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Thursday, 13 May 2010
Brazil: Doomed Air France Jet's Data Recorders May Be Located
May 6, 2010 — On Monday (5/3), the French navy resumed its search for the flight data recorders from Air France Flight 447 that crashed in the Atlantic last June. And this new recovery effort is focusing on a specific 580 square mile area because of a breakthrough investigators made when examining audio recordings from last summer. The French Defense Ministry says that new software allowed investigators to scrub the recordings of background noise to detect a possible signal being emitted by one of the flight data recorders on July 1, 2009.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
One-day strike disrupts Athens
A nationwide strike by public-sector workers in Greece
The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), the country's biggest labor grouping with about 1m members, called the strike as a protest against a draft tax bill which it says infringes workers' rights.
The bill would reduce unions' role in the running of state-owned firms.
Unionists claimed the strike was an overwhelming success and said they would consider another next week.
"If the government wants a break with the unions, then it shall have it," GSEE president Christos Polyzogopoulos was quoted as saying.
During the 24-hour walkout all public transport was closed, most Olympic Airways flights were grounded and post offices, state television and state banks shut down.
Commuter traffic in Athens
Rioting over harsh austerity measures left three people dead in a torched Athens bank and clouds of tear gas drifting past parliament, in an outburst of anger that underlined the long and difficult struggle Greece
The deaths were the first during a protest in Greece
Fear that the bailout won't stop the debt crisis from spreading to other financially troubled EU countries like Portugal and Spain intensified amid the violence Wednesday, as credit ratings agency Moody's put Portugal
In Brussels , EU officials desperately tried to calm market fears that Greece Spain and Portugal had "absolutely nothing to do with the situation in Greece
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged lawmakers on Wednesday to speedily approve their country's share of the loans to Greece Germany
"Nothing less than the future of Europe, and with that the future of Germany in Europe , is at stake," Merkel told lawmakers. "We are at a fork in the road."
Merkel's government had insisted that Greece agree to new austerity measures before Germany Germany
The shocks from Greece
David Joy, chief market strategist for Columbia Management, a U.S. manager of $341 billion in stocks, bonds, cash and other investments, warned against complacency over the U.S. economic recovery and said this week's events in Greece and Europe "should serve as a reminder that the ramifications of the financial crisis are still being felt."
"Most of these lingering problems relate to the fact that excessive amounts of debt have been accumulated prior to the financial crisis. It's going to take time for these to be worked through," he said.
The outcome is a flight to safety, in which the dollar rises and money leaves riskier and economically more sensitive assets such as stocks and commodities.
Even with the bailout, some economists think Greece
The new austerity measures are to be voted on in Parliament Thursday. The Socialists hold a comfortable majority and the bill is expected to pass.
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Clear Registered Traveler Program Making Comeback
May 4, 2010 — The registered air traveler program known as Clear, which unexpectedly shutdown last June, looks to make a comeback under new ownership later this year. A company called AlClear purchased the Clear service assets from Verified Identity Pass, Inc. for $6 million in a federal bankruptcy proceeding on April 16. The new company will be known as CLEAR.
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Ireland: Irish Airspace Reopens for Now
May 4, 2010 — Flights to and from Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic were grounded Tuesday morning do to volcanic ash drifting from Iceland, but the Civil Aviation Authority and the Irish Aviation Authority lifted the flight ban as of 1 PM local time. However, given the unpredictable nature of the Icelandic volcano, the situation could change and passengers are being advised to check with their airlines before heading to the airport.
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Times Square Bomb Suspect Arrested at JFK Airport
May 4, 2010 — A Pakistani-born, naturalized U.S. citizen taken off a flight at JFK Airport last night and arrested for allegedly driving the bomb-laden SUV into Times Square this past Saturday night. Sources told CNN the suspect, Faisal Shahzad, was on board Emirates Flight 202 to Dubai and booked through to Islamabad, Pakistan. And the jet was pulling away from the gate when it was called back to be searched.
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Bomb Threat Message Found on Flight
May 2, 2010 — According to various reports, a flight attendant on board a United Airlines flight Saturday from Chicago to Philadelphia found a threatening message scrawled either on the mirror or wall of the lavatory. The flight landed safely in Philly, and authorities are questioning everyone on board. It is suspected that one of the passengers wrote the message that read "Bomb on, will die."
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China: Bomb Fear Forces China Flight to Make Emergency Landing
May 1, 2010 — A Taiwan-based China Airlines (CAL) flight was diverted on Saturday after a passenger told cabin crew he had a bomb on board. The plane was en route from Taipei to Shanghai when the pilot made the emergency landing in Hangzhou. The man's luggage was searched and no explosives were found.
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