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• Greece's Olympic to cancel 100 flights Wednesday
... including London, Paris and Istanbul will also be hit. Wednesday's strike was called by Greece's largest labor union, the GSEE. The protest is also set to halt Athens' metro and intercity rail services for 24 hours, and disrupt other public transport.
• Woman in human smuggling case gets more jail
Gonzalez Sanchez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport and harbor undocumented immigrants illegally under circumstances that placed the lives of people in jeopardy and caused serious bodily injury and death, according to U.S. Attorney Don ...
• Aussies protest airport ‘virtual strip search’
The body scanners use a low-level radio frequency to create an image which reveals hidden objects on a person, said the Office of Transport Security (OTS). But the scanners also outline a person's body shape. Airline passenger Samantha Jones told ...
• Russia steps up Georgia pullout plans
Soldiers milled around near seven military transport vehicles brought in to haul out personnel and equipment. Georgia's Interior Ministry confirmed that Russian forces were making preparations Monday to pull out of at least eight posts across the ...
• Jewish ‘modesty patrols’ sow fear in Israel
Thus public transport is grounded for the Jewish Sabbath each Saturday, and the rabbis control all Jewish marriage and divorce in Israel. In recent years, however, the haredim have eased up on their long campaign to impose their rules on secular areas ...