World News Update, what you need to know

World News Update, what you need to know

Eight people died when a police helicopter crashed onto a busy Glasgow pub, plunging through the roof of the packed bar.

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KIEV - Ukraine's opposition has called for early elections after riot police brutally broke up a pro-Europe rally, leaving dozens injured in a crackdown on protests against President Viktor Yanukovych's refusal to salvage a key EU deal.

BANGKOK - Bangkok protests have seen their first fatality, as two rival street movements continue to mass in their opposing bids to topple or save the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

BEIJING - US military chiefs insist they will not change their operations despite a move by China to scramble fighter jets to monitor American and Japanese aircraft in Beijing's newly declared air defence zone.

THE HAGUE - The US will destroy the most dangerous of Syria's chemical weapon stockpile on a ship at sea, the world's chemical watchdog says.

WINDHOEK - Police have found the burned wreckage of a Mozambican Airlines plane a day after it went missing in a remote area in northeastern Namibia, saying none of the 33 people aboard from several countries had survived.


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