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Drug lord is moved from cell to cellMEXICO CITY — Mexico’s government is moving Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman constantly from cell to cell inside the maximum security prison where he is being held, the same lockup the elusive drug lord escaped from through a tunnel six months ago.Government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said Guzman has been moved eight times at the Altiplano prison after he was recaptured Friday. The prison also now has 24-hour video surveillance of Guzman including all parts of his cell. The cell from which he escaped in July had a blind spot around the shower, which officials at the time was intended to protect inmates’ privacy.“He is being changed from cell to cell without a pattern... he is only spending hours or a couple of days in the same cell,” Sanchez said late Tuesday night.July’s escape was Guzman’s second from a maximum security prison and it deeply embarrassed the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto. It also created friction with Washington, which had sought his extradition to the United States. This time around, Mexican officials have said they are willing to extradite Guzman but warn the process could take a year. In the meantime, they appear to be taking extraordinary measure to prevent a third escape.“Since he arrived, he has been in eight different cells,” Sanchez said of Guzman’s time in prison.

Search for airliner finds shipwreckCANBERRA, Australia — The undersea search for the Malaysian airliner that vanished almost two years ago has found a second 19th century shipwreck deep in the Indian Ocean off the west Australian coast, officials said today.A sonar search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 found what appeared to be a man-made object Dec. 19, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said in a statement.A follow-up investigation using an underwater drone captured high-resolution sonar images Jan. 2 that confirmed that the find was a shipwreck, said the bureau, which is running the search for the Boeing 777 which vanished on March 8, 2014.The Shipwreck Galleries of the Western Australian Museum conducted a preliminary review of the images and advised that the wreck was likely to be a steel or iron ship dating from the turn of the 19th century, the bureau said.The wreck was found under water 12,100 feet deep, 1,600 miles southwest of the Australian port of Fremantle where the three search vessels are based.

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