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Indonesia

Search resumed for second black box

Divers on Friday resumed a search for a second black box amid the sunken wreckage of an aircraft that slammed into the sea off Jakarta this week, killing all 189 people on board. Searchers have found only part of one black box and just one passenger has been identified from partial remains after air traffic control lost contact with the plane 13 minutes after it took off on Monday. Efforts are now focused on retrieving the second of the two black boxes, as the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder are known, officials said.

United Nations

UN condemns US embargo on Cuba

The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Thursday condemning the US economic embargo of Cuba. The UN General Assembly's vote on the Cuban-sponsored resolution on the "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba" was 189-2 with no abstentions. The US and Israel voted "no" and Moldova and Ukraine did not vote.

United Kingdom

Two hurt in London stabbing incident

Two people were stabbed and a man was arrested on Friday at an address in central London that is home to the offices of Sony Music, police said. The Metropolitan Police said armed officers were sent to Derry Street in Kensington at about 11 am and the building was evacuated as a precaution. It said the incident is not being treated as terrorism and there is no evidence that guns were involved. The condition of the two victims was not immediately known.

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