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• 'Travel agents targeted (Whitsunday Times)
WHITSUNDAY travel agents will continue to be the subject of spot checks by the Office of Fair Trading. Earlier this year, a blitz of the Whitsunday/Airlie Beach area targeted unlicensed travel agents.
• 'EU agrees to suspend Uzbek travel bans (TVNZ)
EU foreign ministers agreed to suspend for six months travel restrictions imposed on leaders of gas-rich Uzbekistan after the crushing of a revolt in the town of Andizhan in 2005.
• 'EU Lifts Travel Ban On Uzbek Officials, Retains Arms Embargo (Nasdaq)
LUXEMBOURG (AP)--European Union foreign ministers Monday lifted a travel ban on some Uzbek officials for six months but retained an arms embargo on the country.
• 'BOOK REVIEW: Cookbook combines Italian recipes, travel advice (Miami Herald)
Food and travel are funny creatures. One of the best ways to get to know a culture is through its food, restaurants, cafes and bars. Photos may yellow, but flavors and smells can linger for a lifetime.
• 'Singapore Airlines A380: Travel In A New Light (Scoop.co.nz)
Today, Singapore Airlines enters a new era in long-haul air travel, with the formal handover of the world's first A380 at Airbus headquarters in southern France.
• 'Love?s eyeing travel stop on I-10 (Seguin Gazette-Enterprise)
SEGUIN ? Love?s Travel Stop & Country Stores could be coming to Seguin. The Seguin City Council will consider a proposal to seek $750,000 in Texas Capital Fund infrastructure grant money to build a sewer line to a site west of the river that Love?s has identified as a potential retail site.
• 'Talk About Travel (Washington Post)
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• 'EU agrees to suspend Uzbek travel bans (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
EU foreign ministers agreed on Monday to suspend for six months travel restrictions imposed on leaders of gas-rich Uzbekistan after the crushing of a revolt in the town of Andizhan in 2005, an EU official said.
• 'Laura Bush to travel to Middle East (UPI)
U.S. first lady Laura Bush will travel to the Middle East, where she is expected to discuss cancer treatment, screening and awareness, her office said.
• 'BOOK REVIEW: Cookbook combines Italian recipes, travel advice (The Charlotte Observer)
Food and travel are funny creatures. One of the best ways to get to know a culture is through its food, restaurants, cafes and bars. Photos may yellow, but flavors and smells can linger for a lifetime. So it's no surprise that many ethnic cookbooks spend a lot of time talking about the countries where the food comes from. But few cookbooks delve as deeply into a country as "Adventures of an ...

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