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Chile volcano grounds flights in Argentina, Uruguay

BUENOS AIRES : Clouds of ash spewing from Chile 's Puyehue volcano grounded flights Friday at airports in the capital
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The Puyehue has been causing air travel mayhem since it rumbled back to life on June 4 for the first time in five decades, belching into the air an untold volume of dust and ash. Flights across South America -- including hubs in Montevideo, Chile's capital city Santiago and southern Brazil -- have been hard hit as ash clouds swept around the southern hemisphere to linger over Australia and New Zealand.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011

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