2010年4月16日星期五

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Volcanic ash grounds flights across much of Europe (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 06:10 PM PDT

Passengers wait in the departure hall at the Vienna airport April 16, 2010. A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano spread out across Europe on Friday causing air travel chaos on a scale not seen since the Sept. 11 attacks and costing airlines hundreds of millions of dollars. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter BaderReuters - A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano spreading out across Europe is causing air travel chaos on a scale unseen since the Sept. 11 attacks and costing airlines hundreds of millions of dollars.

Flight disruptions in Europe get even worse (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Smoke and steam hangs over the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, early Thursday April 15, 2010, which has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. Volcanic ash drifting across the Atlantic forced the cancellation of flights in Britain and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, stranding thousands of passengers. Flights in and out of London Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, were halted, and the shutdowns and cancellations spread to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland. The volcano's smoke and ash poses a threat to aircraft because it can affect visibility, and microscopic debris can get sucked into airplane engines and can cause them to shut down.(AP Photo/Brynjar Gaudi)AP - Thick drifts of volcanic ash blanketed parts of rural Iceland on Friday as a vast, invisible plume of grit drifted over Europe, emptying the skies of planes and sending hundreds of thousands in search of hotel rooms, train tickets or rental cars.

Factbox: Impact of volcanic ash cloud on Europe (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 04:07 PM PDT

Smoke billows from a volcano in Eyjafjallajokull April 16, 2010. REUTERS/Ingolfur JuliussonReuters - The volcanic ash cloud making much of northern Europe a no-fly zone has hurt the prices of airline stocks, paralyzed air cargo delivery and disrupted business and leisure travel.

Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 04:06 PM PDT

A view of the farm Thorgeirsstadir, as smoke billows from a volcano in Eyjafjallajokull, April 16, 2010. A huge ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano spread out across Europe on Friday causing air travel chaos on a scale not seen since the Sept. 11 attacks and costing airlines hundreds of millions of dollars . REUTERS/Ingolfur Juliusson (ICELAND - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)Reuters - A thaw of Iceland's ice caps in coming decades caused by climate change may trigger more volcanic eruptions by removing a vast weight and freeing magma from deep below ground, scientists said on Friday.

Volcano illustrates world's interconnectedness (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Mike Diorio buys fish at the Fish King Seafood market Friday April 16, 2010 in Glendale, Calif. Deliveries of fish from overseas may be affected due to delayed supply flights from the ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A volcano erupts in Iceland, and the effects ripple around the globe: A mom in Romania frets about making her son's wedding in Texas. A florist in New York worries shipments won't arrive. Patients awaiting treatment in Nigeria have to wait another week for the doctors.

Turkish Cypriot poll clouds peace talks prospects (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 02:50 PM PDT

Turkish Cypriots play tables outside a National Unity party (UBP) house with a campaign poster of Presidential candidate Dervis Eroglu in the background in the Turkish occupied area of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, April 15, 2010. Turkish Cypriot elections will take place on Sunday, April 18. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)AP - Turkish Cypriots vote on Sunday for a new leader in an election cast as a choice between a dovish incumbent striving for reunification with rival Greek Cypriots and a hardline challenger seeking to bolster a breakaway state.

Polish funeral set to go ahead despite ash cloud (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 02:42 PM PDT

People recite the rosary as they hold photographs of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski while gathering on a square in front of Wawel Royal Castle after a silent march through the old city in Krakow April 15, 2010. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschReuters - The Polish president's funeral looks set to go ahead as planned on Sunday, at his family's insistence, despite a cloud of volcanic ash that has shut Europe's airports and may prevent world leaders attending.

Massive ash cloud shuts down Europe's skies (AFP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 02:35 PM PDT

A man rests his head on his suitcase after flights were cancelled in and out of Stansted Airport in Essex, eastern England. Millions of passengers were stranded Friday after a huge cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland swept across Europe, grounding thousands of flights in the biggest air travel shutdown since World War II.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Millions of passengers were stranded Friday after a huge cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland swept across Europe, grounding thousands of flights in the biggest air travel shutdown since World War II.

Kaczynski family wants state funeral held Sunday (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 02:29 PM PDT

Workers errect a cross on the stage an Pilsudski square on Friday, April 16, 2010 in Warsaw, Poland, where a commemoration ceremony for all plane crash victims is going to take place on Saturday. Polish President Lech Kaczynski who was killed in a plane crash in Russia is going to be buried in Krakow on Sunday. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - The family of late President Lech Kaczynski has urged that his state funeral be held Sunday in Krakow as planned, despite fears that a volcanic ash cloud emanating from Iceland may keep some world leaders from attending.

SAS warns of 2,500 temporary lay-offs due to grounded flights (AFP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 02:19 PM PDT

An SAS MD-80 and Boeing 737 aircrafts are parked at the gates at terminal 4 at Arlanda airport, north of Stockholm, in 2009. SAS warned it would temporarily lay off up to 2,500 employees in Norway starting Monday if flights halted due to a giant cloud of volcanic ash remained on the ground.(AFP/SCANPIX-HO/File/Johan Nilsson)AFP - Scandinavian airline SAS warned it would temporarily lay off up to 2,500 employees in Norway starting Monday if flights halted due to a giant cloud of volcanic ash remained on the ground.

Russia offers no clarity on US adoptions freeze (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 02:17 PM PDT

AP - Russian and U.S. officials gave birthday gifts Friday to the 8-year-old boy who was returned to Russia by his adoptive American mother, as Russia sent conflicting signals about whether all adoptions to the United States were now suspended.

Volcanic cloud casts pall over interwoven world (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 02:05 PM PDT

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.

McChrystal: too many contractors in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 12:08 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, talks with U.S. and NATO commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal and other NATO officers at the ISAF International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Omar Sobhani, Pool)AP - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan said Friday that the coalition depends too much on private-sector contractors, and insisted his forces are keeping close watch on the flow of Taliban fighters who are training in Iran.

Outsider could challenge UK's two-party system (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 10:40 AM PDT

Britain's political party leaders, from left, Nick Clegg, David Cameron and Gordon Brown, seen at the start of their first ever live televised political debate being broadcast to the nation, from the TV studios in Manchester, England, Thursday April 15, 2010. Pollsters predict that about half of the British electorate, some 20 million people, plan to watch the televised debate Thursday, ahead of the British General Election to be held May 6, 2010.(AP Photo / Ken McKay) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NOT TO BE RETAINED IN ARCHIVE AFTER MAY 14 2010 **AP - Britain's first-ever TV debate between candidates for prime minister was hyped as a showdown between an embattled incumbent and his main rival, but it was a political outsider who stole the show.

Pope's fifth anniversary mired in controversy (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 08:25 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI is presented with a birthday cake by members of the Papal Foundation, an American Catholic fundraising organization for papal charities, during a private audience at the Vatican, Friday, April 16, 2010. The Vatican doesn't officially celebrate popes' birthdays. But on Monday, the fifth anniversary of Benedict's election as pope, cardinals who live in Rome will offer him a luncheon in an ornate hall of the papal palace. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)AP - Soon after becoming pope, Benedict XVI flew to Germany to keep a promise to attend a church youth festival. Upon arrival, strong winds blew off his skull cap. The same day, on a boat bringing the pope down the Rhine, gusts toppled a cross from the bow, breaking one of its arms.

Bishop convicted for denying Holocaust (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 08:10 AM PDT

FILE- British Bishop Richard Williamson, second from left foreground, is escorted out of London's Heathrow airport by police and security officers after arriving on a flight from Argentina, in London, in this file photo dated Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009. Ultraconservative Bishop Williamson did not appear at the German court Friday April 16, 2010, where he is being tried for allegedly denying the Holocaust, which is a criminal offense in Germany. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, FILE)AP - A German court convicted ultraconservative British Bishop Richard Williamson on Friday of denying the Holocaust in a television interview.

Volcanic ash spreads high over Europe, Russia (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 07:32 AM PDT

Smoke and steam hangs over the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, Wednesday April 14, 2010, which has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. Volcanic ash drifting across the Atlantic forced the cancellation of flights in Britain and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, stranding thousands of passengers. Flights in and out of London Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, were halted, and the shutdowns and cancellations spread to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland. The volcano's smoke and ash poses a threat to aircraft because it can affect visibility, and microscopic debris can get sucked into airplane engines and can cause them to shut down.(AP Photo/Jon Gustafsson) ** ICELAND OUT **AP - A huge yet invisible cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland spread southward over Europe and eastward into Russia on Friday at the speed of a car in city traffic, meteorologists said.

Pope Benedict XVI turns 83, gets a cake (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 07:20 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI waves from the popemobile during his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. The Vatican has gone into full-fledged damage control mode in the priest sex abuse scandal ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's first foreign trip since it erupted. Officials are promising surprising new initiatives. The pope's personal secretary is speaking out. And bishops around the world are being told to report abuse cases to the police. The revved-up strategy comes as the Vatican tries to stem the damage from weeks of revelations about priests who raped and molested children, and the church officials who kept it quiet — before the pontiff's visit to Malta this weekend. Abuse victims on that majority Roman Catholic Mediterranean island are seeking a papal audience and apology. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI asked for prayers for the church Friday as he spent his 83rd birthday quietly working, treated to a cake but otherwise keeping to his schedule ahead of a weekend pilgrimage to Malta.

(AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 06:14 AM PDT

AP - German court convicts Bishop Williamson of incitement for denying Holocaust; issues fine.

Bosnian Army's ex-head, convicted of cruelty, dies (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 06:10 AM PDT

AP - Bosnian media are reporting that the wartime commander of the Bosnian Army, Gen. Rasim Delic, has died.

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