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World news in one minute: Find out what happened around the world on 30 March

Associated Press Tuesday, 31 March 2015, 08:14 Last update: about 10 years ago

FRANCE-PLANE CRASH

MARSEILLE, France — European investigators are focusing on the psychological state of a 27-year-old German co-pilot who prosecutors say deliberately flew a plane carrying 150 people into a mountain, a French police official said Monday.

FRANCE-CRASH-THREE EMMAS

SANT CUGAT DEL VALLES, Spain — From a lush suburban valley near bustling Barcelona, three generations of a well-heeled family set off last week for a fun trip to Manchester, England: 12-year-old Emma Solera Pardo, her mother Emma Pardo Vidal, and grandmother Emma Vidal Bardan. They were on their way to pick up the youngest Emma's teen brother as he finished a semester abroad to hone his English, do some sightseeing and then head home together. 

GREECE BAILOUT

BRUSSELS — Greece and its international creditors are still struggling to agree on a list of economic reforms that are deemed necessary for the country to unlock emergency funds and stay afloat.

WAR CRIMES-SERBIA

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Appeals judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal ruled Monday that Serbian far-right leader Vojislav Seselj has breached conditions of his provisional release and must return to the court's cellblock in The Hague, where he has already spent more than a decade in custody. 

BELGIUM-LABOR ACTION

BRUSSELS — Thousands of demonstrators and trade union activists have protested against the Belgian government's austerity measures for a second day running, demanding that the austerity is borne by the wealthy. 

SPAIN-ANARCHISTS-ARRESTED

MADRID — Spanish police say they have arrested 12 people suspected of belonging to an anarchist group suspected of sabotage offenses and planting explosive devices. 

GERMANY-KILLING CHICKS

BERLIN — The German government says it wants to end the mass killing of male chicks within two years, becoming the first country to do so. Each year some 45 million male chicks in Germany are shredded shortly after hatching because they don't lay eggs. 

MONTAGNY-DOPING

PARIS — Former Formula One driver Franck Montagny has been handed a two-year suspension by the sport's governing body after testing positive for a metabolite of cocaine. The Frenchman failed the anti-doping control last November at a Formula E race in Malaysia and had been provisionally suspended since Dec. 23.

CYPRUS-UNIFICATION

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Trying to end decades of isolation, the president of the breakaway Turkish Cypriot soccer association said Monday he's determined to follow through with a decision to join the Cyprus Football Association. By Menelaos Hadjicostis. 

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