The search and recovery operation at the site of the An-148 crash has continued with hundreds of rescuers and emergency personnel sweeping the vast snowy area in the Moscow region.

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Bitcoin’s rarely out of the news these days, given the rollercoaster ride it’s giving investors. But the cryptocurrency’s underlying technology is also making waves. It’s called ‘blockchain’ and it’s used to help verify transactions. For the companies behind it, it’s proving to be a boon, with one recently raising a $10-million investment in just a few seconds. Miguel Francis-Santiago met its CEO at a Blockchain Forum in Singapore.

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Day three at the Winter Olympics in South Korea has seen seven sets of medals handed out. Apart from the competitive side, there’s also the social aspect to the Games, with most nations hosting their own hospitality ‘houses,’ as they’re known. Russia, of course, isn’t officially represented at the Olympics, but there’s still a corner of PyeongChang that feels very much Russian, as Ilya Petrenko’s been finding out.

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The US war strategy in Afghanistan has come in for more criticism – this time from the national security adviser in neighboring Pakistan, who’s urging his government to negotiate with the Taliban. We got some insight on this from the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party. He’s also the son of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and is widely tipped to be the country’s next leader. He told RT’s Sameera Khan that the US has lost its way in the conflict.

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The moment of the deadly An-148 passenger plane crash in Moscow region, in which 71 people lost their lives on Sunday, was captured by a surveillance camera installed on a private house near the crash site.

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Ukrainian nationalists organised a torchlight procession through Odessa on Sunday, to honour the 124th anniversary of the beginning of the ‘Sokol’ movement. The far-right demonstrators marched to the beat of drums through the central streets of Odessa, shouting ‘Sokol’, waving flags bearing nationalist symbols and carrying burning torches.

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Hundreds of people took part in the first night of the carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.
Dancers performed on the top of monumental floats while orchestras with dozens of musicians played samba music.
Seven of the 13 samba schools participated in the competition on Sunday night.

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EMERCOM released footage on Sunday showing a massive search and rescue operation being underway near the village of Argunovo, where an An-148 airliner crashed earlier in the day.
Investigators and emergency services can be seen working at the scene, searching for clues as to why the aircraft crashed. Authorities reported that they have already found one of the plane’s flight recorders.

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A young woman from Kazakhstan made a video extolling the virtues of her daily exercise routine, involving a dip in the ice-cold Caspian Sea. The video has since gone viral.

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The pilot of the Antonov An-148 jet that crashed in the Moscow region reported a technical fault, according to a Russian media outlet citing sources close to the investigation. The plane was expected to make an emergency landing.

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Stephen heads to a quaint New England town to sit down and talk with Bruce, a local Vietnam veteran who battled cancer he got from being exposed to Agent Orange during his tour of duty. While there, Stephen happens upon a group of other veterans who are there, raising money for their charity.

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The first video showing the alleged site of the crash of a Saratov Airlines plane near Moscow has emerged online. The footage shows the wreckage dispersed in the snow.

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An Antonov An-148 operated by Saratov Airlines and carrying 65 passengers and six crew went missing shortly after take-off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, an emergency services source told Russian media.

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On the sidelines of the Olympics, the Korean government has organized a Ski Robot Challenge, the world’s first ever ski tournament for self-operational humanoid robots. The robots are to battle it out in the slalom discipline on Monday.

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A new anti-Brexit party is about to be launched in the UK with support from across the Channel. French MPs belonging to Emmanuel Macron’s ‘En Marche’ have reportedly been giving advice to the founders of the new British party. RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij picks up the story.

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Surging violence across Yemen had displaced some 47,000 people in the past 2 months, with hundreds continuing to flee each day, the UN said.

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Neither subzero temperatures, nor the thick ice on Lake Baikal can keep a Russian thrillseeker from taking a swim. And cold water wetsuits are apparently for cowards when just trunks will do.

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Formula 1 has decided to end its tradition of using ‘grid girls’, saying it was at odds with modern “social norms.” However, some of the women are now protesting on social media, saying their role was grossly misrepresented.

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Wanted criminals have already been tracked using biometric imaging, but now an Irish company is targeting dairy cows with a new form of facial recognition.

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Extravagant costumes need not apply at the “Bloco da Lama” Carnival street party in the coastal town of Paraty (201 kilometres north of Rio), where revellers dispensed with pirate, princess and devil disguises in favour of thick, head-to-toe layers of black mud Saturday.

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The Jewish diaspora in Iran has grown to become one of the most significant and well-established in the world and it continues to thrive, despite living through some turbulent times under Tehran’s regime.

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While the two Koreas were able to march under a single unified flag, Olympic Athletes from Russia – from the O.A.R. team, as it’s known – entered the opening ceremony under a neutral flag. However, although the Russian flag was banned by the International Olympic Committee – it still found its way into the stadium. RT’s Ilya Petrenko explains.

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Footage shot by fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces captured the moment a Turkish military helicopter was allegedly downed in Raju, northwest Afrin on Saturday, leaving at least two soldiers dead.

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A Turkish military chopper has crashed amid the country’s Olive Branch operation in northern Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Two soldiers were killed in the incident.

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An Israeli F-16 fighter jet crashed after Syria responded with anti-aircraft fire to an Israeli operation in its territory.

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