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Airline security consultants, passengers, and management are backing Air France's decision not to tell passengers about a suspicious device that resembled a bomb planted on board Flight 463 en route from Mauritius to Paris.  The flight crew told passengers there was a "technical problem" and quickly put the 777 down in Mombassa, Kenya where 459 passengers and 14 crew members exited via emergency chutes.  The device - cardboard tubes fixed to a kitchen timer - was determined to be a hoax.  This was the fourth bomb hoax for Air France in recent weeks.

An asylum-seeker died after he fell from the window of his his third-storey hospital room in Italy.  The Italian coast guard had rescued the 24-year old man from a dilapidated human trafficking ship off of Sardinia just a couple of weeks ago, and turned checked him into hospital in Cagliari to be treated for scabies.  The man apparently got the wrong idea and tried to slip out of the unit with a rope made out of bed sheets.  Hospital officials say he was not a prisoner and could have left as soon as his treatment was over.

Israel's Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom has resigned while denying a series of sexual harassment allegations.  This is only one of several high profile sex harassment or abuse scandals to stain the Likud government:  Another lawmaker in the governing coalition resign last month, and the police anti-fraud chief is under investigation; former President Moshe Katzav is serving time for a rape conviction.  

Spain is preparing for what could be contentious and lengthy negotiations to form a new government.  "Spain is not going to be the same anymore and we are very happy," said Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias.  His Left-wing party wound up in third place with just over 20 percent, behind the Socialists with 22 percent.  The governing conservative Popular Party fell far short of a majority, and the right-wing Ciudadanos came in fourth.  Neither the two main right-wing nor two Left-wing parties won enough seats to form a government.  The pro-independence Catalan parties could join either side to make a majority, but would be less likely to join with the Popular Party that has so resolutely tried to crush the Catalan independence movement.

The Roman Catholic cardinal of Mexico City says the church has no problem with the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.  Cardinal Norberto Rivera notes that when he was a child the plant was commonly used for health reasons such as relieving pain, and the church has never had a problem recommending the use of "all elements from nature that can be used to help improve health".