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...under communist rule. The disagreement has on occasion inched close to war and remains one of Asia's potential flash points. Neither side formally recognizes the existence of the other, so nearly 60 years after their separation, Taiwan residents still cannot send a letter or take a regularly scheduled flight directly to China...
...question came into Telpuk's life in the wee hours of a late shift she'd been asked to work as a security officer in Argentina's National Aeronautics Police (PAN), stationed in the VIP section of a Buenos Aires airport. Scanning the luggage of passengers debarking a flight from Venezuela, she noticed one that was densely packed with rectangular shapes. On inspection, they turned out to be bricks of bank-notes amounting to $790,550. "He didn't seem to be particularly nervous," says Telpuk of the bag's owner, Venzuelan-American businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, a resident...
...tourist visas, which post-9/11 are increasingly difficult to get, Reina convinces Marlon - using sexual seduction powers that make Salome seem like a nun - that they should pay a Medellin travel agency, Paraiso Travel, $3,000 for what could be called the illegal alien package. It's a flight to Panama and then a Dantean journey by bus and foot to the U.S., through squalid hotels and scorching deserts - including nightmarish hours hidden by smugglers in a truckload of suffocating, hollowed-out logs. Paraiso Travel's screenwriters, Franco and Juan Rendon, interviewed a number of real migrants who have...
Four days after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule last November, a top State Department expert boarded a British Airways flight on her way to Pakistan for urgent strategy talks with U.S. diplomats at the embassy there. The stakes were high: President Bush had just called for Musharraf to hold new elections. In Pakistan, the military had begun a violent crackdown against demonstrators...
TIME has learned that those classified documents went missing, for a short time at least. A few days after her flight, the diplomat realized she no longer had the documents. As required, she informed diplomatic security. At the same time, British Airways called State and said the airline had found the sensitive materials. The diplomat was recalled and reassigned, and State launched a damage assessment...