By Guillermo Martinez and Jon Nazca LA PALMA (Reuters) -Volcanic explosions spewed red hot lava high into the air on La Palma on Saturday as a new emission vent opened, forcing the small Spanish island to close its airport and preventing some people leaving. The Cumbre Vieja https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/iberia-binter-cancel-some-flights-la-palma-due-volcanic-ash-2021-09-24 volcano, which began erupting last Sunday, is […]
[Intro: G-Eazy] April 27th, 2019 I hope you hear, I hope this reaches you, uh All the money in the world, I can’t find where they selling time One button, that rewind, I’m just taking sip of this wine, let me catch you up It’s been some time, let’s me catch you up Yeah, uh, […]
[Intro: G-Eazy] April 27th, 2019 I hope you hear, I hope this reaches you, uh All the money in the world, I can’t find where they selling time One button, that rewind, I’m just taking sip of this wine, let me catch you up It’s been some time, let’s me catch you up Yeah, uh, […]
Britain, which faces soaring natural gas prices, has been forced to run coal-fired power stations in order to secure energy supplies, electricity generation company Drax said on Thursday. The country is particularly exposed to Europe’s ongoing energy crisis due to its reliance on natural gas to generate electricity. The price of European gas futures has […]
European allies rallied cautiously around France on Tuesday after the US and Australian decision to strip Paris of a submarine supply contract, but some warned the dispute should not torpedo trade talks. German Europe Minister Michael Roth said France’s diplomatic crisis with the US was a “wake-up call for all of us” on the importance […]
MANILA (Reuters) -Boxing star Manny Pacquiao said on Sunday he will run for president of the Philippines next year, after railing against corruption in government and what he calls President Rodrigo Duterte’s cozy relationship with China. Pacquiao accepted the nomination of his political allies during the national assembly of the faction he leads in the […]
Pope Francis on Wednesday spoke out against “denier” cardinals who refused the coronavirus vaccine, in an apparent swipe at his main opponent who recently contracted Covid-19. “In the College of Cardinals, there are a few deniers. One of them, the poor man, contracted the virus,” the pontiff told reporters as he flew home from a […]
In April of this year, Tucker Carlson got into hot water after offering an impassioned expression of the white nationalist conspiracy theory known as the “Great Replacement” during a monologue on his Fox News prime-time show. Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote to Fox News in response, citing just a small fragment of Carlson’s long […]
This article was paid for by AlterNet subscribers. Not a subscriber? Try us and go ad-free for $1. Prefer to give a one-time tip? Click here. It is increasingly clear that much resistance to vaccination in the United States is driven by partisanship. Fox News has spent months comparing vaccination efforts to apartheid and forced […]
A large-scale photo from the time of the Berlin Wall construction is unveiled by facade climbers at the Hermannplatz on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall. The historic photo a young border guard from East Germany helping a young child cross the Berlin Wall to reunite with his […]
A massive Atlantic Ocean current system, which affects climate, sea levels and weather systems around the world, may be about to be fatally disrupted. A new report in the journal Nature Climate Change describes how a series of Atlantic Ocean currents have reached “an almost complete loss of stability over the last century” as the […]
(Corrects paragraph 3 to show there were no modern humans then in Europe, not in the world; fixes typo in paragraph 4) By Jon Nazca and Mariano Valladolid ARDALES, Spain (Reuters) -Neanderthals may have been closer to our species of prehistoric modern human than previously believed after cave paintings found in Spain proved they had […]
What worries one of the world’s leading climate scientists the most? Heatwaves — and particularly the tendency of current models to underestimate the intensity of these bursts of deadly, searing temperature. This is one of the “major mysteries” science still has to unravel, climatologist Robert Vautard told AFP, even as researchers are able to pinpoint […]
China’s home-grown C919 passenger jet taking off from Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport on its maiden flight in 2017 Paris (AFP) – While the United States and Europe waged a 17-year trade battle over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus, China poured money into its own commercial aircraft to take on the Western aviation duopoly. It took […]
Europe’s new top graft fighting body will probe the “powerful”, “rich” and “dangerous”, its head warned Friday on her first visit to an EU member since taking up her post. The Luxembourg-based European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), headed by Laura Codruta Kovesi, a former Romanian anti-corruption chief, started work this month. The independent outfit has […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko will meet Friday after the UN civil aviation agency announced it will investigate the diversion of a passenger plane and the arrest of a journalist on board in a growing diplomatic row. The meeting in Sochi between the Kremlin and the Belarusian leader, who enjoys strong […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday accused the West of trying to use the diversion of a Ryanair plane at the weekend to wage hybrid war against him and said it had falsely portrayed his handling of the incident. In his first comments after what some European politicians described as a “state-sponsored […]
Europe has joined the craze for NFTs, virtual art pieces inspired by cryptocurrencies that turn the impermanence of the internet into a prized collector’s item to be bought and sold like a Rembrandt. Drawing quizzical head-scratching by many, these digital objects authenticated by blockchain technology have drawn millions of dollars at auctions, with even the […]
Economic justice advocates expressed outrage and called for a crackdown on tax evasion on Tuesday after Amazon’s latest filings in Luxembourg revealed that the online giant paid $0 in corporate taxes to European countries last year despite reporting record-high sales of nearly $53 billion amid the Covid-19 pandemic. “Amazon’s revenues have soared under the pandemic […]
[Intro: Cordae] Daytrip took it to ten (Hey) What’s up? What’s up? What’s up? What’s up? What’s up? What’s up? What the f*ck, yeah, hold on [Chorus: Cordae & Young Thug] Ayy, what’s up, nigga? (What’s up?) What the f*ck, nigga? (What the f*ck?) Bought that bitch a Birkin bag Now she in love with […]
Europe passed the grim milestone of one million coronavirus deaths on Monday, as the World Health Organization warned that infections are rising exponentially despite widespread efforts aimed at stopping them. The death toll across Europe’s 52 countries, compiled by AFP from official sources, totalled at least 1,000,288 by 1830 GMT. “We are in a critical […]
Travel activist, renowned author and TV host Rick Steves has weighed in on the ways in which he believes the COVID-19 pandemic may continue to impact travel as it begins to resume in earnest. He recently talked with global education expert Karin Fischer in a recorded interview titled “The Future of Travel with Rick Steves,” […]
Tugboats and dredgers were working Friday to free a giant container ship blocking Egypt’s Suez Canal for a fourth day, forcing companies to re-route services from the vital shipping lane around Africa. The MV Ever Given, which is longer than four football fields, has been wedged diagonally across the entire canal since Tuesday, shutting the […]
A cargo container ship that’s among the largest in the world has turned sideways and blocked all traffic in Egypt’s Suez Canal, officials said Wednesday, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic. The MV Ever Given, a Panama-flagged container ship that carries trade between Asia and Europe, became grounded […]
Prince of House of Hanover on trial in Austria – Media representatives wait before the start of the trial against Prince Ernst August of Hanover at the regional court where the head of one of Europe’s oldest royal families is facing charges including resisting state authority and grievous bodily harm. – Fotokerschi.At/Werner Kerschbaum/APA/dpa The head […]
By Jonathan Spicer ISTANBUL (Reuters) – European leaders criticised what they called Turkey’s baffling and concerning decision to pull out of an international accord designed to protect women from violence, and urged President Tayyip Erdogan to reconsider. Erdogan’s government on Saturday withdrew from the Istanbul Convention, which it signed onto in 2011 after it was […]
Conspiracy theories take can bewildering forms, as has become especially clear in the current era, when a recently deposed U.S. president became instrumental in spreading and popularizing an entire interlocking universe of demonstrably false conspiratorial narratives. But the historical development of conspiracy theories is becoming clearer, thanks to research across multiple disciplines, synthesized for a […]
The typical vision of Neanderthals has not been particularly flattering, often featuring a giant club and spear and unfortunate sartorial choices. For years, researchers have worked to overturn this view, albeit with limited evidence. A typical Neanderthal stereotype. Shutterstock/Angkrit But new research, published today in Nature, provides some of the first nuanced, detailed insights into […]
Um, I was talking about that this weekend, thinking a lot about it I think the two basic types of music indigenous to this country are Um, the Black music blues And the kind of folk music that was brought over from Europe And I guess they call it country music or the kind of […]
For the second time in two years, Gildardo Urrego is scooping up piles of dead bees after an invisible evil invaded his hives in northwest Colombia, wreaking havoc among his swarms. Urrego has no proof, but he suspects the culprit is pesticides which have been fueling a commercial avocado and citrus boom in the country. […]