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MiscellaneousThird day of flights in Congo: Kinshasa's airport has been occupied
Kinshasa, Congo - The troops faithful to President Kabila guard the Capital's terminal, 13 diplomats evacuated
The tension is growing in Congo after the presidential elections that have taken place last July 30, the first democratic voting after 40 years in the African Country (see for details AVIONEWS). After... more
MiscellaneousNuclear matter. North Korea: a preventing attack to US-South Korean drill
Pyongyang, North Korea - Bush's Phone call to Hun Jintao, Seoul sends humanitarian aid
North Korea said it is considering a preventing attack to contrast a US-South Korean joined military drill, which started last Monday and is considered a "War action" by Pyongyang, State media have announced... more
MiscellaneousFalse bomb-alarm yesterday in a flight Sydney-Guangzhou
Sydney, Australia - The aircraft of China Southern Airlines has been forced to do an emergency landing after a note with terroristic threats was found
Yesterday afternoon a plane Airbus A-330 of the air company China Southern Airlines, in flight from Guangzhou to Sydney was forced to came back to the Chinese airport because of a false bomb-alarm, according... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon (3): UN is managing UNIFIL mission
Beirut, Lebanon - Today Roed-Larsen and Nambiar in Jerusalem
After their visit in Beirut, UN delegates Terje Roed-Larsen and Vijay Nambiar are in Jerusalem today to talk about their fears on truce between Israel and Hezbollah militants. UN is trying to gather a... more
MiscellaneousThey have been changed for terrorists and made been get off the plane directed to Malaga
London, United Kingdom – The two men had a strange look according to the other passengers
Still keep starting the terrorism alarm all around the world (fortunately false until now). This time the fact has happened last Wednesday, but only yesterday the air company Monarch Airlines, owner of... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon (2): last Saturday Israeli air raid on Bekaa, cease-fire at risk
Beirut, Lebanon . Strong condemnation by Kofi Annan, Tel Aviv threatens: we'll go on if the weapons supply from Siria won't be ban
Last Saturday the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon has been put to an hard test by an air raid of special air-transported units of the David’s star aviation in the Bekaa valley. The blitz, t... more
MiscellaneousLampedusa shipwrecks (2): searches of missing people pass to Malta
Lampedusa, Italy - New disembarkings this morning
Another ship with about 150 immigrants on board has been sighted today 40 miles South of Lampedusa by an Italian fishing boat and two Coastguard ships have been sent there. Italian authorities stopped... more
MiscellaneousGerman tourist missing on Trasimeno lake: his body has been found
Perugia, Italy - The researches have been done by Fire Fighters with the help of an helicopter and of divers teams
It has been found yesterday evening, at about 400 meters far from the shores, the life-less body of the German tourist missing from last Friday in the water of Trasimeno lake, while was swimming with the... more
MiscellaneousExplosion in a market in Moscow: 9 deads, 25 injured
Moscow, Russia - The Government excludes the terroristic attack
At about 10:30am (local time) a violent explosion happened in a market of a north-east quarter in Moscow. The Russian MInister for Emergency Situations talks about 9 ascertain deads (among which several... more
MiscellaneousLampedusa shipwrecks: six corpses were sighted, one was recovered
Lampedusa, Italy - Today searches have been re-started
Today at dawn searches of clandestines lost in the two shipwrecks off the Lampedusa island costs have been re-started. Four guard ships by Italian Coastguard, two by Financial Police, one by Carabinieri... more
MiscellaneousWeapons storage explodes in Ukraine: two injured
Kiev,Ukraine - 1500 civilians evacuated, the reason could have been the heat
A military weapons storage in Ukraine, already site of a sequence of explosions lasted for a week in 2004, has been involved again in an incident, that injured two persons. A press release by the Ukraine... more
MiscellaneousIsraeli air raid to Gaza: three injured
Rome, Italy - The objective was a machine shop, considered as a rockets factory by Israel
Local sources retail that last night an Israeli air raid at Gaza would have hit a building used as machine shop, that according to Israel was a "Weapons factory", where the rockets that are launched against... more
MiscellaneousA charter lands for mistake in a Nato base in Poland
Warsaw, Poland - Maybe an error in the data input of the automatic pilot
We can imagine what was the surprise of the tourists that at the arrival at the airport found armed militaries waiting for them. That what happened to the Polish passengers of a charter flight of the Turkish... more
MiscellaneousBomb alarm at Sydney airport: no explosive device on board, stop the alert
Sydney, Australia - a phone call from Filippine had warned about a bomb
It’s finished the alarm started today at 5:45pm (local hour), 9:45am in Italy, at Sydney for the possible presence of a bomb on a plane landed at international airport of the Australian city (see for d... more
MiscellaneousEtiopia: at least 125 dead for flood
Adis Abeba, Etiopia - The rescue solely pass through helicopters and watercrafts
The assessment of dead reached the 125 people following up to floods, provoked by the overflowing of the Omo river, after a nonstop week of torrential rains that have been downed on two villages in the... more
MiscellaneousUsa: suspect toy on board, plane evacuated
Los Angeles, Usa - A transmitting toy made start the alarm before the landing
An aircraft Boeing 737/400 of Alaska Airlines, with 129 passengers and 6 crew members on board, has been evacuated Monday soon after the landing at Los Angeles airport, after finding on board -short before... more
MiscellaneousAir Algerie employees make a strike after Piacenza incident
Algeri, Algeria - Discomforts on the links operated by the Algerian air company
After the crash of the C-130 of Air Algerie near Piacenza of last Sunday, the flight attendants of the Maghreb carrier have called a strike, strictly connected to the incident happened in Italy. It has... more
MiscellaneousSingle-engine aircraft falls in an Austrian river
Salzburg, Austria - Three italians embroiled in the accident
Yesterday, a single-engine aircraft, type "Robin", with on board four passengers, two women and a man of Italian nationality, that was carring out a turistic air excursion in the Salzburg area, has fallen... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon (14): launch deodorants against Nasrallah on Lebanon
Tel Aviv, Israel - The Israeli aviation has launched them instead the usual leaflets
The war in Lebanon has been fought since the beginning also on the plan of propaganda and psychology, but the last Israel’s initiative to try bring on his side the Lebanese public opinion, is surely d... more
MiscellaneousA 12-year-old boy board on plane without documents in London
London, United Kingdom - The severe security measures have been eluded, but the airport authorities assure: "No danger for passengers"
While the travellers directed to or departing from England keep suffer from the strict controls in th airports, a 12-year-old boy from Liverpool has mocked the controls at boarding, managing to board on... more
MiscellaneousRussian plane forced to make an emergency landing
Moscow, Russia - The reason the smoke that invaded the cabin, no consequences for passengers
Yesterday a plane of the Russian air company Aeroflot-Nord, lifted off from Arkhanghelsk (Russia), and directed to Moscow has been forced to make an emergency landing. According to the passengers’ testimonies, s... more
MiscellaneousYesterday the funeral of Angelo Frammartino. The corpse arrived Monday at Ciampino airport
Rome, Italy - Many people for the last greet to the young volunteer, present also the president of Chamber fausto Bertinotti
It has taken place yesterday at Monterotondo the funeral of Angelo Frammartino, the young Italian volunteer killed at Jerusalem by a Palestinian boy, that still hasn’t been identified. The corpse of t... more
MiscellaneousHot mid-August holiday for the stars' mansions in Saint-Tropez: a fire threatened them
Saint-Tropez, France - 3000 people displaced, burnt 80 hectares of pine forest
A large fire burned up Monday in the well-know touristic locality of Saint-Tropez, in the Blue Coast in France. The fire, that started at about 4:00pm from the zone of Ramatuelle, spreaded quickly because... more
MiscellaneousSri Lanka: raid on an orphanage. Killed 50 girls
Colombo, Sri Lanka - The governmental Authorities confirm the bombing on the area
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have denounced today the dead of 50 girls and the wounding of others 60 for a raid realized by governmental Forces in the North-East of the Sri-Lanka. According to... more
MiscellaneousIt's flying to Rome the corpse of the Italian volunteer killed at Jerusalem
Rome, Italy - The landing is scheduled for this afternoon at Ciampino
There is the father of Angelo Frammartino in the plane that is taking the young Italian volunteers back home in his last flight. The Italian State airplane has taken-off this morning from the "Ben Gurion"... more
MiscellaneousA plane comes back to London after a mobile phone started to ring
London, United Kingdom - Fear on board, despite the controls someone managed to bring a cellular
This night a plane of the air company British Airways directed to New York was forced to come back to London, after a cellular, that seemed to belong to no-one of the 217 passengers, started to ring. The... more
MiscellaneousPrivacy: PC thefts again in USA
Miami, USA - Data of 133 thousand people were stolen
Umpteenth computer theft with personal data of thousands of people in the United States. This time it is the case of an officer of US Transport Department, whose laptop with 133 thousand residents in Florida... more
MiscellaneousAn Italian young man was killed in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel - Possible the political motif
Yesterday evening, at 8 pm, an Italian young man, Angelo Frammartino, 25, lived in Monterotondo, Rome, has been killed in front of Herodes Gate, in the Old City, in the East zone near to Damascus Gate. The... more
MiscellaneousOld granny celebrates 90 years launching with parachute
London, United Kingdom - A series of launches to beneficial purpose
Mary Armstrong, a madam of 90 years, has chosen an unusual way to celebrate his ninetieth birthday: she has launched by an aircraft with parachute from 3650 meters of altitude for charity, attacked to... more
MiscellaneousSpain: Zapatero visits the area hit by fires
Santiago de Compostela, Spain - Assessment of three victims
Yesterday afternoon, tha Spanish Premier, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, went to Galitia to personally realize of the situation in the region, created by fires. In the afternoon, journalistic sources have... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon: Tel Aviv extends its offensive in Southern Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon - Chirac talks about an "American reservation" stopping an agreement on truce
Israeli Government Security Council approved yesterday the extension of military operations in Southern Lebanon. The attack order has not been given yet, waiting to verify a possible diplomatic understanding.... more
MiscellaneousIndia: flash floods in the South provoke at least 200 dead and 860,000 displaceds
Hyderabad, India - Rescue helicopters to take foods and medicines to survivors
From hour to hour it worsens the dead and displaceds’s assessment of the South India, flogged by monsoon rains of these last days. The Bombay Authorities have informed about at least 200 dead and 860,000 d... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon (2): Welch-Siniora meeting in Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon - While attacks are going on in the whole territory
The assistant of US Secretary of State for the Middle-East, David Welch, arrived in Beirut this morning and met Lebanese Premier Fuad Siniora, probably on the new UN resolution draft that is being prepared... more
MiscellaneousA TAM Fokker 100 loses a hatch in flight
Sao Paulo, Brazil - No consequences either for passengers and on ground
A Fokker 100 by Brazilian airline TAM lost its rear door after landing at Sao Paulo-Congonhas airport at 1:47 pm (local time) yesterday. The aircraft, headed to Salvador da Bahia, was forced to turn back... more
MiscellaneousUS Navy will leave La Maddalena base within 2008
Rome, Italy - Italian Defense Minister has announced that today
The Pentagon said to Italian Defense Ministry that US Navy will leave its nuclear propulsion submarines base at La Maddalena archipelago within the first semester of 2008. Italian Defense Minister, Arturo... more
MiscellaneousProblems in altitude for an aircraft of the Turkish Airlines
Tokyo, Japan - Seven hurts, all women
Yesterday, an aircraft of the Turkish Airlines, an Airbus A-340/300 in flight towards Istanbul with 196 passengers on board, half-hour before landing in Tokyo, has encountered in strong upheavals, that... more
MiscellaneousA PC with personal data of 38 thousand US veterans has been lost
Washington, USA - Data could be used for-profit
Unisys, American computer giant that manages Veteran Affairs Department (VA) database, lost the PC where names, addresses and insurance numbers of 38 thousand US Armed Forces veterans are registered. It... more
MiscellaneousAviano USAF base: anti-nuclearist demonstrators have been rejected
Aviano, Italy - Today the anniversary of atomic bomb explosion in Nagasaki
The 16 inspector-citizens that yesterday morning went to USAF base in Aviano (Pordenone), asking to get in and inspect the kind of armaments inside of it, did not receive the permission to enter the structure... more
MiscellaneousBoulogne: emergency landing of an Air France flight
Boulogne, Italy - Because of landing gear problems
The pilot of an Air France Venice-Paris flight, because of presumed hydraulic problems in a landing gear, decided to turn back to Venice’s "Marco Polo" air station this morning shortly after lift-off, w... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon (4): while diplomatic negotiations are working, the conflicts goes on
Beirut, Lebanon - Three Israeli soldiers have been killed today
Air raids and ground offensives shaked Southern Lebanon again today, waiting for new diplomatic negotiations aiming to stop a four-week-long conflict. Three David-starred soldiers were killed, leading... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon (2): Bush does not exclude talks with Iran and Syria
Washington, USA - But he recalls that past attempts always failed
During a press conference in his Texan ranch in Crawford, where he is having his Summer holidays, US President George W. Bush has not excluded the hypothesis of talks with Iran and Syria as a way to terminate... more
Miscellaneous120 kg of drugs have been seized at Rome-Ciampino airport
Rome, Italy - Four English coming from London carried khat in their suitcases
Four people have been arrested at Rome-Ciampino airport with the charge of international drugs traffic. During their searches, Financial Police have discovered in their suitcases more than 120 kg of khat,... more
MiscellaneousThe settlement of Uribe, President of Colombia, yesterday
Bogotà, Colombia - The Capital was completely militarized by security forces
In a maximum security atmosphere, the second presidential mandate of Alvaro Uribe started yesterday with his oath to the Colombian Congress and several Latin-American political leaders. Uribe was re-voted... more
MiscellaneousAviano USAF base: citizens presidium today
Aviano, Italy - They want to verify the presence of nuclear warheads
Anti-nuclear polemics at USAF base in Aviano (Pordenone, Northern Italy) go on. A 16-citizen delegation has gathered this morning in front of military base’s gates asking US and Italian authorities to g... more
MiscellaneousBanat Air accident: the process on compensations for 49 victims risks cancellation
Verona, Italy - The seat transfer would make the process re-start
The civil cause of 49 victims families in the air accident involving a Banat Air AN-24 on December 13, 1995, risks to be cancelled and re-start after 11 years. This is because of the decision by the judge... more
MiscellaneousVeneto Region will make the Spad XIII fly
Venice, Italy - The European Community project
Local authorities of Veneto, Austria and European Commission will make the Spad-XIII of Francesco Baracca re-fly, the same airplane that fell during the "Great War" causing death to the Italian pilot.... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon (2): UN understanding failed to terminate conflict
Beirut, Lebanon - Still civil victims in Lebanon; yesterday 15 dead in Israel
Israeli bombs killed about 15 civilians in Lebanon today and stroke an important communication way to the South in Litani river, between Sidone and Tiro, cutting the main street where aids for civil people... more
MiscellaneousSouth-Africa: 12 people blocked off by snow on the borderline with the Lesotho
Johannesburg, Republic of South-Africa - Since eight years did not snow over the Capital
On the score of a strong snow storm on the mountains on the borderline between South-Africa and Lesotho, last Friday, the South-African Foreign Minister has made known that any helicopters of the governmental... more
MiscellaneousFire in Portugal: Government in shelter
Lisbon, Portugal - Gravest damages in the whole territory
Last Friday, six fires have burnt up in the Center and North of the State: in Macao, Guarda, Porto, Santarem, Viana do Castelo and Viseu, and have intervened beyond 400 firefighters with 110 vehicles and... more
MiscellaneousChina: typhoon "Prapiroon" provokes the evacuation of 500.000 people
Hong Kong, China - Assessment of five dead
From the night of August 2, the typhoon "Prapiroon", that proceeds at 33m/s recorded as force 12 in the Beaufort scale, is striking down in the South-East area of the China. Shaping in South Sea of China,... more