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Venezuela bans most U.S. airlines
By wire services
Published February 25, 2006
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela will prohibit flights by most U.S. airlines starting next week in response to a similar ban placed on some Venezuelan carriers 10 years ago, the government said.
The ban announced late Thursday affects travel on Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines, while flights by the other major U.S. passenger carrier serving Venezuela, American Airlines, will be restricted.
The United States instituted the ban because of safety violations, and Venezuela said the U.S. has not recognized the improvements it has made since then.
London mayor is punished for Nazi comment
LONDON - A disciplinary panel took the highly unusual step on Friday of suspending the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, for four weeks to punish him for comparing a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
The mayor, no stranger to contentious debate, has refused to apologize to the reporter since the exchange with him after a City Hall party one year ago.
Livingstone said the ruling "strikes at the heart of democracy." The suspension begins Wednesday.
Moscow market director charged in roof collapse
MOSCOW - The director of a Moscow market where the roof collapsed, killing at least 61 people, was charged with negligence, prosecutors said Friday, as hope faded for finding more survivors after Europe's second most deadly such accident this winter.
Officials had all but ruled out terrorism as the cause, saying the Basmanny roof's fall was probably due to snow buildup, design flaws or maintenance errors.
British police recover some cash from heist
LONDON - Detectives investigating what could be the biggest cash robbery in British history recovered a "significant amount" of the money Friday from a van near the heist site, police said.
The robbery Wednesday at a cash storage depot in Tonbridge could have netted as much as $87-million, police estimate.
An undisclosed amount of the stolen money was discovered in a van parked about 10 miles from Tonbridge.
Earlier Friday, a gang using similar tactics stole $350,000 from a bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but police in England said they had not found a link between the two crimes.
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