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By CECILE BRISSON and HELENE GOUPIL Protesters block Paris airport over Yemen crash PARIS Protesters linked arms across an entrance at Paris' main airport on Friday to keep passengers off a Yemeni flight to Comoros that saw a deadly crash this week after years of complaints about dangerous conditions en route to the Indian Ocean island nation. Many in the Comoran community in France are angry that it took Tuesday's accident, which killed 152 people on Yemenia airlines' Paris-Moroni flight, to focus attention on the problems. They say that since 2004 they have been complaining about dangerous planes, unhelpful crews and stopovers in the Yemeni capital of San'a that last hours or days in stifling heat with little information and few basic services from the Yemeni airline. Dozens of protesters gathered outside Charles de... [read full story]
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With the rapid growth in the tourism, hospitality and wildlife industry, tourists can now get tourism insurance whenever they travel within the borders of Namibia. Namibia's first tourism insurance company,Safari and Tourism...
Source: Reuters * Sudanese army limits movement of peacekeepers in Darfur * Khartoum, rebels aren't fully committed to peace - U.N. By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Sudan's government has ...
