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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

News Around the World

Al Jazeera

More than 49 people have died after an airliner from Indonesia's Garuda carrier overshot a runway and burst into flames.                                                                          However 115 passengers also survived the crash after scrambling through the burning wreckage to safety.          Airport officials have said that the crash-landing at Yogyakarta airport in central Java on Wednesday was an accident.

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CNN

The United Nations estimates 700,000 Iraqis have fled to Jordan -- more than one-tenth the entire kingdom's population. As many as 1 million more Iraqis are estimated to have sought refuge in Syria, about 120,000 are in Egypt and 40,000 in Lebanon, according to the United Nations. (Watch Iraqis tell their stories Video)

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UPI

CINCINNATI, March 7 (UPI) -- The Ohio state legislature is considering a bipartisan bill requiring convicted sex offenders to have fluorescent green license plates on their vehicles.

   That is just to funny! I note that the state tried to have this passed back in 2005 only with pink tags for the coloring but a cosmetics company and other groups opposed that idea.

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Chicago Sun-Times

SPRINGFIELD -- The chief of staff in state government's largest agency has been stripped of her duties because of sex harassment accusations from her former $70,000-a-year "special assistant" and driver.

Carlos Estes claims in a federal sexual harassment lawsuit that Wertz -- wearing what looked like silk pajamas -- demanded he have sex with her or forfeit the job he obtained despite not having a high school diploma or GED.

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