Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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Adventure travel grows despite occasional disaster
NEW YORK (AP) -- When Carole Rosenblat was growing up in the 1970s, her parents’ idea of an adventurous vacation was “driving cross-country from Michigan to California in a non-air-conditioned car with three kids.”


Fiery balloon accident kills 19 tourists in Egypt
An Egyptian inspector of the Civil Aviation Authority, left, works at the site of the balloon accident, in Luxor, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. A hot air balloon flying over Egypt's ancient city of Luxor caught fire and crashed into a sugar cane field on Tuesday, killing at least 19 foreign tourists in one of the world's deadliest ballooning accidents and handing a new blow to Egypt's ailing tourism industry. (AP Photo/Nass   er Nasser)LUXOR, Egypt (AP) -- The terror lasted less than two minutes: Smoke poured from a hot air balloon carrying sightseers on a sunrise flight over the ancient city of Luxor, it burst in a flash of flame and then plummeted about 1,000 feet to earth. A farmer watched helplessly as tourists trying to escape the blazing gondola leaped to their deaths.


Israel quietly sends migrants to Sudan
File - In this July 11, 2012 file photo, a South Sudanese migrant worker is comforted by her friends after two of her five children boarded a bus leaving to Ben Gurion airport enroute to South Sudan from Tel Aviv. Israel has quietly repatriated hundreds of Sudanese migrants in recent months, drawing accusations from the United Nations and rights groups that it has coerced the Africans into potentially life-threatening situations and possibly violated international norms f   or treating refugees. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel has quietly repatriated hundreds of Sudanese migrants in recent months, drawing accusations from rights groups that it has coerced the Africans into potentially life-threatening situations and possibly violated international norms for treating refugees.


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