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4B – Daily News – Friday, April 16, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Ash cloud from volcano halts air traffic in Europe LONDON (AP) — An enor- mous ash cloud from a remote Icelandic volcano caused the biggest flight disruption since 9/11 Thursday as it drifted over north- ern Europe and stranded travelers on six continents. Officials said it could take days for the skies to become safe again in one of avia- tion’s most congested areas. The cloud, floating miles above Earth and capable of knock- ing out jet engines, wrecked travel plans for tens of thousands of peo- ple, from tourists and business travelers to politicians and royals. They couldn’t see the source of their frustration — except indi- rectly, when the ash created vibrant red and lavender sunsets. Non-emergency flights in Britain were canceled, and most will stay grounded until at least midday Friday. Authorities in Ire- land, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Belgium also closed their air space. France shut down 24 airports, including the main hub of Charles de Gaulle in Paris, and several flights out of the U.S. had to double back. At London’s Heathrow airport, normally one of the world’s busiest with more than 1,200 flights and 180,000 travelers a day, passengers stared forlornly at departure boards on which every flight was listed as canceled. ‘‘We made it all the way to take off on the plane. ... They even showed us the safety video,’’ said Sarah Davis, 29, a physiotherapist from Portsmouth in southern Eng- land who was hoping to fly to Los Angeles. ‘‘I’m upset. I only get so much vacation.’’ Tea party activists decry ’gangster government’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Tea party protesters marked tax day Thursday with exhortations BENNY BROWN’S against ‘‘gangster government’’ and appeals from Republicans seeking their grass-roots clout in November elections, a prospect both tempting and troubling to those in the loose movement. Several thousand rallied in Washington’s Freedom Plaza in the shadow of the Ronald Rea- gan office building, capping a national protest tour launched in the dust of Nevada and fin- ishing in the capital that inspires tea party discontent like no other place. Allied activists demonstrated from Maine to Hawaii in hundreds of lively protests, all joined in dis- dain for government spending and — on the April 15 federal tax filing deadline — what they see as the Washington tax grab. The Washington rally in bril- liant sunshine was spirited but modest in size, lacking the star power of tea party favorite Sarah Palin, who roused the masses at earlier stops of the Tea Party Express in its cross- country bus tour. Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota won roars of affir- mation as she accused President Barack Obama and congres- sional Democrats of trying to take over health care, energy, financial services and other broad swaths of the economy. ‘‘We’re on to this gangster government,’’ she declared. ‘‘I say it’s time for these little pig- gies to go home.’’ She appealed directly for tea partiers to swing behind ‘‘con- stitutional conservatives’’ in congressional campaigns, just as they contributed to Scott Brown’s upset in the Massachu- setts Senate race in an early test of their potency. ‘‘I am the No. 1 target for one more extremist group to defeat this Novem- ber,’’ she said. ‘‘We need to have your help for candidates like me. We need you to take out some of these bad guys.’’ Pope breaks silence on abuse VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI broke his recent silence on the clerical abuse scandal Thursday, com- plaining that the church was under attack but saying that ‘‘we Christians’’ must repent for sins and recognize mistakes. The main U.S. victims group immediately dismissed his comments, saying they are meaningless unless Benedict takes concrete steps to safe- guard children from pedophile priests. Benedict made the remarks during an off-the-cuff homily at a Mass inside the Vatican for members of the Pontifical Bib- lical Commission. ‘‘I must say, we Christians, even in recent times, have often avoided the word ’repent’, which seemed too tough. But now under attack from the world, which has been telling us about our sins ... we realize that it’s necessary to repent, in other words, recognize what is wrong in our lives,’’ Benedict said. ‘‘Open ourselves to forgive- ness ... and let ourselves be transformed. The pain of repen- tance, which is a purification and transformation, is a grace because it is renewal and the work of divine mercy,’’ he said. Agents raid Ariz. shuttle PHOENIX (AP) — Federal agents on Thursday targeted more than 50 shuttle operators and smugglers accused of using the vans to transport thousands of illegal immigrants from spots near the Mexican border to Phoenix. Investigators, who billed the bust as the largest human smug- gling case in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s seven-year history, said the operators of four shuttle ser- vices in Tucson and a fifth in Phoenix created their business- es solely to help immigrant smugglers move their cus- tomers to Phoenix under a veil of legitimacy. 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In Phoenix, dozens of agents — some wearing black hoods over their faces — swarmed two shuttle business early Thursday in a strip mall in a heavily Latino neighborhood, just west of the state Capitol. They seized at least a dozen vans from shuttle companies, including new full-size vans emblazoned with the name of Sergio’s Shuttle and older full- sized and minivans from other companies. Obama predicts Americans will soar to Mars CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama predicted Thursday his new space exploration plans would lead American astro- nauts to Mars and back in his lifetime, a bold forecast relying on rockets and propulsion still to be imagined and built. ‘‘I expect to be around to see it,’’ he said of pioneering U.S. trips, first to an asteroid and then on to Mars. He spoke near the historic Kennedy Space Center launch pads that sent the first men to the moon, a blunt rejoinder to critics, including several former astronauts, who contend his planned changes will instead deal a staggering blow to the nation’s manned space program. ‘‘We want to leap into the future,’’ not continue on the same path as before, Obama said as he sought to reassure NASA workers that America’s space adventures would soar on despite the impending termina- tion of space shuttle flights. His prediction was reminis- cent of President John F. Kennedy’s declaration in 1961, ‘‘I believe that this nation should commit itself to achiev- ing the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth.’’ That goal was ful- filled in 1969. Obama did not predict a Mars landing soon. But he said that by 2025, the nation would have a new spacecraft ‘‘designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space.’’ Russia suspends US adoptions MOSCOW (AP) — A For- eign Ministry spokesman said Thursday that adoptions of Russian children by U.S. fami- lies had been suspended, although other Russian and U.S. officials disputed this. Spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said during a brief- ing that new adoptions by Americans are on hold pending a visit in the next few days by a U.S. delegation to reach an accord on future placement of Russian children. 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