March 22, 2022: China plane crash victims, Zelenskiy, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Russia weapons, Japan

March 22, 2022: China searches for plane victims, Zelenskiy, Ketanji Brown, Chemical, biological weapons, Japan

1. Rescuers combed heavily forested mountain slopes in southern China on Tuesday, using shovels and torches in their hunt for victims and flight recorders from a China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) jet that crashed with 132 people on board.

2. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that it would not be possible to negotiate an end to the war in his country without meeting Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.

3. Ketanji Brown Jackson pledged to "stay in my lane" if confirmed to a lifetime position on the U.S. Supreme Court and responded to Republican claims that she has been lenient toward some criminal defendants as a judge as she began two days of questioning at her Senate confirmation hearing.

4. Russia is pounding the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol into the "ashes of a dead land," its local council said, describing two more huge bombs that fell on the city that has been sealed off for weeks.

5. Neon signs were turned off, lights dimmed and thermostats dialled down in Japan after the government issued an urgent call to save energy, warning of blackouts after an earthquake last week caused a serious power shortage.

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