An Iceland volcano erupts again but spares the nearby town of Grindavik for now
A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted Thursday evening for the sixth time since December, spewing red lava through a new fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula.
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The biggest diamond in over a century is found in Botswana — a whopping 2,492 carats
The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country’s president showed off the fist-sized stone to the world at a viewing ceremony Thursday.
Divers find 5 bodies during search of superyacht wreckage after it sank off Sicily, 1 still missing
Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily found the bodies of five passengers Wednesday and searched for one more as questions intensified about why the vessel sank so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.
Israel recovers bodies of 6 hostages from Gaza as Blinken tries to advance cease-fire deal
The Israeli military said Tuesday that it recovered the bodies of six hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that started the war in Gaza, as U.S. and Arab mediators tried to advance an agreement to halt the fighting and release scores of other militant-held captives.
Now that mpox is a global health emergency, will it trigger another pandemic?
The World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency, requiring urgent action to curb the virus’ transmission.
Ukraine’s swift push into the Kursk region shocked Russia and exposed its vulnerabilities
A daring Ukrainian military push into Russia’s Kursk region has seen Kyiv’s forces seize scores of villages, take hundreds of prisoners and force the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians in what has become the largest attack on the country since World War II.
Ukraine claims more advances, prisoners taken as it presses an incursion into Russia
krainian forces pushed on with their major cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region for a second week Wednesday, claiming to have…
Mpox has been declared a public health emergency in Africa. What is it and what’s the WHO doing?
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared this week that the increasing spread of mpox across the continent is a health emergency…
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli strikes kill at least 17 in Gaza overnight, Palestinians say
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Wednesday killed at least 17 people, including…
Longest-held Russian dissident freed in swap says ‘colors get brighter by the day’ in his new life
Andrei Pivovarov knows there are about 1,000 hours in 42 days. Doing the math in his head and quietly marking milestones left in his sentence helped the Russian opposition politician survive…