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By Daniel Lawler PARIS, Feb 8, 2024 (AFP) – A river of magma flowed underneath an Icelandic fishing village late last year at a rate never before recorded, scientists said Thursday, as the region suffered yet another dramatic eruption. Authorities in Iceland declared a state of emergency on Thursday as lava burst a key water pipe during the third volcanic fissure to hit the western Reykjanes peninsula since December. Before 2021, the peninsula had not […]
YVERDON-LES-BAINS, Switzerland, Feb 9, 2024 (AFP) – A hostage situation on a train in the west of Switzerland on Thursday night ended with the suspect killed in a police raid and the hostages safely freed, authorities said. The hostage-taker was armed with an axe and a knife, and was speaking Farsi and English, Vaud canton police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel said at a press briefing. “At this stage of the investigation, the motives of the perpetrator […]
By Daria ANDRIIEVSKA KYIV, Ukraine, Feb 8, 2024 (AFP) – Large numbers of Russian forces are storming the frontline Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, its Ukrainian mayor said Thursday, escalating a months-long effort to capture the industrial hub. Moscow launched a costly bid in October to seize the town, which has been caught up in fighting since 2014, when it briefly fell to Moscow-backed separatists. “Unfortunately, the enemy is pressing from all directions. There is not […]
REYKJAVIK, Feb 8, 2024 (AFP) – Glowing lava spewed Thursday from a new volcanic fissure on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, the third eruption to hit the area since December, with authorities declaring a state of emergency as lava burst a key water pipe. Video images of the crack in the Earth’s surface, stretching an estimated three kilometres (two miles), showed the fissure illuminating a plume of smoke rising into the sky that was visible 40 kilometres […]
REYKJAVIK, Feb 8, 2024 (AFP) – A volcanic eruption started on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland on Thursday, the third to hit the area since December, authorities said. Live video images showed glowing lava oozing out of a fissure illuminating a plume of smoke rising up under the night sky. “At 5:30 this morning intense small earthquake activity began northeast of Sylingarfell. About 30 minutes later, an eruption began in the same area,” […]
By Juliette Collen PARIS, Feb 7, 2024 (AFP) – Saturn’s small moon Mimas seems an unlikely suspect in the hunt for life in Earth’s backyard — it is probably best known for looking like the “Death Star” in the Star Wars films. But scientists said on Wednesday that underneath the unassuming moon’s icy shell is a vast hidden ocean that has many of the ingredients necessary to host primitive alien life. Mimas is the latest […]
By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS UNITED NATIONS, United States, Feb 7, 2024 (AFP) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that the world is entering “an age of chaos” with a deeply divided Security Council unable to address critical issues such as the Israel-Hamas war. With the war in Gaza entering its fifth month on Wednesday, Guterres warned that if the Israeli armed forces press on into the southern city of Rafah, it will “exponentially increase what […]
By Anna MALPAS Russia fired dozens of missiles and drones at Ukraine on Wednesday in a “massive” early morning attack that killed at least four and injured more than a dozen, officials in Kyiv said. Russian strikes on the capital Kyiv killed three people, local authorities said, as images showed a large fire billowing in the top floors of a high-rise residential building. “Another massive attack against our country. Six regions were under enemy attack,” […]
With his father King Charles III undergoing treatment for cancer and his wife recovering from surgery, Britain’s Prince William will return to royal frontline duties on Wednesday. The king’s shock cancer diagnosis, announced on Monday, and Catherine’s abdominal operation have left William shouldering a heavy royal burden. William, 41, Charles’s eldest son and heir to the throne, postponed public engagements to care for his wife, the Princess of Wales, and their three children after she […]
STOCKHOLM, Feb 6, 2024 (AFP) – Swedish radio reported Tuesday that an Iranian couple, believed to be working for Iranian intelligence, were deported after being suspected in a plot to kill Swedish Jews. According to an investigative report by Swedish Radio (SR), the couple, Mahdi Ramezani and Fereshteh Sanaeifarid, had applied for and been granted asylum in Sweden posing as Afghans. Suspected of plotting to kill Swedish Jews, the couple were arrested in April 2021 […]
By Helen ROWE, Stuart GRAHAM LONDON, Feb 6, 2024 (AFP) – King Charles III’s cancer was caught early, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday, after treatment began for the monarch who is just 18 months into his reign. Buckingham Palace has not specified the type of cancer afflicting the 75-year-old monarch, who has stepped back from his public appearances but continues his other official state duties. The shock announcement sparked an immediate deluge […]
By Jonathan BROWN KYIV, Ukraine, Feb 5, 2024 (AFP) – Andrei Volna had long started losing faith in his homeland before Russian tanks entered Ukraine. That was when the Russian surgeon’s disillusionment passed the point of no return and he decided to flee. Waiting in a line of cars at the border with Estonia, the 61-year-old left behind a comfortable life in Moscow — with his wife and three children in tow — determined to […]
