Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has received confirmation from Indonesian authorities that there were no foreigners on board the flight carrying 44 adult passengers, five children and five crew that crashed in rugged eastern Indonesia on Sunday.
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NEW YORK - Actor Morgan Freeman is mourning the death of his granddaughter who was found stabbed to death on a Manhattan street.
LASSO, Ecuador - After rumbling and belching ash, the Cotopaxi volcano has fallen silent, hours after Ecuador declared a state of emergency and fearful residents were evacuated.
LAGOS - The leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram has denied he's been killed or ousted as chief of the jihadist group in an audio recording attributed to him by security experts.
BANGKOK - Thailand's crown prince has led thousands of cyclists through the streets of Bangkok on a 43-kilometre tribute to his mother, Queen Sirikit, to mark her 83rd birthday.
SHADI KHAN, Pakistan - A suicide bomber has killed a Pakistani provincial minister and at least nine other people at a building where the minister was holding a meeting.
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi parliamentary investigation has found ex-premier Nuri al-Maliki and 35 others responsible for jihadists overrunning the nation's second city Mosul, in a report being sent for possible legal action, lawmakers say.
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