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Black box mystery

A UN investigation has been launched to determine if a “black box” flight recorder, left on a shelf and forgotten for 10 years, is the one that went missing from a plane crash that killed the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. The cause of the crash is still not known, but the leaders’ deaths are widely thought to have triggered the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

Kyoto in force

The Kyoto Protocol came into force in the European Union on 10 February, following the European Parliament’s decision to make it binding in the EU ahead of the rest…

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