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Taliban attack airport, base in east Afghanistan (Reuters)

November 13th, 2010

Reuters - Taliban insurgents attacked the main airport and a foreign military base at Jalalabad in Afghanistan’s east on Saturday, Reuters witnesses and police said, with up to 10 of…

Taliban attack airport and base in east Afghanistan (Reuters)

November 13th, 2010

Reuters - Taliban insurgents attacked the main airport and a foreign military base at Jalalabad in Afghanistan’s east on Saturday, Reuters witnesses and police said, with at least three of…

Taliban attack airport and army base in east Afghanistan (Reuters)

November 13th, 2010

Reuters - Taliban insurgents attacked the main airport and a foreign military base at Jalalabad in Afghanistan’s east on Saturday, Reuters witnesses and police said, but there was no word…

Bomb found in Northern Ireland; security alert at airport (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

Reuters - Police in Northern Ireland detonated a bomb on Saturday planted by suspected nationalist militants in Lurgan, south of Belfast, the latest in a series of attempts to destabilize…

French protesters block Marseille airport (AP)

October 21st, 2010

A youth prepares to throw a petrol bomb at a bank branch during clashes with police forces in Lyon, central France, Wednesday Oct. 20, 2010. The petrol bomb didn't cause any damage. French authorities forced strike-shuttered fuel depots to reopen to ensure gasoline supplies, and the interior minister threatened Wednesday to send in paramilitary police to stop rioting on the fringes of protests against raising the retirement age to 62. Months of largely peaceful demonstrations against the pension reform have taken a violent turn in recent days. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)AP - French protesters blockaded Marseille’s airport, truckers tied up highways and Lady Gaga canceled concerts in Paris ahead of a tense Senate vote Thursday on raising the retirement age.


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Protesting police, soldiers seize Ecuador airport (AP)

September 30th, 2010

AP - Hundreds of police and soldiers protesting a new law that cuts their benefits seized the main airport in Ecuador’s capital on Thursday and shut off highway access to…

Dutch arrest alleged UK terror suspect at airport (AP)

September 19th, 2010

AP - Dutch police on Sunday arrested a British man of Somali ancestry at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport for possible links to a terrorist group, a spokesman for the Dutch prosecutors…

Dutch arrest alleged terror suspect at airport (AP)

September 19th, 2010

AP - Dutch police say a terrorism suspect has been arrested at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.

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Newborn baby found alive in Manila airport garbage (AP)

September 13th, 2010

AP - Authorities in the Philippines on Monday tried to trace the mother who gave birth then abandoned her newborn baby on a flight from the Middle East.

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Newborn baby found in Manila airport garbage bag (AP)

September 12th, 2010

AP - Authorities at Manila’s airport found a newborn baby in a garbage bag that was apparently unloaded from an airplane that landed Sunday from the Middle East, officials said.

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