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A suitcase discovered near the debris will be studied at a criminal investigation laboratory in Pontoise, near the French capital, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Friday.

With the part established as belonging to a Boeing 777, the same model as Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, investigators at the specialized center Direction Generale de l’Armement Techniques Aeronautiques will be focused on linking the wreckage to the doomed aircraft.

Du Yanlin, a Beijing activist who was recently detained for taking a selfie in Tiananmen Square to commemorate the 1989 military crackdown, said: “If the IOC wants to champion the purity of sport, it should not allow Beijing to host the Olympics”.

The flaperon is officially identified as being part of #Boeing 777.

A “metal object of interest” related to the search was found Sunday morning on the beach in St. Denis, part of Reunion Island, a local government official said.

Well known Chinese athletes such as Yao Ming – a member of the bidding team for the games – see the awarding of the bid to Beijing as an opportunity to ignite interest in winter sports here.

Boeing said Friday it will send a technical team to France to study plane debris that authorities increasingly believe is from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared in March 2014.

Last week South Korea’s Yonhap news agency cited “credible intelligence” that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had personally ordered a satellite launch to mark the anniversary.

Reverend Hyeon Soo Lim, a Korean Canadian pastor who has been detained in North Korea after his last visit to Pyongyang on January 31, was reported to have admitted to allegations of attempts to overthrow the North Korean government at a press conference held in Pyongyang,...

North Korea will continue to claim its development of nuclear weapons as self-defense against the United States, a nuclear power with a considerable military present on the Korean Peninsula.

“If it points to a Boeing 777, it has to have come from MH370”, Peter Clark told TVNZ’s Breakfast.

In that sense, probably the most important person on the stage was Yu Zaiqing, a much-respected IOC vice-president, who brought the presentation to a close by asking his colleagues “with the greatest humility” to vote for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic bid.

In February Prime Minster Abe said had the expanded security measures been in place, he could have sent in the military to rescue two Japanese hostages held by the Islamic State that were eventually executed.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce swept to victory in the Stockholm Diamond League 100m on Thursday with a 10.93sec triumph which sent out a powerful message to her world championship rivals.

Orlando Ortega of Cuba goes on to win the men’s 110m hurdles event at the IAAF Athletics Diamond League meeting at Stockholm Olympic Stadium on Thursday July 30, 2015. “I have good memories of competing here”, said Oliver, who holds a 12.98 season best when he...