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64 flights cancelled at Geneva airport over strike
Some 64 flights were cancelled at Geneva's international airport on Friday, it said, after operations were halted for four hours because of a strike by workers at the start of the busy summer travel season.
'Significant threat': Around world, doctors battle impersonators
A Thai doctor endorsing a dubious diabetes treatment, a Filipino physician touting crotch-enhancing underwear, a US doctor sparking off anti-vaccine conspiracies -- they are all victims of identity theft plaguing health professionals.
Online police patrol the internet in Denmark
At Denmark's police headquarters, officers have been glued to their computers playing the popular video game Counter-Strike. And I think they choose to come because it's fun to play video games... and some need more of a social life," he said.
IMF and Pakistan reach $3 billion stand-by deal
Pakistan could get temporary relief for its ballooning foreign debt with a new stand-by arrangement worth $3 billion announced by the IMF in Washington on Thursday.
Cambodian PM threatens to block Facebook access
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday he could block access to Facebook in Cambodia, after the company said it would remove a video in which he threatened to beat up political opponents.
Markets swing as US data is tempered by rate hike worries
Asian markets fluctuated Friday as more forecast-beating data reinforced the US economy's resilience despite surging interest rates but piled further pressure on the Federal Reserve to keep hiking to tame inflation. "Rate hiking works on a lagging basis.
As prices soar, Japan returns to human waste fertiliser
It's cheap, recycled, and has centuries of tradition: "shimogoe" or "fertiliser from a person's bottom" is finding new favour in Japan as Ukraine's war hikes the price of chemical alternatives. He started using shimogoe last year, "because I wanted to cut costs, and for the social good" of recycling waste.
Workers approve latest contract at Boeing supplier Spirit
Striking workers at Spirit Aerosystems, a key Boeing supplier, will return to the factory after approving an enhanced four-year labor contract, the union said Thursday. Striking workers will return to their jobsites on July 5. jmb/tjj
July 4th weekend celebration to test US travel system
Travel forecasters are predicting record travel for the July 4th weekend, but this year's celebration may also be something of a battle with the elements. A record 50.7 million Americans are expected to venture at least 50 miles from home in the period heading into July 4th, eclipsing the prior peak of 49 million in 2019, according to the American Automobile Association.
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