Daily Archives: March 21, 2014

Pentagon Spends $2.5 Million in Flight 370 Search

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The Pentagon says it has spent $2.5 million to help in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet.

The Defense Department has been flying high-tech surveillance planes to assist in the effort. The spending also includes operating costs for ships that have assisted in the search, which has stretched across the South China Sea and into the Indian Ocean.

A Navy P-8 Poseidon plane has been searching the Indian Ocean region where satellite imagery showed objects that may be from the plane. A P-3 Orion didn’t fly Friday but is expected to rejoin the search Saturday.

A Pentagon spokesman says $4 million has been budgeted, and that amount could last into early April depending on the number of flying hours and whether other equipment is needed.

 

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The Deputy Foreign Minister received Ukraine’s Ambassador

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On March 21 Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan received Ivan Kukhta, Ambassador of Ukraine to Armenia, by the latter’s request.

 During the meeting the Deputy Foreign Minister reaffirmed that Armenia’s principled stance on the right to self-determination is unaltered and during years has been expressed on numerous occasions.

The Deputy Foreign Minister stated that the centuries-old relations between the friendly peoples of Armenia and Ukraine form the solid basis on which the interaction between the two countries are being built.

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This is no Mickey Mouse search for love: Chinese mother, 75, dresses up as Disney character to raise money to help 40-year-old son find a wife

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The 75-year-old mother of a Chinese man has taken to dressing up as Mickey Mouse in order to raise money to help him find a girlfriend.

Single man Yang Guan, 40, thought his mother was joking when she said she would use a second hand Disney costume to pose with tourists in the local park in Luoyang, Henan province, central China, so she could raise some extra cash to help him get his life on track.

His mother Yang Zhiqiao said she had been feeling bad for her son because he couldn’t get a girlfriend, and raising money was a way to help him support a potential wife.

Local children have started calling Zhiqiao the ‘Mickey Mouse Grandma’, and she has taken to charging a 10 yuan fee to have a picture taken with her in popular tourist venues.

However, many people have been paying her a lot more when they find out that she is a frail old lady struggling in a heavy costume.

Zhiqiao’s son bought the costume originally, planning to use it to make some money, but now it is his mother that uses it, as his day job prevented him from doing so.

 

NATO, Ukraine Join Military Exercise in Bulgaria

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Bulgaria's Defence Ministry

 

Ukraine has joined two weeks of multinational military exercises that involve troops from 12 NATO member and partner nations, and demonstrate that cooperation continues between the alliance and the crisis-torn former Soviet republic.

The drills, dubbed Saber Guardian, began Friday at the Novo Selo training facility in eastern Bulgaria and will include some 700 troops from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States, as well as representatives from NATO.

The exercise, planned before the current East-West standoff over Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, is aimed at increasing regional flexibility, preserving and enhancing NATO interoperability, and facilitating multinational training, U.S. Army Europe spokesman Jesse Granger said.

 

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