An airplane with hydraulic problems made an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport Monday evening, forcing the temporary closure of the entire airport. No injuries were reported. Shuttle America Flight 5124 departed Atlanta at 3:47 p.m. local time with 71 people on board and was scheduled to land at Gate 23 of Terminal A [...]
The Canadian government launched an aerospace review on Monday in order to improve cooperation between the government and aerospace industry and to boost economy. David Emerson, a retired cabinet minister in Liberal and Conservative party governments, will lead a three-member advisory council to examine how government, industry and other key stakeholders can address key issues [...]
Colombia’s main rebel group said Sunday it is abandoning the practice of kidnapping and will soon free its last remaining “prisoners of war” — 10 security forcemembers held for as long as 14 years. The leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, announced on its website that it would no longer kidnap civilians “for financial ends,” [...]
Throughout his presidency, Hugo Chavez has relied on his vigor and endurance: playing baseball, speaking for hours at a stretch and making decisions on the fly while bounding around Venezuela exuding energy. Now, just as he may need it most, Chavez finds himself ailing heading into a re-election campaign. It’s the rival, Henrique Capriles, who tossed a baseball with Little [...]
Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has no sign of the throat cancer he was treated for, doctors said Sunday. Lula was admitted to the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in Sao Paulo on Saturday after complaining of fatigue and loss of appetite, but after extensive medical exams doctors said there was no sign of the [...]
An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted Costa Rica at 6:55 p.m. Beijing Time Monday (GMT 1055), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter, with a depth of 30 km, was initially determined to be at 9.2 degrees north latitude and 84.0 degrees west longitude.
Peruvian troops captured on Sunday the wounded leader of a remnant of the once-powerful Shining Pathrebel group, effectively dismantling a well-armed outlaw band that lived off the cocaine trade, President Ollanta Humala said. Humala, a former army lieutenant colonel, flew to the remote coca-growing Upper Huallaga Valley of central Peru to congratulate the police and soldiers who had snared the [...]
Youthful state governor Henrique Capriles won Venezuela’s first-ever opposition presidential primary Sunday by a wide margin, emerging as the single candidate who will try to end President Hugo Chavez’s 13 years in power. Capriles, the 39-year-old governor of Miranda state who describes himself as a center-left progressive, faces a tough task in ousting Chavez, a charismatic campaigner with [...]
Apparently CNN is cool with its contributors Dana Loesch wanting to join American Marines to pee on the corpses of Afghans and Erick Erickson getting joy from “watching a hippie protester get tased.” But don’t talk “ish” about David Beckham’s new H&M ad. This after CNN made the choice to suspend Roland Martin a political [...]
After tough sanctions imposed by the United States and the West, Iran has given into the demands of President Obama, well some demands. Iran is returning the RQ-170 drone that was hacked back in December of last year. Their are some differences though: it’s pink, it’s about one eightieth the original size and being marketed [...]
