Apr 23 2010

Coast Guard: No oil leak from sunken rig off La. (AP)

Coast Guard: No oil leak from sunken rig off La.
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Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana, in this handout photograph taken on April 21, 2010 and obtained on April 22.  The oil drilling rig that had burned for 36 hours in the Gulf of Mexico sank Thursday as hopes dimmed for 11 missing workers and the risk of a major oil spill loomed, officials said.   Picture taken April 21, 2010. REUTERS/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER ENERGY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP – No oil appeared to be leaking after a drilling rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said Friday, though officials were trying to contain what spilled from the blast and prevent any threat to the coast’s fragile ecosystem.

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Apr 22 2010

Obama keeps up pressure for financial overhaul (AP)

Obama keeps up pressure for financial overhaul
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President Barack Obama and bipartisan Senate leaders discuss the Supreme Court vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Stevens in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Wednesday, April 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – President Barack Obama is taking his argument for stronger oversight of the financial industry to the place where the economic meltdown began. Without change on Wall Street, he says, America is doomed to repeat the past.

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Apr 22 2010

Obama keeps up pressure for financial overhaul (AP)

Obama keeps up pressure for financial overhaul
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President Barack Obama, right, and Vice President Joe Biden and bipartisan Senate leaders discuss the Supreme Court vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Stevens in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Wednesday, April 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – Ramping up pressure for a financial overhaul, President Barack Obama is heading to the place where the economic meltdown began to argue for stronger government oversight of the industry and to urge Congress to finish a regulatory bill quickly. Otherwise, he says, we are doomed to repeat the past.

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Apr 22 2010

Obama keeps up pressure for financial overhaul (AP)

Obama keeps up pressure for financial overhaul
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President Barack Obama and bipartisan Senate leaders discuss the Supreme Court vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Stevens in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Wednesday, April 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – President Barack Obama is taking his argument for stronger oversight of the financial industry to the place where the economic meltdown began. Without change on Wall Street, he says, America is doomed to repeat the past.

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Apr 21 2010

German airspace to be gradually reopened (AP)

German airspace to be gradually reopened
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A Jet2.com Boeing 757 take off from Newcastle International Airport, England, Tuesday, April 20, 2010.The flight has been put on to rescue 229 stranded passengers from Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP – Germany’s air traffic controllers gradually reopened the country’s airspace — the busiest in Europe — Wednesday after days of closures and limited activity, as stranded passengers finally saw hope of getting home.

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Apr 19 2010

Europe resumes some air travel despite volcano (AP)

Europe resumes some air travel despite volcano
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A passenger rests on her belongings in the departures area at Madrid's Barajas airport April 19, 2010. Large parts of Europe enforced no-fly rulings for a fifth day on Monday because of a huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano that has caused the worst air travel chaos since the September 11 attacks. REUTERS/Sergio Perez  (SPAIN - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT BUSINESS)AP – Europe began to emerge from a volcanic cloud Monday, allowing limited air traffic to resume and giving hope to millions of travelers stranded around the world when ash choked the jet age to a halt.

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Apr 18 2010

European airlines test skies, press to end ban (AP)

European airlines test skies, press to end ban
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Map shows the ash cloud over Europe from the volcano in IcelandAP – Major airlines that sent test flights into European air space found no damage Sunday from the volcanic ash that has paralyzed aviation over the continent, raising pressure on governments to ease restrictions that have thrown global travel and commerce into chaos.

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Apr 17 2010

Ash may hover for days over uncertain Europe (AP)

Ash may hover for days over uncertain Europe
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This aerial image shows the crater at the summit of the volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier Saturday April 17, 2010. A lingering volcanic ash plume forced extended no-fly restrictions over much of Europe Saturday, as Icelandic scientists warned that volcanic activity had increased and showed no sign of abating — a portent of more travel chaos to come. Although the ash plume has grown, a northerly wind was expected to allow enough visibility for scientists to fly over the volcano Saturday.    (AP Photo/Jon Gustafsson /Helicopter.is)  ** ICELAND OUT **AP – 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.

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Apr 16 2010

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

Travel chaos as cloud of ash drifts over Europe
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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 European cities and the U.N. warned of possible health risks from falling ash.

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Apr 16 2010

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

Travel chaos as cloud of ash drifts over Europe
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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 European cities and the U.N. warned of possible health risks from falling ash.

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