Investment Column: On a wing and a prayer, buy Aer Lingus The Independent | Aer Lingus | Our view: Buy | Share price: Euro0.67 (unchanged) | Aer Lingus is a tricky call. Yesterday's announcement about passenger numbers is a case in point. Overall traffic climbed by a modest 0.6 per cent, compared with January 2009. But the devil is in the detail. | Although short-haul tra...
Couple Held in Emirates Flight's Terror Call Khaleej Times DUBAI ' A male passenger and his wife were handed over to the local Mumbai police authorities for questioning as Mumbai's Air Traffic Control called back Emirates Airline flight EK505 from Mumbai to Manchester via Dubai before its scheduled departure at 11:35am (local time) from the Mumbai Airport o...
Investment Column: On a wing and a prayer, buy Aer Lingus The Independent | Aer Lingus | Our view: Buy | Share price: Euro0.67 (unchanged) | Aer Lingus is a tricky call. Yesterday's announcement about passenger numbers is a case in point. Overall traffic climbed by a modest 0.6 per cent, compared with January 2009. But the...
NAIA to hold briefing on new terrorist bomb Malaya | AUTHORITIES at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport will brief all airport officers and personnel, including members of the media covering NAIA, on a new bomb technology called "binary system" on Thursday. | Manila International Airport...
Cornered, Qaida to cut scale of attacks The Times Of India WASHINGTON: New assessments of al-Qaida by the top US counter-terrorism experts offer grounds for both optimism and concern a year after President Obama took office. | The Washington Post quotes officials, as saying that al-Qaida's ability to wage ma...
In five minutes, I was branded a terrorist... Mumbai Mirror | Shahbaz Khan is a very distraught man. On Sunday, he was loaded from an Emirates plane on suspicion that he was a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, and it has caused him much anguish. | "I've been doing social work for the last three decades. But in five ...
Qaeda leader calls for attacks on US interests 'everywhere' Inquirer | DUBAI—Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula number two Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri called for attacks against US interests "everywhere," in an audio message released on the Internet on Monday. | "American and Crusader interests are everywhere and their ag...
Proposed bill casts all Iranians as terrorists San Fransisco Chronicle | The last time my relatives in Iran sat before a U.S. consular officer in an effort to obtain a visa to visit the United States - their second unsuccessful attempt - I waited anxiously by the phone and in front of my computer for word on the officer...
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House fire in Warwick, RI, kills 5, including baby The News & Observer | WARWICK, R.I. -- A house fire that officials said might have simmered undetected for hours Saturday killed five people, including a mother and her 7-month-old baby, in one of Rho...
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Gates disputes deal on Iran's nuclear program The News & Observer | ANKARA, Turkey -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is dismissing comments by the Iranian government that it's nearing a deal with the international community on its nuclear pr...
Terrorists 'gaining upper hand in cyber war' The Independent | Western governments are facing a potent and ill-understood new threat from terrorists and hostile powers in the shape of cyber warfare, military and security experts have warned....
Yemen's al-Qaida deputy chief urges new attacks The News & Observer | SAN'A, Yemen -- The deputy chief of al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen called for attacks on Saudi Arabia and U.S. interests in the region in a new audio message posted Monday on the Internet. | The statement, purportedly by Said al-Shihri, urged followe...
Top Canadian defense official charged with murder The News & Observer | TORONTO -- The commander of a major military base in Canada has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women and in the sexual assaults of two other women. | Ontario Provincial Police Det. Insp. Chris Nicholas said Monday that C...
Yemen's al-Qaida deputy chief urges new attacks The Guardian | AHMED AL-HAJ | Associated Press Writer= SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — The deputy chief of al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen called for attacks on Saudi Arabia and U.S. interests in the region in a new audio message posted Monday on the Internet. | The statement...
Karachi grinds to a halt after fatal blasts Asia Times | By Syed Fazl-e-Haider | KARACHI, Pakistan - Business in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital, ground to a halt at the weekend after at least 33 people were killed and over 100 injured in two explosions on Friday. The city of 18 million people houses the main stock exchange, central bank and offices of multinational corporations. | Businessmen w...
