Zimbabwe bans hunting of big game
HARARE, Zimbabwe— After the killing of Zimbabwe’s best known lion, a second animal has been poached by a foreigner, a source said on Saturday as authorities banned big game hunting outside the park from which Cecil was lured to his death.
Reports that a brother of Cecil had been killed on Saturday were untrue, a field researcher said, but the news rekindled the fury of animal lovers that was sparked by American dentist Walter Palmer who admitted hunting down the lion on July 1.
A source at the national parks agency, who is not authorized to speak to the media, said a foreign hunter, whose nationality he did not disclose, killed the second lion illegally on July 3. The hunter had since left Zimbabwe, but police had recovered the lion's head and carcass.
Wing flap tested in France
BALMA, France — A wing flap suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Saturday arrived at a French military testing facility where it will be analyzed by experts.
After a 10-hour journey by road from Paris’ Orly airport, a truck carrying the roughly 8-foot component known as a flaper on arrived at the DGA TA aeronautical testing site near Toulouse, accompanied by police motorcycles and a police car.
French aviation experts will try to establish whether the wreckage that was found on the Indian Ocean island Reunion comes from the Boeing 777 that disappeared on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.
Palestinian protester dies
RAMALLAH, West Bank — An 18-year-old protester shot by Israeli troops during a demonstration over the killing of a Palestinian toddler died of his wounds Saturday, Palestinian health officials said.
Ahmad Betawi, the director of the Ramallah hospital, said Laith al-Khaldi died after being shot in the chest Friday during a demonstration over the burning death of a Palestinian toddler in a fire set by suspected Jewish extremists. The Israeli military says it shot Mr. Khaldi near Ramallah after he hurled a fire bomb at them.
WWII speech digitized
TOKYO — The original recording of Japan’s Emperor Hirohito’s war-ending speech has come back to life in digital form.
Hirohito’s four-and-half-minute “jewel voice” was broadcast on Aug. 15, 1945, announcing Japan’s surrender. The voice on the radio 70 years ago was muffled and nearly inaudible due to poor sound quality. This version may be clearer, but Japanese today would still have trouble understanding the arcane language used by the emperor.
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