Germanwings plane crashes

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Germanwings plane crashes
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An Airbus plane operated by Lufthansa's
Germanwings budget airline crashed in southern
France on Tuesday en route from Barcelona to
Duesseldorf. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls
said he understood between 142 and 150 people
were on board and feared dead. "The cause is at
present unknown," he told reporters.
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  to cut her cancer risk, actress and U.S. envoy
  Angelina Jolie has had surgery to remove her
  ovaries and fallopian tubes for the same reason,
  she wrote in the New York Times Tuesday. Jolie,
  39, carries a mutation of the BRCA1 gene, which
  sharply increases her risk of developing breast
  cancer and ovarian cancer. Her mother was
  diagnosed with the latter at age 49 and died
  seven years later. She lost her grandmother and
  aunt to cancer as well. "It is not possible to
  remove all risk, and the fact is I remain prone
  to cancer," she said. "I will look for natural
  ways to strengthen my immune system. I feel
  feminine, and grounded in the choices I am making
  for myself and my family. I know my children will
  never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.
• Debra Milke spent 22 years on death row,
  convicted of conspiring with two other men to
  kill her son allegedly for an insurance payout.
  On Monday, a judge ruled that the Arizona woman
  is innocent and dismissed all charges against
  her. This makes Milke only the second woman
  exonerated from death row in the United States.
  More importantly, the judge's decision finally
  clears Milke after years of legal back-and-forth
  in a case where she steadfastly maintained her
  innocence. Key to the case's dismissal was
  prosecutorial misconduct, mainly that of a
  detective, Armando Saldate, who said Milke
  confessed to the crime to him -- even though
  there was no witness or recording. Prosecutors
  withheld from the jury Saldate's personnel record
  which showed instances of misconduct in other
  cases, including lying under oath. The two men
  with whom Milke was accused of conspiring were
  tried separately and are still on death row.
• American officials have accused Israel of spying
  on diplomatic talks between the United States and
  Iran and then feeding sensitive information
  back to Barack Obamas political opponents in
  America. Israel, which says the allegation are
  utterly false, is opposed to an emerging deal
  on Irans nuclear program, as are most members of
  the Republican Party the sworn political
  opponents of Barack Obamas Democratic Party.
  According to US newspaper the Wall Street
  Journal, US spies monitoring Israeli
  communications claim to have intercepted
  information which they allege could only have
  come from spying on American talks about Irans
  nuclear program.