BALTIMORE (ABC7) -- Several people were removed from Spirit Airlines flight NK969 after the plane was called back to the gate while taxiing off Tuesday morning, according to ABC7 reporter Suzanne Kennedy, who was on the flight. The flight was scheduled to leave from BWI to Chicago.
[ABC] According to Kennedy, four passengers were initially removed from the flight, three males and one woman. They reportedly had several backpacks and appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent, in their early 30s.
Police say a witness notified the flight crew when she saw one of the men watching a "media report" on his cell phone. Following 'see something, say something,' she notified the flight crew.
Three additional passengers were subsequently called out from the loud speaker and removed from the plane
[AlAhram] Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi oversaw the signing of the first Egyptian nuclear plant deal between Egypt and Russia on Thursday.
El-Sisi said that the new power plant will consist of "four third-generation reactors," describing them as the most up-to-date reactors that have been innovated.
El-Sisi also said that the project is "peaceful" and aims to produce electricity.
Sergey Kiriyenko, the head of Russia's state-owned nuclear firm Rosatomalong, along with a Russian delegation, signed the Dabaa nuclear plant deal with the Egyptian government in Cairo's Ittihadeya palace.
First nuclear plant
"The Dabaa nuclear plant will be the largest Russian-Egyptian project since the Aswan dam," Kiriyenko told the media on Thursday referring to the High dam built in the 60s. "It will mark a truly new chapter in the history of our bilateral relations."
"The plant will make Egypt the regional leader in the field of nuclear technologies and the only country in the region that will have a generation 3+ plant," he added.
The plant, expected to be constructed within 12 years, will consist of four nuclear power units, 1,200 megawatt (MW) each.
In a televised speech following the signature of the deal, the Egyptian president said that the cost of the station would be covered by a loan that will last for 35 years through the period of the production of electricity from the Dabaa station.
The Egyptian president also made clear that Egypt is committed to the international conventions prohibiting proliferation of nuclear weapons and nuclear plants.
El-Sisi stressed that the project is 'for peaceful purposes' and highlighted that Egypt has always had the "dream of a peaceful nuclear programme."
"This project marks the first step towards our future plans that will entitle us to cooperate more in the nuclear industry with other countries," El-Sisi said.
All countries in the Middle East, excluding Israel, are parties to the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
... and we've seen how well that restrained Iran...
whose 191 signatories have agreed to nuclear disarmament for countries with nuclear weapons, non-proliferation in those that don't have them, and the peaceful use of nuclear energy everywhere.
Egypt put forth the idea for a weapons-of-mass-destruction-free zone in the Middle East in 1990 and has frequently since then called for nuclear disarmament and the elimination of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.
The plant will be located at an existing nuclear site in Dabaa on the Mediterranean coast, west of Alexandria.
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Given the "inshala"maintenance,what's the estimate to the accident.
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Given the "inshala"maintenance,what's the estimate to the accident.
Mr. Wife told terrifying stories of what he saw back in the mid-1980s in the factories of his Egyptian suppliers... and almost was arrested when he thought to take pictures of soldiers with guns and sandles both held together by duct tape. I'd feel comfortable betting on a major accident within six months of starting up the thing, Redneck Jim.
[Guardian] This marks the first engineered animal product to be approved for sale although GM food such as soy and corn are already available.
The production and consumption of genetically engineered salmon has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, marking the first time that a genetically modified animal product has been cleared for sale in the US.
The FDA said that it has approved the salmon, produced by Massachusetts-based firm AquaBounty Technologies, "based on sound science and a comprehensive review" that found the product was safe for US consumers. While GM food such as soy and corn are already available, this will be the first engineered animal product to be approved for sale.
The federal regulator has stipulated that the salmon may only be raised in land-based, secure hatcheries in Panama and Canada, which it will monitor. However, the US will be off limits for the breeding and raising of salmon.
"AquaBounty’s salmon are modified for fast growth with genes from two other fish. The company, which has attempted to get its product approved in the US since 1995, claims that the salmon will grow twice as quickly as wild salmon and will need 25% less feed to reach full size."
Not against the idea in general, but the doubt expressed about our civil servants' ability to prevent bad outcomes is well founded.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
