According to guardian.co.uk a top Chinese chess player has found herself stuck between the Rock and a hard place after an airline refused to allow her to board a flight to London following a tournament in Gibraltar because she did not hold a transit visa to enter the UK. u Wenjun found herself stranded after taking part in the 11th annual Tradewise chess festival held in Gibraltar, having travelled there on 19 January via London from Hong Kong on a British Airways flight. Read Article
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This past Saturday, a citizen from the United States who worked for a circus was mauled to death by one of his tigers during a performance in Etchojoa, Sonora Mexico. The deceased was a native of the U.S. and worked as Circus tiger tamer Suarez, one of the cats who bit him and injured his […]
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Eluniverso.com rpoert…..those old times come to Quito, to make arrangements or meetings and return the same day by air could be done with the new airport in Tababela, which will start operating on 20 this month. The time it will take to move the valley northeast of the city of Quito set the agenda for […]
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radioformula.com.mx reported that the Ministry of Public Security of the Federal District rescued a businessman during a kidnap attempt. The Ministry of Public Security of the Federal District (SSPDF) rescued a businessman who had been kidnapped by three men who were trying to take him to a safe house in the city of Pachuca, Hidalgo. […]
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Malaysian authorities have warned men who marry foreign women that failure to register the marriages could create problems for both themselves and their brides. The warning was directed specifically to men involved in a reported new fad where Malaysian men seek Thai women to be second, third or fourth wives in Muslim ceremonies in south […]
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Russian businessmen have crossed all borders both literally and figuratively. Thai entrepreneurs say that Russians oust them from the tourism industry. In the kingdom, there are many companies and businesses owned by Russian citizens. In this regard, the Thais conducted an anti-Russian protest action. How justified are their claims? The rally was held earlier this […]
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Abu Sayyaf gunmen have freed two Filipino members of a Jordanian TV journalist’s crew who were kidnapped by the militants last year as they set out to interview the extremists in their jungle lairs in the southern Philippines, police said on Sunday. Policemen found frail-looking cameraman Ramel Vela and audio technician Roland Letriro late Saturday […]
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JUBA: An outbreak of hepatitis E has killed 88 people in South Sudan after a surge in the virus hit refugee camps near the Sudanese border, an aid agency said on Saturday. More than 175,000 people have sought refuge in the new country of South Sudan after fleeing fighting in Sudan’s restive border states of […]
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CAIRO: With bright neon vests and hardhats gleaming at dusk, a dozen Egyptian volunteers fanned out through Cairo’s crowded Tahrir Square. Their project: end a surge in sexual assaults on women that activists say has become the darkest stain on the country’s opposition street movement. Patrolling on Friday, the men and women have joined Tahrir […]
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A powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake has hit northern Japan, injuring 10 people and causing strong tremors across Hokkaido island. The quake, which was preceded by an early warning broadcast on television and radio, hit near the town of Obihiro at a depth of 103 kilometres at 11.17pm (local time), according to US Geological Survey data. […]
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