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Feds: Relief drilling needed to kill BP’s well (AP)

In this Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 photo, a pelican flies over new marsh grass in an area that had been impacted by the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill near East Grand Terre Island, where the Gulf of Mexico meets Barataria Bay along the Louisiana coast. In the background is a dredging project initiated by the State of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP – BP’s blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is not yet plugged for good, and work on what’s been touted as the permanent solution will need to continue, the federal government said Friday.


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Federal government: Relief well must go forward (AP)

In this Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 photo, a pelican flies over new marsh grass in an area that had been impacted by the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill near East Grand Terre Island, where the Gulf of Mexico meets Barataria Bay along the Louisiana coast. In the background is a dredging project initiated by the State of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP – The federal government says work must go forward on a relief well meant to permanently plug BP’s blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.


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Gulf relief well crews watch for tropical weather (AP)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 picture, a support vessel, foreground center, and others surround the Helix Q4000, background center, used to perform the static kill operation, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP – Crews finishing work meant to forever stop oil from leaking from a blown-out undersea well into the Gulf may have one more hurdle to overcome: the weather.


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Gulf relief well down to final, tricky 100 feet (AP)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 picture, a support vessel, foreground center, and others surround the Helix Q4000, background center, used to perform the static kill operation, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP – The relief well being drilled to ensure crude never again spills into the ocean from BP’s paralyzed well in the Gulf of Mexico has been dubbed the ultimate solution to the drama that’s unfolded over the past three months.


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Final plug targeted as BP resumes relief well work (AP)

Charlie Lovell Jr., left, throws a wreath into Lake Decade near Theriot, La., Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, as, from second left, John Verrett, Hope Breaux and Lonny Rhodes look on from the deck of the shrimp boat, Brother's Pride. The wreath is in memory of fishermen who have lost their lives working on the water. (AP Photo/Chuck Cook)AP – BP crews were drilling cautiously Monday to finish a relief well designed to shoot a permanent plug into the oil gusher that polluted the Gulf of Mexico for more than 12 weeks.


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BP plans to continue relief well work this week (AP)

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF REV. BURNS' FIRST NAME TO JERVIS INSTEAD OF GERVIS ** Rev. Jervis Burns blesses fishing boats docked in Bayou Delarge in Theriot, La., during the pre-shrimp season tradition known as the 'Blessing of the Boats,' Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. Louisiana fishermen can once again fish for shrimp when the season officially opens Aug. 16. (AP Photo/Chuck Cook)AP – The oil that poured into the Gulf for more than 12 weeks has been forced back underground and BP engineers expect to spend this week drilling the final leg of a relief well to complete the “bottom kill” designed to permanently seal the leaking well.


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US Army begins relief missions in Pakistan (AP)

Pakistani army volunteers carry an elderly villager during an evacuation operation in Sanawan near Multan in central Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010.  Flood survivors loaded down with possessions fled a growing deluge in Pakistan's most populous province Thursday as the government came under renewed criticism for its response to the worst monsoon rains in decades.  (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)AP – U.S. army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated tourist town and distributing emergency aid.


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