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France fires on Libyan military vehicle JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press PARIS — A French fighter jet fired Saturday on a Libyan military vehicle, the first reported offensive action in a international military operation against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces, a French defense official said. French Defense Ministry spokesman Thierry Burkhard says the strike happened at 1645 GMT Saturday. Burkhard says the target was confirmed as a military vehicle, but it was not clear what kind. He said no hostile fire on the French j...
Britain sent Royal Navy warships todayy to rescue those stranded across the Channel by the volcanic ash cloud and the aviation industry blasted European officials, claiming there was "no coordination and no leadership" in the crisis that shut down most European airports for a fifth day. Eurocontrol, the air traffic agency in Brussels, said less than one-third of flights in Europe were taking off Monday — between 8,000 and 9,000 of the continent's 28,000 scheduled flights. Passengers in Asia who had slept on airport floors f...
