Nation/World Briefs: Endeavour launch set
Published: June 12, 2009
Endeavour launch set
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA managers have given a unanimous "go” to Saturday’s launch of space shuttle Endeavour. The weather outlook is about as good as it gets. Five spacewalks are planned. The seven shuttle fliers will join six men already at the space station for close to two weeks. It will be the first time 13 people are together in space at one time.
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N.Y. Airports plan bird traps
NEW YORK — New York City plans to trap and kill as many as 2,000 Canada geese this summer in an attempt to avoid the type of collision that caused an airliner to ditch in the Hudson River. The hunt will take place on dozens of city properties within five miles of Kennedy and LaGuardia airports.
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Anne Frank writings shown
AMSTERDAM — The Anne Frank House museum says it will put the teenage Holocaust victim’s diaries and other writings on permanent display to commemorate what would have been her 80th birthday today. Education Minister Ronald Plasterk said it was important that the writings be displayed "on the spot where they were written.” The writings had been at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation.
U.N. to consider N. Korea penalty
UNITED NATIONS — A U.S. government official says North Korea may be preparing for its third nuclear test as the United Nations today considers new sanctions on the dictatorship for conducting an underground nuclear explosion in May.
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