45-degree taxi parking and quick bag transfer for connecting flights called "hot bags".
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| No charges against Minneapolis officers in black man's death Posted: 30 Jul 2018 05:02 PM PDT  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minneapolis police officers who shot and killed a black man last month were justified in using deadly force, a prosecutor announced Monday, saying the man was fleeing police and turned toward them with a loaded gun before he was shot.
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| Mollie Tibbetts Case: Investigators 'Confident' With Timeline for Day College Student Vanished Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:34 PM PDT  Tibbetts was apparently last seen running in Brooklyn, about 60 miles east of Des Moines, on July 18.
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| Two Koreas hold military talks as U.S. detects activity at North Korea missile factory Posted: 30 Jul 2018 11:33 PM PDT  By Hyonhee Shin and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - North and South Korea held military talks to build trust on Tuesday, while the United States detected renewed activity at a North Korean missile factory, casting more suspicion over the North's intentions. The meeting, their second since June, held in the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ), was designed to follow on from an inter-Korean summit in April at which leaders of the two Koreas agreed to defuse tensions and halt "all hostile acts." North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also vowed during his separate summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore last month to work toward denuclearization, but there has not been a concrete agreement to accomplish that goal.
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| Multistate hunt for antivenom after exotic snake attacks Michigan man Posted: 31 Jul 2018 10:58 AM PDT  A snake bite forced doctors to frantically call zoos and venom response programs across the country in search of antivenom medicine. A 26-year-old man who was bit by a cobra did not respond to the generic antivenom medicine he was initially provided at a Michigan-area hospital, before being airlifted to Detroit. As his respiratory muscles became paralysed, doctors reportedly scrambled to locate a serum that would neutralize the rare snake venom coursing through his body.
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| Historians Quit UVA Think Tank After School's Hiring Of Ex-Trump Aide Marc Short Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:01 PM PDT  Two distinguished historians at the University of Virginia have resigned from
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| TSA Has Been Secretly Monitoring Travelers Who Aren't Listed On Government Watch Lists Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:37 AM PDT  Federal air marshals have been secretly tracking dozens of American travelers
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| 'Not Just A Paper Pusher': Former White House Staff Secretaries Weigh In On Kavanaugh Fight Posted: 30 Jul 2018 04:01 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Republicans say the Senate does not need to see documents related
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| Northern California wildfire 9th most destructive in history Posted: 30 Jul 2018 09:14 PM PDT  LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) — A pair of wildfires that prompted evacuation orders for nearly 20,000 people barreled Monday toward small lake towns in Northern California, and authorities faced questions about how quickly they warned residents about the largest and deadliest blaze burning in the state.
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| Police investigating after young pit bull left to drown in cage on river's edge Posted: 31 Jul 2018 08:52 AM PDT  New Jersey authorities are searching for a suspect who they say left a young
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| Zimbabwe's president, opponent both confident of win after close vote Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:41 AM PDT  By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Joe Brock HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main opponent, Nelson Chamisa, both said on Tuesday they were confident of victory in an election the previous day which observers deemed too early to call. Mnangagwa said he was receiving "extremely positive" information on the vote. Chamisa said earlier the opposition Movement for Democratic Change had done "exceedingly well" in the vote.
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| Mexico plane crash: Aeromexico flight with 101 people on board crashes in Durango Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:25 PM PDT  The airline said flight number 2431 was an Embraer 190 with a capacity for 100 passengers and was bound for Mexico City when it crashed. The head of Mexico's Transport Department said "the plane fell upon takeoff". Gerardo Ruiz Eparza said there were 97 passengers and four crew members aboard the plane.
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| Shocking Paris Video: Harasser Slaps Woman After She Tells Him To Shut Up Posted: 30 Jul 2018 08:30 PM PDT  An explosive video shared by a French architecture student shows a man walking
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| Brazen Thieves Steal Shark From San Antonio Aquarium, Carry It Away in Baby Stroller Posted: 31 Jul 2018 06:09 AM PDT  Thankfully the shark was returned safely.
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| Ancient pottery factory unveiled in Israel Posted: 31 Jul 2018 09:07 AM PDT  Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled what they said was a major pottery plant which produced wine storage jars continuously from Roman to Byzantine times. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said that excavations near the town of Gedera, south of Tel Aviv, revealed the factory and an adjacent leisure complex of 20 bathing pools and a room used for board games. Excavation director Alla Nagorsky told journalists at the site that from the third century AD the plant produced vessels of a type known to historians as "Gaza" jars for an unbroken period of 600 years.
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| Facebook Warns Of ‘Bad Actors,’ Deletes Accounts Ahead Of Midterms Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:11 PM PDT  Facebook said Tuesday it removed over a dozen pages, profiles and accounts
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| Firefighters gain on sprawling California wildfire, six dead Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:52 PM PDT  By Bob Strong REDDING, Calif. (Reuters) - California firefighters on Monday gained ground on a massive wildfire that has killed six people and destroyed hundreds of homes, while rescuers searched for at least seven missing people. The Carr Fire ignited a week ago outside Redding, about 150 miles (240 km) north of Sacramento, and doubled in size over the weekend, charring an area half the size of New York City and forcing 38,000 people to flee their homes. Two firefighters, a 70-year-old woman and her two young great-grandchildren were among the dead.
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| Zimbabwe election: Nelson Chamisa claims foul play as historic poll closes Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:10 PM PDT  Zimbabwe's leading opposition candidate accused the country's electoral authorities of trying to suppress voter turnout at presidential elections on Monday, raising fears of a disputed outcome to the historic poll. Millions of Zimbabweans turned out to vote in the country's first presidential, parliamentary, and local government elections since dictator Robert Mugabe was ousted in a military coup in November. The outcome will decide whether Emmerson Mnangagwa, a 75-year-old former ally of Mr Mugabe, or Nelson Chamisa, a 40-year-old lawyer and preacher leading the opposition MDC alliance, will be the country's next president. The only poll released in the run up to the vote showed Mr Mnangagwa leading Mr Chamisa by just 3 per cent, and the results, which must be announced by Saturday, are expected to be tight. Emmerson Mnangagwa cast his ballot in Kwekwe, 100 miles southwest of Harare Credit: Xinhua / Barcroft Images Mr Chamisa, who has repeatedly accused the country's electoral authorities of colluding with Mr Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF Party, claimed queues at some polling stations in Harare on Monday were a deliberate attempt to reduce turnout in traditional strongholds of the opposition MDC Alliance. "There seems to be a deliberate attempt to suppress and frustrate the Urban vote," Mr Chamisa wrote on Twitter. "Good turn out but the people's will being negated & undetermined due to these deliberate & unnecessary delays." There were queues of up to one hour at Harare polling stations visited by the Telegraph. A voter arrives at a polling station during early morning voting in Kwekwe Credit: JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP Polling stations are technically obliged to remain open until all those still in line at 7PM, when polling closes, have voted. EU chief observer Elmar Brok said many voters left voting queues in frustration at long delays but that it was as yet unclear whether those delays were deliberate or down to poor management. "In some cases it (voting) works very smoothly but in others we see that it is totally disorganized and that people become angry, people leave," Mr Brok told reporters in Harare. Profile | Emmerson Mnangagwa Voting generally went smoothly and there was no violence reported. However, several voters said that memories of 2008, when Mr Mugabe unleashed thugs to terrorise MDC activists and supporters, still loomed large. "I'm glad we voted. We really badly need change," said a 61-year-old man who cast his ballot in the Harare suburb of Newlands. "But I don't want to give you my name or say who I voted for because we don't know what the repercussions will be afterwards. It would be easy to track me down." Zanu-PF have ruled Zimbabwe for 38 years and Mr Mnangagwa's near total dominance in the media makes him the front runner in the election. He has sought to attract former opposition voters by publicly breaking with Mr Mugabe and promising a "New Dispensation" of democratic and economic reforms. Nelson Chamisa voted at the 2 Primary High School in Kuwadzana, Harare Credit: Wilfred Kajese/Anadolu Agency However, Mr Chamisa has made significant inroads into former Zanu PF strongholds in rural areas and has attracted large crowds at his rallies. He has said he is certain of victory and that any other outcome could only be the result of vote-rigging by Zanu-PF. "I am moderately bullish," said Terence Mukupe, the Zanu-PF candidate for the constituency of Harare East, before casting his vote. "The MDC vote is split, and the business community, the white community, and the middle classes who used to vote for the opposition have largely switched to ED," he said, using Mr Mnangagwa's initials. But as polls closed on Monday evening there were signs that Mr Chamisa had made inroads into Zanu-PF's own traditional strongholds. One 71-year-old grandmother from a village 40 miles north of Harare said she did not vote for Zanu-PF for the first time because she said she now felt "safe" to support the opposition. Africa's tarnished jewel: how four decades of Robert Mugabe left Zimbabwe's economy reeling "We….my friends from church like sweet things, and so some of us grandmothers voted for Chamisa," she laughed. The election has been dominated by the legacy of Mr Mugabe, with both candidates promising a break with the stagnation and political violence of his rule. The former dictator, 94, made a surprise intervention on the eve of the election, saying he would not vote for his own Zanu-PF party and hinting that he would back Mr Chamisa instead. He was cheered when he showed up to vote at his polling station in Highfield, a township on the southern outskirts of Harare, with his wife Grace. Mrs Mugabe was yesterday stripped of her diplomatic immunity by a court in South Africa, where she is facing allegations of assaulting model Gabriella Engels' with an electrical cord in when she discovered her in the company of her sons in a luxury Johannesburg hotel. Another observer in Harare who was in contact with groups in other parts of the country, said there had been isolated incidents of voter intimidation. "So far, and it is too early to make conclusions, there does not seem to have been any pattern or targeted bias. We have heard from colleagues in one or two rural areas - and this needs to be checked - there were some instances of intimidation, but not systemic or as ugly as in the past." Mr Mnangagwa called the election a "beautiful expression of freedom and democracy" and called on candidates not to call the result before the electoral commission announces the official outcome. "In our millions, we voted in the spirit of tolerance, mutual respect & peace," he wrote on Twitter after polling closed. "Let us remember that no matter which way we voted, we are all brothers and sisters, and this land belongs to us all."
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| Family Of Duck Boat Drowning Victims Files $100 Million Lawsuit Posted: 30 Jul 2018 02:39 PM PDT  Relatives of two drowning victims are seeking $100 million in damages after 17
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| What the Homeless Resume Man Tells Us About Viral 'Feel Good' Memes Posted: 30 Jul 2018 10:09 PM PDT  He wasn't just "hungry 4 success," he had more going for him, too.
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| Apple earnings arrive with trillion-dollar value near Posted: 30 Jul 2018 10:52 PM PDT  Apple will release quarterly earnings figures Tuesday as it flirts with a history-making, trillion-dollar market value based on its share price. To hit the trillion-dollar mark, Apple shares would have to climb about seven percent from the $189.91 price logged at the close of official trading Monday on the Nasdaq. The market is eager for news about demand for iPhones and how the company is riding out trade turbulence between the US and China.
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| Yahoo News explains: What is Trump Derangement Syndrome? Posted: 30 Jul 2018 07:00 AM PDT  Trump Derangement Syndrome is a mock diagnosis used by President Trump's supporters to describe individuals whose dislike of the man makes them incapable of seeing any good in his policies or decisions.
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| Marine Killed In Car Crash After Visiting Newborn Daughter In Hospital Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:58 PM PDT  Kevin Quinn's dream of becoming a father came true for on Wednesday when his
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| How inhaling wildfire smoke can wreak havoc on your health Posted: 30 Jul 2018 04:57 AM PDT  Fueled by the tremendous threat of wildfires raging in parts of the United States each year is the growing concern for adverse health effects resulting from smoke exposure.
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| Man Charged With Assaulting Elderly Catholic Priest In Delaware Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:28 PM PDT  Police in Delaware have arrested a 25-year-old man they claim violently
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| Panda celebrates birthday with bamboo bread cupcakes Posted: 30 Jul 2018 07:05 PM PDT  Giant panda Xiao Liwu celebrated his sixth birthday at the San Diego Zoo with plenty of presents and bamboo bread birthday cupcakes.
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| Carr fire: California wildfires will only get worse in the future because of climate change, experts say Posted: 31 Jul 2018 11:05 AM PDT  Nearly 20 major wildfires have torn through California in the last month, killing at least six people and causing thousands more to flee their homes. "What we're seeing over the last few years in terms of the wildfire season in California … [is] very consistent with the historical trends in terms of increasing temperatures, increasing dryness, and increasing wildfire risk," Stanford Earth System Science Professor Noah Diffenbaugh told The Independent. California recorded 9,560 wildfires in 2017 – about 2,000 more than the year before, according to the US Forest Service.
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| U.S. says it expects North Korea to uphold promise to give up nuclear arms Posted: 31 Jul 2018 03:24 PM PDT  By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it expects Pyongyang to keep its commitment made at a June leaders' summit to give up its nuclear arms and would press southeast Asian nations during meetings this week to maintain sanctions against North Korea. Questions have arisen over Pyongyang's commitment to denuclearize after U.S. spy satellite material detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that produced the country's first intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of reaching the United States. The department left open the possibility that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo could meet North Korean officials during meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc in Singapore this weekend.
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| The Biggest Mistakes People Make When Apologizing Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:51 PM PDT  Apologizing can be very difficult. It takes maturity to put aside your pride
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| Iran currency drops 18% in two days Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:30 AM PDT  The Iranian rial has been crashing in recent days as the country anxiously awaits the reimposition of full US sanctions, starting on August 6. On January 1, the dollar was worth 42,900 rials. The government has been in crisis mode, replacing its central bank chief last week.
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| Zimbabwe Is Voting In Its First Ever Election Without Mugabe. Here's What to Know. Posted: 30 Jul 2018 03:52 AM PDT  Voting began on Monday in the 2018 Zimbabwean election, the country's first since the removal last year of longtime president Robert Mugabe.
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| LeBron James Is Done With Trump: 'I Would Never Sit Across From Him' Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:13 AM PDT  NBA superstar LeBron James called out President Donald Trump on Monday night for escalating racial tensions.
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| Twitter Rains Hell On Jeff Sessions' New Religious Liberty Task Force Posted: 30 Jul 2018 06:03 PM PDT  Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that the U.S. Justice
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| 15 dead as gunmen storm Afghan govt building, 11 killed in bus bombing Posted: 31 Jul 2018 07:58 AM PDT  A suicide bomb and gun attack by militants on an Afghan government building in Jalalabad on Tuesday killed at least 15 people, some burned "beyond recognition", officials said, the latest in a series of assaults on the eastern city. On the other side of the country a roadside bomb apparently intended for security forces hit a passenger bus and killed 11 people, marking yet another bloody day for civilians who have borne the brunt of violence in Afghanistan. The attack in Jalalabad targeted the compound of the refugees and repatriations department.
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| After Indonesian earthquake terror, hundreds trek down from volcano Posted: 30 Jul 2018 03:16 AM PDT  By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Nearly 700 trekkers headed down Mount Rinjani on Indonesia's tourist island of Lombok on Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.4 terrified the climbers as boulders tumbled down the slopes of the volcano. Officials said the death toll from Sunday's earthquake, which was centered on the northern part of Lombok, but was also felt on the resort island of Bali to the west, stood at 16. "I thought I was going to die," said John Robyn Buenavista, a 23-year-old American, who was at the summit when the quake hit.
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| Mountain lions lurk outside California family's front door Posted: 31 Jul 2018 08:17 AM PDT  Poway family surprised to see cougars come right up to their house just after midnight; officials unsure if recent wildfires are pushing animals out of their natural habitats and closer to homes.
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| Minneapolis police release body cam footage from Thurman Blevins shooting Posted: 30 Jul 2018 08:29 AM PDT  Minneapolis police have released body cam footage of the moment a black man was shot from behind while running from police. The death of 31-year-old Thurman Blevins ignited a familiar debate around police violence in his community, where family members have called for the officers involved to be prosecuted. The incident is under investigation by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey released the body cam footage early, under pressure from Minneapolis residents and all 13 city council members.
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| VIDEO: Watch a C-130 Get Up Close And Personal With California’s Massive Wildfire Posted: 31 Jul 2018 05:10 AM PDT  Service members from the Cal Guard are currently in a sort of aerial war against a wildfire. See how.
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| MH370: The story so far as Malaysia releases final report into mystery of flight's disappearance Posted: 29 Jul 2018 10:07 PM PDT  It is arguably the biggest mystery in aviation history: What happened to Flight MH370? Malaysia is releasing a long-awaited report into the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane, which vanished with 239 aboard en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. Relatives of people aboard the flight, who were given the official investigation team's report on Monday morning at the Malaysian transport ministry, said they hoped it might give them answers. However, the report, which was due to be released publicly in the afternoon, was unlikely to reveal definitive conclusions about that fateful day four years ago. Here is everything we know - and don't know - about the unexplained tragedy. How did it vanish? Flight MH370 departed Kuala Lumpur at 00:41 local time on Sunday March 8, 2014. Piloted by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the plane was expected to fly across the Gulf of Thailand, then over Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and mainland China, before landing in Beijing just under six hours later at 6.30am. About 40 minutes into the flight, at 01:19, a co-pilot, believed to be Fariq Abdul Hamid, radios air traffic control: "Alright, good night." It was the last time authorities heard from the plane. Two minutes later, the flight fails to check in as scheduled with air traffic control in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. No distress signal is received. MH370 flight path Radar shows the aircraft made a sharp left turn, from north-east to almost due west. At 01:38, Vietnamese air traffic control asks other countries and nearby aircraft to attempt to make contact. At 02:15, MH370's position is picked up for the final time. Malaysian military radar shows the aircraft is heading north-west across the Andaman Sea. The alarm is finally raised at 05:30 after hours of confusion and a search and rescue operation is launched, focusing on the South China Sea, south of Vietnam's Ca Mau peninsula. At 11.14am, the loss of the flight is confirmed at a press conference. What might have happened? No one can say for certain what happened, but the mystery has spawned countless theories - some credible, others less so. Hypoxia event or onboard accident The official narrative, from the Malaysian government and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, posits that the passengers and crew were incapacitated by an unknown "unresponsive crew/ hypoxia event". Hypoxia is a deficiency of oxygen. In that scenario, Captain Zaharie, like everyone else on board, was unconscious as the plane flew on autopilot before finally crashing into the sea when it ran out of fuel. Related theories suggest there was a fire or accident that incapacitated Shah and the cabin crew. That was the belief of Christopher Goodfellow, a former pilot. "I will maintain my view that the loss of MH370 was due to an accident until it is proved otherwise," Mr Goodfellow wrote in the Telegraph. "As I stated three months ago in my online post, the crew were almost certainly dealing with a major emergency when they made their unannounced turn to the west. Why west? Because they were diverting towards the island of Langkawi, on the west coast of Malaysia. " Pilots under suspicion In May, a panel of experts told the Australian TV programme 60 Minutes that the evidence suggested Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah executed a careful series of manoeuvres to evade detection and ensure the plane disappeared in a remote location. Martin Dolan, former head of the Australia Transport Safety Bureau, who led the two-year search for the missing plane, said: "This was planned, this was deliberate, and it was done over an extended period of time." Two years ago, a study of the flight data found the plane appeared to be out of control when it crashed – rather than being deliberately glided – and that the pilot had not prepared the wing flaps for landing. The analysis indicated the plane dived quickly when it landed and there was no controlled descent. An initial interim report into the mystery in 2015 looked closely at Captain Zaharie's background and behaviour in the lead-up to the flight, but found his "ability to handle stress at work and home was good". The report also stated: "There was no known history of apathy, anxiety, or irritability. There were no significant changes in his lifestyle, interpersonal conflict or family stresses." In August 2016, Malaysian officials said Captain Zaharie had plotted a path over the Indian Ocean on a home flight simulator. Then transport minister Liow Tiong Lai said he had used a home-made flight simulator to plot a very similar course to MH370's presumed final route but he emphasised this was just one of thousands of practice routes discovered on Zaharie's hard drive. "There is no evidence to confirm that (the pilot) flew the plane into the southern Indian Ocean". The wild theories Other far-fetched suggestions include the plane being hijacked remotely or being attacked from the ground, with blame being pointed at governments such as the US, Russia and North Korea. MH370 | The theories What have the searches found? There have been two major searches for the doomed aircraft. The first, carried out by Australia, China and Malaysia, ended in January last year after a fruitless £113 million ($147.06 million) trawl across an area of 46,332 sq miles in the southern Indian Ocean. "Despite every effort using the best science available, cutting edge technology, as well as modelling and advice from highly skilled professionals who are the best in their field, unfortunately, the search has not been able to locate the aircraft," the three countries said in a joint statement at the time. The second, which began in January, was conducted by US-based firm Ocean Infinity. It was called off on May 29 after the privately-funded underwater hunt covered 43,243 sq miles in the southern Indian Ocean. The search for MH370 The previous administration of Najib Razak had promised up to $70 million to the Texas-based firm if it found the plane. But there were no significant new findings. The only confirmed traces of the Boeing 777 aircraft have been three wing fragments washed up on Indian Ocean coasts. The first bit of debris discovered was a flaperon, which was found washed up on Reunion Island in July 2015. French officials said numbers found inside the part match records from a company that manufactured it for MH370. The island lies between Madagascar and Mauritius. French police officers carry a piece of debris from MH370 in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island Credit: AP In May the following year, a fragment of plane wing was found in Mauritius, with a "part identifier" allowing investigators to identify the wreckage definitively. And the following month, a wing flap found on Pemba island, in Tanzania, was confirmed to belong to the missing airliner. Other parts that are thought to be part of the aircraft include a cabin interior panel, found in Madagascar; engine cowling that washed up in South Africa's Mossel Bay; a main cabin interior panel that cropped up in Rodrigues Island in Mauritius; a horizontal stabilizer found on a beach in Mozambique; and a flap track fairing that was also discovered on a Mozambique beach. What will the report say? Anthony Loke, Malaysia's transport minister, said the investigation team would brief families of those aboard on the report in a closed-door briefing. A news conference will then follow in the afternoon. "Every word recorded by the investigation team will be tabled in this report," he told reporters, adding that a news conference would follow the closed-door briefing. Family members read MH370 briefing reports before a closed door meeting Credit: Reuters "We are committed to the transparency of this report," Loke added. "It will be tabled fully, without any editing, additions, or redactions." The report will be put online, with hard copies distributed to families and accredited media, among others, Loke said, adding: "The whole international community will have access to the report." It will also be presented to both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday. Arriving at the transport ministry on Monday to receive the report, Nurlaila Ngah, whose husband Wan Swaid Wan Ismail was an MH370 crew member, said she was hoping for a "solid answer" about what happened that could give relatives some closure. Sarah Nor, the mother of Norliakmar Hamid, a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, cries as she arrives for the final investigation report on missing flight MH370 Credit: AFP "In the airline industry, tragedies happen but there are clues as to what could have happened," she told AFP. "It makes no sense if they (the investigators) say there are no hints as to what could have happened." But Calvin Shim, whose wife was a stewardess on the flight, was sceptical the report would tell families anything new after more than four years of fruitless searching. "I do not expect any fresh revelations from this report," he said. "The black box has not been found. The plane wreckage has not been found." Families weep after receiving final report on MH370. "There's no conclusion" pic.twitter.com/u40tuFuzM1— David Lipson (@davidlipson) July 30, 2018 He had said previously he was concerned that the accident report would not include key details such as the plane's full cargo manifest and the results of a separate investigation by Malaysian police. Voice 370, a group representing the relatives, has previously urged the Malaysian government for a review of the flight, including "any possible falsification or elimination of records related to MH370 and its maintenance". What next? For the moment, the families can only pray that a firm clue as to the aircraft's whereabouts emerges. Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's Prime Minister, has said the country would consider resuming the search if new clues came to light, and Ocean Infinity CEO Oliver Plunkett hoped the company would be able to offer its services again in a future operation. Michael McCormack, Australia's Deputy Prime Minister, said the search had tested the limits of technology and capacity of experts and people at sea. It would only resume if there was "credible evidence which identifies a specific location of the missing aircraft". "We will always remain hopeful that one day the aircraft will be located," Mr McCormack's office said in May.
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