Day: 21 March 2017

Travel advisory update: Ongoing counterterrorism operations in Bangladesh – be aware of threat

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

From the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Latest update: Terrorism section There is a high threat from terrorism in Bangladesh. Since September 201...

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Travel advisory update: Adventure tourism in Vietnam? Make sure it will be safe (and legal!)

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

From the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Latest update: Safety and security section (Local travel) Since 2016, a number of British and foreign visit...

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Quick Read: Passenger plane crashes at airport leaving 44 people feared dead

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

As many as 44 people are feared dead after a plane crash landed and split into pieces at an airport in South Sudan. Passengers were pulled from the burning wreckage after the plane belonging to South Supreme Airlines crashed at the north-eastern tow...

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Quick Read: South Sudan rebels say seize four oil workers, demand firm’s exit

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

JUBA South Sudanese rebels said on Monday they had kidnapped four oil workers including a Pakistani national, in a bid to force their Chinese and Malaysian cons...

Quick Read: ‘I was terrified’: What happened to one traveler who lost his passport in transit and how he got himself out of trouble

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

Travelers, here is a cautionary tale for international fliers, anyone who steps foot in any airplane, in the U.S. or abroad, or anyone who believes that details...

Quick Read: French financial prosecutor’s office evacuated

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

PARIS The French financial prosecutor's offices in central Paris were evacuated on Monday due to a bomb alert with police deployed to search for explosives, a judicial source and a Reuters journalist at the scene said. The alert followed an anonymou...

Quick Read: Paris Airport Attack Puts Focus on Check-In Security

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

The attack Saturday at Paris’s second-largest airport, in which a man seized a soldier’s gun before being shot dead, comes at a time of heightened security conc...

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Quick Read: Space tourism companies are going to write their own safety rules because the US government can’t

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

Within a year, says Blue Origin, it will begin flying humans to the edge of space.... Read full article at the publisher's site: http://ift.tt/2nV8BV2 ...

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Quick Read: Travel Ban Prompts San Francisco Girls Chorus To Cancel Performance Abroad

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Trump’s travel ban has resulted in the San Francisco Girls Chorus canceling a performance at an international concert.... Read full article at the publisher's site: http://ift.tt/2nZI8FZ Like what you read? Sign up h...

Quick Read: Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche Protest Deadly Police Brutality

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

Dozens of Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche protested police terror in Temuco on Friday, calling on law enforcement to stop violence against their youth.... Read full ...

Quick Read: Vancouver Island woman recounts travel insurance fight

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

A five-week trip last spring for a Vancouver Island woman to her favourite village in the south of France has turned into a year-long fight with her travel insu...

Quick Read: Mexico: 3 bodies found in coolers near tourist beach

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico - Mexican authorities say the remains of three people have been found in the Pacific resort city of Cabo San Lucas.... Read full article at the publisher's site: http://ift.tt/2nLgnBH Like what you read? Sign up here f...

Quick Read: Retired Police Chief ‘Unsure About Future of US’ After Airport Detention

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

A former U.S. police chief says he is "feeling vulnerable and unsure of the future of a country that was once great" after being detained for 90 minutes at New ...

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Quick Read: Crocodile attacks teenager trying to impress girl

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

An Australian teenager keen to impress a young British tourist with his bravado ended up instead in the jaws of a large crocodile.... Read full article at the p...

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Quick Read: Thieves stole £7MILLION from an armoured truck as it drove out of Heathrow Airport

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

COPS are hunting thieves who looted £7million in cash from a security van in one of the biggest raids in British criminal history. The armour-plated Loomis International vehicle had picked up half a ton of banknotes from Heathrow Terminal 4 on behal...

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Quick Read: Drinking water shortages in Lima as deadly floods ravage Peru

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

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Quick Read: Germany angers Turkey with coup remarks and PKK rally

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

Germany and Turkey are caught up in a fresh dispute after a rally backing outlawed Kurdish fighters in Turkey was held in Frankfurt and a top German intelligenc...

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Quick Read: Europe: Hepatitis A outbreaks in MSM

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

Europe is currently seeing three outbreaks of hepatitis A that are linked to adult men who have sex with men (MSM). Since February 2016, 287 cases have been reported in a total of 13 countries, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention ...

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Quick Read: Trump’s new travel ban was blocked. How did it happen, and what’s next?

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

Has the chaos surrounding the rollout of Trump’s revised travel ban left you confused? Here’s everything you need to know Donald Trump’s second executive orde...

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Quick Read: Police fire rubber bullets at protesters in Masiphumelele

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

Cape Town - Police have fired rubber bullets at protesting residents from the Masiphumelele township in Cape Town, executive director for safety and security Ri...

Quick Read: Mumbai ATM van heist: Gang distracted driver by dropping Rs 1,500 cash under van

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

MUMBAI: Did a woman orchestrate the Dharavi ATM heist of Rs 1.5 crore? The police said that the woman, Kamla Nagraj Devendra, sister of a former gangster, had hatched the plan. She was involved right from organizing criminals, doing a recee of the AT...

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Quick Read: Gang ‘replicated 4×4 car keys and then stole several vehicles’

News TeamMarch 21, 2017

SHARJAH // A gang who were using replica car keys to steal 4x4s in Sharjah have been arrested, police said. Six Asian men are in custody with Sharjah Police fo...