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Iberia cancels 91 flights due to the strike and prepares alternative

The airline Iberia said Tuesday it has launched a plan to mitigate the effects of the two-day strike called by the drivers for 18 and 29 December, which will involve the cancellation of 91 flights by the time. “(…) The company has implemented a contingency plan that includes agreements with other airlines and transportation companies [...]

Brazil: 33 people killed in truck and bus crash

A tractor-trailer crashed on Saturday against a bus carrying sugar cane cutters in a crash that killed at least 33 people and wounded 13 others, authorities said. A police spokesman said the truck driver lost control when he turned a corner and down a hill at dawn, near a town called Miracles in the northeastern [...]

Obama proposed reforms to reduce fiscal deficit and the health system

The U.S. president, Barack Obama, announced Monday a plan to cut the country’s fiscal deficit by about $ 3 billion, which includes cuts to government spending, reform the tax system, with more taxes on the rich, and the social security system, including Medicaid and Medicare. “We cut so we can not pay, that’s what really [...]

A man kills his four children and seriously wounded his wife in Texas

A man shot dead his four children between 2 and 5 years, and smote of gravity to his wife in Bay City , in southern Texas (USA), reported the police. Jose Avila, 24, shot on Wednesday at his wife and four children, three boys and a girl near her home in Bay City, located 65 [...]

Venezuela is the most corrupt country in Latin America and Chile the least, according to Transparency International

Chile and Uruguay are the leaders in transparency in Latin America, while Venezuela and Paraguay are perceived as the most corrupt, according to a report released today by the German organization Transparency International (TI). In the 2011 edition of its traditional Index of Corruption Perception (CPI), only three of the twenty Latin American countries in [...]