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Gudjon Helgason

CORRECTS PHOTOG NAME FROM KRISTEN TO KRISTIN Smoke rises from the Grimsvotn volcano, Saturday, May 21, 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Iceland's most active volcano has started erupting, scientists said Saturday _ just over a year after another eruption on the North Atlantic island shut down European air traffic for days. Iceland's Meteorological Office confirmed that an eruption had begun at the Grimsvotn volcano, accompanied by a series of small earthquakes. (AP Photo/Halldora Kristin Unnarsdottir) (AP)

Icelandic volcano flings up ash, shuts airport

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FILE -- In this Sunday March 21, 2010 file photo, molten lava vents from a rupture near the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, as a volcano erupted. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting after 200 years of silence, threatening floods and earthquakes but drawing thousands of adventurous tourists - and their desperately needed cash - to the site where ash and red-hot lava spew from a crater between two glaciers.(AP Photo/Ragnar Axelsson ) (AP)

Iceland volcano erupts again, forcing hundreds to evacuate

Jill Lawless, Gudjon Helgason