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South Korea says will send Jeju Air crash black box to US

South Korean investigators probing a Jeju Air crash which killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on its soil said Wednesday they will send one of the retrieved black boxes to the United States for analysis.South Korean and US investigators, including from Boeing, have been combing the crash site in southwestern Muan since the disaster Sunday.
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India's Mahindra logs 18% jump in Dec car sales to dealers on strong SUV demand

Mahindra, India's second-biggest SUV maker by market share, has remained resilient amid a broader slowdown in car sales that pressed manufacturers and dealers into offering hefty discounts. However, analysts attribute Mahindra's December growth, as well as its industry-leading growth for fiscal 2025, to demand for newer SUV models such as the 'Thar ROXX' and the 'XUV 3X0' outpacing supply. Mahindra's SUV sales to dealers grew 16% year-on-year in November.
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Tintin, Popeye, Hemingway among US copyrights expiring in 2025

From "A Farewell to Arms" to the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor, thousands of artistic works will enter the public domain in the United States on Wednesday. Among the literary works entering the US public domain on January 1 are the novels "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner, "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway, "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf and the first English translation of "All Quiet on the Western Front" by the German author Erich Maria Remarque.
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Finnish police probing seven sailors over cut cables

Finnish police said Tuesday that seven sailors from the Eagle S tanker suspected of last week cutting an undersea power cable between Finland and Estonia are targets of a sabotage investigation and have been banned from leaving the country."Seven members of the Eagle S crew have the status of suspect in this criminal investigation and have been served with a travel ban," Finnish police said in a statement, referring to the oil tanker being held in Finnish waters in the Baltic Sea pending the inv
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Milan says no to all outdoor smoking in Italy's toughest ban

Smokers in Italy's financial and fashion capital of Milan risk being fined for lighting up on city streets or crowded public areas, after the country's toughest ban comes into effect Wednesday.- Cheap smokes - Italy's first national smoking ban, in 1975, banned smoking on public transportation and in classrooms and certain other areas.
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FBI makes its largest bomb bust on Virginia farm

The FBI uncovered more than 150 homemade bombs on a farm in Virginia in what is thought to be the largest such seizure in the agency's history, according to court documents filed this week.A court document filed Monday said Spafford, who works at a machine shop, had used pictures of President Joe Biden for shooting target practice and expressed support for political assassinations.
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