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• Thai leader ousted; airports to reopen
BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's prime minister was ousted Tuesday after weeks of protests closed the capital's airports, stranding 300,000 travelers. Protesters promised to lift their siege, and international flights were expected to resume Friday ...
• Travel pinched by global financial crisis
The International Air Transport Association says international passenger traffic declined 1.3 percent in October compared with 2007, and it dropped 2.9 percent in September. And executives from major airlines told investors Tuesday at a conference in ...
• Obama A.G. pick defended Guantanamo policy
Holder, a confidant to Obama on legal issues, recently has been a leading voice in the chorus calling to close Guantanamo Bay, which he has described as an international embarrassment. Likewise, Obama has called it a "sad chapter in American history ...
• Earthlings, space beer has splashed down
TOKYO - Space beer, the result of a five-month mission to boldly grow, where almost no one has grown barley before, has landed in Japan. The beverage, brewed from barley cultivated in the International Space Station in 2006, has splashed down ...
• Thailand postpones ASEAN summit over crisis
Thousands of members of the protest alliance have taken over the main Suvarnabhumi international airport and the domestic Don Muang airport for about a week, cutting off all commercial traffic to the capital and stranding more than 300,000 foreign ...