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Brazilian tourist receives emergency surgery in Cusco Peru, large tumor removed

Medical Cusco Regional Hospital removed a tumor of more than six kilos that had formed in the spleen of a Brazilian tourist, who arrived in the Imperial City to see the enactment of the Inti Raymi, sources of hospital. Brazilian Tourist operated in the Cusco Regional Hospital is stable and improving. Brazilian Tourist operated in the Cusco Regional Hospital is stable and improving.
The tumor, approximately 35 by 25 centimeters, had committed the liver tissues of Marcus Joao Moreira Da Silva (46), but was removed in a delicate surgery took about three hours.
No sooner got off the plane, tourists presented carioca discomfort such as dizziness, vomiting, lightheadedness, abdominal pain, among others. Given its critical state, unresponsive to altitude sickness or mountain sickness, went to a private clinic, where they determined his diagnosis, and after three days was admitted to emergency in the Cusco Regional Hospital. Read Article

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Italy: Increase in thefts by tourists of cobblestones, ancient relics from Rome

Dozens of the square stones used by Romans 2,000 years ago to pave roads are ending up in passengers hand luggage. Security staff screening bags at the Italian capital’s main airports at Fiumicino and Ciampino have reported a surge in findings as x-ray scanners pick up the objects when luggage is screened and they in […]

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India: missing Israeli tourist rescued by Israeli search team

A young Israeli tourist missing since Friday was rescued from a forest by police and a search team that had come down from his country, police sources in Kullu said from the scenic Himachal Pradesh valley. Dan Bosrobitz, 23, was traced to the forests of Grahan, some 45km from Kullu. “We have rescued Dan Bosrobitz […]

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Australians accused of killing apartment doorman in Lima Peru

Peru21.pe reported that new investigations by Peruvian Police confirm that a group of Australians killed the doorman of a building in Miraflores , in January 2012 after throwing him from the 15th floor of the department in which they lived, in block 2 of Malecón Cisneros. Originally it was believed that doorman Lino Rodriguez Vilchez […]

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Tourists upset, complain about experience in Yunnan province China

The tourist administration of Yunnan province is looking into complaints by five tourists who wrote an open letter to a top official complaining about a terrible travel experience in the province. “The trip gave us nothing but unhappiness and all of us felt afraid, ripped off and disgraced,” the tourists said in a letter to […]

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Korean DMZ popular with tourists

PANMUNJOM, Korea — Soldiers from rival North and South Korea eye one another across a thin strip of no man’s land that — just barely — keeps their armies apart. The tension, they insist on both sides, is palpable. Read Article

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Irish tourist taking pictures on Highway 1 blamed for head-on collision

An Irish tourist driving on the wrong side of state Highway 1 is believed to have caused a head-on collision on the San Mateo County coast on Saturday night, according to the California Highway Patrol. nvestigators believe that the 34-year-old man from Dublin, Ireland had pulled over to take pictures on Highway 1 just south […]

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Thailand: Workers in restaurants and resorts abandon tourists during the Tsunami in Patong

PHUKET: Workers in Patong restaurants and Phuket resorts abandoned their posts and fled the ”tsunami” today, leaving tourists to their fate. Fortunately, the ”tsunami” didn’t arrive. But the desertion by resort and restaurant workers without a care for the fate of others is deeply disturbing. Read article

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Interior Ministry reports Two British Journalists who were detained by Libyan militias are now released

Nicholas Davies-Jones and Gareth Montgomery-Johnson, who were working for Iran’s English-language Press TV, were detained on Feb 22 by the Swehli brigade, one of the dozens of militias which last year helped force out Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Earlier this month, the Swehli militia said the Britons, initially detained for illegal entry into Libya, were […]

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England: City Councilor reports Salisbury missing out on tourism trade due to lack of signage on major routes

SALISBURY is missing out on an important part of the passing tourist trade due to a lack of signage on major routes surrounding the city, according to a city councillor. Cllr Paul Sample, who has called for the matter to be urgently addressed before the tourist season gets underway, said Salisbury was not getting “the […]

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