The Internet shutdown across Syria on Thursday underscored how the 20-month conflict, which has left more than 40,000 people dead, has increasingly moved to the Web.
Although the disruption was far less than the blanket shutdown across much of Europe when Eyjafjallajokull first erupted last month, the plans of hundreds of thousands of business and holiday travellers were still thrown into chaos over the weekend.
Mr. Robinet said he expected the shutdowns across Japan to extend through the middle of next week, if not longer.
More than 10,000 migrants and refugees have been stranded at the Greek border outpost of Idomeni since February after a cascade of border shutdowns across the Balkans closed off their route to central and western Europe.
LOS ANGELES — With no end in sight to the federal government shutdown, governors across the nation are struggling with a cascade of tough decisions about when and whether to step in with state money to keep shuttered parks and programs operating until the deadlock is resolved.
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"The harmful impacts of a shutdown extend across Government, affecting services that are critical to small businesses, women, children, seniors, and others across the Nation".
It is still unclear whether or not the group's efforts have been or will be successful, but that hasn't stopped them from congratulating themselves on seven shutdown spaces across the country, including Baltimore's Bell Foundry, Denver's Rhinoceropolis, and Nashville's Glass Menage, all of which were closed down after the Oakland fire.
But the voices of denial are loud and persistent, with some Republicans saying that the fallout from the continuing shutdown and the automatic, across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration has been less severe than predicted.
Odierno's comments came as he and Army Secretary John McHugh discussed the impact of the recent U.S. government shutdown as well as across-the-board budget cuts that forced the military to slash spending in March, nearly halfway through its fiscal year.
