Las Vegas, Catalonia, Puerto Rico: Your Wednesday Briefing
_____ • Australian investigators delivered their final report on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, saying the unsolved mystery was "unacceptable in the modern aviation era." The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said the disappearance of the Boeing 777 on March 8, 2014, with 239 people aboard, was "almost inconceivable." The search for the jet, also involving Malaysia
and China, was called off in January after 1,046 days.
• The Australian Tax Office said Chinese investment in Australian farmland had grown from about
1.5 million hectares to almost 14.5 million, prompting calls for government oversight.
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_____ • The U.S. expelled 15 Cuban diplomats from Washington in an escalating response to a mysterious series of illnesses
that afflicted American diplomats and their spouses in Havana.
[Sacramento Bee] • The new leaders of Lincoln Center
and the New York Philharmonic scuttled a half-billion-dollar plan for a gut renovation of the lackluster David Geffen Hall.
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