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Coup in Niger after a year of demonstrations and opposition.

By, Uwe Paschen. A Coup is underway in Niamey, Niger.  The streets of Niamey are empty, Shops in the city’s Wadata market have closed their doors, taxis are no longer operating or to be fund any where in the...

Greek Woman Set Briton's Genitals On Fire

A 26-year-old Greek woman, Marina Fanouraki, set fire to the genitals of Stuart Feltham, a 20-year-old British tourist, in Crete, who she claims attempted to sexually harass her while drunk at a crowded bar. According to the police, the British tourist took down his pants...

Tory Minister loses funding program responsibilty

"Tourism Minister Diane Ablonczy has been stripped of responsibility for administering a major tourism funding program after she signed off on a grant for Toronto's gay pride week." "Ms. Ablonczy, who retains her title as minister of state for small business and tourism, was...

American Teen's Wild Night on Australian Ghan Train

An American visitor to the Australian Outback has experienced the ride of his life and lived to tell of it. Chad Vance, aged 19, of Alaska, was about to miss the Ghan, their trans-continental train, and clung onto...

Philippine tourist traffic up despite global crisis-- DOT

With DOT's target of 3.5 million tourist arrivals this year and five million by 2010, the industry must expand total capacity in terms of physical infrastructure, room accommodations and manpower... "Local...

Egypt: Espionage added to charges against detained cell

Egyptian and Israeli intelligence agencies have uncovered a major terror cell apparently operated by Hezbullah/Iran axis. Their aims were to smuggle arms into Gaza and create terror attacks against Egyptian...

The hidden charm of Phan Thiet

My recent trip to Phan Thiet City and especially the Sea Links Golf and Country Club made me discover the hidden charm of Vietnam. There is not far from Saigon . In recent years, Phan Thiet City, specifically the Mui Ne Beach district, has been transformed into a resort...

Iraqi tourism is being revived after six years of U.S. occupation

The natural and historic beauty of Iraq made it a tourist hotspot with sites and destinations to satisfy even the most experienced of travelers. Humming bazaars, the smells of local restaurants, beautiful mosques,...

Blast in crowded Cairo tourist area kills 4

"Four people were killed, including a French woman and another foreigner, in a blast near a popular tourist area in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday, security and police sources said.   The explosion...

A Buddhist temple is built using 1.5million recycled beer bottles

A Buddist Temple inthe northeast of Thailand has been built using only recycled beer bottles. The Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple got their bottles from the nearby community and they had already built shelters in this...

Queen's Royal guard attacks tourist

A Queen's Royal Guard, on duty outside St. James Palace in London attacked a tourist who was mimicking him and marching alongside him. " Nick Ibarra, 23, marched alongside the guard, who was on sentry duty outside...

Canada's Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean tours Haitian slum

Barry Artiste Op/EdCanada's Governor General tread where even Haitian Police feared to tread, the notorious Port Au Prince Slums, certainly refreshing to see someone like our Governor General take an interest in...

The "Terminal Man" returns to Japan after stay at Mexico airport.

Quite an unusual situation, in the comedy movie with Tom Hanks, he was trapped in the airport due to a political situation in his country. The reason why Hiroshi Nohara stayed at the airport so long never came...

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