Cairo Customs Prevents Snakes on a Plane
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CAIRO, Egypt - Customs officers at Cairo's airport on Thursday detained a man bound for Saudi Arabia who was trying to smuggle 700 live snakes on a plane, airport authorities said.
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U.S. border officials are changing their procedures after an embarrassing incident allowed a patient with a dangerous form of tuberculosis into the country.
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LONDON -- US authorities told a British Airways flight bound for New York to turn back yesterday because they said there was a suspected militant on board, although London police later released him without charge.
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The world's oldest Semitic passages&#8212;spells found deep within an ancient pyramid&#8212;show that the Egyptians turned to neighboring Canaanites for help fending off venomous snakes.
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A British Airways flight from Berlin to London has made an unscheduled landing at Amsterdam&#39;s Schiphol airport as a security precaution, the airline says.
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(LONDON) - Airline officials said a Chicago-bound flight from Germany has been delayed for security reasons. The security check follows a bomb threat made against three flights from Frankfurt, including a
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A man infected with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis fled across Europe to avoid detention, taking flight after flight to stay ahead of public health officials, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.
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A MAN has been arrested at Brisbane airport while trying to smuggle 19 snakes into Australia hidden in his clothes. His arrest came less than 24 hours after another man was found trying to smuggle in 52 birds eggs.
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The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens is forbidden from flying into the United States because of his alleged association with possible terrorists, U.S. officials said Wednesday in explaining why a London-to-Washington flight carrying the peace activist was diverted.
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The government is relaxing its ban against carrying liquids and gels onto airliners, instituted after a plot to bomb jets flying into the United States was foiled, an administration official said Monday.
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Passengers on two trans-Atlantic flights may have been exposed to a man infected with an exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis.
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An Egyptian court has ruled that universities can't bar Islamic face-coverings. But that's unlikely to stop the headdress attracting unwelcome attention on the streets of Cairo.
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Air travelers were handed new rules Sunday, given permission to carry small amounts of liquid nonprescription medicine onto a plane and instructed to remove their shoes during security checks.
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A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the U.S. by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said Thursday. The inspector has been removed from border duty.
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Egypt sends police to its border with Gaza to stop Palestinians stranded in Sinai from crossing over.
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Australian officials found more than a dozen snakes and lizards stuffed inside garden gnomes and other ceramic statues during a recent international mail check, customs officials said Tuesday.