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/ 23 October 2006
Panamanians have overwhelmingly approved a ,25-billion plan to widen their transcontinental canal, a project that will allow the world’s biggest ships to sail between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. About 80% of the gross domestic product of Panama, with a population of three million, is linked directly or indirectly to canal activity.
Investigators converged on Wednesday on the remote Venezuelan hillside where a Colombian jetliner crashed on Tuesday, killing all 152 French tourists and eight Colombian crew on board and leaving wreckage strewn over a wide area. Experts from all three countries are taking part in the investigation.
Hurricane Emily blasted the world-famous beach resorts on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Monday, where thousands of tourists were evacuated or took refuge in shelters while the storm toll across the Caribbean rose to seven dead. Thousands of tourists were evacuated to wait as Emily headed out into the Gulf of Mexico.