World/nation briefs

JetBlue pilot enters not guilty plea Clayton Osbon, the JetBlue Airways pilot arrested in March after his erratic behavior led to the emergency landing of a New York-to-Las Vegas flight in Amarillo, pleaded not guilty to a charge that he interfered with his flight crew. Osbon was restrained by passengers and later arrested after he was locked out of the cockpit and began shouting and pounding on the flight deck door. If convicted, he could be sentenced to as much as 20 years in prison.

1952 crash wreckage found on glacier Military investigators said aircraft wreckage discovered on Colony Glacier, in the mountains east of Anchorage, came from an Air Force plane that crashed in 1952, killing everyone on board. The C-124 Globemaster carried 52 people, mostly Air Force and Army personnel and at least one from the Marine Corps and one from the Navy. The wreckage was found this month more than 12 miles from the crash site as the glacier moved over the years.

Hamas operative slain in Damascus A Hamas official said that one of its operatives was assassinated in his home in the Syrian capital, Damascus. The slain man, Kamal Ghanaja, was a former aide to Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas commander who was himself assassinated in Dubai in 2010. Although Hamas, the movement that rules Gaza, did not explicitly blame anyone for the killing, suspicions arose that Israel, suspected in Al-Mabhouh's killing, was involved.

Seoul, Japan to sign military agreement The South Korean government unexpectedly announced that it would sign a treaty with Japan on Friday to increase the sharing of sensitive military data on two major common concerns: North Korea's nuclear and missile threats and China's growing military might. The announcement triggered a political firestorm in South Korea, where resentment of Japan's early 20th-century colonization remains entrenched.

Tourist attraction debuts in London An aerial cable-car system began service in London, taking visitors over the Thames River and giving them views of the Olympic Park, where the Summer Games start July 27, as well as such landmarks as Parliament and the London Eye.

Astronauts set down in Inner Mongolia A Chinese space capsule with three astronauts aboard returned to Earth on Friday from a 13-day mission to an orbiting module that is a prototype for a future permanent station. The crew of the Shenzhou 9 parachuted to a landing in the Inner Mongolia region.

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