Strong winds and high seas made search conditions difficult and by Thursday afternoon Dutch coastguard spokesman Peter Westenberg said the operation had stopped.

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Andre Sougarret, mines manager for state-run copper company Codelco and on-site rescue coordinator, said that operation was stopped Tuesday while the drill head was changed.

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For example, he said staff of BP's new Safety and Operational Risk organisation, set up by Mr Hayward's successor Bob Dudley in 2011, now had the authority to order that an operation be stopped, when the previous safety body had more of an advisory role.

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The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.

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Faced by imminent financial collapse, as the British Treasury saw it, on November 7th Eden surrendered to American demands and stopped the operation, with his troops stranded half way down the canal.

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But Israel stopped the EU operation after Hamas seized an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, in June 2006.

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By the day of her operation, in December 2009, she had stopped working because of the constant, agonising pain.

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In May, North Wales Police stopped about 15 drivers, some towing motorbikes on trailers, in four hours of an operation at the Horseshoe Pass, Denbighshire.

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