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RIO DE JANEIRO – A Brazilian court has cleared three people of responsibility for a 2007 jetliner crash that killed 199 people at a Sao Paulo airport. In a sentence that was handed down last week and made available Monday, federal judge Marcio Assad Guardi in Sao Paulo acquitted the …

VOLGOGRAD, Russia – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Russia and NATO are making progress in restoring military contacts that were suspended as the Ukraine crisis intensified. “I’m glad that, after the situation we had last year, we are now in the process of re-establishing this level of information,” Steinmeier …

BEIJING – Authorities say passengers in China have opened airplane emergency doors without authorization 12 times this year during taxiing or while at a standstill, and one of the passengers has been put on trial in the country’s first such legal case. The Civil Aviation Administration of China said Monday …