Plane carrying 28 passengers crashes in Russia's far east
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A passenger plane with 28 people on board crashed in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Tuesday, Russia's aviation agency told CNN.
The plane, a Russian-built Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop, was flying from the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the village of Palana, in Kamchatka's north, when it missed a scheduled communication and disappeared from radar, according to local emergency and transport officials. Russia's aviation agency told CNN on Tuesday that the wreckage of the plane was found 4 to 5 kilometers from the Palana airport runway.Elected officials, Jewish advocacy groups and civil rights leaders are vowing to “push back” against the message of a White nationalist group that staged a march last week near downtown Columbus, Ohio, calling the demonstration an act of hate unwelcome in their community – and the United States more broadly.
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