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The role of tourism in wildlife conservation is well known. Armed with cameras, tourists are now shooting Sri Lanka’s elephants and bringing them back from the verge of extinction.
The elephant orphanage at Pinnawela in Sri Lanka is breeding...
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Tourists in New York can expect to see some construction projects at national monuments in the coming months.
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AP, Salt Lake City
Tourists who want to put a hand or foot in each of four states at the Four Corners area are apparently off the mark _ by about 2.5 miles. According to readings by the...
made popular Apr 20 2009
AP, Athens
Tourists who came to Athens on Thursday to see the Acropolis _ one of Europe’s most famous cultural sites _ found themselves met at the gate by striking guards...
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AP, London
Tourists better think twice now before snapping pictures of the iconic British bobby.
made popular Feb 16 2009
AP, Tokyo
Tourists are known for acting silly, but licking the tuna?
made popular Jan 26 2009
AP, Washington
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid defended himself Wednesday over a joking comment that tourists to the Capitol sometimes smell.
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AP, Sao Paulo
Tourists who go abroad to abuse children should face the prospect of prosecution in their home countries if they are caught having sex with kids in nations with lax...
made popular Nov 28 2008
AP, New York
Overseas shoppers who once arrived in the U.S. with empty suitcases to take back their holiday loot may decide to stay home this year amid high-priced airline tickets,...
made popular Nov 25 2008
AP, Vienna
Austria’s government says two Austrians kidnapped more than eight months ago while on holiday in Tunisia have been released.
made popular Oct 31 2008
AP, Cairo
A European tour group kidnapped in the Sahara Desert was abruptly freed after a phone call to one of the captors, and all 19 hostages piled into a single car, some...
made popular Sep 30 2008
AP, Berlin
Five Germans and five Italians who were part of a 19-member tourist group kidnapped in Egypt and taken by their abductors on a dash through the Sahara Desert returned...
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AP, Cairo
Egyptian and Sudanese troops, backed by European commandos, rescued a tour group that was kidnapped in Egypt and taken on a 10-day dash across the Sahara to the...
made popular Sep 29 2008
AP, Cairo
Egyptian and Sudanese troops rescued an abducted 19-member European tour group in an assault on the kidnappers in the remote Sahara borderland, officials said. The...
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AP, Cairo
A kidnapped 19-member European tour group was freed Monday and the 11 tourists and eight Egyptian guides and drivers are in good health and on their way to Cairo,...
made popular Sep 29 2008
AP, Rome
Italian news reports are quoting the foreign minister as saying 11 Europeans and eight Egyptians kidnapped in a distant corner of Egypt’s desert have been freed.
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AP, Khartoum
Eight kidnappers of a group of missing European tourists led soldiers on a high-speed chase through Sudan’s northern desert on Sunday, ending with a firefight...
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AP, Khartoum
The Sudanese army says that it killed six alleged kidnappers in a high speed chase across the northern Sudanese desert, but the missing Europeans are still being held.
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AP, Cairo
A Sudanese official says kidnappers have taken to Libya 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians they abducted last week in a remote part of southwestern Egypt.
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AP, Aswan
Sudanese troops are keeping watch over a band of kidnappers holed up in the desert after snatching a 19-member tour group in Egypt, but are not closing in on them,...
made popular Sep 24 2008
AP, Cairo
A group of 11 European tourists and four Egyptians were kidnapped during an adventure safari to one of the remotest sites in Egypt deep in the Sahara desert and were...
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