Good Morning Australia! - Confirmed: The debris from Reunion island was indeed from MH370 - A major backer pulls out of the Carmichael Coal Mine - Obama blasts opponents of the Iran Nuclear Deal, saying we've head it all before and it didn't go to well back then, either - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Rescuers are searching for hundred of immigrants who were on a smuggler's ship that capsized in the Mediterranean Sea. Around 600 people were believed to be on board, and only a few have been rescued. The Irish navy, on patrol in the region as part of the EU's life-saving program on the continent's southern frontier, said it feared a "significant loss of life"; the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres is confirming "many deaths". The ship sent out a distress call after getting only 15 nautical miles off of the coast of Libya.
Malaysian PM Najib Razak overnight confirmed that the wing flaperon found on French Reunion Island in the western Indian Ocean is indeed debris from missing Flight MH370. "Today, 515 days since the plane disappeared, it is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370," Mr. Razak said. This comes after the piece was analyzed by US, Aussie, French, and Malaysian experts at an aeronautical test center in Toulouse, in mainland France. The Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared in 2014 in the early stages of what was supposed to be a Kuala Lumpur to Beijing flight; 239 passengers and crew were on board, including six Australians. The search for the plane will continue more than three thousand kilometers to the east, in a patch of ocean off Australia's west coast.
The Commonwealth Bank is pulling out of its advisory role in the Carmichael Coal Mine. This comes after a federal judge rules that the government improperly ignored the $16 Billion project's environmental impact, specifically on two vulnerable animal species: The Yakka Skink and the Ornamental Snake. Tim Buckley of the Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis is suggesting revelation could be a major blow to the Indian mining giant Adani: "For CommBank not to be involved, then by definition they're not endorsing the project, that makes it much, much harder for Adani to then find another global group of institutions who are willing to fund this project," Buckley told the ABC. "The Commonwealth Bank can see the future, and it's not powered by dirty coal, said Greenpeace campaigner Nikola Casule. "Intelligent investors realize that this project was never going to work - it's unbankable, unprofitable and unconscionable."
US President Barack Obama is warning congressional critics that a vote against the Iran Nuclear Deal is a vote for war, equating opponents with supporters of the American invasion of Iraq: "The same mindset, in many cases offered by the same people - who seem to have no compunction with being repeatedly wrong - led to a war that did more to strengthen Iran, more to isolate the United States, than anything we have done before or since," said Mr. Obama. This comes as conservative and pro-Israeli interest groups pressure lawmakers - particularly conservative republicans - to reject the deal.
Turkey says it will step up attacks on Islamic State targets in Syria "soon". Last month, Turkey launches air strikes on IS after a suicide bombing in the south of the country that killed more than 30 people - but quickly changed course and starting bombing Kurdish forces, killing many of those who were fighting IS. US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Turkey's FM at a conference in Malaysia, confirmed that US warplanes and drones were arriving at Incirlik Air Base for further action against the terrorists.
UK authorities charged radical Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary with inviting support for Islamic State under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Choudary is a media gadfly in the UK, who first became known for opposition to the Iraq war but also for outlandish and provocative statements on TV interview shows. Authorities say he branched out into recruitment in a series of online lectures that allegedly urged people to join militants in the Middle East.
A former brothel keeper is reportedly denying she accused former UK Prime Minister Edwaed Heath of being a pedophile. There are currently five separate police investigations into Heath, who died in 2005. One of them centered on a former cop who claimed the brothel keeper was the subject of an investigation in the 1990s, but it was dropped because she threatened to expose the former PM. Myra Forde's ex-attorney said that didn't happen, and she was prosecuted and jailed for pimping twice after that.
At least 16 sixteen people are dead and 56 were injured after two buses collided in Russia's far east. This happened on a highway linking Khabarovsk, which sits on the border with China, and Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
A South African man got his stolen car back - after 22 years. And despite being used as a taxi for part of that time, the 1993 Toyota Corolla 1.6 GL appears to be in mint condition. It was February 1993 when 23-year-old Derrick Goosen of Pretoria first got behind the wheel, but it was stolen a few months later. Police found it at a roadblock last year,and figured something wasn't right because VIN numbers had been scraped off. Warrant Officer Kwakwa Ntokola from the Seshego Vehicle tracking unit worked on it for a year, got the numbers, and traced it back to its rightful owner - Derrick, now 45-years old. "People can't believe it. If a car is stolen a year ago, you go to the police pound and you find a skeleton there but this car was very well looked after. It's still in mint condition," said Goosen, "I will give it a nice polish and keep it. Once again, congratulations to this detective."