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Recovery of bodies from France plane crash will "take days" due to difficult terrain: French police at crash site -
No survivors in France plane crash: French police at crash site
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Germanwings says there should be no issue with the age of the airplane.
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Germanwings says believes 67 Germans were among crash victims, that number could change.
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Germanwings voices deepest condolences for people who lost family members.
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Germanwings says team from Lufthansa, Airbus, Germanwings on way right now to crash site.
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Airbus says crashed A320 aircraft had accumulated approx. 58,300 flight hours in some 46,700 flights.
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Germanwings said flight lost contact with French air traffic control when was at 6,000 feet
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BREAKING: Germanwings said captain had been flying with Germanwings and Lufthansa for 10 years.
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BREAKING: Germanwings says plane was checked by Lufthansa technicians yesterday
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BREAKING: 16 schoolchildren, two teachers may have been on crashed Germanwings plane: German town Haltern
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An Airbus plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashes in southern France en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, carrying 142 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew.
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A police officer escorts a man believed to be a family member of a passenger on the Germanwings plane as he arrives at Barcelona's El Prat airport. REUTERS/Albert Gea
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Family members of passengers on the Germanwings plane that crashed arrive at Barcelona's El Prat airport. REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts as she makes a statement in Berlin. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
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Merkel says she will travel to site of crash tomorrow: Reuters
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Merkel says Germany, Spain and France deeply mourn crash victims.
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French firefighters prepare to take-off in Digne-les-Bains for the crash site of an Airbus A320, in the French Alps. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
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Merkel 'deeply shaken' by Germanwings crash in France: spokesman
(Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel was "deeply shaken" by news that a passenger plane operated by Germanwings had crashed in France, her spokesman said on Tuesday.
The chancellor was scheduled to give a statement on the accident at 2.30 p.m. (1330 GMT).
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An assistant (R) escorts people believed to be family members of passengers on the Germanwings plane that crashed as they arrive at Barcelona's El Prat airport. REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino
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People believed to be family members of those killed in Germanwings plane crash arrive at Barcelona's El Prat airport. REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino
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Members on the airport care team gather at Duesseldorf airport. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender
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An emergency vehicle stands at an entrance at Duesseldorf airport March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender
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Spain's Deputy PM says 45 on crashed plane believed to be Spanish
(Reuters) - Some 45 people traveling on the Lufthansa operated Germanwings plane which crashed in a remote area of southern France on Tuesday had Spanish surnames, a spokesman for Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said.
"The deputy prime minister said there were 45 people on board with Spanish surnames," the spokesman said.
All 148 people traveling on the plane are feared dead.
(Reporting by Andres Gonzalez; Writing by Paul Day; Editing by Sonya Dowsett) -
Germanwings says will do everything possible to clear up crash
(Reuters) - Germanwings' managing director Oliver Wagner said on Tuesday his company could not give any reasons for the plane crash in France yet but would do everything it could to find out what happened.
"Our deep sympathy goes out to the relatives and friends of the victims," Wagner said.
Germanwings, which is the low-cost unit of German flag carrier Lufthansa, was scheduled to hold a news conference at 1400 GMT (1000 ET) at its head office in Cologne.
(Reporting by Michael Nienaber; Editing by Stephen Brown) -
Reuters Picture: Helicopter hovers after the final assault at the scene of a hostage taking at an industrial zone in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris January 9, 2015. The two brothers wanted for the shooting of 12 people at the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo were killed in a raid by security forces. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
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Parisians vow to stand strong against terror threat http://t.co/JIaZ8uGAsHJan. 9, 2015
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Several rounds of automatic gunfire rang out, accompanied by loud explosions, at a print workshop north of Paris where security forces had encircled the two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo killings. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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Man carrying a small child flees kosher store siege in Paris http://t.co/iXW1S7VP9k http://t.co/RKONfN0kPx
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French President Francois Hollande to address nation after sieges ended: http://t.co/yvvkRFLiMl #ParisAttack #CharlieHebdoJan. 9, 2015
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Hezbollah chief says terrorists damage Islam more than cartoons
(Reuters) - The leader of the Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah said on Friday that Islamist terrorists had done more harm to Islam than any cartoon or book, a reference to the attack by suspected Islamist militants on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said what he called "takfiri terrorist groups" had insulted Islam more than "even those who have attacked the messenger of God through books depicting the Prophet or making films depicting the Prophet or drawing cartoons of the Prophet."
Takfiri is a term for a Muslim who accuses others, including another Muslim, of apostasy. Hezbollah considers members of ultra-hardline Sunni-dominated groups like al Qaeda and Islamic State to be takfiris.
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French police seal off town as they close in on Charlie Hebdo suspects
Members of the French gendarmerie intervention forces arrive at the scene of a hostage taking at an industrial zone in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris January 9, 2015. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann(Reuters) - French anti-terrorist police sealed off a small northern town and helicopters hovered overhead after a police source said two men believed to have carried out an attack on a satirical journal took at least one person hostage in a small print works.
Earlier, police had chased a vehicle at high speed along a main road heading towards Paris as one of France's biggest security operations in recent times unfolded. Gunshots rang out and the suspects abandoned their car in Dammartin-en-Goele, a small town of about 8,000 residents.
Police trucks, ambulances and armored vehicles descended on the area close to Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport after the suspects took refuge with at least one hostage in a building on an industrial estate, according to police sources. Read more
Hostages taken at Paris kosher supermarket: police source
Paris gunman was from same jihadist cell as Hebdo suspects: police
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Pictures released of suspect believed to holding hostages at a kosher grocery in #Paris http://t.co/Mrm4EiwdLDJan. 9, 2015
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Mapped: the key locations in the two attacks and two sieges in #Paris. See in full: http://t.co/7N7uvClhWY http://t.co/n0WeEaEdrX
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Suspect in Paris Attack Trained with Al Qaeda in Yemen http://t.co/lG3DOroso7 Learn about this Al Qaeda affiliate: http://t.co/jOInB7W8UMJan. 9, 2015
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BREAKING: At least two dead in shootout in eastern Paris: Agence France-Presse quoted by local media
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Helicopters are seen over the town where at least one hostage was seized during a huge manhunt for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at a satirical weekly. Julie Noce reports.
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A helicopter with members of the French intervention forces hover above the scene of a hostage taking at an industrial zone in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris January 9, 2015. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
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Hostage-taking at Paris kosher supermarket
PARIS - Several people were taken hostage at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Friday after a shootout involving a man armed with two guns, a police source said.
There were unconfirmed reports that the man was the same as that suspected of killing a policewoman in a southern suburb of Paris on Thursday. A police source had told Reuters earlier he was a member of the same jihadist group as the two suspects in the attack at weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
(Reporting by Gerard Bon and Emmanuel Jarry; Editing by Mark John) -
Several hostages taken at kosher supermarket in Eastern Paris
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A woman holds a sign during a vigil to pay tribute to the victims of a shooting by gunmen at the offices of weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, at Trafalgar Square in London. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
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READER COMMENT: I hope they're searching for the gunmen, as opposed to the "alleged" gunmen. The cartoonists, after all, were actually shot, not allegedly shot. -
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#JeSuisCharlie rally will take place in Union Square at 7 p.m. tonightJan. 7, 2015
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Putin says Russia will follow up fast after Ukraine call with Biden
MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would send ideas to Washington within a week to follow up his talks with U.S. President Joe Biden on the Ukraine crisis.
