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　　The search operation for more debris from themissing Malaysia Airlines’ flight MH370 is beingexpanded. On Wednesday Malaysia confirmed thatpart of the wing washed ashore on Reunion wasfrom the aircraft. Chris Bockman reports.

　　The French military is deploying additional air, land and sea forces to try to locate andretrieve more wreckage from the missing airliner. Extra reconnaissance aircraft andhelicopters will scour the sea around the Island of Reunion. A part of the wing section of theMalaysian airplane washed ashore last week. Warships will also be used and military police willcomb the island’s beaches.

　　Hundreds of migrants who were rescued from a vessel that sank off Libya have arrived on theItalian island of Sicily on board an Irish Navy ship. From Palermo, here’s Alex Jakana.

　　The Irish Navy ship arrived in Palermo late Thursday afternoon with 367 survivors on board,among them, 13 woman and 12 children. They received basic assistance which included food,water, clothing and medical attention. Many were also offered counseling and psychologicalsupport after what has been a terrifying ordeal for them. They have now been sent to differentreception centers across the country, where they’ll spend the next few days before they beginapplying for asylum in Italy should they choose to.

　　In the United States, the 10 leading Republican Party presidential aspirers are preparing to takepart in their first debate on the road to next year’s election. The televised event in Ohio willinclude Jeb Bush who is both a brother and son to former US presidents and the real estatemogul Donald Trump, whose popularity has increased faster than any other candidate. JohnSobel, who’s in Ohio, says Mr. Trump started out as a joke candidate but he’s not anymore.

　　He started his campaign by insulting Mexicans, calling them thieves and rapists, and his pollnumbers started to climb. He then picked a fight on the military record of Senator John McCainwho ran for the presidency a few years ago. He was tortured as a prisoner of war. But politicalestablishments say well this time you really cross the line, Trump you have gone too far. Andhis poll numbers have soared. And he’s ripping up the rulebook which all of which makes it verydifficult for the people he’s going to debate with tonight to know how to deal with him.

　　The former Argentine President Carlos Menem has missed the opening day of a trial in which heis accused of obstructing investigations into a huge bomb attack on a Jewish Cultural Center inBuenos Aires in 1994. A lawyer for Mr. Menem, who denies the charges, said he couldn’t attendfor health reasons. 12 other people are also on trial. The Jewish center attack killed 85 people.Argentine prosecutors say it was planned and financed by Iran, and carried out by Hezbollah,the Lebanese Shia Islamist movement.

　　World News from the BBC.

　　Russia has destroyed hundreds of tons of illegally imported cheese and fruit. The move is partof renewed efforts by the Kremlin to enforce its ban on many western food productsintroduced a year ago in retaliation for sanctions imposed over the Ukraine crisis. In one publicdisplay by Russia’s food agency, a steamroller took an hour to demolish 9 tons of cheese.

　　A migrant has almost succeeded in walking through almost the entire length of the ChannelTunnel from France to Britain. Growing numbers of migrants have tried to reach the UK inrecent weeks. Simon Jonas reports.

　　The migrant appears to have managed to get almost 50 kilometers into the tunnel before hewas stopped as he was nearing Britain. Euro Tunnel said the man could easily have been injuredor killed, but described what happened as an extremely rare incident. Euro Tunnel haslaunched an investigation, but insisted its alarms had detected the apparent intruder. Despitethis latest breach of security, the company said that attempts by migrants to get into itsterminal in Calais are now being brought under control.

　　A 3 century old stradivarius violin stolen 35 years ago from an American musician has beenrecovered. The instrument has been returned to the family of its owner Roman Totenberg whodied 3 years ago. Police were alerted when a woman took the violin to a dealer in New York.The family is planning to sell the valuable instrument to a performer so that it can be heardagain.

　　Football teams from the West Bank and Gaza have played their first match in 15 years. Thebitter rivalry between the Palestinian authority based in Romana and the Islamist movementHamas which controls the Gaza Strip was temporarily suspended as 2 thousand fans crowdedinto Gaza’s al-Yarmouk stadium to watch the match between the West Bank based Al-Ahly andthe home team Shejaiya which ended 0-0. The teams also had to overcome Israeli travelrestrictions.

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