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Mexico: AeroMexico to fly new route from LAX to La Paz
It will be easier to get from Los Angeles to La Paz, Mexico, after June 20, when AeroMexico launches a new route. The twice-weekly flights will allow passengers to leave LAX at 2:20 p.m. Thursdays and return about noon on Sundays. Or fly south to La Paz...
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Aeromexico
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Orlando Ballet students take 2 medals at Youth America Grand Prix
Orlando Ballet was the only American organization to bring home two medals from the annual Youth America Grand Prix competition, which took place in New York earlier this month. Youth America Grand Prix, the world's largest student ballet scholarship...Tags: Arts and Culture, New York City, Awards and Prizes, Dance, Teaching and Learning
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Good life goes on as Syrian elite sit out war
ReutersBy Michael Stott and Samia Nakhoul DAMASCUS, April 29 (Reuters) - It might sound absurd to talk about normal life in Syria after two years of civil war which have killed more than 70,000 people and left five million more destitute and homeless. Yet in...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Barack Obama, Restaurants, Iran, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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World watch
Germany: Berlin will charge a 5 percent tax on overnight stays in hotels, hostels and campsites, starting July 1. The third most visited city in the European Union reported more than 20 million overnight hotel stays in 2010. The levy is expected to...Tags: Arts and Culture, China Earthquake (2010), Turkey, China, U.S. Department of State
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INSIGHT-Good life goes on as Syrian elite sit out war
ReutersBy Michael Stott and Samia Nakhoul DAMASCUS, April 28 (Reuters) - It might sound absurd to talk about normal life in Syria after two years of civil war which have killed more than 70,000 people and left five million more destitute and homeless. Yet in...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Barack Obama, Restaurants, Iran, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Elephant poaching on rise in chaos-hit C.African Republic
ReutersBy Bate Felix DAKAR, April 26 (Reuters) - Elephant poachers are taking advantage of the chaos in Central African Republic to hunt down the animals in protected wildlife areas and openly sell their meat in village markets, campaigners said on Friday. The...Tags: World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife, Africa, Environmental Issues, Conservation
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Intersections: Increased demand for Armenian language skills
On a Saturday morning in a brightly lit classroom at the Burbank Adult School, a group of students are practicing their language skills. Except it's not English they're learning. It's not even Spanish. It's Armenian. Though its Western counterpart...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Education
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He's got Armenia under his skin, and we get a guidebook
By some measures, Matthew Karanian was a Connecticut Yankee: a 34-year-old litigator in Hartford, American-born and bred. But he had a wild idea. So he took a summer off, headed for the rustic land of his ancestors, and soon found that Armenia was...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Russia, Yerevan (Armenia), Tourism and Leisure, Massacres
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Chinese poaching of rare mammal exposed by boating accident
A boating accident off the Philippines coast has exposed Chinese poaching of a protected species of scaly anteater, or pangolin, prized in traditional medicine. A 500-ton Chinese fishing vessel, the Min Long Yu, crashed into a coral reef April 8. When...Tags: Philippines, China, U.S. Navy, World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife
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Hopi masks auctioned in Paris amid outrage and legal objections
This post has been corrected. See below for details. The gavel came down on 70 sacred Hopi Indian masks at the Drouot auction house in Paris on Friday, generating $1.2 million for the owners and auctioneers – and anger and emotional cries from...Tags: Arts and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Mexico, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Auction Service
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Uruguay: Coastal reveries, away from it all
COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO, Uruguay — Straddling the crest of a sand dune, my back to the Atlantic Ocean, I watched a Uruguayan boy net fish in a river lagoon. He waded through the chest-high water, dragging behind him the reflection of the setting sun....
Tags: Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bodies of Water, Oceans, Gaming, Trips and Vacations
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in little-known Amphawa, Thailand
ReutersAMPHAWA (Reuters) - Little known to foreigners visiting Thailand, the riverside town of Amphawa, just an hour outside of Bangkok, has long been a secret among city-dwelling Thais looking to get away from it all. Home to a quaint floating market quite...Tags: Bangkok (Thailand), Buddhism, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Personal Service, Tourism and Leisure
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