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Protest calls for Hawaii tourism chief's ouster

Hawaii

Protest calls for Hawaii tourism chief's ouster

By honoluluadvertiser.com

About two dozen protesters shouted "Rex Johnson has to go!" in unison as they carried placards and marched today down Waikiki's Kalakaua Avenue — in the heart of Hawai'i's tourist mecca.

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Protesting Greek airline workers walk onto runway

Olympic Airlines

Protesting Greek airline workers walk onto runway

By iht.com

ATHENS, Greece - Hundreds of protesting Olympic Airlines workers walked onto the main runway of Athens International Airport Tuesday to protest plans to sell the troubled state-owned airline.

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Crete mayor has had enough of British drunks

Crete mayor asks British government to act on drunken tourists

Crete mayor has had enough of British drunks

By telegraph.co.uk

The mayor of a Crete town has grown so exasperated with the rowdy, drunken behaviour of British tourists that he has demanded action from the British government.

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Call to ban tourists from Uluru

Australia

Call to ban tourists from Uluru

Tourists would be banned from climbing Uluru in protest over the Northern Territory intervention, a protest rally in Sydney has heard.

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Bitter airline rivals unite over Alitalia bailout

Alitalia Bailout Causes Furor Across Europe

Bitter airline rivals unite over Alitalia bailout

Six of Europe's leading airlines have written to the European Commission's transport tsar to oppose the Italian government's recent financial bailout of Alitalia, the stricken Italian airline.

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Farmers protest conversion of agricultural land for tourism

Filipino Farmers Group: Tourists Or Food

Farmers protest conversion of agricultural land for tourism

MANILA, Philippines -- Members of a leftist farmers’ group staged a picket at the Department of Tourism (DoT) in Manila on Tuesday to demand an end to the conversion of agricultural lands for tourism, specifically in Nasugbu, Batangas.

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Italian police clash with airline workers protesting Alitalia takeover

Alitalia Takeover: Day One - Job Losses, Protests, Cops In Riot Gear

Italian police clash with airline workers protesting Alitalia takeover

Italian riot police and several hundred Alitalia Airline maintenance employees have clashed in Rome as workers protested job losses threatened by the Airline's pending sale to Air France-KLM.

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British Airways pilots protest plan to start new airline

UK

British Airways pilots protest plan to start new airline

British Airways Plc pilots today demonstrated at the carrier's London headquarters against the company's plans to start a new airline.

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Myanmar, protest, death toll, human rights abuse

Is Myanmar lying about crackdown death toll?

By eTN Staff writer

A United Nations expert has spoken out on the discrepancy between the actual death toll figure and the government figures on the recent government crackdown on protestors.

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