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European authorities began easing six days of severe flight restrictions on Tuesday, but a new ash cloud, reported to be spreading south from the erupting volcano in Iceland, threatened to thwart part of the effort to end the Continent’s worst aviation crisis. Multimedia The reopening of airspace under a plan agreed Monday by European ministers was cautious and unpredictable. The piecemeal nature of the response has drawn criticism from the airline industry, while passengers have been marooned from Beijing to New York, and many of Europe’s busiest flight paths have been eerily still. The chaos has now lasted twice as long as the three-day closing of American airspace after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Britain seemed to be hardest hit by the continued perils of volcanic ash, which can damage jet engines, while most countries in Continental Europe were progressively opening flight paths by Tuesday afternoon. Eurocontrol, the Brussels-based agency that coordinates air-traffic management across the region, said it expected around 14,000 flights on Tuesday, half of the 28,000 that are normally scheduled. The agency said that roughly 75 percent of the airspace over Europe was open.

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One of the worst-ever natural disasters in the western hemisphere leaves the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince(太子港) in ruins
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953379_1953494_1955502,00.html#ixzz0dXPJwvS5
For Taiwan, Helping Haiti Offers Rare Moment on World Stage
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953379_1953494_1955502,00.html#ixzz0dXPbQAIN

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Two major earthquakes struck 15 minutes apart Thursday morning near the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The first quake, with a magnitude of 7.8, struck at 9:03 a.m. (6:03 p.m. ET) at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) and an epicenter 295 km (180 miles) north-northwest of Luganville, Espiritue Santo, Vanuatu. The second quake, with a magnitude of 7.3, struck at 9:15 a.m. (6:18 p.m. ET) at the same depth and an epicenter of 590 km (365 miles) northwest of Port-Vilia, Efate, Vanuatu. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued an expanding regional tsunami warning and watch for parts of the Pacific near the first earthquake's epicenter. The center also issued a tsunami advisory, meaning the possibility of a tsunami exists, for Hawaii and said further evaluation of the event could see the threat alert elevated

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Thousands are believed to be buried under rubble on Pacific islands ravaged by earthquakes this week and many more were washed out to sea by a resulting tsunami, relief workers estimated today.

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Two earthquakes hit Indonesia as death toll from Samoa's tsunami rises.

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CHISHAN, Taiwan — As the rain tapered off and the sun briefly appeared, helicopters resumed their search on Wednesday morning for scores of people believed missing in landslides and flooding that hit these rugged mountains of southern Taiwan last weekend. The streets of Cangnan, in China's Zhejiang province, remained flooded on Tuesday. More Photos » Army officials said 470 people had been airlifted out of the affected area, and another 500 were spotted by rescuers as they waited for help in fields and on mountaintops in three villages, including 200 from Hsiao-lin, an isolated farming community that was home to more than 1,000 residents. Typhoon Morakot killed at least 85 people as it roared across the Pacific, with most of the dead in Taiwan, China and Japan, but Taiwanese officials feared the death toll would prove to be higher once rescue workers began digging through the mud-and-rock expanse that was once Hsiao-lin. The storm washed out the only bridge linking the village to the rest of the island, forcing rescue officials to rely on helicopters to drop in supplies and ferry out survivors.

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Air France Flight 447: A detailed meteorological analysis 3 06 2009 NOTE: This writeup is from an acquaintance of mine who wrote some powerful meteorological software, Digital Atmosphere, that I use in my office. He used that software (and others) to analyze the Air France 447 crash from the meteorological perspective. h/t to Mike Moran – Anthony by Tim Vasquez Air France flight 447 (AF447), an Airbus A330 widebody jet, was reported missing in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of June 1, 2009. The plane was enroute from Rio de Janeiro (SBGL) to Paris (LFPG). Speculation suggested that the plane may have flown into a thunderstorm. The objective of this study was to isolate the aircraft’s location against high-resolution satellite images from GOES-10 to identify any association with thunderstorm activity. Breakup of a plane at higher altitudes in a thunderstorm is not unprecedented; Northwest Flight 705 in 1963 and more recently Pulkovo Aviation Flight 612 in 2006 are clear examples.

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Acer laptops running Google's new Android operating system at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan.By ASHLEE VANCE

Published: June 3, 2009

TAIPEI, Taiwan — For more than a decade, Western technology companies and Taiwanese manufacturers had a simple, mutually beneficial arrangement.
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