Authorities quarantined an arriving US Airways flight Friday at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport after a passenger claimed he had smallpox, an airline spokesman said. Health officials quarantined the Airbus A319 carrying 112 passengers and four crew members coming in from New Orleans, US Airways spokesman Morgan Durrant said. Durrant said he could not confirm a TV report that the passenger was intoxicated. Scott White, a spokesman at Carolinas Medical Center, where the passenger was taken for tests, said the man does not have the disease, which was eradicated in 1980. "There's no evidence of smallpox," said Rick Christenbury, spokesman ...
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 9/11 remains possibly used on roads: court papers |
Debris that may have contained bits of bone from victims of the World Trade Center attacks was used to fill potholes and pave city roads, according to court papers filed on Friday. The charge was made in an affidavit filed in Manhattan federal court in an ongoing case filed in 2005 by family members of those killed in the attacks against the city. They say the city did not do enough to search for remains, denying victims a proper burial.Eric Beck, a construction worker employed at the Fresh Kills landfill in the borough of Staten Island, where the rubble was taken after the Twin Towers fell, said in his affidavit that the process of sifting through the debris was rushed.Beck said he saw sanitation workers removing small pieces of debris containing possible bone fragments and loading them "onto tractors, and using it to pave roads and fill in potholes, dips and ruts."...
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| Brazilian Housewife Convicted, Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison for Killing Husband, Frying Him |
A Brazilian housewife was convicted and sentenced to 19 years in prison Friday for killing her husband, chopping his corpse into small pieces and frying it. Rosanita Nery dos Santos, 52, was sentenced by Judge Casio Miranda in northeastern Bahia state after a 15-member jury found her guilty of killing retired police officer Jose Raimundo Soares dos Santos, court spokesman Francisco Ribeiro said. Authorities said the killing occurred almost two years ago in Vila Sao Cosme, a lower middle-class neighborhood in the Bahia state capital of Salvador, 930 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. "On June 23, 2005, Rosanita Nery dos Santos drugged her husband and stabbed him to death while he slept," Idmar Bonfim, a spokesman for the Salvador Civil Police Department said. "She then hacked his body into more than 100 pieces, which she boiled and fried before hiding them in plastic bags underneath the staircase of her house."...
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| Iraqis Top List of Asylum Seekers in Industrialized Countries, U.N. Refugee Agency Says |
number of Iraqis seeking asylum in industrialized countries rose dramatically last year, but the flow remains far lower than it was before the U.S.-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday. Some 22,000 Iraqis applied for asylum in Europe, North America and other industrialized areas in 2006, a 77 percent increase from the previous year and the highest since the invasion began. Still, that number falls far short of the 50,000 Iraqis who filed asylum claims in industrialized countries in 2002, the last year before the invasion, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said. The figures would be significantly higher, however, if all Iraqis fleeing abroad were able to reach the West to request asylum, spokesman William Spindler said. ...
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| Iran accuses Britain over sailors |
Fifteen British navy personnel captured at gunpoint by Iranian forces had sailed into Iran's waters illegally, its government has insisted. An Iranian official said Tehran had made a "firm protest" about the "illegal entry" in the Gulf. The UK maintains the eight sailors and seven marines had been carrying out routine duties in Iraqi waters. The personnel, who are thought to be unharmed, were seized at 1030 local time after boarding a boat in the Gulf. Iranian and UK diplomats have met in Tehran and London in the wake of the incident. Ibrahim Rahimpour, Iran's director general for Western European affairs, said he had met the UK's charge d'affaires, Kate Smith, in Tehran. He said in a statement that he had delivered a "firm protest from Iran against the illegal entry of British sailors into Iranian territorial waters". The statement added: "They were arrested by border guards for investigation and questioning." Mr Rahimpour accused British sailors of having illegally ...
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| Envoy says Ahmadinejad’s team didn’t get necessary U.S. visas in time |
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad canceled a trip to New York to address the U.N. Security Council before it votes Saturday to impose further sanctions against his country for refusing to stop enriching uranium, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.After intense last-minute negotiations, the six world powers that drafted the resolution overcame concerns from several council members Friday and expected it to be approved unanimously when it comes to a vote, said French Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere.“We will be united again on this important resolution,” de La Sabliere told reporters after a closed-door Security Council meeting. “We hope that Iran will reflect on this resolution and make the right choice.” The sanctions would ban Iranian arms exports and freeze the assets of 28 additional individuals and organizations involved in Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. About a third of those are linked to the Revolutionary Guard, an elite military corps....
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