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Officials limited access to the area and warned that waters from the Lonza River, which has been dammed up by deposits stacked tens of meters high over a 2-kilometer (1.2-mile) swath of valley, had pooled into a lake. The future course of those waters could not yet be predicted precisely.“Unfortunately, the danger has not yet been averted,” Keller-Sutter said.

While the authorities were not able to prevent the natural disaster, the country has the “expertise and financial resources” to cope with such events, she added.Blatten had been evacuated about 10 days earlier after experts determined a growing threat from the loosening glacier. However, a 64-year-old man remains missing and authorities have called off aStephane Ganzer, an elected official who runs security in the Valais, said no evacuations were as-yet planned for villages downstream from Blatten that could face flooding if the Lonza’s welled-up waters break through the pileup of mud.

“We don’t want anybody else to go missing,” he said. “We will put no person in danger on the ground: No police officer, no soldier, no specialist, no member of civil security or fire squads.”He added: “Someone asked me before: ‘Who’s the chief in charge here?’ And I replied, there’s only one chief: nature.”

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for

, the Department of Labor said Thursday., despite Copenhagen

. Vice President JD Vancein March for a quick stop at the U.S. military base there after

a broader visit. During that trip, Vance scolded Denmark but acknowledged that Greenland would control its own sovereignty — while still suggesting that it may want to make a deal with the United States.WHERE IT STANDS: Political off-ramp found.