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United Kingdom Obama curtails Irish visit as ash cloud harms UK travel
Published on 23/05/2011
Barack Obama cut short his visit to Ireland due to a cloud of volcanic ash drifting from Iceland that threatened to ground all British flights and wreak travel chaos across northern Europe.