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BBC:MH370 search: Plane debris flown out of Reunion
MH370 search: Plane debris flown out of Reunion
A piece of debris that experts believe could be from missing flight MH370 has been flown out of the French island where it was found on Wednesday.
The object, believed to be part of a wing, left Reunion in the Indian Ocean on a flight to Paris on Friday evening.
From there it will be transported to a defence ministry laboratory in Toulouse for analysis.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished in March 2014.
BBC:Ebola vaccine is 'potential game-changer'
Ebola vaccine is 'potential game-changer'
A vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus has led to 100% protection and could transform the way Ebola is tackled, preliminary results suggest.
There were no proven drugs or vaccines against the virus at the start of the largest outbreak of Ebola in history, which began in Guinea in December 2013.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said the findings, being published in the Lancet, could be a "game-changer".
Experts said the results were "remarkable".
BBC:Afghan militant leader Jalaluddin Haqqani 'has died'
Afghan militant leader Jalaluddin Haqqani 'has died'
Jalaluddin Haqqani, the Afghan founder of the militant Haqqani network, died at least a year ago, sources close to the group have told the BBC.
Haqqani died after a long illness and was buried in Afghanistan, the sources added.
Rumours about Haqqani's death have circulated for some years and can still not be independently confirmed.
The latest report comes a day after the Taliban acknowledged that its leader, Mullah Omar, was dead.
BBC:Fukushima disaster: Tepco executives to face trial
Fukushima disaster: Tepco executives to face trial
A trio of former top executives at a Japanese power giant are to appear in court over the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011.
In a rare legal move, a citizen's panel ruled the three Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) officials should face charges.
The decision forces prosecutors who had previously declined to act to seek an indictment.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant suffered a series of meltdowns following a massive earthquake and tsunami.
BBC:Calais migrant crisis: PM offers extra fencing and dogs
Calais migrant crisis: PM offers extra fencing and dogs
Extra sniffer dogs and fencing are to be offered to Calais officials to help them deal with high numbers of migrants trying to reach the UK, the PM says.
David Cameron spoke to French President Francois Hollande on the telephone on Friday and said the pair had agreed to work to tackle illegal immigration.
The PM has warned the situation will be a "difficult issue" throughout summer.
There have been thousands of attempts by migrants to access the Eurotunnel terminal, affecting train services.
BBC:Nato agrees plan to strengthen Iraqi army
Nato agrees plan to strengthen Iraqi army
Nato members have agreed measures to strengthen Iraq's security forces, which have suffered near-collapse in the face of an Islamic State offensive.
The alliance said the measures would focus on seven key areas including military training, cyber defence, and reforming the security sector.
The training will take place in Turkey and Jordan, Nato said in a statement.
Iraq has seen a surge in violence in the past year, with the highest monthly death toll in January for six years.
Reuters:Japan's Amari: Intellectual property not yet worked out at TPP
Japan's Amari: Intellectual property not yet worked out at TPP
Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari said on Thursday the issue of intellectual property has not been worked out yet at the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks due to differences among each nation, and more time is needed.
Amari told reporters that the issue needs to be discussed thoroughly to make this ministerial meeting the last one.
Ministers from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership are in Hawaii this week, aiming to seal the ambitious trade deal, which covers 40 percent of the global economy.
Reuters:Japan's Kyushu Electric aims to restart first reactor Aug 10
Japan's Kyushu Electric aims to restart first reactor Aug 10
Kyushu Electric Power Co said on Friday it planned to begin starting up a reactor on Aug. 10, the first attempt to reboot Japan's nuclear industry in nearly two years after the sector was shut down in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has been pushing to bring some reactors back online, arguing they are key to economic growth.
But opinion polls show a consistent majority oppose restarts, even though power bills have risen as utilities resort to expensive fossil fuels to generate power.
Kyushu, the monopoly supplier on the southwestern island of the same name, says starting the No. 1 reactor at its Sendai nuclear station would help it reduce costs incurred from burning fossil fuels by about $60 million a month.
Reuters:IEnova to buy Pemex stake in pipeline joint venture for $1.325 billion
IEnova to buy Pemex stake in pipeline joint venture for $1.325 billion
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In a statement, IEnova said that the cost of purchase is $1.325 billion and upon completion of the deal, IEnova (IENOVA.MX) will be the sole owner of the company.
A finalized deal is expected in 120 days, pending approval by IEnova's shareholders as well as Mexican regulators.
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Pemex said in a separate statement that the sale will allow it to "invest in strategic projects that are more profitable, reducing the need to take on debt."
Reuters:Mexican president's approval ratings hit after drug kingpin's escape
Mexican president's approval ratings hit after drug kingpin's escape
Approval ratings for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto have fallen to a new low, a newspaper poll showed on Friday amid a weak economy and after the escape of the country's most notorious criminal from a maximum-security prison.
A July email survey of 1,200 people by daily newspaper Reforma showed Peña Nieto's approval ratings had dropped to 34 percent from 39 percent in March. The rating was the worst in a Reforma poll since he took office in December 2012.
The survey was conducted after Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman broke out of prison on July 11 for a second time, escaping in a tunnel built right under his cell.
The jail break by Guzman, who appeared to have had assistance from prison staff, increased pressure on Peña Nieto to do more to curb corruption and the influence of violent drug gangs.
Reuters:Russia's 'tin pot despot' Putin ordered spy's London murder, UK inquiry told
Russia's 'tin pot despot' Putin ordered spy's London murder, UK inquiry told
Russian President Vladimir Putin is a "tin pot despot" who personally ordered the 2006 poisoning murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, the lawyer for his widow said on Friday.
Kremlin critic Litvinenko, 43, died three weeks after drinking green tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 at London's plush Millennium Hotel, shortly after obtaining British citizenship.
British authorities say there is evidence to try Russian suspects Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun for murder. From his deathbed, Litvinenko accused Putin of ordering his killing.
Both Russians deny the charge and the Kremlin has rejected any involvement, dismissing the validity of the British inquiry into Litvinenko's death that caused Anglo-Russian relations to sink to a post-Cold War low.
Reuters:Walkout at Taliban leadership meeting raises specter of split
Walkout at Taliban leadership meeting raises specter of split
At the Taliban meeting this week where Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was named as the Islamist militant group's new head, several senior figures in the movement, including the son and brother of late leader Mullah Omar, walked out in protest.
The display of dissent within the group's secretive core is the clearest sign yet of the challenge Mansour faces in uniting a group already split over whether to pursue peace talks with the Afghan government and facing a new, external threat, Islamic State.
Rifts in the Taliban leadership could widen after confirmation this week of the death of elusive founder Omar.
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Mansour, Omar's longtime deputy who has been effectively in charge for years, favors talks to bring an end to more than 13 years of war. He recently sent a delegation to inaugural meetings with Afghan officials hosted by Pakistan, hailed as a breakthrough.
LA Times:Scientists Want Ban on Salamander Imports to U.S. Due to Deadly Fungus
Scientists Want Ban on Salamander Imports to U.S. Due to Deadly Fungus
Each year, thousands of live salamanders arrive in shipments on U.S. shores, a trade that must stop immediately, scientists say.
According to new research, a ban on salamander imports is crucial to stopping the spread of a deadly fungus that kills almost every salamander it infects. Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, also known as Bsal, is a chytrid fungus, and a close relative of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a frog fungus that is threatening species worldwide.
Bsal was first discovered in 2013 after fire salamanders in the Netherlands began dying in droves. Since then, the fungus has appeared in Belgium. Bsal originated in Asia, researchers have found, and spreads via the pet trade. [Album: Bizarre Frogs, Lizards and Salamanders]