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Russia plane 'broke up in air', bodies flown home from Egypt

Experts say human or technical error more likely caused the crash - although they concede a surface-to-air missile could have struck the aircraft if it had been descending for some reason.

Erdogan's AKP wins critical Turkey vote

The party won over 49 per cent of the vote to secure 315 seats in the 550-member parliament.

Polls close in divided Turkey's parliamentary election

Voters were sharply divided in their views on a return to single-party rule or the prospect of a coalition.

Eleven migrants, including six children, drown off Greece

Ten of the dead were found in the cabin of their boat, which overturned as it made the hazardous crossing from the nearby Turkish coast.

Egypt official says doomed Russian plane was in good shape

The closest the plane came to being in trouble was three months ago when the pilot aborted takeoff halfway through.

'Kurdish capital' holds its breath ahead of Turkey vote

And since the summer, renewed violence between Turkish security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has shattered a 2013 truce.

Investigators probe deadly Russian airliner crash in Egypt

Germany's Lufthansa, Emirates and Air France all said they would halt flights over Sinai until the reasons behind the crash became clear.

Chaos grips Russian airport after jet crashes in Egypt

Day of mourning as 224 killed in the crash

Russia sceptical of Daesh claim that it shot down airliner over Egypt

Transport minister Maksim Sokolov said Egyptian authorities have no information that would confirm 'such insinuations'.

Many of 27 dead in club fire in Bucharest still unidentified

Media reported that clubgoers initially thought the flames were part of the show and did not immediately react.