The Guardian reports that two unions representing London tube workers plan to announce a round of 24-hour strikes beginning the week of September 6. At issue is the London mayor's plan to eliminate 800 jobs and reduce the number of hours that 250 ticket offices are open.

Last Thursday we had this post about the anti-government protests in Bolivia that are getting more disruptive to commerce, tourism and everyday life in the southwestern province of Potosi.

Later that day, the U.S. State Department issued the following Travel Alert to alert Americans about this unstable social and security situations in several regions of the country.

Travel Alert from U.S. State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs:

Murat Karayilan, the top commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has given an interview to the Daily Telegraph (link below) in which he says the PKK is planning to alter its terror tactics against Turkey, and begin attacking large western cities and tourist resorts.

According to their press release, PandaLabs, the anti-malware laboratory of Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today published its annual security tips for consumers to stay safe and prevent falling victim to computer fraud this summer. According to Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs, "This year we ask users to take particular care with the information they share across social networks. This applies particularly to applications used to plan vacations or to locate people geographically through GPS devices, as this information could easily be used to break into homes."

The Kyiv Post has posted a list (link below) of tips for Westerners to follow when traveling to Ukraine. More specifically the advice addresses what you should and should not do if detained by Ukranian authorities.

The U.S. State Department will raise its fees on passports and passport cards effective July 13, 2010. If you're traveling internationally this summer, need your travel document, and you want to save some money, you'd better hurry up and get that application in.

For information on the new fees visit the State Department website here.

Search crews have located the wreckage of the airplane chartered by Sundance Resources that went missing Saturday during a flight from Cameroon to Republic of Congo. It is being reported that officials say none of the 11 people on board survived the crash, which happened just over the Cameroon border in Congo.

The plane was carrying Australian mining tycoon Ken Talbot and Sundance's entire board.