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TAIPEI, Taiwan – A widely broadcast audio clip including exchanges between the control tower and pilot of doomed TransAsia Flight 235 was confirmed by Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautical Administration as authentic. Here is a transcript of excerpts of that exchange: Control tower: “(inaudible) … wind 100 degrees, 9.9 knots. Clear to …

MUNICH – Envoys from the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia are pressing for a resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians “as soon as possible.” The so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators met Sunday on the sidelines of an international security conference in …

CAIRO – Egypt’s highest appeals court has overturned death sentences for 36 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, which the government has labelled a terrorist group, and ordered a retrial. It’s the second time in two months that the Court of Cassation reversed death sentences handed down to Islamists in cursory …