NAIROBI, March 30, 2008 (AFP) - The United States has issued a fresh travel warning to Eritrea, due to domestic travel restrictions and the large number of troops massed along its border with arch-rival Ethiopia.

WARSAW, March 30, 2008 (AFP) - Border checks at airports in nine Schengen area newcomers, mostly from the ex-communist bloc, vanished at midnight Sunday, allowing 400 million people passport-free travel in the 24-country zone.

WARSAW, March 30, 2008 (AFP) - Border checks at airports in nine Schengen area newcomers, mostly from the ex-communist bloc, vanished at midnight Sunday, allowing 400 million people passport-free travel in the 24-country zone.

WARSAW, March 29, 2008 (AFP) - Border checks at airports in nine Schengen area newcomers, mostly from the ex-communist bloc, will vanish Sunday, allowing 400 million people passport-free travel in the 24-country zone.

'It's a very important day,' Michal Marzec, director of Poland's PPL airports operator, told AFP.

TALLINN, March 28, 2008 (AFP) - The mayors of Tallinn and Helsinki said Friday they want to construct a railway tunnel under the Baltic Sea between their cities.

A statement from Tallinn city hall said Edgar Savisaar and his opposite number from Helsinki, Jussi Pajunen, had signed a deal on a feasibility study, allocating 100,000 euros (160,000 dollars) each.

BRATISLAVA, March 28, 2008 (AFP) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico symbolically cut a ribbon at Bratislava airport on Friday on the eve of the country's full entry into Europe's passport free Schengen zone.

SAO PAULO, March 27, 2008 (AFP) - The founder of the low-cost US airline JetBlue, David Neeleman, announced here Thursday he was launching a new airline in Brazil after having bought 36 aircraft from national manufacturer Embraer.

NAIROBI, March 24, 2008 (AFP) - The United States relaxed Monday a travel warning to Kenya following a powersharing deal between President Mwai Kibaki and Orange Democratic leader Raila Odinga that has halted weeks of violence.

WARSAW, March 24, 2008 (AFP) - Two Lufthansa flights made emergency landings in Poland on Monday due to unruly passengers, including a man from Russia, apparently drunk, who began shouting that he was a terrorist, police said.

A flight from Frankfurt to Kiev was forced to make an unscheduled stop in Katowice in southern Poland.

NAIROBI, March 24, 2008 (AFP) - The United States has relaxed a travel warning to Kenya following a powersharing deal between President Mwai Kibaki and Orange Democratic leader Raila Odinga has halted weeks of violence.