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Pope: killing of bishop won’t cloud Cyprus trip (AP)

June 4th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he boards a plane for Cyprus at Rome's Fiumicino airport, on Friday, June 4, 2010. Benedict XVI departed Friday on a sensitive three-day trip to Cyprus, a visit likely to be colored by shock over the killing in Turkey of a bishop who had been scheduled to meet with the pontiff. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - Pope Benedict XVI says he is “deeply saddened” by the killing of a Catholic bishop in Turkey but adds that the killing is not political and would not…

Volcanic ash cloud closes British airports (AP)

May 16th, 2010

Map shows the ash cloud over Europe from the volcano in IcelandAP - Civil aviation officials on Sunday said a drifting, dense cloud of volcanic ash is “rapidly encroaching” on British airspace, forcing the closure of airports in Northern Ireland.


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Irish airports reopen despite Atlantic ash cloud (AP)

May 7th, 2010

A plume of ash rises from a volcano erupting under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, Hvolsvollur, Iceland, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. A new wave of dense volcanic ash from Iceland snarled air traffic Wednesday in Ireland and Scotland and threatened to spill into the air space of England. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)AP - Ireland reopened its western airports Friday but warned that a 1,000-mile-long (1,600-kilometer-long) cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland was still lurking offshore.


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‘Massive’ ash cloud closing western Irish airports (AP)

May 7th, 2010

A plume of ash rises from a volcano erupting under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, Hvolsvollur, Iceland, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. A new wave of dense volcanic ash from Iceland snarled air traffic Wednesday in Ireland and Scotland and threatened to spill into the air space of England. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)AP - Iceland’s volcano has produced a 1,000-mile-wide (1,600 kilometer-wide) ash cloud off the west coast of Ireland that will force western Irish airports to shut down again Friday, the…

Lengthy eruption would put economy under a cloud (AP)

April 20th, 2010

A British Airways jet is parked at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Tuesday, April 20, 2010, in New York. Many European flights took to the skies Tuesday for the first time in days but the travel chaos was far from over: London's airports remained shut, a massive flight backlog was growing and scientists feared that history could repeat itself with yet another volcanic eruption in Iceland. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Even as Europe’s dormant airports sputter back to life, prudent travelers and businessmen should ask: What if Iceland’s volcano erupts again?


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Volcanic cloud casts pall over interwoven world (AP)

April 16th, 2010

A car is seen driving through the ash from the volcano eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, Friday April 16, 2010. The volcano erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air. Flights around the world have been canceled and passengers stranded as the ash cloud from the volcano affected operations at some of the world's busiest airports. (AP Photo/Omar Oskarsson)AP - A cloud of ash hovered over Europe on Friday, casting a pall over an interwoven world.


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Travel chaos as cloud of ash drifts over Europe (AP)

April 16th, 2010

People queue at the Eurostar train check-in desk at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris, Friday April 16, 2010. Paris' Charles de Gaulle and two-dozen other airports around France were being shut down over security concerns about ash from Iceland's spewing volcano. While Eurostar trains, that links France to Britain, across the English Channel weren't affected, the grounding of flights in Paris meant travelers rushed to book trains to London, and they filled up quickly. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - Volcanic ash sifted down on parts of northern Europe on Friday and thousands of planes stayed on the tarmac to avoid the hazardous cloud. Travel chaos engulfed major…

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