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A deal struck by European Union transportation ministers launched a few flights Monday and may permit more on Tuesday. But fresh ash from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland continues to complicate air travel conditions.

The four-day air assault will soon achieve the objectives of establishing a no-fly zone and averting a massacre of civilians by Moammar Gadhafi's troops, he said. But U.S. planes will not be maintaining the no-fly-zone.

The country's nuclear safety agency raised the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident to a Level 5 out of 7, putting it on par with the Three Mile Island accident. Emergency workers struggled to cool overheated fuel rods at the plant, while Japanese officials admitted the quake and tsunami had overwhelmed the government and slowed its response to the nuclear problems.

In a role reversal, China is flexing its political and economic muscle against the United States by threatening sanctions against American companies involved in selling arms to Taiwan. China is pushing back on a raft of other contentious issues, from sanctions against Iran to President Obama's plan to meet with the Dalai Lama.

The operator of Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant has backed away from plans for a tricky venting of radioactive gas at one of the troubled reactors, saying that pressure inside has stabilized.

Investigators on Tuesday resumed the search for a child missing in the wreckage of a residential area where a military fighter jet crashed and burned, killing three people.

The government says the nation's unemployment rate bolted 6.5 percent in October — the highest since March 1994 — as employers slashed 240,000 jobs. The worse-than-expected numbers are stark proof that the economy almost certainly is in a recession.

The measure clears the way for final compensation for the families of victims of two terrorist bombings that were blamed on Libya in the 1980s.

In the past 12 months, more than 5 million people have gotten pink slips. Among hard-hit sectors: export-related industries, which were helping sustain the U.S. economy last year, but no longer. In a global recession, fewer people everywhere are buying American goods.

An ash cloud from Iceland's spewing volcano halted air traffic across a wide swathe of Europe on Thursday, grounding planes on a scale unseen since the 2001 terror attacks as authorities stopped all flights over Britain, Ireland and the Nordic countries.