The European Union has pledged to send additional equipment to help contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, even as Washington and London appear to be heading for a diplomatic spat over the disaster.
"Europe is determined to fight this ecological disaster alongside the US authorities," the EU's crisis response commissioner, Kristalina Georgieva, said in a statement on Friday (11 June) after several member states offered support.
Sweden, Germany, Norway, the UK and th...
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