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...Lithuanian lawyer was finally moving to Britain to live with Eric, her boyfriend of eight months. Distance has never stood in the way of their love, but for the time being, a toxic plume of volcanic ash most certainly is. "All the flights are canceled from Vilnius to northern Europe," she says, after spending hours researching travel alternatives. "I could take a bus, but that will take 39 hours. " The story gets worse: her birthday is Saturday...
...Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, derailing plans for business travelers, tourists and even European royalty. The high-altitude cloud of smoke - tiny particles of rock, glass and sand, contained in the ash cloud, that can clog an aircraft's ventilation holes and stall its engines - continues to spread across northern and central Europe, forcing aviation officials to ground airplanes from London to Hong Kong to New York. For the first time, on Friday, April 16, an international agency warned of potential health risks. In Geneva, the World Health Organization said people with respiratory problems should "limit their activities outdoors or stay...
...situation cannot be said to be improving with any certainty," the organization said in a statement, adding that "restrictions on all flights in and out of England and Wales will remain in place until at least 0700 BST [2 a.m. ET] Saturday." But in parts of Scottish airspace and Northern Ireland, the situation has eased, with restrictions lifted at 19:00 BST Friday (2 p.m. ET), which means that some North Atlantic traffic will be able to operate to and from points there...
...amid the ash, there are a few glints of hope. By Friday afternoon, Sweden was gradually reopening its northern airspace, six planes were permitted to fly into and out of England's Manchester Airport, and a limited number of flights were departing from Northern Ireland and southwest England. As for other modes of transport, Eurostar trains reported a complete sellout of its services to Brussels and Paris for a second day on Friday. Rail and ferry services are also reporting rises in their passenger numbers...
...chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, likened the task facing foreign observer teams to "monitoring a Hitler election." Amid such criticism, the U.S. special envoy to Sudan, Major General Scott Gration, headed to Sudan to try to salvage the sinking electoral ship but ended up only enraging al-Bashir's northern opposition by expressing his confidence that the vote would be as "free and fair as possible." John Ashworth, a veteran of 27 years in Sudan now working for the IKV Pax Christi aid group, says the world should have known better. "Nobody (except ignorant foreigners) ever expected the elections...