Australia drops a frustratingly vague bombshell about finding Malaysia Flight 370 wreckage

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last updated 8 January 2015

On Thursday morning, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that a satellite had found "two possible objects related to the search" for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and that Australian surveillance planes are on their way to locate and identify the objects. The objects, off Australia's west coast, will be hard to find and may not have anything to do with the flight, Abbott told Australia's parliament, but characterized the suspected aircraft wreckage as "new and credible information." You can watch his hopeful-yet-carefully ambivalent statement below, via CNN. --Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.