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Australia’s transport safety watchdog has released dramatic footage showing a skydiver left dangling thousands of meters in the air after a reserve parachute snagged on a plane’s tail during a high-altitude stunt south of Cairns. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) published the video after concluding its investigation into the September incident, which unfolded within seconds of a planned 16-way formation jump at about 4,600 meters. The footage, recorded by a parachuting camera operator, captures the chaos as the…

Libya's ceasefire has been held since it was reached in October, and rival parties continue talks at the negotiating table, but the road to a permanent political solution that will end the nearly decade-long civil war and bring peace to the country still hangs in the balance due to deep divisions over a transition leader. The UN has "succeeded in accelerating the pace of inter-Libyan negotiations by exerting pressure on all parties, as much at the military level as the political level," Miloud el-Hajj,…