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Yemenia crash victims' relatives arrive in Comoros
A specially chartered flight carrying about 180 relatives of the Yemenia crash victims arrived in Moroni on Monday, where the grieving passengers were greeted by Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi.
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Relatives of Yemenia crash victims flying to Comoros
About 75 relatives of victims of the Yemenia crash in the Indian Ocean have boarded a flight from France to the Comoros. The specially chartered flight will make a stop-over in Marseille, where another 100 relatives are expected to board.
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Relatives of Yemenia crash victims to fly to Comoros
More than 150 relatives of victims of the Yemenia crash in the Indian Ocean will head from France to the Comoros on a specially chartered flight, the French foreign ministry has said.
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Comoros urges France to step up black box recovery efforts
In a meeting with French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (photo centre), Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi urged France to increase efforts to recover the black boxes of the Yemenia Airbus that crashed off the Indian Ocean's island coast.
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Comorans mourn as search for answers continues
Ten days after the Yemenia Airbus crash, the Comoros Islands remain in mourning. FRANCE 24 reporters went to Samba Kouni where the search for clues behind the crash continues.
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Yemenia suspends flights to and from Marseille
After days of protests at the Marseille airport by angry Comorans following Tuesday’s plane crash off the Comoros islands, Yemenia Airways announced it was suspending flights to and from the Mediterranean port city.
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Sarkozy attends memorial for victims of Yemenia crash
French President Nicolas Sarkozy attended an inter-religious ceremony at a Paris mosque Thursday for victims of the doomed Yemenia flight, which crashed off the Comoros Tuesday.
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Yemenia suspends flights to and from Marseille
After days of protests at the Marseilles airport by angry Comorans following Tuesday’s crash off the Comoros, Yemenia airlines announced it was suspending flights to and from the Mediterranean port city.
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Comoros 'knew' about plane faults, says Kouchner
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has refuted Comoran Vice-President Idi Nadhoim's claims that France had failed to inform Comoros of a ban on the Yemenia Airbus A310 which crashed off the Indian Ocean archipelago on Tuesday.
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Young survivor of Yemenia plane crash arrives in Paris
A day after she was plucked from the sea, 12-year-old Bahia Bakari, the only known survivor of the doomed Yemenia Airlines plane that crashed off the Comoros Islands, arrived in Paris to join her father after surviving for 10 hours in the ocean.
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