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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — Aviation experts on Sunday began examining the black boxes from the FlyDubai flight that crashed amid high winds at an airport in southern Russia, killing all 62 aboard.
FlyDubai’s Boeing 737-800 from Dubai nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball before dawn Saturday after trying to land for a second time in strong winds in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. FlyDubai confirmed all 62 people on the plane were killed. Most of the passengers were Russian.
Several planes had trouble landing at the airport at the time of the crash.

WASHINGTON — When is a gaffe not a gaffe? When Donald Trump says it.

Volunteers of the American Red Cross of Southeast and Coastal Georgia responded to an overnight apartment fire located at the Renaissance Apartments at 1818 Chandler Rd. in Statesboro, GA.The fire affected five units.Red Cross volunteers provided immediate financial assistance and comfort kits for 6 people to aid in their road to recovery.  

Microsoft: Hiring go-go dancers was wrong
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft says it was “unequivocally wrong” for hosting a party with scantily dressed female dancers during a video game developers’ conference.

NO. 1 FUGITIVE ELUDES CAPTURE FOR MONTHS
BRUSSELS — As the net closed in around Salah Abdeslam, Europe’s No. 1 fugitive was holed up in an apartment in the place he knows best, a Brussels neighborhood favored by several of the Paris attackers.
Abdeslam’s four months on the run ended Friday when he was shot in the leg and dragged away in a white hoodie during a massive police operation in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek.

BRUSSELS — After a bullet in the leg ended his four-month flight from the law, Salah Abdeslam started a legal fight Saturday against his extradition from Belgium to France, where the president and the families of 130 victims want the top suspect in the Paris attacks to stand trial.

MEXICO CITY — Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is getting some self-help advice and gaining a bit of weight in prison under his new, tighter-security regime, but Mexico’s formerly most wanted man is apparently not doing so well in the love department.

BEIRUT — Airstrikes on the northern Syrian city of Raqqa on Saturday killed at least 39 people and wounded many others in an intensified bombardment of the Islamic State group’s de facto capital.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 39 people were killed, including five children and seven women, when the air raids hit several areas in the city, which has been held by the extremists since 2013.
It was not immediately clear what country’s warplanes carried out the airstrikes but such confusion is common in the immediate aftermath of raids.

ATLANTA — So many new cities have been created in Georgia over the last decade or so that lawmakers have instituted procedures to slow the process down to make sure mistakes aren’t made in a rush.
Officials and studies have shown that people usually want to create a city because they’re unhappy with their county commission. Typically it revolves around money — either taxes and how they are spent or land use, which affects property values.

FORT MORGAN, Colo. — For the last decade, Somali refugees have flocked to this conservative farm town on Colorado’s eastern plains. They’ve started a small halal mini-market and a restaurant, sent their children to the schools and worked at a meat processing plant.