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REYKJAVIK, Iceland,
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Call her the girl with no name. A 15-year-old is suing the Icelandic state for the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother. The problem? Blaer, which means “light breeze” in Icela...
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland,
Thursday, August 16, 2012
An Aeroflot plane carrying 256 people from New York to Moscow made an unscheduled landing in Iceland on Thursday following a report of a bomb on board, authorities said. The plane, an Ai...
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REYKJAVIK,
Monday, April 23, 2012
The leader of Iceland's government when the nation's banking system collapsed was convicted on Monday of one criminal charge, cleared on four others and faces no punishment, a special court announ...
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Copenhagen,
May 23, 2011
The main cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano swept north of Scandinavia on Monday, disrupting flights over Greenland, while a second, smaller plume stretched south toward the coasts of Sc...
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REYKJAVIK,
June 19, 2010
Iceland's Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the remains of chess legend Bobby Fischer can be exhumed for a paternity test to settle a dispute over his estate, public broadcaster RUV repo...
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London,
May 17, 2010
In a replay of last month’s travel chaos, Britain’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports as well as others in northern Britain, Scotland and Ireland have been closed until 0600 GMT Monday due...
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LONDON,
April 21, 2010
Europe’s busiest airport reopened on Tuesday as air traffic across the continent lurched back to life. But the gridlock created by Iceland’s volcanic ash plume was far from over:...
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PARIS,
April 20, 2010
Applause, cheers and whoops of joy rang out from New York to Asia to Paris on Tuesday as airplanes gradually took to the skies after five days of being grounded by the drifting volcanic ash...
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LONDON,
April 19, 2010
The aviation industry sharply criticized European governments on Monday for their handling of airport closures, saying there was “no coordination and no leadership” in the volcanic ash...
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London,
April 17, 2010
An unprecedented 17,000 flights were grounded as drifting volcanic ash cloud forced a no-fly-zone over almost whole of Europe shutting down major hubs including, London, Paris and Frankfurt, stran...
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SYDNEY,
April 17, 2010
Thousands of air passengers in Asia were stranded for a second day Saturday because of ash from an Icelandic volcano that paralyzed European airports. Australia’s Qantas cancell...
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NEW DELHI,
April 17, 2010
Flights to and from European countries will be severely disrupted because of drifting ash being spewed from a volcano in Iceland. Air India has cancelled all its eight flights to Nort...
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April 17, 2010
Those condemned by the ‘black report' on the financial meltdown will have only brief respite from Icelanders' volcanic anger.
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Brussels,
July 27, 2010
Iceland held its very first round of European Union membership talks on Tuesday, an event which participants on both sides labelled as historic.Iceland applied for EU membership in 2009 afte...
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Luxembourg,
June 8, 2010
” European Union countries on Tuesday thrashed out ways to toughen oversight of their finances to prevent a repeat of the debt crisis that is forcing many nations to make huge and painful bu...
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BERLIN,
April 21, 2010
The International Air Transport Association says disruptions to European air travel from the volcanic ash cloud have cost the industry at least $1.7 billion.IATA says airlines lost revenues...
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REYKJAVIK,
April 21, 2010
For all the worldwide chaos that Iceland’s volcano has already created, it may just be the opening act. Scientists fear tremors at the Eyjafjallajokull could trigger an even mor...
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LONDON,
April 19, 2010
Britain sent Royal Navy warships on Monday to rescue those stranded across the Channel by the volcanic ash cloud, and the aviation industry blasted European transport officials, claiming there was...
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BANGKOK,
April 19, 2010
Frustrated European travellers stranded overseas struggled to find alternate routes home, desperate for information on flights into the continent’s few airports not closed by a dangero...
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LONDON,
April 17, 2010
A lingering volcanic ash plume forced extended no-fly restrictions over much of Europe on Saturday, as Icelandic scientists warned that volcanic activity had increased and showed no sign of...
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LONDON,
April 17, 2010
Thick drifts of volcanic ash blanketed parts of rural Iceland as a vast, invisible plume of grit drifted over Europe, emptying the skies of planes and sending hundreds of thousands in search...
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LONDON,
April 17, 2010
There were no flights to and from Britain for the second consecutive day on Friday as restrictions around British airspace which has been hit by potentially dangerous volcanic ash drifting in from...
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AMSTERDAM,
April 16, 2010
European meteorologists say the cloud of volcanic ash is spreading southward over Europe and eastward into Russia at the speed of a car in city traffic.No one is ready to predict how far it...
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