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MiscellaneousIsraeli military helicopters and drones in action in Khan Yunus
Khan Yunus, Gaza Strip - Attacks would have been performed yesterday and today at dawn killing and wounding several people
The Khan Yunus refugee site in the Gaza Strip would have been targeted by a joint attach by the Israeli Army's ground forces and aircraft today, among which there would have been helicopters and remote-controlled... more

MiscellaneousAir India: there are still some news about the deadliest which interested the flight 182 in 1985
Vancouver, Canada - A desire for revenge would have motivated the witness to accuse one of the blamed
It is what claimed the attorneys for Ripudaman Singh Malik: it was a desire for revenge to push the witness to accuse Malik for implication in the plot that destroyed Air India flight 182 in 1985, killing... more

MiscellaneousLa Maddalena. Soru: USA nuclear submersibles must go away from the archipelago
Olbia, Italy - The new President of the Sardinia Regional Council asserted he has a project aimed to the improvement of the navy base
Renato Soru, the new President of the Sardinia Regional Council, openly declared that he disappointed that there is still an American Navy detachment collocated in the Sardinia's North archipelago. Soru... more

MiscellaneousA helicopter searches Helmut Simon too
Vienna, Austria - He is the excursionist who found "Oetzi", the mummy dated from over 5300 years ago
From the late afternoon of last Friday, it not heared much of Helmut Simon, the German 67 excursionist knew all over the world due he found with his wife Erika, "Oetzi" the mummy dated from over 5300 years... more

MiscellaneousTwo major Hamas' members killed after Israeli aerial strike
Gaza City, Gaza Strip - It would deal with a political leader and one among the engineers who designed the Qassam rockets
Israeli Army hit Hamas heavily in Gaza City yesterday in the evening. Just after getting on their car in front of a Mosque in the city, two leading members of the Palestinian armed movement would have... more

MiscellaneousUS pilot dies in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan - He was flying in assistance mission aboard a Black Hawk
A UN spokesman in Kabul, reported that US pilot of a Black Hawk military helicopter wounded in the air incident occurred on Wednesday in Western Afghanistan, died: the American pilot was flying in assistance... more

MiscellaneousAfghanistan: four countries in turn would presumably be at head of Nato's mission "Isaf"
Brussels, Belgium - Turkey, Italy, United Kingdom, and Spain were signaled
Some Nato's sources seem to have signaled to the Atlantic alliance, based in Brussels, the four countries that would alternate at head of the six-month Nato'mission of stabilization in Afghanistan, on... more

Miscellaneous"Tokage": over 1000 flights cancelled
Tokyo, Japan - Victim's amount rises to 57
Tokage has been defined the most disastrous typhoon since 1991: it has been already caused 57 casualties because of landslips provoked by floods and big waves which have hit the coasts. Typhoon affected... more

MiscellaneousAirplane crashed in Missouri: passengers died are 13 in all
Washington, USA - The pilot and co-pilot died, too
The National Transportation Safety Board communicated victims of the plane crash occurred yesterday in Missouri, are 13 (see for details AVIONEWS), including pilot and co-pilot: the bodies of all casualties... more

MiscellaneousA bus bound for Baghdad Airport hit by militiamen
Baghdad, Iraq - Some 25 employees of the Iraqi capital air station would have been on board
A bus bound for Baghdad Airport would have been attacked by a group of not better identified armed men this morning. The commando would have surrounded the vehicle in a quarter of Iraqi capital suburbia,... more



MiscellaneousFemale child run over by a car: a Rega A-109 intervenes
Stabio, Switzerland - She would have suffered serious injuries after she was threw to the kerbside
This morning around 7:30am, in the Mendrisio area near Lugano, at Italy-Switzerland bound, an 11 years female child was run over by a Volkswagen Polo registered Ticino as she was trying to cross the street.... more

MiscellaneousPakistan: military air action aimed to hit Mahsud
Islamabad, Pakistan - It has been ordered to the local military to check for the refuse of the person who organized the Chinese kidnap
This morning the military force of Pakistan, were asked to make a mission of exploration of the presumably mountain areas where it is supposed to hide the person who organized the Chinese kidnap, Abdullah... more

Miscellaneous"Tokage": air transport paralyzed in Japan
Tokyo, Japan - Until now, flight cancelled are 650
Japan has been lashed by "Tokage" typhoon (see for details AVIONEWS): eleven casualties, eleven missing persons and a hundred injured is the current balance. Links are very difficult, due to 650 inner... more

MiscellaneousUSA's war planes hit Falluja: six died
Falluja, Iraq - According to local hospital sources, it would have dealt with a family devoid of relations with Al Zarqawi
US Air Force's fighter-bombers performed new bombing missions on the Iraqi city of Falluja today, destroying in particular two buildings. Local hospital sources would have stated they participated to the... more

MiscellaneousAustria: female child hurled out of a cableway. Intervened the assistance helicopter
Vienna, Austria - Kid dropped down in a parking area
Tragic event in Austria on Saturday, when a car of Gmunden cableway slid back 150 metre hitting the previous cable, on board of which there were a woman with her 3 years granddaughter. The knock, reason... more

MiscellaneousCondamned three policemen which killed a clandestine on board a Lufhtansa flight
Frankfurt, Germany - They gagged and blocked him to the seat and put on his head a helmet
Three German Police agents have been condemned because in 1999 shocked the public opinion by the news that they killed a South-Africa refugee while he was repatriating in Egypt by a Lufhtansa flight: Aamir... more

MiscellaneousIt is being enquired into engines of cargo plane crashed in Canada
Toronto, Canada - They had been changed last month for reason still unknown
The enquire that has to establish causes of the crash occurred last week in Canada, at Halifax Airport (see for details AVIONEWS), would have emerge that 2 of 4 engines of MK Airlines B-747 had been changed... more

MiscellaneousUSAF's fighter-bombers hit Falluja
Falluja, Iraq - Some targets were hit among which several weapon depots belonging to Al Zarqawi's followers, American military sources would state
US Air Force performed a new series of aerial strikes against several buildings of the Iraqi city of Falluja last night. The leaders of the military operations would have maintained that such bombing missions... more

MiscellaneousJapan: cancelled flights from and to Okinawa for "Tokage"
Tokyo, Japan - Winds until 144 km a hour and torrential rains
The new typhoon, called "Tokage" - that means lizard in Japanese language - is hitting the South archipelago of Okinawa by winds until 144 km a hour and torrential rains: the airlines have been forced... more

MiscellaneousTwo victims and an injured in the zone of Ivrea because of their passion for some air sports
Ivrea, Italy - An ultralight aircraft fall and provokes two victims; always yesterday a young woman fall with her paraglider but had only some injuries
There were nothing to do for Giuseppe Coimotto, pilot of the ultralight aircraft ,61 years old, and for his friend Valerio Giovannini, 47 years old, who fall yesterday with a powered glider which has just... more



MiscellaneousNew American strikes on Falluja
Falluja, Iraq - The purpose is to seize Al Zarqawi and put the rebellion warriors' activities to an end definitively
Military operations by the coalition forces and by the Iraqi national guard go on without stopping during recent days. Temporary Government of the Arab country proves more and more willing to seize Al... more

MiscellaneousIsraeli helicopter kills three Palestinians
Jabaliya, Gaza Strip - Two members of al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and a Hamas' militiaman
An Israeli helicopter fired a missile against a refugees site in Jabaliya this morning, in the Northern Gaza Strip and killed three Palestinians and seriously injured another one: the three persons died... more

MiscellaneousBranciforte is the head of the Italian marine's team: Council of Ministers decided it
Rome, Italy - The new Commander-in-Chief would substitute Quinto Gramellini
The propose came from the Defence Secretary, Antonio Martino, and it was approved by the Council of Ministers: it is a daily news, the Adm. Bruno Branciforte is the new Commander-in-chief of the Italian... more

MiscellaneousFalluja still subjected to US fire
Falluja, Iraq - New aerial attacks today aimed to hit the weapon depots, the refuges and the command centres of Al Zarqawi
The United States already announced it yesterday in the evening and the aerial and ground military activities went on without stopping in Falluja (see for details AVIONEWS). New strikes have been performed... more

MiscellaneousUSA: military operations in Falluja till terrorist remain in the city
Falluja, Iraq - The American military representatives would have stated it after the aerial strikes occurred yesterday
Since yesterday, a series of heavy aerial and ground attacks against several buildings in the Iraqi city of Falluja were performed by the coalition forces in the Arab country, together with the operations... more

MiscellaneousVirgin Atlantic plane diverted for bomb scare (2): as yet, no device has been found
London, United Kingdom - Passengers undergone police demands
Authorities are questioning all the passengers on board the Virgin Atlantic flight which this morning has been forced to landing at Stansted Aiport, due a telephone call warning about a device threat (see... more

MiscellaneousAmadeus is in sale
Paris, France - Air France, Iberia e Lufthansa main shareholders of the firm
It is a news from the French daily "Les Echos" that Air France, Iberia e Lufthansa decided to start the sale of Amadeus, that is a travel bookings firm, in which the three European State carriers are the... more

MiscellaneousItalian Navy: the fifth edition of the "Regional Seapower Symposium 2004" finished
Rome, Italy - Tomorrow in Venice at the presence of many authorities
"Tomorrow October 15, in the historical seat of the Venice's shiphard, to the presence of the Minister of the Defence, Antonio Martino, and of the Chief of General Staff of the Defence, Adm. Giampaolo... more

MiscellaneousIsrael: "We believed it was a missile but it could be it was not"
Tel Aviv, Israel - Israeli statements regarding the supposed missiles put on board an ambulance, but UN want formal apologies
Israel retracts but do not apologizes for the supposed (though not verified yet, at least when considering the way Israel would have treated such matter) evaluation mistake made some days ago, when the... more

MiscellaneousTurkish fundamentalist today in Tribunal: in 1998 planned to detonate an airplane
Ankara, Turkey - He wanted to restore the Muslim Caliphate in Turkey
It will be today before Tribunal, the Turkish fundamentalist, Metin Kaplan, which in 1998 would have arranged a plan to diverted a plane over the Ataturk mausoleum to Ankara and then detonate it. The militant,... more