An on-duty MUP traffic police officer was seriously hurt on Sunday evening in the town of Obrenovac, near Belgrade. The officer, identified as Branko Simić, 41, is in a coma after a drunk driver hit him with his car.
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Heavy rain hits north Vietnam as Hanoi traffic halted
July 20th, 2009 |
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Heavy rain from a weakened tropical storm has hit northern Vietnam, causing flooding that brought traffic to a halt in the capital Hanoi and prompted the government to warn of landslides in mountainous areas. Tropical storm Molave made landfall on Saturday along the southern coast of China,
Highway traffic resumes after bus fire
July 18th, 2009 |
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The traffic on the Belgrade-Niš highway is back to normal this morning after a fire that broke out on a Czech bus. No one was injured in the vehicle, carrying 48 Czech nationals on their way to Greece.
Serbian tourists soon to leave hospital
July 18th, 2009 |
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Serbian tourists who survived a deadly traffic accident near Luxor in Egypt earlier this week are expected to soon leave hospital, reports said. All eight tourists treated for their injuries after their bus collided with a truck, killing nine Serbians on board, are now stable, and expected to be discharged in the next five to six days.
Big Cash Infusion Could Ease Chicago’s Snarling Train Traffic
July 18th, 2009 |
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CHICAGO (AP) — When a train screeches to a halt in Chicago, freight and passenger trains from as far away as Baltimore or Los Angeles are sometimes forced to apply their brakes as well – which can result in costly gridlock throughout the nati…
Alcatel-Lucent Unveils 100GbE Network Interface
July 16th, 2009 |
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Alcatel-Lucent is announcing a 100GbE service routing interface aimed at helping service providers deal with the explosive growth in traffic, particularly video traffic. The announcement comes as other network equipment vendors are looking to add their products to the 100GbE mix. Juniper announced its first 100GbE interface card in June, and analysts expect Cisco to do the same soon. Despite the interest, mass adoption of 100GbE is a ways off, analysts say. Service providers are still migrating from 1GbE to 10GbE, with some beginning to adopt 40GbE. The first commercial 100GbE products wont be available until next year.
– Alcatel-Lucent is entering the competition for 100 Gigabit Ethernet networking.
Alcatel-Lucent on July 16 is unveiling 100GbE line cards for the network core, as well as for edge of networks and metro networks. In addition, the company is announcing new 10-port 10GbE line cards for service provider…
Tourists die in Egypt bus crash
July 16th, 2009 |
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At least eight European tourists and three Egyptians have been killed in a bus crash in Egypt, security and medical officials say.
At least 10 tourists were reported to have been injured when the bus collided with a lorry on a road near Safaga, on Egypt’s Red Sea Coast.
Reuters news agency said the eight tourists killed were all from Serbia.
Traffic accidents are common in Egypt because of what correspondents describe as poor roads and lax traffic rules.
Those injured in the collision were being treated in local hospitals, medical officials said.
One report said the two vehicles crashed on a narrow, two-lane road between Qena and Safaga that was the site of several road accidents in the past.
Another said the lorry had been driving on the wrong side of the road. </p
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Police shoot man near US Capitol
July 15th, 2009 |
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Police in Washington have shot and killed a man who was trying to flee after a traffic incident.
One officer was injured before the man, who had brandished a gun, was shot dead by police.
The incident happened a few blocks from the Capitol building, which houses the US Congress.
Some of the entrances to the Capitol were sealed off, but the shooting is not thought to have any political implications. </p
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Jonathan Spalter: Cleveland Rocks & Other Wireless News
July 15th, 2009 |
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Last week, the Senate Commerce Committee unanimously cleared a bill requiring the FCC and the Commerce Department to conduct annual audits of our wireless airwaves….
Mumbai news – Mumbai rains disrupt Rail and Air services
July 14th, 2009 |
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Normal life was thrown out of gear in the financial capital, Mumbai on Wednesday by heavy rains that led to waterlogging in several areas and hit movement of air and rail traffic.
The Meterological department has forecasted spells of rain or thundershowers with possibility of heavy showers in various parts of Mumbai and suburbs in next [...]
Clearance operation continues at Delhi Metro mishap site
July 14th, 2009 |
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Debris clearance operations continued at the Delhi Metro accident site in South Delhi on Tuesday.
Cranes, which toppled yesterday leaving six injured, have been removed from the site.
Vehicular movement towards Nehru Place area has been badly affected with traffic chaos in many places like Greater Kailash, Amar Colony, Moolchand and East of Kailash.
Commuters [...]
Belgrade, Zagreb talk air traffic issues
July 13th, 2009 |
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Negotiations have begun in Belgrade between Serbian and Croatian experts from the transportation ministries regarding various traffic issues. However, the key question that the negotiations are expected to answer is whether Serbian national carrier Jat Airways will be able to receive a license for flying to Croatia’s coastal town of Dubrovnik, since the Croatian government conditions this with regulating relations in air travel between the two countries.
Jim Watkins: East Side, West Side, All Around The Sidewalk
July 11th, 2009 |
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Here are the pedestrians to look out for when you’re walking the streets of New York City.
Indonesia’s traffic nightmare goes from bad to worse
July 11th, 2009 |
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New laws requiring disabled pedestrians to wear traffic signs have met with frustration and derision in Indonesia, where in the eyes of the law cars have taken priority over people. The laws will do nothing to improve road safety or ease the traffic that is choking the life out of the capital
Traffic rockets to Twitter site
July 2nd, 2009 |
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By Dan Whitworth
Newsbeat technology reporter
The number of people visiting Twitter increased 22-fold in the last twelve months, according to an internet monitoring company.
According to Hitwise, the site is now the fifth most viewed social networking site compared with the 84th last year.
Ninety-three per cent of Twitter’s growth has happened in 2009.
Director of Research at Hitwise Robin Goad said: "If people accessing their Twitter accounts via mobile phones and third party applications were included, numbers could be higher."
Another measure of Twitter’s popularity is its jump in the overall internet rankings.
Last year it was the 969th most visited site on the web. It’s now the 38th most visited website.
Twitter is popular with celebrities like Jonathan Ross and Stephen Fry.
"If anything, the service is even more popular than our numbers imply," said Robin Goad.
"We are only measuring traffic to the main Twitter website.
"If people accessing their Twitter accounts via mobile phones and third party applications like Twitterific or Tweetdeck were included, the numbers could be even higher.
"Media coverage of the site has escalated significantly this year and high profile celebrity endorsements likes Ashton Kutcher have come rolling in."
Micro-blogging site Twitter has also had a major impact on so-called ‘citizen journalism’, when members of the public use the site to break major news stories or updates such as the terror attacks in Mumbai or the recent protests in Iran.
But the social networking website still has some work to do to catch the likes of MySpace, Bebo and Facebook.
The number of people using Facebook has risen above the 20 million mark this year in the UK and 200 million around the world.</p
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