Volcanic ash closes Sicily airport
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Volcanic ash spewed from simmering Mount Etna on Friday, forcing authorities to close a nearby airport, officials said.
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The A-9 connects government and rebel territory. The government closed it Aug. 12 due to fighting.
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Lava poured down the slopes of a volcano on the tiny Sicilian island of Stromboli for a second day Wednesday as authorities continued to monitor eruption activity. There was no immediate danger to the few hundred Stromboli residents, according to experts who flew over the island by helicopter and studied data from monitoring devices studding the volcano's slopes.
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Rome's second-largest airport, Ciampino, briefly closed early on Tuesday following an anonymous telephone call claiming that a bomb was on board a cargo plane, airport officials said.
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Heavy snowfall closed down Switzerland's second biggest airport in Geneva for several hours, leading to the cancellation of all take-offs and landings, officials said.
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TOAMASINA, Madagascar  - Madagascar closed an airport in the eastern town of Toamasina on Saturday to stop an exiled opposition leader from returning home to beat a deadline to register for a presidential election.
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Los Angeles International Airport was shut down early Saturday because of a possible security breach and a separate incident at an international terminal security screening station, an airport spokesman said.
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An Italian cement firm says it is pulling out of Sicily as a sign of its refusal to submit to Mafia extortion.
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Dublin Airport was closed for 30 minutes this morning because of the bad weather.
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&quot;They&#39;ve closed down the observatory there for a while, just to be safe,&quot; Alice Johnston said. The observatory is the Johnston Ridge Observatory on Johnston Ridge, about 5 miles from the volcano.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq indefinitely halted all flights to and from Syria and closed a border crossing with Iran as the government prepares for a new security crackdown aimed at crushing violence in the capital and surrounding regions, a member of parliament and an airport official said yesterday.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 31 -- Iraq indefinitely halted all flights to and from Syria and closed a border crossing with Iran as the government prepares for a security crackdown, a parliament member and an airport official said Wednesday, the Associated Press reported.
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Criticism over failure to close 'dangerous' airport.
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Airline officials in Venezuela said Monday that flights to the United States had resumed after a cloud of volcanic ash in the Caribbean suspended some international flights over the weekend.
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The City of Derry Airport is being shut by the flight regulator until further notice because of safety concerns.
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A volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi island erupted Thursday, sending ash raining down on at least one village and spewing smoke about 1,500 metres into the air, an official said.
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Dubai airport, a major international hub, was closed for at least eight hours on Monday after a Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft was involved in an accident while trying to take off, officials said.