
BP to Set Aside Billions for Oil Spill Compensation Fund
(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: June 16, 2010) There are growing calls for the international community to stop the ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan, and refugees have fled to nearby Uzbekistan, precipitating a refugee crisis. After delivering a live television address to the American people about the Gulf oil spill, U.S. President Barack Obama summoned the leaders of BP to the White House to discuss how BP will pay for the disaster. A strike on the Greek metro system is expected to spread, and the tourism industry is now also suffering in this debt-riddled country.