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Pakistan reopens Afghan border crossing NATO uses (AP)

October 10th, 2010

Local residents look to burning oil tankers after a militant attack in Mithri, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) east of Quetta, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Gunmen armed with a rocket torched 29 NATO oil tankers in southwestern Pakistan before dawn Saturday, the latest attack on the supply line for binternational/b troops in Afghanistan since Pakistani authorities closed a key border crossing amid a dispute with the United States. (AP Photo)AP - A customs official says Pakistan has reopened a key border crossing used by NATO to ship supplies into Afghanistan.


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Eiffel Tower reopens after bomb threat, evacuation (AP)

September 15th, 2010

Police officers stand in front of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, Tuesday Sept. 14, 2010. Paris' Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat. About 2,000 people were cleared from the 324 meter (1,063-ft.) monument on the banks of the Seine River, and police were checking it for suspicious objects. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - The Eiffel Tower has reopened a day after being evacuated because of a bomb threat from an anonymous caller.


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Russia reopens Belarus gas tap but dispute goes on (AP)

June 24th, 2010

President Dmitry Medvedev, left, and Russian gas monopoly Gazprom head, Alexei Miller meet at the Gorki presidential residence outside Moscow, Monday, June 21, 2010. Medvedev ordered the state-controlled gas monopoly Monday to cut gas supplies to ex-Soviet neighbor Belarus over its debt for Russian natural gas supplies. The order follows Medvedev's warning to Belarus last week to start paying off the $200 million debt to Gazprom or face cuts. Belarus has challenged the Russian claim and refused to pay. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press service)AP - Russia’s gas monopoly said Thursday it is resuming supplies to Belarus now that it has paid a near-$200 million bill, but the ex-Soviet neighbor is in turn threatening…

Japan reactor reopens after 1995 accident (AP)

May 6th, 2010

In this August 31, 2004 file photo, an aerial view shows Japan's Monju prototype fast breeder nuclear reactor in Tsuruga, central Japan. Japan restarted a costly fast-breeder nuclear reactor Thursday for the first time since it was shut down 14 years because of a major accident and cover-up. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ** JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA **AP - Japan restarted a costly fast-breeder nuclear reactor Thursday for the first time since it was shut down 14 years ago because of a major accident and cover-up.


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Austria reopens airspace, many flights canceled (AP)

April 19th, 2010

The volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier sends ash into the air Saturday, April 17, 2010. The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions Saturday that raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)AP - Austrian authorities have reopened the country’s airspace after volcanic ash forced its closure.


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London Jewish Museum reopens after major facelift (AP)

March 16th, 2010

A museum worker is seen around the galleries of the newly re-opened Jewish Museum after a two-year closure, in London, Tuesday March 16, 2010. The museum, which has expanded from a Victorian house in London's Camden Town to a former piano factory next door, tripling its floor space after a 10 million British pounds (15 million US dollars) expansion tells the 1,000-year history of Jews in Britain. The country's 300,000-strong Jewish community stretches back to 1066, when the first Jews arrived with William the Conqueror's invading Norman army. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - They are icons of Britain: a Victorian-era statesman, a World War I soldier-poet, fish and chips.


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