Employees of the Egyptian airports company closed Terminal 2 in Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport on Monday, demanding higher salaries and purging the company of corruption. Airport sources said arrivals were transferred to Terminal 1, which was congested with 100 arriving flights. State-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported that dozens went on strike, but did not give exact figures. Read article
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Five people in Nanjing in East China’s Jiangsu province have been diagnosed with scrub typhus, a disease that killed two females in Guangzhou this year. Four patients were treated at Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University. Wang Xihua, deputy director of the hospital’s department of respiratory diseases, said scrub typhus is a type of acute […]
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Veterinary experts are suspecting an outbreak of the Kysasanur Forest Disease (KFD), popularly known as monkey fever, in Maddur range of the Bandipur Tiger Reserve bordering Mysore district. It is also reported to have affected humans. The tiger reserve authorities have reported deaths of eight bonnet macaques and two common langurs; and it has been […]
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The Health Protection Agency has reported a dramatic rise in the number of Norovirus cases in the UK this year, leading to the closure of 45 hospitals across the country. Some 53 outbreaks of the winter vomiting bug have been reported at the NHS trust hospitals so far in the ongoing year. The number has […]
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Get your garlic, crosses and stakes ready: a bloodsucking vampire is on the loose. Or so say villagers in the tiny western Serbian hamlet of Zarozje, nestled between lush green mountain slopes and spooky thick forests. They say that rumors that a legendary vampire ghost has awakened are spreading fear — and a potential tourist […]
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UK travel safety recommendations for Colombia We advise against all but essential travel to all rural areas bordering Panama, Venezuela and Ecuador, to the towns of Buenaventura and San José del Guaviare and the areas surrounding them; and to the Parque Nacional Natural de La Macarena in the department of Meta; and to the archaeological […]
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New Delhi: The International Air Transport Association has revealed in a report that India, which was being considered the fastest growing aviation market in the world, has now become the worst performing domestic air travel market globally. Read Article
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Carnival Cruise Lines has reversed a controversial decision to ban dressing in drag from a drag-themed Dec. 2 cruise, claiming that it resulted from a miscommunication between group organizer Al and Chuck Travel and the cruise line. Carnival is also offering full, last-minute refunds for passengers who wish to cancel their trip, according to Cruise […]
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In an interview with the Voice of Russia, Russian analyst Konstantin Sivkov said: “Deploying these missiles in Turkey will be dangerous for Syrian military planes – this is obvious. A lesser obvious thing is that Turkey is getting ready for a war against Syria. If an attack on Syria from the territory of Turkey does […]
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The Bahamas flagged cruise vessel ‘Seabourn Sojourn’ that on Thursday berthed at Ushuaia reported to Argentine port authorities it has no plans to visit the Falklands/Malvinas Islands according to press reports from the capital of Argentine Tierra del Fuego. Apparently the Seattle based Seabourn Cruise Line told the local officials in Ushuaia that “Malvinas are […]
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