Global Week in Review: At Least 1 American on Board Malaysia Flight
Plus, ad showing Black boy being fed like a dog is pulled.
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At Least One Confirmed American Death on MH17 - Ad showing Black boy being fed like a dog is pulled, plus more global news. -- Natelege Whaley (@Natelege_) At least one American, named Quinn Lucas Schansman, was confirmed to be on the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 that crashed on Thursday. The top HIV/AIDS experts attending the International AIDS conference were on board the flight as well. A graduate student at the University of Indiana was also on board. Before the flight, one Dutch passenger, Cor Pan, posted a Facebook photo with an ominous caption: “should it disappear, this is what it looks like.” (Photo: SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Malaysian Airlines Can't Deny Liability - It looks like Malaysia Airlines will be faced with liability charges even if the downed MH17 plane was not their fault. So far there is no evidence of a flight malfunction, but due to an international treaty signed in the 1999 Montreal Convention, airlines are liable for “victims of air disasters.” For the Thursday catastrophe, the charges amount to $174,303 per passenger. The liability does not extend to damaged cargo if damaged “in an act of war.” (Photo: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Lance Gross Accompanies College Freshmen to China - Actor and Crisis star Lance Gross is giving back to his alma mater as the first global ambassador for the Freshman Leader Academy at Howard University. He and 60 students are traveling in China from July 13- Aug. 3 for an academic and cultural exchange. (Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for TWC)
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Ad Showing Black Boy Being Fed Like Dog Is Pulled - Feed a Child, a public benefit organization in South Africa, has recently apologized for their latest television advertisement that shows a white woman feeding a Black boy as if he was a dog. “We acknowledge the fact that the advert could be seen as insensitive or distasteful and we take heed to the fact that many perceived the advert as racist,” the company wrote in a statement. “This was most certainly not the intention, and again we apologise.” (Photo: Feed a Child)
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67 Live African Snails Seized at Airport - U.S. Customs and Border protection confiscated 67 live giant African snails from Nigeria that were being sent to someone in San Dimas, California, on July 7. The snails are meant for human consumption, but they carry parasites that could lead to illness, including meningitis. (Photo: AP Photo/USDA, Greg Bartman)
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Pakistani Teen Calls for Release of Nigerian Girls - For her 17th birthday Monday, Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai visited Nigeria and called for Islamic extremist group Boko Haram to free the 219 schoolgirls who remain kidnapped. “My birthday wish this year is ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ now and alive,” she said. Yousafzai survived a Taliban assassination attempt in 2012. (Photo: AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)
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Alarming Growth in Ebola Virus in West Africa - The health community in West Africa is struggling to contain the ebola virus, as there have been at least 888 cases and 539 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are the countries where people have been infected. There is no vaccine or cure for the disease. (REUTERS/Tommy Trenchard (SIERRA LEONE - Tags: HEALTH DISASTER) - RTR3WZWX
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France to Send 1,000 Troops to Central African Republic - For the second time this year, France will send 1,000 troops to the Central African Republic. The goal is to keep chaos from growing, as the UN warned of a possible civil war, since rebel troops overthrew the president last March. (Photo: AP Photo/Elise Foucaud, ECPAD)