News Updates from
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Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Passengers' Mobile
Phones Ring But Not Answered --A man from Beijing also called his missing brother on the
plane, and reported to the airlines that the phone connected three times and
rang before appearing to hang up, according to Shanghai Daily. 10 Mar
2014 The mystery surrounding the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has
deepened with the Chinese media reporting that several of the passengers' mobile phones were connecting when called by
relatives, but the calls were not picked up. The sister of one
of the Chinese passengers on board the vanished flight rang his phone live on
TV, the Mirror reports...The Straits Times
reported
that many of the family members told MAS commercial director Hugh Dunleavy that
the commuters' mobile phones were ringing but they were not picked up. Dunleavy
replied that MAS was calling the mobile phones of the crew members as well,
which were ringing, and that he had given the numbers to Chinese investigators.
Relatives of the passengers are urging the authorities to search for the
location of phones that rang using the Global Positioning System.
Missing Malaysia Airlines plane passenger: 'Stop hiding the
truth from us!' 10 Mar 2014 ANGER,
anxiety and false hope filled a meeting room in a Beijing hotel yesterday where
more than a hundred family members and loved ones of Flight MH370 passengers
were gathered, wanting only one thing: answers. Malaysia Airlines (MAS) had few,
and when commercial director Hugh Dunleavy addressed the families in the
afternoon with no new information, several people started shouting for him to
"stop hiding the truth from us!" A disturbing twist arose when the authorities
confirmed that two passengers had boarded the plane with stolen passports. In
the holding room of about 1,500 sq ft at Metropark Lido Hotel, rumours spread
that as many as five passengers were using stolen passports.
"They are not updating us that it is a possible hijacking," said a white-haired
man who gave his name as Mr Li. His daughter was on board. "This means a greater
chance that they are alive."
CIA Accused of Illegally Searching Computers Used by Senate
Committee 11 Mar 2014
The chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee said Tuesday that the
Central Intelligence Agency had improperly [aka illegally] searched computers
her committee had been using to investigate C.I.A. interrogation procedures at
its secret Bush-era prison system. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of
California and the chairwoman of the committee, said on the Senate floor that
the agency had violated federal law and undermined Congress's constitutional
right to oversee the actions of the executive branch. The dispute stems from an
effort by her committee to investigate allegations of torture and to determine
whether what the Bush administration labeled "enhanced interrogation methods"
ever produced useful intelligence.
Feinstein accuses CIA of torture report
smears --US senator
and intelligence committee chair accuses CIA of intimidation in effort to block
publication of controversial torture report 11 Mar 2014 The chairwoman
of the Senate intelligence committee, Dianne Feinstein, on Tuesday accused the
Central Intelligence Agency of a catalogue of cover-ups, intimidation and smears
aimed at investigators probing its role in an "un-American and brutal" programme
of post-9/11 detention and interrogation. In a bombshell statement on the floor
of the US Senate, Feinstein, normally an administration loyalist, accused the
CIA of potentially violating the US constitution and of criminal activity in its
attempts to obstruct her committee’s investigations into the agency’s use of
torture. She described the crisis as a "defining moment" for political oversight
of the US intelligence service. Her unprecedented public assault on the CIA
represented an intensification of the row between the committee and the agency
over a still-secret report on the torture of terrorist suspects after
9/11.
TEPCO wants to dump hundreds of thousands of tonnes of
radioactive water into Pacific Ocean
10 Mar 2014 A senior adviser to the operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant has told the firm that it may have no choice but to
eventually dump hundreds of thousands of tonnes of contaminated [radioactive] water
into the Pacific Ocean. Speaking to reporters who were on a rare visit to the
plant on the eve of the third anniversary of the March 2011 nuclear disaster,
Dale Klein said Tokyo Electric Power [Tepco] had yet to reassure the public over
the handling of water leaks that continue to frustrate efforts to clean up the
site.
DOE plan to wait two
years to pump radioactive waste 'unacceptable' - state of
Washington 10 Mar 2014 The
Department of Energy's plan to wait at least two years to pump radioactive waste
from a damaged double-shell tank at Hanford is unacceptable, the state of
Washington says. DOE's plan "demonstrates the federal government's lack of
commitment to set a firm, near-term schedule for the removal of [radioactive]
waste from leaking double-shell Tank AY-102," the state Department of Ecology
said in a statement Monday. DOE confirmed in October 2012 that Tank AY-102, the
oldest of Hanford's 28 double-shell tanks, had leaked [radioactive] waste from
its inner shell. The [radioactive] waste then was in two places in the space
between the inner and outer shells, and DOE says no waste has breached the outer
shell to reach the soil beneath the underground tank.
Russian Paratroopers Hold Massive Drills as Crimea Vote
Nears 11 Mar 2014 An airborne
division based in central Russia began large-scale exercises Tuesday against the
backdrop of an ongoing political and security crisis in Ukraine. The Defense
Ministry said units of the 98th Guards Airborne Division, based in Ivanovo, a
city east of Moscow, were put on high alert and moved to unspecified locations
to "check readiness" in simulated combat conditions. Four thousand troops, 36
military transport aircraft and an unspecified number of combat vehicles are
taking part in the exercises, which will run until March 14.
Bridge scandal
hearing draws gaggle of Christie protesters 11 Mar 2014 Today's court hearing on the George Washington Bridge
scandal drew more than 50 protesters outside
the Mercer County courthouse -- including those who are unhappy with Gov. Chris
Christie on other issues. As Bridget Anne Kelly, Christie's former deputy chief
of staff, arrived this morning for her first public appearance since Bridgegate
erupted, she had to push past a noisy line of picketers and a crush of cameras.
Kelly, a key figure in the controversial lane closures at the bridge last
September, was there for a court showdown over whether a state legislative
committee investigating the scandal can compel Kelly and Bill Stepien,
Christie's former campaign manager, to hand over subpoenaed
documents.
Christie bridge scandal hearing begins on fight over
subpoenas 11 Mar 2014 Lawyers for a
legislative committee and two former advisers to Gov. Chris Christie implicated
in the lane closings at the George Washington Bridge tangled today over whether the pair had to turn over records subpoenaed by
the panel. "This is not, has not been, and the subpoenas are not fishing
expeditions of any sort," Reid Schar, a lawyer for the legislative committee,
told Judge Mary Jacobson. But a lawyer for one of the former advisers argued
that the committee's assertion that its subpoena was specific enough to identify
documents it knew existed was "astonishing."
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