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REYKJAVIK (AFP) – Iceland's main airport remained closed on Saturday for a second day, as ash from the volcano that shut down European airspace last week spread over the Nordic country. Keflavik Airport will not be open "at least not today," said Hjordis Gudmundsdottir, a spokeswoman for the Civil Aviation Administration. "We will see what it looks like tomorrow, but no one knows," she told AFP. The widening ash cloud temporarily closed Akureyri Airport, a secondary facility in the north of the country that the carrier Icelandair is using to reroute passengers. However flights were again able to use Akureyri...