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1🇪🇹Ethiopian Airlines black boxes showed ‘clear similarities’ with Lion Air crash

Data retrieved from the black boxes of a crashed Ethiopian Airlines plane showed similarities to that from the Lion Air flight that plunged into the Java Sea in October, Ethiopia’s transport minister Dagmawit Moges said. She spoke after French air accident investigations bureau BEA had sent the data from both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder to Ethiopian authorities.

2Facebook says it removed 1.5 million videos of the New Zealand mosque attack

Facebook Inc said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the attack. The company said it is also removing all edited versions of the video that do not show graphic content out of respect for the people affected by the mosque shooting and the concerns of local authorities.

3🇿🇼 Over 120 dead after cyclone hits Mozambique, Zimbabwe

More than 120 people have died and many more are missing in Mozambique and neighbouring Zimbabwe after tropical cyclone Idai hit the southern African nations with flash floods and ferocious winds. The United Nations in Zimbabwe said that nearly 10,000 were affected by the cyclone.

4⚖️ US denying visas to International Criminal Court staff

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the US will deny or revoke visas for International Criminal Court staff. The move is meant to deter a potential investigation by the judicial body into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by US troops in Afghanistan. In November 2017, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda sought to investigate members of the US armed forces and the CIA for "war crimes."

5🇫🇷 French violence flares as yellow vest protests enter fourth month

Rioters set fire to a bank and ransacked stores on Paris’s Champs Elysees avenue on Saturday, in a new flare-up of violence as France’s yellow vest protests against President Emmanuel Macron and his pro-business reforms entered a fourth month.
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