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Tanzania pays tearful tribute to plane crash victims
Tanzania pays tearful tribute to plane crash victims
by  AFP

Grieving Tanzanians paid emotional tribute Monday to 19 people killed when a passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria in the country's deadliest air crash in decades. The accident comes five years after 11 people died when a plane belonging to safari company Coastal Aviation crashed in northern Tanzania.

Vietnam struggles to break one of world's biggest coal addictions
Vietnam struggles to break one of world's biggest coal addictions
by  AFP

Despite Vietnam's solar boom and ambitious climate targets, the fast-growing economy is struggling to quit dirty energy -- leaving one of the world's biggest coal power programmes largely intact. - Solar boom - After China and India, Vietnam has the world's third-largest pipeline of new coal power projects.

Philippine prisons chief accused of ordering journalist murder
Philippine prisons chief accused of ordering journalist murder
by  AFP

Philippine police accused Monday the country's prisons chief of ordering the killing of a prominent radio journalist, whose death sparked international alarm. Bantag and Zulueta have also been accused of ordering the killing of Cristito Villamor Palana, one of the prison inmates who allegedly passed on the kill order to Escorial.

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