SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Puyehue volcano in southern Chile erupted Saturday, sending a huge plume of smoke and ash into the sky and prompting officials to evacuate about 600 people living nearby. There were no reports of injuries. Authorities had put the area around the volcano on alert Saturday morning after a flurry of earthquakes, and the eruption began in the afternoon. The National Emergency Office said it recorded an average of 230 tremors an hour. On the other side of the Andes in Argentina, heavy ash fell on the city of San Carlos de Bariloche. Officials warned residents of the area around the city to take precautions against a possible prolonged ashfall. They urged people to stock up on food and water and to stay home. The volcano is nearly 500 miles (800 kilometers) south of Chile’s national capital, Santiago.
AP – Indonesia’s most volatile volcano sparked transportation chaos Sunday, with several international airlines canceling flights to the capital and neighboring Malaysia airlifting out hundreds of its citizens.
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Reuters – Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano belched ash and toxic fumes into the atmosphere on Sunday, but authorities played down the threat to aircraft just two days before U.S. President Barack Obama was due to fly in.
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by Maggie @ Maggie’s Notebook This video is classic – pure Ann Coulter – clear, pithy and dynamic thinking. Rick Sanchez gets putty-fied in the eruption of a Coulter-quake. Notice she forces him to talk about the three-month old accusation that Tea Partiers spit on Congressman John Lewis. Listen as she charges Sanchez with kiddie porn
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Ann Coulter Putti-fies Rick Sanchez with Kiddie Porn
