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May 05, 2014

New equipment to scour for MH370 up to two months away
Canberra (AFP) May 05, 2014
Officials Monday said it could be up to two months before new, more sophisticated equipment will be in the water to help the search for flight MH370 across what will be largely unmapped ocean floor. The hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared on March 8 carrying 239 people was scaled back last week after coming up with nothing, despite an air and sea search of 4.64 million square kilometres of the southern Indian Ocean. Australia on Monday hosted a meeting in Canberra with ... read more

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Big quake rattles Tokyo, 17 injured A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook buildings in the Japanese capital Tokyo early Monday, slightly injuring 17 people, but officials stressed there was no risk of a tsunami. ... more		Four held over deadly bridge collapse in China: Xinhua Chinese authorities said Sunday that four people had been detained over a bridge collapse in southern Guangdong province that killed 11 people and severely injured two, state media reported. ... more		Migration steals the magic from China's mountain shamans A Chinese shaman resplendent in a dark suit and green cloth hat thumbed yellowing pages said to predict the future - but mass migration to cities means the prospects for his own profession look bleak. ... more
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				Torrential rains kill four in Sierra Leone Three men and a young girl died in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, after torrential rains on Sunday dislodged a huge boulder which then crashed into a house, doctors said. ... more		Aid rushed to survivors after Afghan landslide kills hundreds Aid groups on Sunday rushed to reach survivors of a landslide in northern Afghanistan that entombed a village, killing hundreds of people and leaving 700 families homeless in the mountains. ... more

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