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Passengers' Rights. Score another point for European travelers. The European Court of Justice recently ruled that airlines must compensate travelers when flights are canceled due to technical problems. Previously, airlines had claimed that technical problems were "extraordinary circumstances" for which passenger compensation was not warranted. But the court found that since airlines are responsible for routine maintenance of their planes, the extraordinary-circumstances rule doesn't apply. The European Union already has a pretty sweet Passenger Bill of Rights, which this ruling helps to strengthen...
...Illinois is currently the laughingstock of the nation," he claimed. It was a power play by the AG, he said, and one that stood little chance of success since it requires some proof that the governor is somehow incapacitated - not just allegedly corrupt. "I'm aware of the rule, but I would not have. It has nothing to do with a public-opinion nightmare, which the governor has; it has to do with a mental or physical disability. You don't use your position as a public office for making press releases...
...within six months - about 18 months earlier than the date the junta has set. Former colonial power France condemned the military takeover and U.S. State Dept. spokesman Robert Wood said U.S. non-humanitarian aid to Guinea might be suspended unless there were elections and a "restoration" of "civilian, democratic rule...
...Guineans who poured into the streets to cheer the soldiers know too well, they never had democratic rule - challenges to Conté's civilian government were squashed by ruthless force. Guinea expert Peter Pham, director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs at James Madison University, told the Associated Press this week that Western leaders should not blindly trust in a constitution which the now-dead president Conté drafted largely to keep himself in power for decades. It was "not the result of any democratic process," he noted. After such a sorry history, even a coup...
...them becoming an easy prey to forced marriages." Immigrants struggling to retain their cultural identity in their adopted homelands need reassurance that rejecting these norms will not leave them destitute community outcasts. Otherwise, says Talib, cases like Abedin's are sure to be the exception and not the rule: "Without mustering personal strength of initiative and independence, it is difficult to imagine anyone turning to the Forced Marriage Act for redress...