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Caixas negras estão em mãos de especialistas para tentar descobrir causas da queda do avião da AirAsia

Indonésia: recuperada caixa-preta do avião da AirAsia

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  AFP/POOL/AFP - Um helicóptero de resgate se prepara para pousar em uma embarcação indonésia durante as operações de busca dos destroços do avião da AirAsia em 9 de janeiro de 2015 no mar de Java

Mergulhadores indonésios recuperaram nesta segunda-feira uma das duas caixas-pretas, com os parâmetros do voo do avião da AirAsia acidentado no mar de Java, em 28 de dezembro passado, com 162 pessoas a bordo - informaram as autoridades locais.

"Recebi informação da Comissão Nacional de Segurança dos Transportes (KNKT), (dizendo) que, às 7h11 (horário local), conseguimos recuperar parte da caixa-preta com as gravações dos dados sobre o voo", informou o chefe da equipe nacional de busca e resgate, Bambang Soelistyo.

"Continuamos tentando encontrar o gravador de voz", que permitirá conhecer as últimas comunicações dos pilotos, completou.

No domingo, o Ministério dos Transportes anunciou que os mergulhadores descobriram a localização das caixas-pretas do avião da AirAsia. O equipamento permanecia no fundo do mar por estar preso sob os destroços da fuselagem do aparelho.

"Os mergulhadores da Marinha no barco do estado de Jadayat conseguiram encontrar um instrumento muito importante, a caixa-preta do [voo] QZ8501 da AirAsia", disse Tonny Budiono, um alto funcionário do Ministério.

As caixas-pretas com as gravações cruciais da aeronave acidentada estão a uma profundidade de 30 a 32 metros, destacou Budiono, em um comunicado.

A cauda da aeronave, trazendo a logomarca vermelha da AirAsia, foi retirada da água no sábado, com o recurso a balões gigantes e a um guindaste.

Depois de duas semanas de buscas infrutíferas pelas caixas-pretas, devido ao mau tempo, autoridades reacenderam as esperanças de encontrá-las, neste domingo, após a detecção de fortes sinais eletrônicos pelos três navios envolvidos nas buscas no mar de Java - relatou o diretor da Agência Nacional de Busca e Resgate, S.B Supriyadi.

Participam das buscas embarcações de Estados Unidos, China e de outros países.

Esses sinais foram localizados a menos de um quilômetro de onde a cauda do avião foi achada, mas Supriyadi explicou que as fortes correntes da região atrapalharam o trabalho dos mergulhadores militares. Os profissionais tiveram de interromper seus esforços antes de tentar chegar até o ponto localizado a 30 metros de profundidade.

Mais cedo, Supriyadi explicou a jornalistas que um objeto que se acredita ser o corpo principal do avião também havia sido detectado perto da fonte dos sinais. Segundo o funcionário, a maior parte dos corpos deve estar presa na cabine, o que significa que chegar até esta parte dos destroços é prioridade máxima.

Segundo a Agência Meteorológica indonésia, foi uma forte tempestade que ocasionou a queda do A320-200 durante seu voo entre a cidade indonésia de Surabaya e Cingapura. A resposta definitiva poderá ser dada, porém, somente quando as caixas-pretas forem analisadas.

Até o momento, 48 corpos foram recuperados.

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Al-Qaeda asks IS militants to rejoin group and fight West, says analyst via Yahoo News Digest Get the app and the day's need-to-know news. https://yho.com/newsdigestall

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Al-Qaeda asks IS militants to rejoin group and fight West, says analyst

U.S. intelligence analysts are closely watching al-Qaeda’s overtures to the renegade Islamic State to reunite and fight the West. While a full reconciliation is not on the horizon, there is evidence the two groups have curtailed their feud and are cooperating on the Syrian battlefield. The al-Qaeda global terror network recently has extended olive branches to the rival Islamic State through messages released by its affiliates around the world. The most recent was on Oct. 17 from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based offshoot that denounced the airstrikes and called on rival militant groups to stop their infighting and together train their sights on Western targets.

Al-Qaeda is saying ‘Let’s just have a truce in Syria.’ That is what’s underway now… What we have seen is that local commanders are entering into local truces. There are definitely areas where the two groups are not fighting.

Tom Joscelyn, who tracks terror groups for the Long War Journal

So far, IS militants, who were kicked out of al-Qaeda in May after disobeying its leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, have not publicly responded to calls to return to the al-Qaeda fold. Yet activists and those who trace jihadi messaging say local truces have materialized across the country. It’s unclear how any reunification would affect the threat of attacks on the West. One school of thought is that if the two groups continue to spend time and resources fighting each other, it diminishes the terror threat to the West. Experts tracking terrorist networks say, however, that continued infighting also could incite a competition over who would be the first to launch a new attack against the West.

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World's Happiest Country Is ... (Hint: It Has aCanal)

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When you think of how happy people in a whole country are, what do you take into account? True, country well-being and perception of own happiness depend greatly on the economic situation. But it’s Panama that tops Gallup’s Global Well-being Index.

The Gallup-Healthways index, released for the year 2013, puts the Latin American country at number one, with war-torn Syria and Afghanistan coming in last in a survey of 135 countries.The international survey, entitled The State of Global Well-being, conducted more than 133,000 interviews across the world, coming up with its ‘inaugural report’. It contained country and regional rankings, well-being profiles of countries, industry perspectives on well-being improvement and recommendations for said improvement.

The index, which encompasses the above survey, features a total of six years’ work and over 2 million interviews conducted.

Panama may be the happiest country in the world, racking up the highest score in the Gallup-Healthways Global Well-Being Index for 2013.

In contrast, conflict-afflicted countries such as Syria and Afghanistan showed the lowest scores in this survey of 135 countries. The United States came in at number 14 in the poll.

The Global Well-Being Index aims to gauge people's perceptions of their well-being, by looking at financial status as well as four other factors that contribute to well-being: social well-being, which means having supportive relationships and love in life; community well-being, which is about liking one's place of residence; having purpose and goals; and physical health.

As Gallup-Healthways explains, “Globally, higher well-being correlates with outcomes indicative of stability and resilience — for example, healthcare utilization, intent to migrate, trust in elections and local institutions, daily stress, food/shelter security, volunteerism and willingness to help strangers.”

The survey essentially gauged own perceptions of well-being and four other factors that contribute to it: social well-being, community well-being (measuring whether an individual likes where they live), the presence of purpose and physical health.

It turns out that, sadly, only one in six adults scored high marks in three of the above categories, with the pervasive mood being one of ‘struggling’ and ‘suffering’ across the board, according to the researchers.

In another surprising twist, the US and Russia end up close together: Russia comes in at 16, with America taking number 14. The rankings can be found here.

“Each element of well-being is important on its own, but the elements are also interdependent and well-being is more than the sum of the elements. That only 17 percent of residents in the 135 countries and areas surveyed are thriving in three or more elements underscores how most of the world is struggling to achieve high well-being,” the researchers say in a statement on their website.

“More adults globally are thriving in community well-being (26 percent) than in any other element,” they said, seeing American adults as most likely to thrive in that respect, while sub-Saharan Africans are deemed least likely.

The fewest number of adults worldwide were found to be happy with their purpose in life, Gallup-Healthways discovered.

GDP per capita of countries ranked top and bottom in the index:

Panama - $11,036.81 USD

Costa Rica - $10,184.61 USD

Denmark - $58,929.62 USD

USA - $53,142.89 USD

Russia - $14,611.70 USD

Afghanistan - $678.35 USD

Syria - $2,065.54 USD

A boy dives into a crater filled with water in Aleppo's al-Shaar district, Syria (Reuters / Hosam Katan)

“Adults in Asia, as well as the Middle East and North Africa, are least likely to be thriving in this element (13 percent in each region), while those in the Americas again top the list of regions, at 37 percent, thriving in purpose well-being.”

The luckiest countries where individuals were likely to be ‘thriving’ in more than three categories start with Panama with 61 percent, followed by Costa Rica with 44, then Denmark, Austria, Brazil, Uruguay, El Salvador, Sweden, Guatemala and Canada, from 39 to 34 percent.

Financial well-being is the only category in which Panama is outdone – by Sweden, with a whopping 72 percent of financially-happy citizens.

Sub-Saharan Africa ranked lowest across the board in all categories, with three or more elements of well-being scoring only nine percent. However, in taking countries separately, it was Afghanistan and Syria who ranked by far the most miserable, with only one percent of Syrian and Afghan adults reporting satisfaction in more than three of the categories.

Coréia do Sul colocou estátuas de pessoas em locais que cidadãos costumam praticar o suicídio como modo de reverter decisão de morrer

One person commits suicide every 40 seconds: WHO

 

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South Korea has erected statues and installed monitoring devices to dissuade potential suicides at Mapo Bridge over the Han river in Seoul (AFP Photo/Pedro Ugarte)