DUBLIN AIRPORT AUTHORITY (DAA) will ask the High Court on Friday to grant an injunction against the trade union SIPTU holding strike action next Monday. The trade union said that it was “disappointed” with the news and said that members are “frustrated and annoyed at the DAA” but the authority said that it was disappointed with the plans for rolling work stoppages at airports in Dublin, Cork and Shannon on Monday. Read article
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NEW DELHI: The strike by engineers of Kingfisher Airlines led to zero operations at Delhi’s IGI Airport on Monday. All of the airline’s 15 flights from Delhi stood cancelled and the airline stopped taking bookings for Tuesday. No clarity was offered for when bookings would start again. “The strike was quite sudden and there was […]
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Bhutan is facing a major health concern with the rising cases of Hepatitis B infection. Tucked in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, with a population of just over 650,000, is bordered to the west, south and east by India and in the north by China. Bhutan launched Hepatitis B vaccine in 1997 after high prevalence of […]
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LEGAZPI CITY, ALBAY, Philippines – Chikungunya fever, a mosquito-borne disease, struck a village on Batan Island of the town of Rapu-Rapu in Albay, afflicting some 83 villagers, Albay Gov. Joey Salceda said Monday. Salceda said he has directed Dr. Luis Mendoza, the provincial health officer, to check on the reported sudden rise of the chikungunya […]
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An epidemic of a deadly strain of Salmonella has swept across the whole of Africa by “taking advantage” of the spread of HIV, according to an international team of researchers. Their study, published in Nature Genetics, said weakened immune systems caused by HIV allowed it to spread. Read article
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FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) — An outbreak of syphilis cases among young people is alarming health officials in Johnson County. Dr. Craig Moorman, the Johnson County health officer, says the county has 25 confirmed or suspected cases of the disease. He tells the Daily Journal ( ) that most of those infected are in their mid-teens […]
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Peru has recorded the highest number of Australian travellers for the period January to June, with an increase of 23 percent year-on-year compared to 2011. The rise in popularity can be attributed to “the accessibility with flights, promotion with the trade and many inspirational travel articles within the Australian media,” according to PromPeru coordinator for […]
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BEIJING — Thousands of Chinese besieged the Japanese embassy in Beijing on Saturday, hurling rocks, eggs and bottles, and protests broke out in other Chinese cities in an angry dispute over a group of remote islands.Paramilitary police with shields and batons barricaded the embassy, holding back and sometimes fighting with slogan-chanting, flag-waving protesters who at […]
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Air traffic controllers at Tripoli’s international airport have agreed to end a strike that halted most flights in and out of Libya on Sunday, officials said. Airport staff gave differing explanations of the reason for the stoppage – some said it was over pay while others said it was for better equipment to improve security. […]
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European cities have become the target for anti-U.S. protests. Police in Antwerp in the north of Belgium sealed off an area after a group of around 200 young Muslims took to the streets. Some of the protesters carried black flags often associated with Salafi radical Islam. Their chants included, ‘Obama go to hell’. Police used […]
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