U.K. police managed to smuggle a fake bomb into Olympic Park in a security test, overshadowing a special Cabinet meeting Monday at the park that marked 200 days until the Summer Games begin. U.K. police carrying out tests smuggled the device onto the main site. While the Olympic Delivery Authority declined to directly comment on the whether a fake bomb was involved, it said “testing is standard practice” in all major security operations. Read Article
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Six young Australians could face extradition within weeks over the death of a man in Peru. The matter is reportedly still being investigated, although police in Miraflores refused to provide any further details to The World Today. But Wilber Rodriguez Vilchez says extradition orders will be filed within weeks. “Well, the documents have gone to […]
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A strike at French Polynesia’s international airport has forced changes to flight schedules. Air France has brought forward its flight from Los Angeles to Tahiti and back to Los Angeles by a couple of hours. Read article
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OAKLAND — Taxis and shuttles at the Oakland International Airport operated near each other in different shelters for years. That changed about a year ago, and on Monday cab drivers at the airport called a two-day strike over what they say is unfair competition because shuttles are now allowed to stage in the same shelter. […]
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Italy’s strongest earthquakes in three years and more than 1,800 aftershocks are deterring tourists in the peak summer season, compounding a slowdown in the industry as Europe’s economy stagnates. With 110 kilometers of coastline and pulsing resort towns like Rimini and Riccione, the quake-stricken region of Emilia-Romagna is one of the country’s top summer destinations, […]
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Kolhapur (Maharashtra): More than 500 new cases of jaundice have been reported from the textile town of Ichalkaranji in Kolhapur district in the last four days and the disease has killed at least 12 people in the last one month, officials said on Monday. Kolhapur health department suspect that the consumption of contaminated water of […]
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KOZHIKODE: Fifteen cases of Scrub Typhus infection, a communicable disease commonly found in southeast Asia and Japan, have been reported from various parts of the district. First reported from Malabar region in the state in 2006, the medical officials say that it is very difficult to know its symptoms mainly because in the initial stage […]
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Jerusalem: Israel`s health ministry has said that its nationals travelling to India should be vaccinated prophylactically against rabies. The ministry`s recommendation came after a report that a woman who returned to England from India died after being bitten by a rabid dog. Read article
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There have been numerous terrorist attacks since New York’s “9/11” but none quite matching its scale and impact. One might imagine that terrorist networks have not launched a subsequent attack with equally devastating effects and perhaps this has been a matter of disruption, deterrence and, most disturbingly, patience. However, Brigadier General Galatas (retired) suggests that […]
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Around 400 AI pilots — under the banner of the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) — went on a strike on May 7 to protest the airline management’s decision to allow the erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots to train on the newly inducted Boeing 787 Dreamliners. After the strike was declared illegal by the Delhi high court, […]
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