Posts Tagged ‘ramps’

As race ramps up, GOP asks if Perry can stay atop (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, greets guests at a house party, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011 in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP – The Republican race for the White House is about to accelerate dramatically, with a series of debates and events testing whether Rick Perry has staying power and Mitt Romney can keep focusing on the president instead of his GOP rivals.


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Cairo ramps up evacuations, thousands seek exit (AP)

An evacuee from Egypt reacts as he meets a relative at the Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos, in Spata, near Athens, Tuesday,  Feb. 1, 2011. Greece sent three C-130 military transport planes to Alexandria to evacuate about 220 Greek citizens wishing to leave. Cairo airport officials say EgyptAir employees have scuffled with passengers who were shoving to get into the ticket office, desperate to secure a flight out of the country as thousands of foreigners fled the chaos.  (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP – EgyptAir’s staff scuffled with frantic passengers, food supplies were dwindling, flight information was nonexistent — and some policemen even demanded substantial bribes before allowing foreigners to board their planes.


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Cairo ramps up evacuations, thousands still stuck (AP)

Around 150 U.S. nationals arrive at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, from Cairo, Egypt early Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. They arrived with a Turkish Airlines' special flight with Turkish nationals in Istanbul as thousands of foreigners were being evacuated from the unrest in Egypt, with countries around the world scrambling to send planes to fly their citizens out. Cairo's short-staffed international airport was a scene of chaos and confusion Monday as thousands of foreigners sought to flee the unrest in Egypt.(AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP – The exodus of foreigners and Egyptians from Cairo surged Tuesday as dozens of evacuation planes arrived, but the airport itself was still in disarray, overwhelmed with over 4,500 stranded passengers.


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Security ramps up ahead of Afghan vote (AP)

An Afghan policeman stands guard near posters of candidates contesting in the upcoming Afghan parliamentary elections in Jalalabad, Afghanistan Thursday Sept. 16, 2010. Afghan officials and political figures sought to reassure wary Afghans on Thursday that it will be safe to vote in this weekend's parliamentary election despite an upswing in violence in recent months. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP – Police set up extra checkpoints across Afghanistan on Friday to scan for suicide bombers and insurgents a day ahead of parliamentary polling that will test the government’s ability to hold a legitimate election after last year’s disastrous presidential vote.


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World ramps up flood aid to stricken Pakistan (AP)

Flood survivors jump to catch relief goods in flood hit Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province,  Pakistan on Thursday Aug. 19, 2010. Weeks after massive downpours first battered northern Pakistan, submerging tens of thousands of square miles, killing near 1,500 people and leaving millions homeless, those floodwaters are still sweeping down river and through the south, adding one more layer of misery to people long accustomed to hardship. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP – The world ramped up assistance to flood-ravaged Pakistan on Thursday three weeks after the crisis began, and U.S. Sen. John Kerry said Washington did not want Islamist extremists to come out of the disaster stronger.


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Company ramps up effort to clean Mich. river spill (AP)

Raul Vervuzco of Eagle Services uses a suction hose to clean oil from atop the Kalamazoo River, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, in a containment area in Augusta, Mich. A company operating a pipeline that dumped more than 800,000 gallons of oil into a southern Michigan river said Wednesday that it is doubling its work force on the containment and cleanup effort. (AP Photo/The Kalamazoo Gazette, Jonathon Gruenke) MANDATORY CREDITAP – Michigan’s governor on Wednesday sharply criticized attempts to contain a large oil spill making its way down the Kalamazoo River after the company responsible for the spill said it had redoubled its efforts to clean up the mess.


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BP oil collection ramps up; so do claims questions (AP)

A worker remove oil that continues to wash ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill,  Wednesday, June 9, 2010 in Grand isle, La.. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP – BP plans to bring in an oil-burning device and a tanker from the North Sea as it tries to contain the crude spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, a disaster creating headaches for people who make money off the sea and those processing their claims of financial loss.


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