About 1,300 Kenya Airports Authority staff went on a countrywide strike, demanding a salary increase and better working conditions. Kenya Airways was forced to delay some of its domestic flights, awaiting confirmation the strike would not disrupt landing in other airports. Read article
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(ANSAmed) – NICOSIA, MAY 10 – Tourists and travelers in Cyprus could face a day of misery on Monday as local taxi drivers have threatened to block the entrance to Larnaca airport as part of their ongoing complaints about ”threats to their livelihood”. The action falls on a day which sees thousands of Scandinavian tourists […]
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Air-traffic controllers staged a strike at Tripoli International Airport on Thursday. Some 50 percent of flights were said to have been hit. Frustrated air passengers were forced to wait out the strike at the airport. Strikers are demanding higher salaries and better service contracts. They have also called for repairs to radar equipment. Read article
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Have the meningococcal meningitis vaccine – that’s the advice to Australian travellers heading to northern Africa in coming weeks following large-scale epidemics of the deadly disease across continents ‘meningitis belt’. One of the most aggressive of all bacterial infections, the disease has struck in numerous ‘belt’ countries this year, including major recent outbreaks in Burkina […]
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The Civil Defense in Peru (Indeci) intensified today a prevention drive warning of a potential massive earthquake now preceded of two daily tremors average. Indeci called on every workplace and home to ready an emergency evacuation plan after a median quake and two replicas were recorded Sunday in Ica (south) and in Lima. Marco Tantalean, […]
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The French government will not change their perception of security in Colombia, despite the kidnapping of its citizens Roméo Langlois, who has about 11 days held by the FARC. The French ambassador in Colombia, Pierre Jean Vandoorne, denied that his country would issue a travel warning, explaining that there are no specific threats against French […]
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Rail passengers in Italy now have an alternative to state-run services when travelling between Milan and Naples and cities such as Rome in between. The country’s first private-run high-speed service has been officially launched. The chairman of Ferrari is among those behind the new bullet-type trains taking to the tracks. Read Article – Video
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Former Head of Transportation Security Administration says that TSA needs to focus on high-risk threats Kip Hawley, the former head of the Transportation Security Administration, says airport security is broken and should be fixed. Hawley, who headed the agency from 2005 to 2009, contends that TSA became too rigid after its creation a decade ago […]
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Former state prison facilities in southern Michigan are becoming a hot tourist attraction where visitors can sit in cells and read prison rule books still attached to the cell bars. The Jackson Historic Prison Tour is booming, with nearly 50 tours booked this year, the Detroit Free Press reported Monday. A highlight is a visit […]
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An Orange County deputy who was arrested on charges of armed burglary after allegedly breaking into a car parked at Disney has bonded out of jail. Deputy Kirk Smurawa bonded out of jail Wednesday night after his arrest on charges of armed burglary and petit theft of $100 or more. Smurawa was caught on a […]
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