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Tibet Airlines to take off next year: state mediaBeijing (AFP) June 22, 2010 The first airline to be based in Tibet will launch its first domestic flights from the remote Himalayan region in the middle of next year, state media reported on Tuesday. Tibet Airlines will operate flights within Tibet and link its capital Lhasa with other major cities across the China, the China Daily said. The carrier is considering buying Boeing 737-700 and Airbus 319 aircraft to service the high-altitude routes, the paper said. It did not say how many flights the airline would run. Chi ... read more |
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Islamabad, Pakistan (UPI) Jun 15, 2010 Days after the United States and India concluded what was billed a strategic dialogue, a senior U.S. State Department official said Washington would press ahead with plans to supply Pakistan with combat aircraft. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake said the move was intended to intensify joint efforts to crack down on militants acting with impunity along ... more  
Cox'S Bazaar, Bangladesh (AFP) June 15, 2010At least 42 people have been killed by landslides and flash floods in southeastern Bangladesh and dozens more are missing, police and local officials said Tuesday. The flood warning centre said most of the southeast had experienced heavy rainfall during the past 24 hours, with 24.2 centimetres (9.5 inches) falling in many areas. In the worst affected area of Teknaf - which is on the bor ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 16, 2010Around 12,000 years ago, the Earth spun into The Big Freeze, a (geologically) brief cold snap known as the Younger Dryas event. Glaciers returned to parts of the Northern Hemisphere and humans who were around then probably shivered quite a bit. The Clovis people in North American, the first paleo-Indian inhabitants that made distinctive bone and ivory tools, took a population nosedive. Wha ... more |
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US child activists launch Bhopal appealNew York (AFP) June 14, 2010 US child activists made an impassioned plea Monday for the 90-year-old former boss of Union Carbide to help victims of the deadliest ever industrial disaster in Bhopal, India. The Indian government said last week the case against the chemical group's former CEO, Warren Anderson, was still open amid outrage over the lenient sentencing of some of the culprits. Dow Chemical purchased Union Carbide in 1999, but says all liabilities related to the accident were cleared in a 470-million-dollar out-of- ... read more |
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