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Luxury cruise ship outruns pirates - CNN.com
A 30,000-ton luxury cruise ship outran pirates off the coast of Yemen this weekend, the ship's owner said Monday. The Nautica was in an area patrolled by international anti-piracy task forces when two small skiffs appeared to try to intercept it, Oceania spokesman Tim Rubacky said. The ship ...
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CouchSurfing
CouchSurfing seeks to internationally network people and places, create educational exchanges, raise collective consciousness, spread tolerance and facilitate cultural understanding. As a community we strive to do our individual and collective parts to make the world a better place, and we ...
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Seven foreigners among 15 taken hostage at Mumbai's Taj-India-The Times of India
Two terrorists carrying guns tonight took 15 people, half of them foreigners, hostage on the roof of the luxury Taj Hotel, one of the hostages who managed to escape said. Two youths in their 20s came to the restaurant of the hotel and took 15 people to the roof of the hotel, Rakesh Patel, a ...
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NY Rail Plot Details Based on 'Reliable' FBI Source
Uniformed police officers have flooded New York City's Penn Station, home to the Long Island Rail Road, following a warning from the FBI of a "plausible but unsubstantiated" threat of a terrorist bomb attack against the system during the holidays. Law enforcement officials say the plot involved ...
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Terrorists attack several sites in Mumbai - South and Central Asia- msnbc.com
Terrorists armed with automatic weapons and grenades attacked at least seven sites in Mumbai on Wednesday, authorities said. Indian media reported at least 18 people were killed and dozens wounded. The gunmen targeted luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction, a crowded train station and ...
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Signs Of The Year
Comment added by Lesley Rockafellow Webster on 11/25/2008This is a blog from a friend of mine who has been traveling the world this last year. He collected these funny signs throughout various countries. -
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Tuberculosis: A new pandemic? - CNN.com
Comment added by JDP on 11/17/2008Once, poverty and disease was something that could be held at arms length (and often ignored) by the developed world - especially since many of the worst diseases had been conquered there. Indeed, some (social Darwinists) saw poverty and disease in the developing worlds as a natural and ... -
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Feds offer little help for stuck air passengers - News- msnbc.com
Comment added by JDP on 11/12/2008Ah yes - the rights of business trump the rights of individuals under this administration. Better luck with the next administration. -
New luxury travel blog
Comment added by ollivier jacq on 11/09/2008Here is another Luxury travel blog that might interest you: http://blog.paradizo.com
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NY Rail Plot Details Based on 'Reliable' FBI Source