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Volcano erupts in Iceland for third time in two months
An aerial view shows lava after volcano eruption northeast of Sylingarfell, near Grindavik, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland early Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (Iceland Civil Defense/Handout/Anadolu via Getty ...
Feb 08, 2024
Last month was the warmest January on record. NASA expert explains how new technology will investigate the remarkable warming trend.
Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Last month's global temperatures led to the warmest January on record, continuing a pattern of eight consecutive hottest months on record, according to ...
Feb 08, 2024
A Category 6 hurricane? Stronger storms spark debate among experts to adjust Saffir-Simpson scale
Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Hurricane experts are debating adding a Category 6 on the current scale to highlight the increasing possibility of ...
Feb 07, 2024
US airstrike in Baghdad kills militia leader behind attacks on US forces
Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. carried out an airstrike in Baghdad on Wednesday targeting a senior leader of an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq responsible for...
Feb 07, 2024
Tucker Carlson to interview Vladimir Putin
Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images(MOSCOW) -- Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News anchor and right-wing media personality, has recorded an interview with Russian President Vladimir Pu...
Feb 07, 2024
Ethiopian prime minister dismisses reports of famine deaths
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dismissed reports saying people were dying of hunger in his country, but allowed that people "may have died" due to malnutr...
Feb 07, 2024
Russia unleashes 'massive' airstrike on Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian rescuers extinguish a fire in a residential building following a missile attack in Kyiv on Feb. 7, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)(KYIV, Uk...
Feb 07, 2024
'Very delicate equilibrium' at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, IAEA chief warns ahead of visit
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi stands with Ukrainian Minister of Energy German Galushchenko as he talks to the press during a media briefing, in Kyiv, on Feb. 6, 2024, before h...
Feb 07, 2024
Trapped pod of orcas off Japan appears to have escaped sea ice
File photo. (Vladimir Seliverstov / 500px/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- A pod of orcas that appeared to be trapped by drift sea ice off Japan's main northern island of Hokkaido has seemingly escaped the ...
Feb 07, 2024
With King Charles III, Princess Kate facing health issues, these are the royals in the public eye
_ultraforma_/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Two of the highest-profile members of Britain's royal family, King Charles III and Princess Kate, are currently facing health issues that are keeping them out of t...
Feb 07, 2024