USA Today Voice recorder could solve mystery of doomed EgyptAir flight The damaged cockpit voice recorder recovered Thursday from doomed EgyptAir Flight 804 could provide enough information to determine if an act of terrorism caused the crash that killed 66 people last month, a former U.S. crash investigator said. Egypt's investigation committee said in a statement Thursday that a specially equipped ship salvaged "the part (of the recorder) that contains the memory unit, which is considered the most important part of the recording device." The Cairo-bound Airbus 320 crashed in the Mediterranean Sea on May 19, more than three hours after leaving Paris. Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/06/16/black-box-doomed-egyptair-flight-found-egypt/85974260/# Qantara French envoy in Egypt for talks on Mideast peace A senior French envoy held talks in Egypt on Thursday on his country's bid to organise an international conference later this year to revive the moribund Palestinian-Israeli peace process, officials said. Negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians have been at a standstill since a US-led initiative collapsed in April 2014. French envoy Pierre Vimont met Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry for talks on future steps he will take to prepare for the conference, a foreign ministry statement said. The Arab League said its secretary general Nabil al-Arabi had similar talks with Vimont. Read more: https://en.qantara.de/content/french-envoy-in-egypt-for-talks-on-mideast-peace
