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The US has accused Russian military of dangerously intercepting a US-based airplane EP-3E Aries in the international airspace over the Black Sea by a Russian Su-27 fighter.

An incident report was published by the US Navy press service in Europe and Africa on Monday.

On 5 November 2018:

A Russian fighter jet flew within a little more than 3 meters (10 feet) of a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft, in what American officials called an unsafe intercept over the Black Sea, the Pentagon said Sept. 7, although Moscow quickly insisted the encounter was within "international rules."

Japan will end its participation in the search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet which disappeared on 7 March while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

So far, Tokyo has provided four military planes for the operation, two C-130 transport planes and two P-3C surveillance planes.

The search for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean has resumed, after weather conditions improved.

On Monday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak revealed that based on the latest data, it can be concluded the plane went down in the Indian Ocean, some 2,500 km off the Australian coast of Perth.

Australia vowed on Saturday to search indefinitely for the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing two weeks ago.

Deputy PM Warren Tuss asserted that the day when further searching would be futile "is not in sight," as he was quoted by the BBC.