In This EditionA search operation for flight recorders from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet continues in the southern Indian Ocean, with crews working against the clock.

Officials of China and Australia are hoping to speed up negotiations and close a free trade deal between the two countries.

Pro-Russian and pro-Ukraine demonstrators rally in eastern Ukraine's Kharkov to voice their different appeals.

And a French foreign minister visits Cuba for the first time in more than 30 years.

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