Sun, 29/08/2010 - 23:22 by harsheeb
Mexico-- Human rights groups say the war on drugs in Mexico has gone badly awry with soldiers covering up atrocities that have included civilian deaths.
The defense ministry says it still looking into the case of the Almanza family, in which eight adults and five children were driving to the beach on April 3, a drive that ended with soldiers opening fire on the vehicle, leaving two small children dead, The Arizona Republic reported Sunday.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have demanded the case be turned over to civilian authorities. Mexico's National Human Rights Commission has already issued a scathing 1,400-page report accusing soldiers of "manipulations to misdirect the investigations," to avoid blame in the affair.
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Sun, 29/08/2010 - 17:34 by Neka Sehgal
Weighed down by financial troubles, Mexico's debt-laden airline Mexicana de Aviacion has decided to halt all flight operations from Saturday onwards.
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Sat, 28/08/2010 - 23:11 by harsheeb
Marquette -- A Soviet-era Russian military plane remained grounded in the upper peninsula of Michigan because of its owner's dispute with a creditor.
The Ilyushin IL-78, originally designed to refuel other military planes in flight, has mystified residents, The Detroit News reports. It sits at an airport in Gwinn, its tires chained and heavy equipment placed to block any takeoff.
"It's weird looking," said Sara Brand, who lives near the airport. "I don't know where it came from."
Where it actually came from was Texas. Air Support Systems, a company that deals in used military aircraft, bought the plane from Ukraine in 2005, planning to convert it for use in aerial firefighting.
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Sat, 28/08/2010 - 22:05 by harsheeb
Mexico -- Mexican airline group Grupo Mexicana said it was suspending all fights "until further notice" due to financial difficulties.
In a statement, Grupo Mexicana said: "As a result of the group's delicate financial situation … compounded by failure to reach agreements that would allow for the capitalization of its three airlines … (carriers) will suspend operations until further notice as of midday on Saturday Aug. 28, 2010."
The notice involves flights scheduled by Mexicana Airlines, MexicanaClick and MexicanaLink.
The parent group said it was seeking out ways of securing the company's long-term financial viability, so our passengers can once again enjoy the quality services they are accustomed to."
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Sat, 28/08/2010 - 08:08 by harsheeb
New HavenA- Denis Istomin earned a chance at his first ATP Tour title Friday by defeating Viktor Troicki in the semifinals at the Pilot Pen.
Istomin has never played in a championship match during his three full seasons on the tour, but he will do so Saturday against ninth-seeded Sergiy Stakhovsky.
Istomin defeated Troicki 7-6 (12-10), 3-6, 6-2 on the campus of Yale University in the final tournament prior to the start of the U.S. Open.
This was the third semifinal appearance of the year for Istomin.
Stakhovsky, who has one tournament crown to his credit this season, coasted past Thiemo De Bakker in the other semifinal 6-3, 6-4.
Stakhovsky won the UNICEF Open this year over Janko Tipsarevic.
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Fri, 27/08/2010 - 08:37 by harsheeb
Huddersfield -- A British local council has recalled tourism pamphlets that contained 50 spelling errors, including 20 misspellings of the district's name.
Kirklees Council in Yorkshire County said 7,000 of the pamphlets were recalled from libraries, town halls and tourism information centers after officials discovered they were rife with typos and spelling errors, The Sun reported Thursday.
The errors included the name of the district being misspelled as "Kirtles" 20 times.
Other locations misspelled in the pamphlet included the town of Holmfirth as "Holsworth," Cleckheaton as "Czechisation" and Kirkburton as "Kirkpatrick."
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Fri, 27/08/2010 - 08:12 by harsheeb
Washington -- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it had proposed levying its highest fine ever on American Airlines for failing to correctly inspect 286 planes.
The FAA said it had proposed a $24.2 million fine on the carrier after determining in 2008 the airline failed to follow an Airworthiness Directive involving McDonnell Douglas MD-80 planes that were used on 14,278 passenger flights.
The problem was discovered in March 2008 with an inspection of two planes, which the FAA said went through inspections without maintenance personnel examining bundles of wires in the wheel wells of the aircraft that could chaff, which could cause an arc of electricity, resulting in a fire or loss of hydraulic functioning in an auxiliary pump.
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Mon, 23/08/2010 - 16:30 by Neka Sehgal
With the aim to rein in the unfair and deceptive practices by credit card companies, a comprehensive overhaul of the industry went into effect starting Sunday, which will hopefully give consumers more protection against high interest and penalty fees.
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Mon, 09/08/2010 - 16:29 by Aisha
According to a survey of over 7,500 European workers from Aon Consulting, the leading employee risk and benefits management firm, Spain is the preferred retirement destination for workers in Europe.
The second position was occupied by France and the third by USA. Then came Italy, Australasia and Africa in the next three places.
When asked the workers to retire in the same country, Spain and France were the top preferences.
Nearly, 86.8 percent residents preferred Spain, 81.1 percent preferred France, while 73.6 percent preferred Denmark. UK (42.7 percent) was the last country where the residents wanted to retire.
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Sun, 08/08/2010 - 16:45 by Sophie Anderson
Second-quarter profit at Warren E. Buffett's, Berkshire Hathaway plunged 40 percent primarily because declining stock prices led the value of its derivatives contracts to fall.
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Fri, 06/08/2010 - 06:08 by harsheeb
London -- British fighter jets were scrambled more than 200 times each year during the Cold War to investigate UFO reports, Ministry of Defense documents show.
The files, released Thursday, revealed the incidents stopped with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, The Daily Telegraph reported.
"People projected their Cold War fears into the skies," said Dr. David Barrett, an expert on fringe religions and UFO-based cults.
The documents included a hoard of UFO sketches submitted by members of the public who claimed close encounters during the 20th century.
Copyright 2010 United Press International
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Fri, 06/08/2010 - 05:56 by harsheeb
Washington -- The ink on a letter can reveal much about the document's creator, even if that person is determined to stay hidden, U.S. government researchers say.
The Secret Service keeps a library of 10,000 inks with information on their composition, brands and when they were manufactured for law enforcements agencies investigating suspicious documents -- a process now made even quicker by a new Digital Ink Library, a Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate release said Wednesday.
Rather than spend hours leafing through hard copy pages of the library's analyzed samples, investigators can use a searchable database to quickly identify likely matches, even if the ink in question is from a common black or blue ballpoint pen.
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