Kinross chartered plane crashes in Mauritania, 7 dead

(Reuters) - A plane chartered by Canada's Kinross Gold Corp crashed shortly after take-off in the North African country of Mauritania on Thursday, killing all seven people on board, the mining company said. The Harbin Y-12-II military plane was chartered to carry gold from Kinross's Tasiast mine, located some 300 kilometers (185 miles) north of the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott.  It crashed just after take-off from Nouakchott en route to the mine. The company said two pilots, two customs officials and three contract security guards were killed in the crash. No Kinross employees were on board. Friday 13 July 2012 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/12/kinross-mauritania-idUSL2E8IC5CX20120712?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News...

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Private jet crash kills three Americans in France

A private jet has crashed in flames at the end of a runway in the south of France a police source told AFP. Three Americans were killed on Friday when their private jet broke up and burst into flames...

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Missing person’s relative obtains injunction protecting his genetic material

VASSILIS Pantazis, whose brother Philippos went missing in 1974, has taken legal steps to stop his genetic material from being used by any other body or entity except the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING). Nicosia Court yesterday pushed forwards a hearing for June 20 at the request of CING’s lawyer, Polys Polyviou, who asked for more time before the institute responded, Kathimerini newspaper reported. In the meantime the court legally binds CING to keep put Pantazis’ genetic material. CING cannot “deliver and/or move and/or transfer the claimant’s genetic material to any other legal or physical entity” whatsoever in Cyprus or abroad, the court said. The court order effectively stops the UN-supported Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) from sending Pantazis’ samples abroad, and could have sweeping implications on the use of the genetic material and profiles, currently in CING’s possession. Pantazis told the Cyprus Mail...

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Nigeria holds mass burial for tanker explosion victims

Casualties of Thursday’s tanker fire in Okobie village on the East-West Road in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State have been given a mass burial at the scene of the incident. State sector...

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Death toll from Ukraine bus crash reaches 15

Pskov, Russia - A woman died at a Chernihiv hospital, bringing the number of Russian pilgrims killed in a road accident in Ukraine to 15, a regional administration source told Interfax-Ukraine. The...

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24 confirmed dead in South Africa crash

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A coal train ploughed into a truck at a level crossing on Friday in eastern South Africa on Friday, killing 24 people on their way to pick fruit at a nearby farm, police and...

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