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Senate passes emergency relief to avert air travel budget cuts
Senate rushes through legislation to end delays and cancellations, with House expected to approve bill on Friday Congressional leaders have predicted they will have a deal in place by Friday to exempt air traffic controllers from sequester cuts that are causing thousands of plane delays across the US. On Thursday…
Fighter jet scrambled after plane enters Olympic no-fly zone
LONDON — Britain scrambled a Royal Air Force Typhoon jet on Wednesday after a commercial airliner entered restricted airspace put in place for the London Olympics, the Ministry of Defence said. The RAF jet was launched after air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane. But contact was soon re-established…
Ron Paul calls Elizabeth Warren ‘a socialist’
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Tuesday declared that Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was a “socialist.” At a campaign event earlier this year, Warren told supporters that there is “nobody in this country who got rich on his own.” “You built a factory out there — good for…
Anger in Greece over deeper austerity cuts
Greeks on Thursday reacted with anger and disbelief at a new wave of austerity cuts enacted to keep the country in the eurozone as a public transport strike caused road chaos in Athens. The embattled socialist government announced pension and tax break cuts and put 30,000 state employees on temporary…
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