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07/03/2009
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'Big return' Serbian flights to Croatia get scrapped early
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Zagreb/Belgrade - Loudly billed as the big return after 18 years, tourist charters from Belgrade to the Croatian resort of Dubrovnik have been scrapped after only two flights, authorities in Zagreb confirmed Friday. Only two promotional flights h...
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07/03/2009
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Britain relaxes travel restrictions for its citizens to Sri Lanka
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Colombo - The British government has relaxed travel restrictions on its citizens visiting Sri Lanka nearly five weeks after Tamil separatist rebels were defeated to end a more then 30-year war in the South Asian country, the British High Commission i...
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07/03/2009
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After protests, Yemenia suspends flight in and out of Marseille
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Paris - The Yemeni airline Yemenia has suspended flights in and out of the French city of Marseille after several hundred protesters disrupted the registration of passengers on their way to Sana'a, French media reported Friday. The protesters were re...
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07/02/2009
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Spain steps up police patrols for tourist season
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Madrid - Spain is stepping up security in its main holiday- maker areas with 4,500 supplementary police during the holiday season, the interior ministry said Thursday. The police officers will guard roads, airports, bus and railway stations, hotels a...
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07/01/2009
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EXTRA: Pilot of the Yemenia plane did not send distress signal
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Sana'a, Yemen - The Yemen Airways plane that crashed off the Comoros islands with 153 people on board did not issue a distress signal or report any mechanical problems, a company official said on Wednesday. Aviation authorities in the Comoros inform...
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07/01/2009
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Hunt on for victims, black boxes of Comoros air crash - Summary
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Paris/Johannesburg - The trawl for victims in Tuesday's Yemen Airways (Yemenia) crash off the Comoros islands continued for a second day Wednesday as the sole known survivor of the disaster recovered in hospital, and officials said they had located o...
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07/01/2009
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US officials to control passports at Madrid airport
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Madrid - Spain and the United States on Wednesday signed an agreement allowing US frontier security officials to control travel documents of people flying to the US from Madrid, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said. Rubalcaba signed...
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07/01/2009
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Report: Canada may impose visas on Czechs over Roma fears
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Prague - Canada will next week re-impose visas on visiting Czechs to curb an alleged influx of asylum seekers, most of them believed to be Roma, according to a report in Prague Wednesday. Canada is likely to announce on Monday that it is re-introduci...
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07/01/2009
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EXTRA: No bodies yet recovered from Comoros crash, says official
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Paris - No bodies have yet been recovered from the sea in the wake of the Yemenia Airways crash, a senior Comoros Islands official said Wednesday - contrary to earlier reports. On Tuesday, Comoran officials had said five bodies had been pulled from t...
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07/01/2009
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Yemenia Airways flight blocked in Paris by protesters
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Paris - A group of angry Comorans Wednesday blocked the take-off of one of the carrier's aircraft from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, French television reported. The protest followed Tuesday's crash of a Yemenia Airways plane near the Comoros Is...
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