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"minibus" Definitions
  1. a small vehicle with seats for about twelve people

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"Minibus" The lower chamber could potentially take up the appropriations legislation some refer to as a "minibus" bill, that is being worked on by a conference committee.
"Before ISIS , he drove a minibus," Mahmoud told me.
Their minibus limousine was in a crash with a truck.
In other words, this is the minibus of the future.
Eleven minibus drivers had been lining up to get fuel.
They'd ridden to Ramat Aviv and back in a minibus.
Two eyewitnesses to the attack on Monday, one of them an off-duty policeman, said that a Toyota Corolla smashed into the minibus and exploded, engulfing the minibus in flames and burning everyone inside.
Streets bustle with noisy fruit-sellers and minibus drivers seeking custom.
The minibus driver and two Italian drivers of the truck survived.
The Tesla Minibus will be built on a Model X chassis.
They also parked a large tractor in front of the minibus.
One person died after a police officer fired on a minibus.
Hours earlier, a minibus exploded at a police checkpoint, wounding two people.
On the way to a museum, our minibus drove past a skatepark.
All 12 victims were Portuguese minibus passengers, traveling from Switzerland to Portugal.
Ford also unveiled a Transit Smart Energy Concept, a 10-seater minibus.
It was not immediately known how many people were in the minibus.
A school minibus sat on the roadside, smashed by one uprooted tree.
A preliminary report indicated the minibus' brakes were faulty, the transport department said.
A continuing resolution would cover agencies not included in the "minibus" spending bills.
The minibus was believed to have travelled from the Nottingham area, police said.
"They were transported in a white minibus with police licence plates," he said.
The minibus driver told Reuters earlier he was there to pick guests up.
This comes on top of another minibus signed by the President last week.
The victims were all drivers for a Johannesburg minibus taxi association, said Brig.
Thirteen people in a minibus were killed in a collision with a pickup truck.
Witnesses told his family that masked men leaped from a minibus and grabbed him.
Around her, young men heave bags and mattresses onto the roof of a minibus.
Musk appeared to walk back plans for the minibus in a recent earnings call.
He said the car exploded just as a minibus carrying civilians was passing by.
The firm's latest creation is an autonomous electric minibus which can carry 12 passengers.
"They're good, but I am bloody hungry," smiles Lowe, turning back to the minibus.
"It just won't work," said a civil servant as he waited for a minibus.
Erdogan gazes back from nearly every billboard in Konya, and sometimes buildings and minibus taxis.
He recently bought his first car to speed up his three-minibus trip to work.
The driver of the minibus was also killed, emergency services spokesman Russel Meiring told CNN.
Police evenutally caught Tim driving a minibus full of refugees, and he's now on probation.
In an 220006-2202 vote, the Senate approved its third "minibus" package of spending bills.
For the men's final, he tried a minibus, though he had an equally truncated experience.
Luckily it's not that far away, and they can take a minibus, not a plane.
But the place we were more interested in was a 30-mile minibus ride east.
A minibus carrying workers home was targeted by a bombing in January 2016, killing seven.
" Brat dismissed the minibus strategy as a "bunch of fancy terminology that just confuses everybody.
The place was bustling with workers who were wiring the minibus with sensors for self driving.
He looked cheerful but a little dazed, after arriving at dawn on a minibus from Texas.
The minibus exploded, wounding two bystanders and killing the driver, police officer Nur Osman told Reuters.
Volkswagen is revamping its iconic minibus with the I.D. Buzz, which will hit dealerships in 2022.
Minibus drivers frustrated by the mushrooming of roadblocks where police demand bribes have also protested violently.
The men took 79 boys and girls and tried to drive away with the school's minibus.
In a seemingly unrelated development, a minibus exploded overnight near the apartment building, killing three people.
And now Abby's out on a minibus patrolling the area, looking for sex workers to support.
Via's technology powers minibus services in Arlington, Texas, and in UK cities like Liverpool and Sittingbourne.
"I was looking for the right angle when a minibus full of tourists pulled over," he said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the minibus to careen off the road, the spokesman said.
He worked as a "barker", loading passengers on to the jeepneys, the Filipino answer to a minibus.
Some captives held by the insurgents were released and state television showed them leaving in a minibus.
The Department of Transport said the minibus was overloaded -- carrying 10 more people than its license allowed.
Congress settled on a strategy of passing "minibus" packages of a few spending bills at a time.
He had hopped into a minibus, heading to a repair job, but it was low on fuel.
Police said in a short statement the driver "improperly operated" the minibus, causing it to lose control.
Defense specifics: The so-called minibus folded in the $690.2 billion Pentagon spending bill for fiscal 2020.
The Taliban also attacked a minibus carrying court employees in Kabul on May 25, killing 10 officials.
I also just got a 14-seat Lions' minibus that we are going to take to tailgates.
The bombing was carried out by a minibus laden with explosives, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
But the road network has vastly improved, and it is now much easier to travel via minibus.
Octogenarian and nonagenarian sages helped, traveling around the country by minibus and helicopter to attend mass rallies.
Remember Canoo, the Los Angeles startup that revealed a minibus-type electric vehicle a few months back?
Rescuers carried bodies past the twisted wreckage of a vehicle and a minibus taxi smeared with blood.
Negotiators will try to finish the third minibus and other spending bills before the December CR deadline.
IN THE middle of 2016 a suicide-bomber blew up a minibus full of judicial staff in Kabul.
"We can confirm that a team minibus was robbed at gunpoint last night leaving the circuit," he said.
Sunday's bombing hit a minibus in Daniga village about 40 km (25 miles) to the northwest of Mogadishu.
The numbers: The Senate approved its third "minibus" package of spending bills in an 21625-2900 vote. Sens.
McConnell teed up a "minibus" — a combination of individual appropriations bills — before the Senate left late last week.
There were also reports on social media of at least eight civilian deaths when a minibus was struck.
Hundreds of La Paz's public minibus drivers blocked off main access points to the city to demand gasoline.
That second minibus tanked in a 51-41 procedural vote, needing the support of 60 senators to advance.
Earlier this month, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the launch of Uber Bus, a minibus service in Cairo, Egypt.
The gunmen, who were in a car, opened fire at the minibus as it passed in Mogadishu's Hodan district.
A row of aproned women presided near the minibus taxi rank, grilling sausages and chops over repurposed oil drums.
They take the bus or train in and then they do another bike or walk or minibus transition again.
Police said at the time that the minibus burst into flames due to an exploding gas canister inside it.
The minibus carrying the migrants went off the road and rolled into a ditch in the province of Van.
One was an on-demand minibus service, Kutsuplus, that was operated by the regional transport agency for four years.
I see he posts photos of a Mercedes minibus and I wonder where he got the money for it.
Some of the victims were burned beyond recognition when one car bomb exploded next to a minibus, he said.
The hotel staff wasn't sure, but told them that they could catch a minibus into the center of town.
She said riding to school, rather than taking a minibus, saves her mother about 200 rand ($14) each month.
However, the chairman has also said passage of the non-controversial minibus could inject new life into gridlocked negotiations.
The minibus approach "is far more in line with Ryan's commitment and ongoing conviction of regular order," added Rep.
Once you get to the minibus, passengers use a QR code to check in and they can pay using cash.
Sabah said the cases had been brought to the residence in a black minibus at 3:09 pm (1209 GMT).
That "minibus" will fund the Energy and Water, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Legislative Branch Appropriations bills for 2019.
Osman Ali, a shopkeeper in Bulamarer district where the minibus began its journey, said it had set off mid-afternoon.
The bomber, who was on foot, detonated his explosives near a minibus carrying Afghan National Army troops and security employees.
Absenteeism rises alongside financial distress, since employees who have to service big loans sometimes cannot afford the minibus to work.
On January 23rd soldiers were beating minibus drivers into lowering fares that had risen because of the higher fuel price.
However, Jalopnik took this to mean Tesla might also build a relatively small minibus based upon the Model X platform.
Panda New Energy initially expects to receive an all-electric minibus that seats 38 passengers and an electric commercial van.
Abdul Rahman Rahimi said that the attackers had driven a car packed with explosives into the minibus, causing the explosion.
ER24 reported that local residents had taken as many as 12 injured victims from the minibus to a nearby clinic.
Syrian state television station al-Ikhbariya showed pictures of a white minibus it said had been damaged by the bomb.
What's next: The House is now considering another minibus that's off interest to defense watchers for including military construction funding.
Later, protesters blocked a minibus carrying Mr. Hwang and his entourage when it tried to leave through a back gate.
In the minibus, the authorities found the body of an unidentified fifth man, in his 30s, according to the ministry.
It officially opened to the public on Saturday; a minibus shuttles visitors from the Castello to the villa every hour.
With Jeramiah living elsewhere, he moved into a men's shelter in Queens and got a job driving a paratransit minibus.
A group of minibus owners in north Khartoum claim that saboteurs are causing gridlock by abandoning vehicles in the roadways.
China's minibus may be a bit more powerful than our sports car, but it has four times as many passengers.
Two days ago, Baghdadi left the location with his family for the first time, traveling by minibus to a nearby village.
Torit, where Ms Mandi boarded that minibus to Kenya, is a good place to observe the hollowness of the country's government.
The bomber tried to drive into a convoy carrying Irfid, but missed and rammed into a minibus carrying passengers, police said.
Footage from the scene showed the minibus in the ditch, with the casualties laid out on the side of a road.
If the minibus bill passes the Senate with this provision intact, the Trump administration will not have to do the same.
Protestant workers were forced from a minibus by Irish nationalist gunmen and shot dead at close range in the 1976 killings.
The so-called minibus legislation will include three appropriations bills: Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs.
Fortunately, a town elder with a license, traveling in another car in the convoy, offered to take over driving the minibus.
When it comes to on-demand minibus transport, London is not the only place in the U.K. operating such a scheme.
The so-called "minibus" legislation will include three appropriations bills: Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs.
Omar and his mother were just getting off the school minibus at the moment a territorial shootout between rival gangs started.
Instead, I paid the hostel 28.5 yuan and joined a 268-person group one morning on a minibus out of town.
His father, Nourredine Messaoudi, a minibus driver, still holds on to his son's burned bus card, neatly folded in his wallet.
Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), predicted the Senate wouldn't hold a vote on the security minibus, putting appropriators back at square one.
ThinkProgress reports that H.R. 3219, a so-called spending "minibus" bill, stipulates cuts to Appalachian Regional Commission funding, weeks after Trump's "skinny budget" proposed cutting funding altogether: The "minibus" also reduces spending in coal communities where recent economic and workforce development programs have started revitalizing the local and regional economy and offering new opportunities to miners and their families.
We ride a minibus, and it is $8 for my husband and me to ride to school, and $229 to my office.
To finance their new company, Apple Computer, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak respectively sold a VW minibus and a Hewlett-Packard calculator.
It is not yet clear if the bus passengers were wearing seatbelts or even if the minibus was fitted with suitable restraints.
GO's other projects, it aims to bring an electric minibus to market in a joint venture with German autos supplier ZF Friedrichshafen.
The only way to get there or to leave is with a minibus from Civil Protection—the national body coordinating rescue operations.
Earlier on Monday, police shot at a minibus, also in Mogadishu, when the driver refused to stop as it approached a checkpoint.
The agenda did include the Make America Secure Appropriations Act, a "minibus" bill that combines four security-related appropriations bill for 2018.
LAJAMANU, Australia — Halfway into a 503-mile journey through a dusty stretch of the Australian desert, the team's minibus ran into trouble.
In a 28503-22019 vote, the Senate approved a "minibus" funding the Agriculture, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Interior Departments.
"We still have charred bodies inside many vehicles including a minibus packed with women and children," the police captain said, requesting anonymity.
In a 92-6 vote, the Senate approved a "minibus" funding the Agriculture, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Interior Departments.
"The sign off here is to Farnborough, which has a splendid flying show every year," she said, as the minibus sped along.
And scooting while inebriated is ill-advised; one minibus passenger rolled up a sleeve to show his scar from a drunken mishap.
Mohamed's grandmother had left her tin shack to help the baby and his mother onto a minibus when the bomb went off.
Much to the President's irritation, however, the current minibus does not include money for his signature campaign promise of a border wall.
Images from the scene showed multiple wrecked vehicles with shards of twisted metal nearby as well as a minibus marked with blood.
They are expected to pass the second minibus -- which covers the departments of Defense, Labor and Health and Human Services -- before October.
So passing the four-measure "minibus" will expedite negotiations on overall numbers for all the bills, called 302(b) allocations, said Sen.
The House had been set to vote on the bill as part of a "minibus" appropriations package that included four other spending bills.
M. fled Chechnya the following morning, jumping on a minibus for Dagestan, where he reunited with Zhenya so they could consider their options.
A Reuters witness at the scene said he saw at least three dead bodies and a damaged minibus with blood stains on it.
"WE PAY our money and you see how it looks," says Aggrey Batwala, leaning out of his minibus in Kampala's muddy taxi park.
The victim encountered his assailants after boarding a minibus on Solomon Mahlangu Drive in eastern Pretoria on the night of Friday 26 May.
A suicide bomber blew himself near a minibus carrying employees of the ministry of mines and petroleum, killing five women and a child.
Hoyer on Tuesday stopped short of saying the Democrats would vote against the lame-duck spending bills if Ryan pursues his minibus strategy.
He was waiting with his wife, mother and three children at a minibus stop, hoping to travel on to government-held west Aleppo.
Plumber Matt Tory, travelling between matches with a group of friends, points to an incident the previous day when their minibus broke down.
Paramedics found bodies lying around the overturned minibus when they arrived, according to a news release from ER24, a private emergency services company.
I went with Olkhon Express, which has two minibus trips a day in either direction, can be booked online and ran on time.
In the driverless minibus scenario, new microtransit could kickstart infill growth in those cities currently stuck between bad traditional transit and low density.
He hops into his truck (decked out in Lions logos) or his new 14-seater minibus and heads to root for his city.
Those whose numbers are called are put on a minibus and driven by Mexican migration officials to a crossing into the United States.
On Tuesday, Ms. Park, 65, was handcuffed and looked grim as she stepped off a minibus that had brought her to the courthouse.
One of the two "minibus" spending bills incorporates a bill known as the SECURE Act that the House passed nearly unanimously in May.
Republicans have filed several similar amendments to the "minibus" appropriations bill coming to the House floor this week that folds in defense spending.
Climbing into a minibus outside Ichilov Hospital on a Saturday afternoon, she said the free rides may well have saved her mother's life.
"Sometimes you just have to fill your cup," she said, as we sat in the minibus on the way to a morning hike.
The second package, passed 280-138, was a four-bill national security minibus that includes billions of dollars for the military and DHS.
I was sitting in the middle seat of a tro-tro minibus, so I didn't see much as the bus flew over the roundabout.
Senators voted 86-5 to approve a 'minibus,' which merged funding for energy and water, the legislative branch and military construction and veterans affairs.
Mechanics and other staff travel to and from the track by minibus and are advised against wearing branded team clothing away from the circuit.
DiDi also said it will start trialing a voice recording feature for its other services, including Express, Select, ExpressPool and Minibus, in some cities.
In Afghanistan, a Taliban suicide car bomber targeted a minibus carrying journalists working for a private Afghan television channel, killing seven employees in Kabul.
The attack targeted a minibus carrying members of the police special forces, a security source said, adding that civilians were also among the wounded.
It's not quite as reminiscent of the classic VW minibus as the last concept EV bus VW rolled out, but it's still pretty sharp.
Rumours abound that Ford is planning its own ride-hailing app and a vehicle to go with it—perhaps an on-demand minibus service.
Mohammed al-Fendi, who until recently was a carpenter, now sells the solar kits out of an old minibus he converted into a store.
Senators voted 28500-6900 to approve a "minibus," which merged funding for energy and water, the legislative branch and military construction and veterans affairs.
London's transport authority has launched a trial of an "on-demand" minibus service in the borough of Ealing, in the west of the city.
A third option was a "minibus," in which several individual funding bills would continue forward, and the rest would be combined into one.   Rep.
His thoughts often drift to the morning two years ago in Kabul, Afghanistan, when a Taliban bomber blew himself up near an unarmored minibus.
From a position at the front of the minibus, she interspersed helpful Jane-related information with tidbits from her vast supply of situational trivia.
More than 200,000 minibus taxis operate nationally, carrying around 20163 million people each day, according to the South African National Taxi Council, or Santaco.
In many parts of the country, minibus taxis are the only viable transport option, as they cover routes not serviced by buses or trains.
But the really important package is the Defense, Labor and Health and Human Services minibus that could pass the Senate as soon as this week.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Fifteen illegal migrants were killed and more than 20 injured in a minibus crash in southeast Turkey on Thursday, a local governor said.
"We know the minibus left Afgooye (town) this morning and it was carrying farmers, mostly women," said Captain Isa Osman of the Somali National Army.
Tolo's reporting has earned it the wrath of the Taliban, who last year killed seven Tolo employees in a suicide attack on a staff minibus.
Lawmakers are planning to move two minibus appropriations bills, but the president has not ruled out a government shutdown over funding for a border wall.
Mr. Fang began posting videos from hospitals in Wuhan on YouTube last month, including one that showed a pile of body bags in a minibus.
General Jimale and other defense officials survived the attack, Mr. Shukri said, but 10 civilians traveling in a minibus near the general's convoy were killed.
"Yesterday was a very sad day for Zimbabwe," said minibus taxi driver Gift, glancing over his shoulder as a soldier smoking a cigarette looked on.
And the first L2100 minibus actually going to get to market this year by King Long which is the second largest bus manufacturer in China.
Cyclists have to share the road with cars, buses and minibus taxis in a country with a poor road safety record, despite a modern road network.
In a statement, the Taliban said one air strike hit a minibus and a second followed quickly, killing a total of 12 people and wounding six.
The second planned minibus would fund the Defense Department, Labor Department and Health and Human Services — a whopping 63 percent of the federal government's discretionary spending.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A roadside bomb struck a minibus north of the Somali capital Mogadishu late on Saturday, killing two people and injuring six others, police said.
The incident happened in mid-afternoon on Wednesday in a small town in Beijing's largely rural Changping district, where the minibus drove into an agricultural market.
The Nepalese and Indian security contractors killed last week were traveling in an ordinary minibus, rather than the armored vehicles that many Western security contractors use.
Instead, Ryan has said the House will tackle smaller appropriations packages called "minibus" bills, though members of his own party have voiced doubts over the strategy.
South African media reported the deaths of 10 people in violence related to rivalries among minibus taxi drivers in Cape Town over one weekend in May.
"We heard a huge explosion as we were traveling from Afgooye town to Mogadishu, and then unfortunately we saw a minibus, which was burning," he said.
Except for the part where the minibus that delivered the medal recipients to the event caught fire as it pulled up to the White House door.
Once desperate for a follow-up to the aging Beetle and dead Minibus, a then-niche Volkswagen helped cement its following through the GTI hot hatchback.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber rammed a sedan full of explosives into a packed commuter minibus in Kabul on Monday, according to Afghan officials and eyewitnesses.
Before they left, they signed documents — different for each nationality — described by a translator as stating that they hadn't been harmed, before being ushered onto a minibus.
This past summer, IBM showed off its first Watson-powered foray into self-driving cars, which came in the form of Olli, a minibus from Local Motors.
Mona Ali's 70-year-old mother-in-law traveled 25 km (15 miles) to the hospital in a minibus after three days of uncontrollable diarrhea and vomiting.
A Democrat-introduced amendment to strip the minibus bill of the WOTUS provision failed by voice vote, and Democrats did not ask for a roll call vote.
Appropriations The House is expected to take up a "minibus" as Republicans aim to avoid passing another mammoth omnibus bill to fund the government later this year.
It took us about 21965 minutes to reach the home of the worker, a woman named Wulan Muntarsih, via a combination of taxi, motorcycle, and minibus rides.
The statement said that officers found them in a minibus in the New Cairo district on Thursday, and that the men opened fire when the officers approached.
Duduzane Zuma's Porsche sports car collided with a minibus taxi on a highway in Johannesburg in February 2014, killing a woman and injuring at least one other.
However, a separate minibus design in the patent resembles the electric microbus concept, dubbed the BUDD-E, that Volkswagen showed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
They boarded a white minibus, and were joined by a band of men from the Caucasus whose wild red beards made them appear, said Lladrovci, "like lions".
Those funds are set to be included in a "minibus" measure combining four security-related appropriations bills that's scheduled for a vote in the House this week.
So far, roughly three-quarters of the spending has been bundled into three "minibus" packages being negotiated — or set for future negotiation — between the House and Senate.
When I get to the meeting spot there's no one around except one guy and a small car where I expected a minibus typical of small-group tours.
The Changzhou police said via its Weibo account that two people in a minibus which crashed were pronounced dead at the scene, while the third victim died later.
Sources said police apprehended a man they believe parked the bomb-laden car and detonated it when a minibus carrying police officers passed it on a busy street.
It will be "very difficult" to determine the exact cause of the fire, given the damage to the minibus, Plainview Fire Department Deputy Chief Robert Salerno tells PEOPLE.
Jiang said production of the minibus and the MPV cars are due to start gradually in 2016 at the Tianjin factory, which he said is already half-completed.
If she didn't have money to take a minibus to the court, she asked neighbors for help or called teammates to see if anyone could pick her up.
A Warner spokesperson confirmed to The Hill the amendment would be added to the minibus appropriations bill for the Departments of Defense, Labor, and Health and Human Services.
In addition to the so-called minibus, legislation that would make changes to the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate is expected to come to the floor this week.
The first of three FY-19 minibus appropriations packages, the legislation includes funding bills for Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Energy and Water Development, and the legislative branch.
After passing the "minibus" $854 billion spending bill, which includes funding for the Department of Health and Human Services, the Senate announced no more votes until next week.
Senators voted 85-7 to pass bill the third "minibus" package of year, which includes funding for the Defense Department, Health and Human Services, Labor and Education. Sens.
The first minibus is expected to include the two largest of the 12 annual appropriations bills: the Defense bill, and the Labor, Health, Human Services and Education bill.
The Senate has passed nine of the 85033 individual funding bills, but has yet to get a deal on any of the "minibus" funding packages with the House.
A minibus with bullet holes on its side is seen on the road between Weenen and Colenso, in KwaZulu Natal province, South Africa, early Sunday, July 22, 2018.
The big picture: This week, the Senate will begin working to pass its third "minibus" of appropriations bills, which includes funding for defense, labor and health care programs.
Hoyer pans 'minibus' spending strategy: House Republican leaders pushing for a series of smaller spending bills in December might not get any help from across the aisle. Rep.
At least eight people, most of them women and children, were said to have been killed on Monday when their minibus came under fire on a rural road.
So the shutdown impact will be limited -- if lawmakers can agree on the third minibus, more than 90% of the government would be funded through the fiscal year.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Wanjiku, a Kenyan land rights activist, stepped out of the minibus and into the night, two other passengers pushed her into a nearby car.
Officials initially said it was caused by a bomb packed into a minibus but later said the explosives were in two containers stored in an area of mechanics workshops.
The money is funding renovations to the club house, with a new television and a better kitchen, as well as a new minibus and uniforms for Agen&aposs players.
Last Friday, however, in response to some pestering by automotive website Jalopnik, Musk admitted that Tesla is planning to build an EV minibus based upon the Model X platform.
The video is roughly 12 minutes of raw footage he captured on April 18 as he was traveling in minibus from downtown Pyongyang, the country's capital, toward the airport.
Lawmakers from both chambers are in the process of negotiating another two minibus spending packages, which together would cover six spending bills and the vast majority of discretionary spending.
There is a blackened steel hot tub on the terrace and a clamshell-shaped, fur-lined white plastic sofa as big as a VW minibus in the sitting room.
Zabihullah Shuja, spokesman for Baghlan police, said the engineers were traveling to a government-run power station in a minibus when unknown gunmen abducted them and their Afghan driver.
The so-called security "minibus," which includes four spending bills (as opposed to a 12-bill omnibus), is slated to open for debate on the House floor on Wednesday.
By the end of the decade, the 16-seater minibus taxis, known as "combis," were ubiquitous across the country, particularly in townships and rural homelands established for black people.
Over the next hour, the armed men burned a minibus, an excavator, and other equipment belonging to Nylyumar Forestry — Hidalgo's employer and a subcontractor for Chilean timber giant Celulosa Arauco.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed 10 people in a minibus in southern Somalia on Thursday, a military officer and residents said, blaming Islamist militants who denied planting the device.
Struggling to make its way through the steep, rugged mountain roads in the gloom, the minibus briefly ground to a halt and had to be pushed onwards by helping hands.
He said his Able-Ride minibus, part of NICE's paratransit service for people with disabilities, had passed its morning inspection and showed no problems during his shift, according to Newsday.
None of those other vehicles, however, is as dirty, dangerous and uncomfortable as the jeepney, a Frankenstein's monster of a minibus that was first cobbled together some 70 years ago.
The ID.R is part of VW's electric "family" of cars, which includes an electric dune buggy, minibus, SUV, hatchback, sedan, and others slated to arrive in the next few years.
In a separate incident in the same street late on Tuesday, three people died when a minibus became engulfed in flames, TASS news agency reported citing the local government office.
Those funds are set to be included in a "minibus" measure combining four security-related appropriations bills that's scheduled for a vote in the House this week: http://bit.ly/2vCghjz.
Later, the House passed the compromise bill for military construction and veterans' affairs, the legislative branch and energy and water funding, sending the first so-called minibus to Trump's desk.
As transport to the Kenzo party, a chauffeured Mercedes minibus pulled up to the curb of the Nomo Hotel in Soho where she and her mother, Elizabeth Blanchard, were staying.
On a different day, I set out with 10 fellow cruise passengers in a rented white minibus (my share was $10) for 27 Charcos, the waterfalls of the Damajagua river.
Thanksfully, Congress maintained WaterSMART funding levels for the next fiscal year in its just-passed "minibus" spending bill, along with additional funding for extreme drought and other Colorado Basin programs.
"I grew up with frozen peas, because that's what you do," he replies, as I'm thrown around the backseat of the minibus like a ping pong ball in a tombola.
Another controversial decision by Mr. Abrahams was his refusal to charge Duduzane Zuma with culpable homicide after he crashed his Porsche into a minibus taxi in 2014, killing two people.
The man thought to have triggered the outbreak — who was initially assumed to have malaria — died in August after he rode minibus taxis through two major cities, spreading the disease.
We were taken from the airport in a minibus directly to monumental statues of the men, referred to as "the generals," on Mansu Hill in the center of the city.
Most of the people killed or wounded in the bombing on Monday worked for the Afghan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum and were commuting in a minibus from western Kabul.
"A cycling journey may be shorter than a (minibus) taxi if a commuter's destination is off the taxi route and the last mile element is a long walk," he said.
The remaining eight measures will comprise the second "minibus," including: Agriculture-FDA, Labor-HHS-Education, Energy-Water, Interior-Environment, State-Foreign Operations, Transportation-HUD, Military Construction-VA and Legislative Branch.
Democrats, who hold enough Senate votes to filibuster any spending bill, have panned Ryan's minibus strategy, fearing that Republicans will use it to cut Democratic priorities while boosting defense spending.
The video is roughly 12 minutes of raw footage he captured on April 103 as he was traveling in a minibus from downtown Pyongyang, the country's capital, toward the airport.
The contest has been held inside a fortified compound for the last two series after the Taliban last year killed seven Tolo employees in a suicide attack on a staff minibus.
Go Move, in which it holds a 40 percent state, to produce an electric van which can be used as a delivery vehicle or a minibus for up to 15 people.
UVALDE, Texas – Prosecutors in Texas say the driver of a pickup truck that struck a church minibus on a rural highway last year, killing 13 people, is not contesting manslaughter charges.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A minibus packed with migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran crashed and burst into flames in eastern Turkey, killing 17 people, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Friday.
Hamilton says multiple people on his team were held at gunpoint, and a Mercedes official tells us a team minibus was held up and robbed ... but everyone is safe and uninjured.
Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN)At least 18 schoolchildren were killed when a minibus and a truck collided north of the South African capital of Pretoria on Friday, emergency services authorities said.
"They (the YPG) threatened us, told us they'd shoot at us, even though they're our people," she said in the back of the minibus that had brought her to the camp.
Authorities in Sao Jose dos Cordeiros send a battered Fiat to take her the 2523 km of rough dirt track into town, where she catches a minibus for the distant clinic.
See ONE BOX OF SUSHI IN THE STUDIO WITH VINCE STAPLES ALICE McCOOL London-born Alice McCool is currently making her way through southern and eastern Africa in a converted minibus.
McConnell argued that Congress should pass a minibus appropriations package of seven spending bills instead of a short-term stopgap that would simply punt the funding negotiations until early next year.
The minibus carrying the contractors was traveling through the eastern part of Kabul when it was attacked by a bomber wearing an explosive belt and traveling on foot, security officials said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing police on Thursday blamed poor driving for an accident in a northern part of the city, where four people were killed when a minibus drove into a market.
The Crozz joins at least two other vehicles on the new I.D. line — including the Buzz, an all-electric redesign of Volkswagen's iconic bread-loaf-shaped minibus popularized in the 1960s.
Mohamed Aden Bare, who told Reuters he was the brother of the minibus driver, said his brother was a civilian and the others aboard the bus were farmers and local residents.
But rank-and-file Republicans, from the conservative House Freedom Caucus to the moderate Tuesday Group, say the strategy to break up the spending bill into "minibus" packages is wishful thinking.
Transportation is part of a second  "minibus" package awaiting House and Senate negotiation, though two officials acknowledged the high level of spending associated with it was unsettling to the White House.
Republicans' decision to include only a short-term VAWA reauthorization in the must-pass minibus spending bill is nothing short of an abdication of our responsibilities to women in our country.
They have yet to pass a budget for the fiscal year that begins seven weeks from now, and while the House has passed a "minibus" appropriations bill that rolled four of the 6900 annual appropriations bills into one, they've yet to pass any of the other eight; the Senate, on the other hand, will almost assuredly discard that "minibus," and has yet to even consider, let alone pass, any appropriations for the 2628 fiscal year that begins October 28503.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Six people, including two Turkish nationals, were killed when unidentified gunmen attacked a minibus carrying workers to a Turkish-run hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police said.
Major crashes involving multiple fatalities are relatively uncommon in Britain but eight people died in August when two trucks and a minibus collided at the start of a busy bank holiday weekend.
In 2014, police cleared Umbrella Movement protesters from Mong Kok district not by exercising public order powers, but by enforcing a civil injunction obtained by private actors like minibus and taxi companies.
A woman in a black, all-covering niqab, sitting in a minibus with her six kids, screamed at the uniformed security forces at the checkpoint, trying to strike them through the window.
And it's true that the debut of a sexy electric minibus concept is probably a crass marketing exercise timed to distract attention from VW's spiraling dieselgate disaster, and I'm falling for it.
The news comes the same day that the House voted down an amendment in the 'minibus' appropriations bill that would have increased funding for the Interior Department's IG office by $2.5 million.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said a suicide bomber attacked the minibus in the Darul Aman area, and was followed almost immediately by a car bomber, who killed security forces attending the scene.
The House will vote Wednesday on a so-called minibus — a funding package that provides money for the Pentagon, as well as the departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services.
People can now pay for journeys on the city's tube, bus and overground rail network using contactless cards or their smartphone, although contactless payment is not available on board the minibus pilots.
The news comes the same day that the House voted down an amendment in the 'minibus' appropriations bill that would have increased funding for the Interior Department's IG office by $2.5 million.
Those include Interior and Environment; Financial Services; Housing and Urban Development; and Agriculture -- which have already been passed as a "minibus" in the Senate, but it hasn't been completed in the House.
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Eight people died when two lorries and a minibus collided on one of Britain's main motorways early on Saturday at the start of a busy bank holiday weekend, police said.
Shawn has never taken a minibus again and, like all transgender men interviewed by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, said he now leads a secluded life - mostly avoiding public spaces and social situations.
House Democrats are aiming to finalize all the funding measures at once, waiting for all the bills grouped into minibus packages to be agreed upon before sending them to the White House.
Yet since its inception in the 1980s, South Africa's minibus taxi industry has been governed in large part by violence, with documented links to political assassinations and other forms of organized crime.
Musk said last year in its second quarter earnings report that the company would be unveiling the Tesla Semi as well as a Model X-based Tesla minibus at some point in 2017.
Multiple Democratic aides say they see no other path this week to remove the Hyde amendment ahead of a final vote Thursday on the package of spending bills, also known as a minibus.
Minibus taxis, which run without a specified route or schedule, accounted for nearly 70% of all public transport trips in the country in 20193, according to the most recent National Household Travel Survey.
Activists with relatives in the area said many of the young men in the blown-up minibus had come from work in the nearby al-Omar field, one of Syria's largest oil fields.
YELENOVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) - A minibus hit a landmine while crossing the border between Ukraine and the breakaway Donetsk region on Saturday, killing two civilians and injuring a third, local authorities and witnesses said.
The Egyptian Interior Ministry said in a statement that four assailants had fired on the unmarked police minibus as it passed through Helwan, an industrial center on the southern edge of greater Cairo.
The legislative branch funding bill, usually among the least controversial of the pack, was stripped out of an earlier "minibus" spending package because of disagreements over whether Congress should increase its own pay.
His team was part of a consortium of British and Brazilian scientists who traveled across Brazil in a minibus, analyzing samples of the virus using Oxford Nanopore Technologies' pocket-sized MinION DNA sequencer.
When he got his money, Erick Odhiambo Madoho walked to the cow-dotted local highway nearest the village and took a matatu, a shared minibus, overloaded with 20 passengers, down to Lake Victoria.
CAPE TOWN — The minibus taxi was traveling down a quiet rural road in eastern South Africa on Saturday night, when gunmen with automatic weapons opened fire, killing 11 people and critically injuring four.
The police also came knocking last week for Fang Bin, who has been posting videos from Wuhan hospitals, including footage of body bags piled in a minibus, waiting to be carted to a crematorium.
SAO PAULO, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Armed robbers held up a Mercedes Formula One team minibus outside the Brazilian Grand Prix circuit in Sao Paulo on Friday night but nobody was hurt, a spokesman said.
"I need to go and see with my own eyes ... that there is something there for me," he said, after a grueling journey aboard a battered minibus over dirt tracks winding through Ivorian forests.
The first of the so-called "minibus" packages covers defense spending as well as the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education bill, which combined make up a large share of Congress's annual spending.
The Islamist militant Afghan Taliban movement, which immediately claimed responsibility for the Kabul attack, said its target had been a minibus carrying staff from the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistan's main intelligence agency.
CAIRO — Unidentified gunmen sprayed bullets on a police minibus as it passed through a Cairo district early on Sunday, killing eight plainclothes officers in an ambush that was later claimed by the Islamic State.
Olli is a new autonomous electric minibus powered by IBM's famously friendly AI. The 12-passenger vehicle is manufactured right here in the US, using 3D-printing facilities at Local Motors' plant outside Phoenix.
EDINBURGH, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Several people died when two lorries and a minibus collided on Britain's main north-south motorway early on Saturday at the start of a busy bank holiday weekend, police said.
PARIS (Reuters) - A minibus traveling from Switzerland to Portugal collided with a lorry in central France on Thursday night, killing its 12 passengers and leaving four others injured, local authorities said in a statement.
The first three spending measures — covering the legislative branch, energy and water, and military construction and veterans' affairs — were combined into one "minibus" bill, different versions of which passed in the House and Senate.
A suicide car bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 16 people including a group of women and children packed into a minibus outside an Iraqi town on Monday morning, police and hospital sources said.
But there were no tests, and after a short interval the militants ordered them onto a minibus waiting outside, which had been smeared with mud to prevent passengers looking out or anyone seeing in.
It includes a minibus tour stopping off at various points across the city, with opportunities to take some photos alongside the murals and hear a bit more about the history of street art locally.
But the formula seems likely to reemerge during the post-election lame-duck session, when Ryan and GOP leaders are vowing a series of "minibus" spending bills to extend 2900 funding through next September.
When was the last time an American bad guy managed to escape by grabbing an assault rifle, sitting down next to a schoolboy on a minibus and pretending to be the hired security guard?
The ID Buzz electric minibus will come with two options: a higher-end, all-wheel drive that can drive 270 miles before charging and a less expensive model that can go 200 miles before recharging.
More than 20 people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan on Monday, including at least 14 when a suicide bomber struck a minibus carrying Nepali security contractors in the capital Kabul, officials said.
" Specifically, the provision in the minibus says the Trump administration "may withdraw the Waters of the United States rule without regard to any provision of statute or regulation that establishes a requirement for such withdrawal.
This proved true recently as the Senate "minibus" spending bill, H.R. 6147, was passed with language prohibiting the use of federal dollars from subsidizing Chinese state-owned enterprises that are increasingly targeting American rail manufacturing.
In one of the worst, in 2012, the group claimed responsibility for sending a bomber to blow up a minibus carrying flight attendants for a charter company that served the American Embassy, killing 14 people.
The bomber blew up an explosives-laden minibus at the entrance to the camp in Chahar Asyab district, killing the four special forces members and wounding another three, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said there's a small chance Democrats could support the minibus strategy — but only if they were given assurances that parts of the budget aren't shortchanged in the process.
"I'm excited to be in Cairo to launch Uber Bus, a product that will improve affordable transportation for millions of Egyptians by using Uber's technology to enhance the popular minibus system," Khosrowshahi said in blog post.
As the remnants of the minibus bounced, rolled, and finally came to rest at the foot of a low embankment, three of his limbs were scythed off, his cheeks peppered with shards of blue vehicle paint.
According to those unconfirmed reports, the three men were killed in a shootout on New Year's Day near the scene of the blast as they tried to break out of a police cordon in a minibus.
Many are desperate to go home, turning up at dawn at Maiduguri's minibus taxi rank to take their chances on the Bama road, only to be turned back by soldiers on the outskirts of the city.
A parked car laden with explosives was detonated by remote control as a minibus carrying the police officers turned a corner on a busy street, the sources said, adding that civilians were also among the wounded.
Tesla released its second quarter earnings this evening, and during the subsequent investor call CEO Elon Musk put a more specific timetable on the company's recently announced plans for making an electric semi truck and minibus.
Minibus The House is slated to take up an $854 billion spending bill that would fund the Department of Defense — a top priority for the GOP — the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.
"Republicans' decision to include only a short-term VAWA reauthorization in the must-pass minibus spending bill is nothing short of an abdication of our responsibilities to women in our country," she said in her letter.
That same day, according to Reuters, al-Baghdadi and his family left their compound by minibus, for the last time — perhaps the "actionable intelligence" Pence mentioned that allowed US forces to embark on the Saturday operation.
The conference meeting to iron differences on the first "minibus" package of three spending bills was canceled in early July over disagreements on how to fund a veteran's health program, and has yet to be rescheduled.
Related: Kenya College Reopens Months After Al Shabaab Attack Killed 148 Six people, including two Turkish nationals, were killed when the unidentified gunmen attacked a minibus carrying workers to a Turkish-run hospital, according to police.
A parked car laden with explosives was detonated by remote control as a minibus carrying the police officers turned a corner on a busy street, the officials said, adding that civilians were also among the wounded.
And in urban slums in cities like Lagos, Nigeria, where people are crowded into cramped housing and pack into minibus taxis to travel to work they can't afford to miss, social distancing is all but impossible.
It's a day's trek, by minibus from the little town of Bontoc, then by foot up and down steep hillsides and across fragile rope bridges, then teetering along thin strips of earth that divide the paddies.
It called on drivers to reduce the number of passengers in minibus taxis from 15 to 10, and in smaller taxis to no more than three, instead of the five or six who crammed in previously.
A neighbor ran out, shoeless, and tried, unsuccessfully, to flag down motorbike taxis fleeing the scene before catching a minibus to the hospital, cradling the baby's bleeding arm attached by only a thin piece of skin.
Instead, Republicans will vote on a scaled-back, security-focused "minibus," though skeptical appropriators warn that it will be ignored by the Senate, requiring another dreaded short-term stopgap measure in September to avert a shutdown.
The package -- which groups multiple spending bills together in what's called a "minibus" -- was approved overwhelmingly by the Senate last week, but there still remains a degree of uncertainty whether the President will actually sign it.
"A minibus of around 15 civilian-dressed, armed security personnel arrived at 1pm and arrested him, then searched his house and took his personal belongings without showing us the legal permit for that procedure," she added.
That minibus which the Senate did succeed in passing in an 84-9 vote, wraps together four of the dozen appropriations bills that fund the government — Agriculture-FDA, Commerce-Justice-Science, Interior-Environment and Transportation-HUD.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Sobbing and weeping relatives of 12 Nepali nationals who were killed when a suicide bomber struck a minibus in Kabul received the bodies of their loved ones on Wednesday after they were flown from Afghanistan.
It's the first in what House and Senate Republicans plan as a series of minibus measures that would allow Congress to avoid a years long habit of passing nearly all federal spending in one massive omnibus package.
ANKARA, April 29 (Reuters) - Czech soccer player Josef Sural from Turkey's top tier Aytemiz Alanyaspor was killed after a minibus carrying players from the club crashed while returning from an away match, the club said on Monday.
This week, Congress unveiled what they are calling a "minibus" — a small package of spending bills (a mini omnibus bill) that would fund the Energy Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the legislative branch of government.
Trump has started the process of undoing that rule—and the minibus bill contains a provision that critics say is intended to make sure neither the public nor the legal system can interfere with that repeal process.
On June 20, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives next to a minibus shuttling Nepalese and Indian security guards to work at the Canadian Embassy, in one of the deadliest attacks on foreign contractors in the capital.
At our first stop, just above the village of Pongo, Moe encouraged everyone to lean over the edge of the cliff to see a minibus that had plummeted down the mountain several years ago, killing everyone onboard.
Mechanics and other staff travel to and from the track by minibus or rental cars, with the road passing alongside a slum favela with a number of traffic lights leaving vehicles vulnerable when they slow or stop.
On Friday morning, Sara Aleksieska, 18, a high-school student from neighboring Macedonia, got onto a packed minibus in the country's capital, Skopje, with her sister and a friend to travel for two hours to the festival.
They take a shared minibus (with "LET'S DRIVE FAST, WE'RE IN A HURRY" painted on the side), bouncing along dirt roads with a huge-eyed, bewildered sheep tied to the roof atop a giant pile of luggage.
Last month, as if to prove its continued vitality, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for a minibus bombing that killed a dozen people near the entrance to a Shiite pilgrimage site in the Iraqi city of Karbala.
KABUL/JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomb targeted a minibus of recruits for the Afghan security forces in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 27, local government sources said.
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed and 15 were seriously injured in Guatemala when a minibus came off the edge of a road and plunged down a ravine, an emergency services official said on Wednesday.
The collision occurred in the southbound lane of the M1 motorway, near the English town of Newport Pagnell, 50 miles (80 km) northwest of London.. The minibus was believed to have travelled from the Nottingham area, police said.
To avoid having those Republicans who oppose the measure vote on it directly House Republican leaders tucked it into a procedural measure that set the debate plan for the so-called "minibus" funding bill for several federal agencies.
Start in Oaxaca City (eat and drink your way through the sprawling markets and mezcalerias), and then take a very short flight or longer minibus ride down to the coast for surfing, swimming and whale-watching. 4. Cuba.
One hot January several years ago, when I lived in Accra, Ghana, I boarded a minibus headed west to Winneba, home of Ghana's National Sports College and site of the I.T.F.'s West and Central African Junior Championships.
Despite the lack of a budget, the House already passed four spending bills in July, and is moving toward passing the remaining eight this week, beginning debate on amendments for the "minibus" on Wednesday afternoon. http://bit.ly/2f3RT3Z.
ETHIOPIA HAS &aposNO OPTION&apos BUT MULTIPARTY DEMOCRACY, PM SAYS Minibus taxis are the most popular form of transport in South Africa, violence is common by rival groups vying for dominance on profitable routes, according to Sky News .
KINSHASA, March 24 (Reuters) - Chloe climbs out of his yellow minibus taxi to admonish a mob of commuters crowding the pavement in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, where authorities are trying to prevent overcrowding to fight the coronavirus.
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Thirty-two schoolchildren, two teachers and a minibus driver were killed in Tanzania on Saturday when their vehicle plunged into a ravine in the northern tourist region of Arusha, a senior police official said.
Mohammada Khan, 42, a truck driver, said in a telephone interview that he had lost six members of his family — including two children and two women — in the airstrike, which hit a minibus in which they were fleeing.
What will be funded by the continuing resolution: The President has already signed into law a $147 billion "minibus" package of bills that included military construction and Veterans Affairs; the legislative branch; and energy and water appropriations bills.
In the early hours of the morning, Claudia had stood at a gasoline station some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from her impoverished mountain village of San Antonio Secortez, waiting to meet the white minibus that bore her daughter's body.
EDINBURGH, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Eight people died and another four were injured when two lorries and a minibus collided on one of Britain's main north-south motorways early on Saturday at the start of a busy bank holiday weekend.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A car bomb targeting senior officials leaving a military base in Mogadishu killed at least 15 people and destroyed a minibus carrying civilians, the Somali military said on Sunday, an attack claim by Islamist al Shabaab militants.
HANOI (Reuters) - Thirteen people were killed and four injured when a minibus carrying guests on the way to a wedding in central Vietnam collided head-on with a large container truck on Monday, the government said in a statement.
"To get rid of your preconceived ideas about Montgomery, you need a fresh pair of eyes," she said on a recent tour, doling out red cat-eye sunglasses, her signature look, to travelers boarding her open-sided electric minibus.
The other "minibus" holds eight bills to fund the departments of Agriculture, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Energy, Interior, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs and State, as well as the EPA, congressional operations and water projects.
Earlier this month, Zhu and her team published a map that visualizes 137 minibus routes alongside official rail and bus networks—a crucial first step in making public transit simpler for citizens to navigate and easier for cities to improve.
According to the 2014 National Household Travel Survey, minibus taxis are the main means of transport for 68 percent of households in Gauteng province with private cars, buses and trains making up much of the rest of the city's transport.
To get a restraining order, for example, a woman in Diepsloot will have to pay 26 rand ($2) for a round trip by minibus-taxi to the nearest magistrates' court—a lot of money for a woman with no job.
DAR ES SALAAM, May 6 (Reuters) - Thirty-two schoolchildren, two teachers and a minibus driver where killed in Tanzania when their vehicle plunged into a roadside ravine in the northern tourist region of Arusha on Saturday, a senior police official said.
In the Kenyan capital Nairobi, seven out of 10 people either spend an hour walking to work or on a minibus, which means they can only reach about 20 percent of the city's potential jobs, the Bank said in a report.
The crowd in the town of Butembo, which is dominated by members of the Nande ethnic group, said the two ethnic Hutu women who were traveling by minibus in North Kivu province were militants, mayor Sikuli Uvasaka Makala told local radio.
Ford is working on other iterations of the concept minibus that increase energy savings and extend battery-electric driving range, including features that would allow the driver to control heating and cooling of individual seats — and deactivation of unoccupied seats.
Now headed to the Senate, the "minibus" bill contains a $37.6 billion "energy and water" plan with myriad cuts and provisions that environmental groups loathe, no more so than the attempt to undo the Waters of the United States rule.
While Congress just passed a "minibus" spending bill that included key policy provisions to sustain the Colorado River Basin, that is just one of several critical opportunities for Congress to safeguard the drinking water and livelihoods of millions of Americans.
Sometimes as a passenger in an S.U.V. facing an oncoming minibus crammed with people and careening madly down the wrong side of the road (the right lane) and trying to switch to the right side (the left) at the last minute.
Kicked out of school in 11th grade for misbehaving, he worked a series of odd jobs: at a factory grinding maize to make the staple dish ugali and as a conductor on a minibus, or matatu, in charge of collecting fares.
Half a dozen guests including a baby in a pram exited the H10 Costa Adeje Palace south of Tenerife, and underwent temperature scans and disinfection in the back of the hotel before boarding a 15-seater minibus, the video showed.
KABUL/JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Oct 7 (Reuters) - A suicide bomb targeted a minibus of recruits for the Afghan security forces in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring 27, a local government source said.
According to South Africa's 2014 National Household Travel Survey, shared minibus taxis are the main means of transport for 42 percent of households in Johannesburg, with private cars, buses and trains making up much of the rest of the city's transport.
Following the Senate's passage of a four-bill minibus in October, House Appropriations Chair Nita Lowey (D-NY) called on lawmakers to begin the conference process that allows the two chambers to negotiate on a final version of the bill.
The package is a so-called minibus, meaning it puts together three different spending bills (of the 12) that cover a sizable chunk of government, including military construction, the Veterans Affairs department, energy and water development and the legislative branch.
KABUL (Reuters) - More than 20 people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan on Monday, including at least 14 who died when a suicide bomber struck a minibus carrying Nepali security guards working at the Canadian embassy in Kabul, officials said.
Read: Dozens killed in Kabul in Taliban attack Seven of the channel's employees, including some working on TOLO's version of American Idol -- Afghan Star -- were killed on January 20 as they were ferried home from work when a suicide bomber targeted their minibus.
Out of the 20153 million electric vehicles currently on the road, more than 260,000 are on Didi Chuxing's platform, which has 450 million users and 21 million drivers, and includes a ride-hailing app, as well as taxi, minibus and car rental services.
Again, the internal splits forced them to move to Plan B. Late Tuesday night they announced they were moving ahead on a "minibus" spending bill focused on money for the military, the border wall the president wants to build, and veterans programs.
The 27-year-old had previously suffered serious injuries when she was hit by a minibus in 2009, being placed in a medically-induced coma, but battled back to win Olympic gold in the track cycling team sprint at London in 2012.
While the minibus covers items that tend to be less controversial than those dealing with border security, health and labor, Democrats were upset by provisions in the bills they say cut funding from clean energy initiatives and expand gun rights on public land.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Four people were killed when a minibus drove into a market in a northern part of Beijing and many others have sustained injuries, the city's police said on Wednesday, but they did not suggest it was a militant-related incident.
While the minibus covers items that tend to be less controversial than those dealing with border security, health and labor, Democrats were upset by provisions in the bills they say cut funding from clean energy initiatives and expand gun rights on public land.
Lost in the news of President Trump's budget-punt last week is the smorgasbord of cheap-labor measures sitting in the now-delayed FY2018 "minibus" spending bill, or measures designed to ramp up foreign imports and drive down American blue-collar wages.
The VW Type 2 minibus, icon of the hippies, is technically still produced today, though the modern VW T vans look nothing like the bulbous buses you picture with surfboards on the roof, guitars in the rear, and hair flowing out the windows.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who sits on the committee, noted that the controversy threatened the ability of the Senate to proceed with plans to pass at least one "minibus" package of several spending bills by the end of the month.
"Something is wrong with my health because I'm suffocating as I breathe," said Pitak Meesopa, a 58-year-old minibus driver who said that in the past year he had been suffering with an allergy and had to wear a mask frequently.
KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Shawn, a young transgender man, was sitting in a public minibus in the Ugandan capital, when an old schoolmate boarded and started loudly calling him by his former female name, astounding other passengers in the conservative east African nation.
"Something is wrong with my health because I'm suffocating as I breathe," said Pitak Meesopa, a 58-year-old minibus driver who said that in the past year he had been suffering with an allergy and had to wear a mask frequently.
" Hussein didn't make it far "among the powerful," winding up as a minibus driver and an errand boy for local toughs while his brother, Bolbol, "was no good as a replacement: His weakness and anxiety had never exactly endeared him to Abdel Latif.
In the past, "what we have seen is we go in with great intentions, we create opportunities to work things out, and at the end they don't get worked out and we fall back," one House GOP appropriator said of the minibus strategy.
AMMAN (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed and a number were wounded on Thursday when a bomb blast hit a minibus carrying workers employed in a major oil installation in eastern Syria run by a U.S.-backed Kurdish group, residents of the area said.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban suicide bomber attacked a minibus carrying Nepalese and Indian security contractors to work at the Canadian Embassy early Monday, killing 14 people in one of the deadliest attacks on foreign workers in the Afghan capital, the police and government officials said.
Under the "minibus" funding bill amendment, the Department of Health and Human Services would be required to withhold 85033 percent of federal funding for child welfare services from states that themselves withhold funding for organizations that require children be placed with heterosexual married couples.
BRIGHTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was nearly lunchtime at The Bevy in Brighton on the south coast of England, and pub regular Peter Hartley led a group of elderly people he had ferried by minibus from their homes for their weekly Friday Friends session.
The VW Beetle and the VW minibus became symbols of the small-is-beautiful esthetic of many in the post-war Baby Boom and the crescent shaped car was revived with the "New Beetle" of the late 1990s, which offered a built-in flower vase.
Add to that list a driverless minibus, which the tech company is creating in partnership with Russian truck maker Kamaz, NAMI, a government-funded research organization focused on the automotive industry and Daimler, which is already running its own separate tests with self-driving multi-rider transportation.
We feel like old friends after bouncing along in a minibus for just two days—including an impromptu side trip to watch teenagers fling themselves off a cliff into a crocodile-infested pool—and she is full of laughter and stories about the region and its inhabitants.
An elderly farmer living nearby, rake-thin with a weathered brown face, offers tea to the minibus of strange visitors, breaking off from his duties tending sheep on behalf of a sheikh of the Shammar tribe, a powerful Arab group that has good relations with the Kurds.
Over the weekend, the RSC found significant support among its members for considering all 220006 appropriations bills together as an omnibus bill ahead of the August recess, as opposed to considering the current "minibus" with just four of the bills, and putting the others off until September.
Out of the two million electric vehicles currently on the road in China, more than 260,000 are on its platform, it said, which overall has 450 million users and 21 million drivers, and includes a ride-hailing app, as well as taxi, minibus and car rental services.
"Yes, there is still radiation here," Mr. Matthews said as he drove a minibus to the sites where the Australian and British governments dropped seven bombs between 24 and 21956, which dotted the earth with huge craters and poisoned scores of Indigenous people and their descendants.
TENERIFE, Spain, Feb 28 (Reuters) - A small group of guests out of 130 cleared to leave the Tenerife hotel in its fourth day of quarantine over the coronavirus could be seen boarding a minibus on Friday, a video recorded by one of the remaining guests showed.
We feel like old friends after bouncing along in a minibus for just two days -- including an impromptu side trip to watch teenagers fling themselves off a cliff into a crocodile-infested pool -- and she is full of laughter and stories about the region and its inhabitants.
The fact that then-Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen had met with the "plaintiffs" in connection with what was supposedly a civil action brought by minibus and taxi operators strongly suggests that Yuen was using the suit as a fig leaf to conceal the suppression of peaceful protest.
One protester, Mikeyra Samuda, who earns $10.10 cleaning planes at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, said workers did not have enough equipment or supplies and worked in an unsafe environment, with up to 14 of her colleagues bussed to aircraft each day in an eight-seat minibus.
Cordaro's team, which drove 13 hours from Louisiana crammed into a single minibus, won despite seeing one of its best players, the dynamic forward Brandon Moss, miss a circus dunk attempt (he tried to rock the baby first) on a breakaway with five minutes left in a two-possession game.
Baidu will provide Apollo Minibus, a software product for autonomous bus vehicles, to Toyota's e-Palette vehicles in the future, and will work with the automaker to explore more uses of autonomous driving technologies, said Li Zhenyu, vice president of Baidu who is in charge of its intelligent driving unit.
The automaker will absorb Audi's Autonomous Intelligent Driving unit into what will become Argo AI's European headquarters in Munich, according to FT. The startup's first project will be self-driving cargo and passenger versions of VW's upcoming minibus, the I.D. Buzz, which was developed in conjunction with the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brand.
BUTEMBO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Two Hutu women were dragged out of a minibus, lynched and their bodies set on fire by a crowd in eastern Congo, the local mayor said on Wednesday, as inter-ethnic tensions in the region surge in the wake of massacres that have killed hundreds of civilians.
In addition to appropriating funds to the agency and attempting to reform aviation-related matters, the bill also provides $85033 billion in disaster relief for areas impacted by Hurricane Florence, which supplements the $8.8 billion in disaster recovery included in the minibus spending bill also expected to be passed in the House Wednesday.
"This GOP minibus is the first step in Republicans' plan to choke off funding increases for critical Democratic priorities for the health, education and economic well-being of America's working families later in the appropriations process," Democratic leadership wrote earlier in the week in a Dear Colleague letter urging a no vote.
Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) plans to bring four of these bills to the House floor next week as one bill, a miniature omnibus or "minibus" focused on security issues.
Perhaps knowing that he might not draw a warm welcome in a city where he received just 4 percent of the vote in 2016, Mr. Trump brought his own fan club in the form of a dozen Republican members of Congress who rode over from the White House in a minibus included in his motorcade.
And I think even for L5 it will probably happened with a more constrained environment, and probably now with part of the course, for example the first of four car rollout is the minibus, with more constrained routes and we have a street sweeping car vehicle that itself is very different from the passenger cars.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) has touted his preference for the "minibus" strategy for passing fiscal 2019 appropriations bills ahead of Sept.
Two years ago, in the same city, an activist drove a minibus laden with gas canisters into a cinema that was set to screen "Mathilde", a controversial film based on the love affair between a ballerina and Nikolai II (the last tsar, who was killed with his family in Yekaterinburg and is now an Orthodox saint).
Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the minority whip, said Tuesday that Democrats are opposed to the "minibus" strategy favored by Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) and the Republicans in the lame-duck session of Congress following the November elections.
Congress hopes to pass the 9 bills in three minibus packages alongside a CR for the three remaining bills, which include controversial items such as President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's proposed border wall.
"To live in Nairobi, it's very hard," Mr. Njoroge said recently in his home in Umoja, a dusty but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Nairobi where, within a short space of time, a fight broke out, a minibus with "Rock Gospel" stenciled on its side unloaded passengers, a man hawked grilled meat and a fashionably dressed woman crossed paths with a strutting rooster.
Congress sent its first "minibus" package to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's desk last week that included bills for military construction and veterans' affairs, the legislative branch and energy and water.
"Today's Homeland Security minibus maintains high numbers of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] detention beds and does not include restrictions to stop the Administration from robbing accounts across the government to fund its anti-immigrant agenda, which has denied the human dignity to thousands of families and resulted in rapes, kidnapping, mass suffering, and even death at our border," the group wrote in a statement ahead of the vote.
The preference of House Democrats, according to one aide involved in discussions, would be to pass all of the appropriations bills at the same time rather than pass a minibus and leave a showdown for later over a few controversial bills like the one for funding for Department of Homeland Security, which would no doubt include fights over the handling of the humanitarian crisis at the border and wall construction.
Patrick LeahyPatrick Joseph LeahyAppropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid House panel investigating decision to resume federal executions Graham moves controversial asylum bill through panel; Democrats charge he's broken the rules MORE (D-Vt.), the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, along with other Democratic cosponsors introduced an amendment to the "minibus" appropriations bill that would allocate an additional $250 million in election security grants to states, citing potential threats to upcoming elections.

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