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| FLash | Man tries to hijack plane
A man who tried to hijack a plane in mainland China and take it to Taiwan by threatening to commit suicide was subdued by crew members and no one was injured, police said. The plane landed Saturday evening as scheduled in the southern Chinese city of Xiamen, said a public security officer. The would-be hijacker was armed with a fruit knife and threatened to use it to kill himself, said the officer, who gave only his surname, Liu. He complained of having lost his job and being divorced from his wife and said he wanted to seek work. |
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| Efforts underway to restore power after blizzard blankets Atlantic Canada |
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Efforts were underway to restore power to thousands of Atlantic Canadians on Tuesday, a day after a blizzard dumped more than 50 centimetres of snow on some parts of the region. Blizzard warnings ended for western Cape Breton and the western coast of Newfoundland early Tuesday afternoon as the last pockets of inclement weather began to clear. However, Nova Scotia Power said more than 4,000 of its customers were still without electricity throughout Cheticamp, Margaree and Inverness County. ``It's the isolation, the deep, deep snow and the storm that's continuing in that area as we speak,'' said utility spokeswoman Robyn McIsaac. ``Those conditions are making it difficult to reach that area.''
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| Largest quake in 40 years spawns massive waves in Asia, killing thousands |
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Legions of rescuers spread across Asia Monday after an earthquake of epic power struck deep beneath the Indian Ocean, unleashing six-metre tidal waves that ravaged coasts across thousands of kilometres, killed nearly 14,500 people and left millions homeless in the fourth-largest temblor in a century. The death toll along the southern coast of Asia – and as far west as Somalia, on the African coast, where nine people were reported lost – steadily increased as authorities sorted out a far-flung disaster caused by Sunday's 9.0-magnitude earthquake, the strongest in 40 years and the fourth-largest in a century.
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| Air Canada Vacations Celebrates Return to St. Martin/Maarten and First Flight into Liberia, Costa Rica |
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 Air Canada Vacations celebrated both the launch of its newest Sun destination Liberia, Costa Rica and its return to the French and Dutch island of St. Martin/Maarten last Saturday with the inauguration of two Air Canada flights departing as scheduled on December 18, 2004 from Toronto Pearson International Airport.
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| CanJet welcomes 2005 with new year seat sale |
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CanJet, Canada's Low-Fare Airline, welcomes 2005 with a major system-wide seat sale. Doug Newson, the airline's Director of Marketing & Sales, stated, "CanJet Airlines has set the benchmark for consistent, everyday low fares and quality service and it is fitting we launch a 'year out' and 'year in' network seat sale to celebrate the past  twelve months and to welcome the year ahead. This seat sale is our Thank You to everybody who has supported us in the past while offering prices so attractive that many new customers will want to come on board in 2005."
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| BC Tourism Strong in October |
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International overnight customs entries to British Columbia experienced an overall increase of 4.7 per cent in October compared to the same month last year, while year-to-date entries climbed 4.8 per cent totaling 4,405,206 entries. A recovering US overnight market posted 0.7 per cent growth to 194,714 customs entries for the month of October. Year-to-date, US overnight entries totaled 3,165,173, reflecting a cumulative 0.1 per cent decrease compared with the same period last year. Overall, the US market accounted for more than 65 per cent of all overnight customs entries to BC in October.
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| FLash | Computer glitch grounds Comair flights; US Airways loses track of luggage
Days of bad weather, a computer malfunction and sick airline employees put tens of thousands of travellers in holiday limbo Saturday, with Comair cancelling all its flights and US Airways trying to reconnect thousands of pieces of luggage with their owners. Comair, a Delta Air Lines subsidiary, cancelled all its 1,100 flights Saturday because computer problems knocked out its system that manages flight assignments, company spokesman Nick Miller said. The cancellations affected 30,000 travellers in 118 cities, he said. |
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| FLash | Tourism to Cuba up eight per cent in 2004 despite U.S. travel restrictions
Tourism to Cuba increased eight per cent this year compared with 2003, despite new U.S. restrictions sharply cutting back on how many Americans visit the island, state media reported Monday. More than two million tourists visited the Caribbean island this year, the largest number ever, Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero announced at a weekend event in the eastern province of Holguin. Last year, about 1.9 million foreigners visited Cuba. Canadians top the list of tourists, followed by Europeans, primarily from Italy, France, Germany and Spain. Marrero told a news conference that tourism now represents 41 per cent of Cuba's foreign exchange income – a leap from just four per cent in 1990. |
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| FLash | For first time in two decades, visitors see Taj Mahal by moonlight
They had to walk through metal detectors and succumb to body searches to get there, but the first visitors in two decades to see the Taj Mahal by moonlight said the security hassles were worth it. ``It was really beautiful,'' said Rita Sinha, one of hundreds of people who thronged to the iconic monument at the end of November, after officials lifted a long-standing ban on night visits to India's most famous building. ``There was a sense of peace and rest.'' Night-viewing was banned in 1984 due to fears of an attack on the 17th century white marble structure by militant Sikhs, who were then fighting the government for the independence of northern Punjab state. The Indian government crushed the insurgency in the early 1990s. India's Supreme Court ruled last week that the grounds should finally be reopened – though only on five nights each month, around the time of the full moon, and with visitor numbers restricted to about 400 each night to prevent overcrowding. |
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