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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
Venezuelan students took the streets of the capital on 30 May for the third consecutive day, marching in protest against closure of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV). The protestors demanded the People's Ombudsman secure the immediate release of 182 students arrested during previous protests in Caracas and other cities.
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Dutch Royal Dutch Airlines KLM passed a bad week. Firstly, a trade union representing flight attendants at KLM threatened strikes over ill labour conditions resulting in a situation where, the Dutch arm of Air France KLM and unions were at odds over easing the workload of flight attendants. |
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
Nuclear energy is the talk of the town now. Asian countries with no surprise are coming up with new nuclear policies and collaboration in the recent years and any countries which opposed nuclear power five years ago, now support it.
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
A court in Beijing sentenced the State Food and Drug Administration director to death for taking bribes and dereliction of duty. Zheng, aged 63, received the death penalty on the graft charge and 7 years of imprisonment for the charge of dereliction of duty.
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
Russia recently geared up its attitude and cautioned the United States against further destabilizing Lebanon with arms shipments.
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
Jakarta's slighted Governor Sutiyoso cooled down his temper only after Australia's Ambassador to Indonesia Bill Farmer personally apologised for the ill treatment by police Sutiyoso received in Sydney last week.
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
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The Bank of Scotland (BoS) apologised to its customers after the mortgage details of over 60,000 customers went missing from the post office. The management reassured customers that these data will not get in hands of any third party and said, it is almost impossible for any financial fraud to be committed as a result of the incident. |
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A federal court in Brazil indicted two US pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers for manslaughter-related charges. Judge Murilo Mendes accepted the charges filed by a prosecutor last week (May 2007) in a federal court in Sinop, a small city near the Amazon jungle site where a Boeing jetliner in 2006 crashed after a collision with an executive jet. All 154 people aboard the jetliner died, while the executive jet landed safely. |
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
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Major airports of around the world have taken extra measures to accommodate the hulking Airbus A380. Charles de Gaulle airport of Paris, where the hulking Airbus A380 landed for the first time on 01 June 2007 enlarged the runways, bridges, building a new boarding lounge at a cost of $134 million. |
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
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One of the tree men suspected of being involved in 22 May’s deadly bank robbery on the South Side, Chicago will face federal charges soon, reported the authorities. One of the robbers is currently being investigated as the shooter of teller Tramaine Gibson, 23, who was killed after refusing to open the bank vault. |
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