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• Colombia plane crash: Bolivia suspends airline that operated flight

  01-12-2016 22:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Investigation of LaMia flight 2933’s wreckage found no traces of fuel in crash that killed 71 people, including most of Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer teamBolivian authorities have suspended the license of a tiny charter airline whose plane crashed in Colombia this week after apparently running out of fuel, killing 71 people, including most of a Brazilian soccer team on its way to a regional cup final. Monday night’s disaster sent shockwaves across the global soccer community and
  
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• Chapecoense plane crash: what we know so far about the flight

  01-12-2016 14:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Why did the plane carrying the Brazilian football team crash into a mountainside killing all but six of the 77 people on board?What happened?
  At about 10.15pm on Monday 28 November a BAE146 Bolivia charter flight Lamia 933 from Santa Cruz slammed into the mountainside eight miles short of its intended destination of Medellín airport. The crash killed 71 people on board, including most of the Chapecoense team and a delegation travelling with them that included 21 journalists. Related: Chap
  
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• The quiet life: an alternative view of Brazil's cities – in pictures

  01-12-2016 14:27 via theguardian.com
  
  While much of the world has focused on Brazil’s sporting, political and economic news, photographer Tomer Ifrah has spent the past year capturing small events of daily life in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo Continue reading...
  
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• Atlético Nacional hold vigil for victims of Colombia plane crash – video

  01-12-2016 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Players, staff and supporters of Colombian football club Atlético Nacional hold a vigil on Wednesday night in tribute to the victims of the plane crash near Medellín earlier this week. Nacional had been due to play Brazilian side Chapecoense at their Atanasio Girardot stadium in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final. Instead the venue was the scene of solidarity between the two clubs and between Colombia and BrazilAtlético Nacional pay emotional tribute to victims of
  
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• 'Total electrical failure and out of fuel': pilot of Chapecoense plane – audio

  01-12-2016 10:28 via theguardian.com
  
  The pilot of the chartered plane carrying the Chapecoense football team tells air traffic controllers he has run out of fuel. This audio recording was leaked to Colombian media on Wednesday. Moments before going silent the pilot says he is flying at an altitude of 9,000 feet and makes a final plea to landColombia air crash: leaked audio shows pilot said he ran out of fuelContinue reading...
  
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• Fans of Chapecoense hold mass vigil for Colombia plane crash victims – video

  01-12-2016 10:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Thousands of grieving football fans flock to the home stadium of Chapecoense in Chapecó, Brazil, on Wednesday for a mass vigil in tribute to the victims of the Colombia plane crash. Players who did not travel to Medellín for the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final lead an emotional tribute to their team-mates who died in the tragedy Chapecoense plane crash: fans’ anger after confirmation plane ran out of fuelContinue reading...
  
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• Colombia air crash: leaked audio shows pilot said he ran out of fuel

  01-12-2016 08:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Pilot can be heard requesting permission to land due to a ‘total electric failure’ and lack of fuel in a recording from the crash that killed 71 people‘The Brazil that worked’: Chapecoense tragedy a blow to nation in crisis
  The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel and desperately pleaded for permission to land before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording of the final minutes of
  
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• Chapecoense plane crash: fans' anger after confirmation plane ran out of fuel

  01-12-2016 08:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Colombian media release audio of pilot telling air traffic controllers that plane – which crashed killing 71 players, crew and journalists – was ‘without fuel’Football, religion and grief dominated the emotional requiem service in Southern Brazil on Wednesday night for the 71 players, technical staff, sports journalists and crew killed when a plane chartered by local team Chapecoense crashed on a Colombian mountainside on Wednesday night. Related: Colombia plane crash: le
  
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• Chapecoense air crash: fans' anger after confirmation plane ran out of fuel

  01-12-2016 05:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Colombian media release audio of pilot telling air traffic controllers that plane – which crashed killing 71 players, crew and journalists – was ‘without fuel’Football, religion and grief dominated the emotional requiem service in Southern Brazil on Wednesday night for the 71 players, technical staff, sports journalists and crew killed when a plane chartered by local team Chapecoense crashed on a Colombian mountainside on Wednesday night. Related: Colombia plane crash: le
  
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• PSG’s Edinson Cavani booked after showing T-shirt support for Chapecoense

  01-12-2016 01:16 via theguardian.com
  
  • Cavani’s penalty was his 100th goal for PSG who beat Angers 2-0
  • Nice return to top with 1-0 win at Guingamp, now one point ahead of PSGEdinson Cavani was booked after scoring a penalty for Paris Saint-Germain in their 2-0 defeat of Angers when he stripped off his shirt to reveal a T-shirt in support of Chapecoense, the Brazilian club which lost the majority of its squad in a plane crash in Colombia.The goal was Cavani’s 100th in a PSG shirt and came after a foul on Hate
  
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• Brazil legislators vote against anti-corruption bill in midst of graft scandal

  01-12-2016 00:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Congress passes bill with changes that would help shield lawmakers from prosecution, angering investigators, as nation mourns deadly plane crashProsecutors investigating Brazil’s biggest-ever graft scandal have threatened to resign en masse if a move to gut an anti-corruption bill won approval from legislators as the nation mourns an air disaster. Related: 'Our club represented Brazil': Chapecoense tragedy a crushing blow to nation in crisisRelated: Brazil's anti-corruption prosecutor: gra
  
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• Brazil legislators vote against anti-corruption bill even as nation mourns

  01-12-2016 00:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Congress passes bill with changes that would help shield lawmakers from prosecution, angering investigators, as nation grapples with deadly plane crashProsecutors investigating Brazil’s biggest-ever graft scandal have threatened to resign en masse if a move to gut an anti-corruption bill won approval from legislators as the nation mourns an air disaster. Related: 'Our club represented Brazil': Chapecoense tragedy a crushing blow to nation in crisisRelated: Brazil's anti-corruption prosecut
  
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