Associated Press November 29, 2004 WALM1130 MANITOWOC, Wis. -- A Wal-Mart store was evacuated for several hours after a suspicious object was found in its toy department by an employee, police said.
Lt. Karl Puestow said a small metal container that appeared to contain some explosive material and a wick was found Sunday night. But he said it did not appear any effort had been made to ignite the device.
State interior ministers agree to store data on suspicious Muslims (Germany - 11/29/04)
Islamic leaders say plan's vagueness violates data protection rights Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily has reached a compromise with state interior ministers on plans to expand the spy powers of the federal police. The Social Democratic minister said the plans, adopted at a two-day meeting in Kiel in northern Germany, are necessary to pre-empt acts of Islamic violence
Another helicopter goes missing in Russian Far East (11/29/04)
MOSCOW, Nov. 29 (Xinhuanet) -- An Mi-8 helicopter with a mission to search for a missing plane with six people aboard disappeared from the radar screen in the Russian Far East on Monday, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
N Korea in Secret Hunt for Missing Son of Top General
SEOUL: North Korea launched a secret manhunt for the missing son of General Oh Guk-Ryol, a top military official who orchestrates the communist state’s secret overseas operations, Yonhap news agency said on Sunday. Pyongyang has yet to confirm whether Oh Se-Wook, 43, the eldest son of Oh Guk-Ryol, fled the communist regime or was murdered, Yonhap said quoting an unnamed source.
“The North Korean authorities has recently found Oh Se-Wook missing and tried to locate his whereabouts,” the source told Yonhap. “They have kept the ongoing hunt secret because they could not confirm if Oh has defected to another country or was murdered.” The junior Oh’s ...
Indonesian Jetfighter Makes Emergency Landing (11/29/04)
JAKARTA, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- A Britain-made Hawk-200 jetfighter belonging to the Indonesian Air Force made an emergency landing on the Sultan Syarif Kasim Airport in the Sumatra province of Riau Monday, but there is no report of casualty.
North Sea Platform Evacuated after Gas Leak (11/29/04)
About 180 workers were evacuated from a North Sea oil platform today after a gas leak was discovered. Production was shut down while repair crews tried to stem the leak.
Helicopters lifted workers from the floating Snorre A platform, located north-west of the Norwegian port city of Bergen, and took them to other platforms.
Ammonia spill at Turkey Plant Sends Five to Hospital (Iowa - 11/28/04)
WEST LIBERTY (AP) -- Five people were hospitalized Sunday after an ammonia spill at an eastern Iowa turkey processing plant forced an evacuation of area homes.
Georgia School Divided over Muslim Prayer (11/28/04)
All Things Considered, November 28, 2004 · A school in Georgia is wrestling with the problem of how to allow Muslim students to observe a religious tradition and pray with fellow Muslims on Friday. The students are asking to miss classes on Friday afternoon. The school has made some proposals but no solution has yet emerged. Joshua Levs reports.
10 injured as KLM plane veers off runway (Amsterdam - 11/29/04)
29 November 2004 AMSTERDAM — A KLM plane with 140 people on board veered off the runway upon landing at Barcelona Airport Sunday, but no one was seriously hurt in the incident, airport officials said.
The landing gear of the KLM Boeing 737-400 arriving from Amsterdam was seriously damaged in the accident. It remains unclear what caused the problem.
Mostly Children Poisoned with food in Cherkessk (Russia - 11/28/04)
CHERKESSK, November 28 (Itar-Tass) - Children make up majority out of more than 140 people, poisoned with food in Cherkessk, the capital of the Karachayevo-Cherkessia Republic, Tass learnt on Sunday at the republican agency for civil defence and emergencies. Out of the total, 95 people were hospitalized, the rest were treated at home.
120 Children Poisoned in South Russian Kindergartens (Second Article on Children Poisoning Story)
As many as 120 children in Russia’s Northern Caucausus region have been hospitalized with dysentery and other intestinal infections after drinking milk products served at their kindergartens.
Police Nab Chechen Schoolboy Armed to the Teeth Behind Wheel of Car
Police in the city of Samara arrested a middle school student of Chechen origin as he was at the wheel of a car loaded with weapons and explosives....
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