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Karen Jacobs
Reuters
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:35 EDT
A U.S. lawyer filed suit against planemaker Airbus SA and many aerospace suppliers on Monday seeking unspecified compensation on behalf of survivors of eight of the 228 passengers who died when an Air France flight crashed off the coast of Brazil in June.
The lawsuit said the plaintiffs, relatives of some of the dead from Air France Flight 447, have "suffered a loss of support" and other losses as a result of the deaths. The action was brought under the Illinois Wrongful Death Act and filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.
News 24
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:32 EST
A Lightning jet crashed at an air show at Bredasdorp on Saturday, exploding in a ball of fire.
A witness told News24 that the pilot apparently ejected before the plane crashed. Attempts were being made to find him.
However, he is said to have sent a mayday that he was struggling to eject.
Press TV
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:56 EST
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has renewed his charges that the US and Colombia have sealed a "devil's pact" to wage war against Venezuela.
For the second time in little over a week, Chavez called for his military and the country's militia to prepare for war to protect the sovereignty of Venezuela against the threat posed by the US using Colombian soil.
"I am not calling for war. The party provoking war is the imperial Yankee. It is my duty to call all Venezuelans to prepare for the struggle to defend this fatherland," Chavez said on Friday, Dpa reported.
Chavez is furious over last month's signing of a military cooperation deal between Bogota and Washington granting the US the use of seven military bases on Colombian soil.
Press TV
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:00 EST
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The site of the incident in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.
An alleged car bomb explosion has reportedly killed eleven people, including two police officers, injuring some 26 others in Peshawar.
The incident took place on Saturday near a police checkpoint in the northwestern city's Pusht Khara area, DPA reported. The area was being investigated by law enforcement agents at the time of the blast, added the German news agency.
"At least 11 people have been killed and 26 others wounded," Peshawar district administration chief Sahibzada Anis was quoted by AFP as saying.
"Luckily, it was an open area and there were not many buildings in the vicinity otherwise the damages could have been much higher," Peshawar police chief Liaqat Ali Khan said.
Kyiv Post
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:59 EDT
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A Ukrainian An-12 aircraft recently arrested in Nigeria with a military cargo on board will soon be allowed to leave the country, National Security and Defense Council First Deputy Secretary Stepan Havrysh has said.
"Permission will soon be received for the aircraft to leave Nigeria," he said at a press conference after a council meeting in Kyiv on Friday.
Havrysh also said that the plane was in Nigeria as of 1500 Kyiv time, and added that the Nigerian side had no claims against Ukraine or the transporting agent.
Foreign media reported earlier that a Ukrainian cargo aircraft, said to be a Fokker with registration number UR-CAK, en route from Ukraine to Equatorial Guinea, was arrested on arrival at Aminu Kano International Airport in the Nigerian city of Kano after making an emergency landing due to a technical fault. Eighteen crates of arms were found aboard the aircraft when it was searched.
According to other reports, the arrested aircraft belongs to Ukraine's Meridian Air Company, which is based in Poltava region.
Reuters
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:49 EST
Battling with one of the world's highest murder rates, Venezuela on Wednesday crushed more than 30,000 guns seized from the streets during police raids this year.
Policemen used blow-torches to chop up some of shotguns and pistols. They compacted weapons including home-made pistols into a 5 ton block, said Interior Minister Tarek Al Aisammi.
"Here we have weapons captured in operations during 2009," he said on state television. "This act forms part of the disarmament policies that we have been promoting."
With 13,000 murders in 2007, the last time figures were published, violent crime consistently registers as Venezuelans' main concern in opinion polls.
Xinhua
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:42 EST
Pakistan Friday strongly rejected as baseless the allegations contained in an article of Washington Post that China provided Pakistan with weapons grade uranium for two bombs in 1982, the official news agency APP reported.
"Pakistan strongly rejects the assertions in the article that is evidently timed to malign Pakistan and China," the Foreign Office spokesman said when his attention was drawn to a Washington Post article about Pakistan-China nuclear cooperation.
"This is yet another attempt to divert attention from the overtand covert support being extended by some states to the Indian nuclear programme since its inception and intensified more recently in stark contradiction to their self-avowed commitment to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty," the spokesman said in a statement.
He said the fact is that Pakistan and China have comprehensive and all-dimensional cooperation, which includes civilian nuclear cooperation for peaceful purposes.
Julie Hyland
World Socialist Web Site
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:47 EST
A global poll by the British Broadcasting Corporation's World Service shows widespread disaffection with the capitalist free market, including a significant opposition to capitalism per se.
Conducted by GlobeScan/PIPA, the poll interviewed more than 29,000 people in 27 countries, between June 19 and October 13, 2009. These were in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Panama, Costa Rica, Chile, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Pakistan, China, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Spain, Nigeria, Egypt and Kenya.
The poll found that more than three in five respondents were opposed to free-market capitalism. Some 89 percent believed that capitalism was not working, with a majority of those questioned in 22 of the countries indicating strong support for government intervention to support greater regulation of business and the market, in favour of a more socially equitable division of wealth.
Adam Gabbatt
Guardian.co.uk
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:40 EST
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Quebec nationalists protest outside the Black Watch barracks in Montreal where Charles and Camilla visited.
Prince Charles's official visit to Canada has been marred by anti-monarchy protests as a group of Quebec nationalists clashed with riot police during a demonstration in Montreal.
The group staged a sit-in protest outside the regimental hall of the Black Watch of Canada last night. More than 100 protesters held a demonstration as Charles, who is colonel-in-chief of the regiment, was due to present new regimental colours. The arrival of the prince and Camilla Parker-Bowles, the Duchess of Cornwall, was delayed by 40 minutes as police cleared the streets.
Waving the provincial flag of Quebec and anti-royal placards, protesters chanted "Majesty go home" and the independence call "The Quebecois in Quebec". Some of the group threw eggs at soldiers leaving the regimental hall before police arrived.
Robert Scheer
Truthdig
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:42 EST
On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it's worthwhile to remember that ending a stupid, harmful war is the most admirable thing a great leader can do.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." That biblical quotation certainly applies to Mikhail Gorbachev, a man not honored enough for the example he set and whose past practices and recent cautions about Afghanistan should be heeded by Barack Obama. Or, on a secular note, if the Sermon on the Mount doesn't cut it for you, take German Chancellor Angela Merkel's praise for the former Soviet leader at the ceremony marking the fall of the Berlin Wall, which he helped destroy: "You courageously allowed things to happen, and that was much more than we could have expected."
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