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How to travel happy during the holidays
Turkey: Police used water cannons, smoke grenades and tear gas Dec. 22 to break up crowds of protesters at Istanbul's Kadikoy Square. What was meant to be an action against the government's construction and development plans in the city's threatened green spaces quickly turned into protests over recent corruption and bribery scandals involving government officials and at least one bank chief. Visitors should follow local news and avoid large crowds. Egypt: The U.S. State Department updated a travel alert Dec. 18, just days before a car bomb killed 14 people at a police compound in Mansoura, 80 miles north of Cairo. The Christmas Eve bombing appears to have targeted police, but reports indicated that several civilians also were killed or injured in the blast.
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Tips for Handling Non-Stop Travel
Events have transpired. You need to shift into listen-and-learn mode. Hear about your daughter failing a math test without immediately passing judgment. Think twice before overriding the new e-mail policy your second-in-command implemented--she probably did it for a reason. A few months from now, this will be over.
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Bahrain frees opposition chief but bans him from travel
The former MP was the parliament's deputy speaker until Wefaq lawmakers walked out in February 2011 over violence against demonstrators. King Hamad in August ordered stiffer penalties for "terror acts". These include a minimum 10-year jail term for an attempted bombing. If such attacks cause casualties, the sentence can be life imprisonment or the death penalty. Bahrain, a strategic archipelago just across the Gulf from Shiite Iran, is the home base of the US Fifth Fleet and Washington is a long-standing ally of the ruling Sunni dynasty. Unrest, Conflicts & War Connie Villa, 35, is Accused of Murdering her 13-Year-old Daughter ABC News Can there be such thing as a shark photobomb? A California Mom caught an unexpected surprise guest in one of her family photos.
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CORRECTED-TUI Travel sees Germany bookings surge -paper
Use Online Tools To check the status of traffic, delays and cancellations. Specifically for those that are packing up the vehicle and considering a family road trip, make sure to take these tips into consideration: Vehicle Maintenance Check-up: Before jumping on the highway, take your car in for service because being stranded on the side of the road is not an option. First Aid: Place an emergency roadside assistance kit and a First Aid kit in your car; because you just never know. Fuel: Locate the least expensive gas prices in your area and fill up. Did you make a decision to catch a flight this year?
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Travel Counsellors selects Travelport
Corrects second paragraph to clarify Clemens is chief executive of TUI Deutschland GmbH, not Germany chief at TUI AG) BERLIN Dec 29 (Reuters) - Travel and tourism group TUI Travel PLC expects higher profit in Germany in the current financial year ending in September after making strong gains in pre-Christmas holiday bookings, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported. "The early-booking wave is reaching us sooner than in past years," Christian Clemens, chief executive of TUI Deutschland GmbH was quoted by the newspaper as saying in an interview to be published on Monday. Clemens saw higher profit after double-digit percent gains in vacation bookings in the two weeks before Christmas compared with year-ago levels, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said. TUI Deutschland GmbH is a subsidiary of TUI Travel PLC. German travel and tourism group TUI AG owns a 54.48 percent stake in London-listed TUI Travel. Earlier this month, TUI AG reported a 2 percent increase in underlying earnings before interest, tax and amortisation (EBITA) for its total business in the 2012-13 year.
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The multi-year agreement will see Travel Counsellors upgrade to the latest version of the Travelport SmartPoint desktop system, which will be personalised for the companys 1,250 agents. Travel Counsellors will also use Travelport Mobile Agent, enabling its agents to work from their smartphones. This is an exciting proposition for our Travel Counsellors. We are constantly looking at ways to improve and develop our Travel Counsellors businesses and Travelport offered technology solutions exactly tailored to our needs, said Travel Counsellors managing director, Steve Byrne. The integration of Travelport into our in-house dynamic packaging system has enabled us to offer our Travel Counsellors the most advanced and comprehensive technology in the industry. Importantly, Travelport understands our business and we are delighted to continue our successful collaboration this time on a global scale, he added.
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