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The Navy wants to build an outlying landing field for Super Hornet jets amid this farmland in Washington County, N.C. Drew Wilson / The Virginian-Pilot file  A federal judge today ordered the Navy to stop negotiations for land, all site preparation and construction of its proposed practice landing field in Washington County, N.C. The temporary injunction was issued in Raleigh by U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle pending a full hearing on a lawsuit, likely late this summer. The Navy wants to construct a single-runway landing field on more than 30,000 acres of farm land near Plymouth in northeastern...

CURRITUCK — Citing jobs as the number one issue facing North Carolina, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Burr told an audience of Camden and Currituck Republicans Tuesday night that the state must do a better job utilizing its assets if it's to compete for economic development. Burr, a congressman who represents North Carolina's 5th District, also briefly discussed the U.S. Navy's plans to build a practice landing field in Washington County. Burr said state officials are preparing to propose an alternative site to the Navy for the airfield, which is also known as an outlying landing field. In a meeting...

MONTREAL - Parisians who tut-tut at the quality of French spoken in Quebec may have to bite their tongues now that the Académie française has declared the Quebec term courriel to be the official French equivalent of e-mail. The rare acceptance by the Académie of a Canadian-grown word is seen as evidence Quebec has overtaken France in adapting the language to modern advances. "It could not have been easy for them to accept that word, because France is supposed to be the francophone leader," said Gérald Paquette, head of communications for the Office québécois de la langue française. "Quebec has...

A small hotel destroyed by a violent explosion in Addis Ababa Wednesday September 11, 2002 - 22h18 GMT Addis Ababa, 12 seven (AFP) - an explosion of unspecified origin destroyed Wednesday evening a small hotel in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, making several victims, according to testimonys' collected on the spot by the AFP. The explosion took place around 21H20 local (18H20 GMT) in a very animated district of the capital whereas the Ethiopian ones célèbraient their New year, indicated several witnesses. The police force established a vast perimeter of safety around the Tigray hotel, located close to the...