Fears for the future of an Icelandic fishing town are mounting as a nearby volcano threatens to erupt at any moment – with a nine-mile fissure splitting the town in half and authorities saying that increased sulphur dioxide levels have been detected.
Aerial footage shows apocalyptic scenes in the small town of Grindavik, with huge cracks appearing in roads and under buildings which were completely deserted when all 4,000 residents were told to evacuate.
Residents who were allowed to return
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British tourists in Rhodes and Corfu are scrambling to get home as wildfires rip through the Greek islands amid 45C heat, sparking Greece’s largest disaster evacuation ever.
Families were forced to curl up on the floors of Rhodes International Airport and sports halls for a second night running as they wait to be taken home, but officials have warned the dire situation could yet get worse.
With thousands of tourists caught up in hours of delays at the airport after
On the morning of August 26, 2021, a sweaty young American diplomat named Sam Aronson stood in body armor near the end of a dusty service road outside the Kabul airport, contemplating the end of his life or his career.
Thirty-one and recently married, 5 foot 10 without his combat helmet, Sam surveyed the scene at the intersection near the airport’s northwest corner, where the unnamed service road met a busy thoroughfare called Tajikan Road. Infected blisters oozed in
Last month, Metra Mehran, an Afghan human-rights activist, faced a choice. Until last summer, she lived in Kabul, where she worked as a director of a U.S.-funded women’s-education program. But, in August of 2021, when the Taliban took power, she was forced to flee. Through friends from the Fulbright program at Texas A. & M., which she had attended from 2016 to 2018, Mehran secured a place for herself on a list of Afghans eligible for protection in the U.S.
Two ‘super powerful bombs’ hit Mariupol today as officials tried to evacuate thousands of civilians from the besieged city, which has been described as a ‘hell-scape riddled with dead bodies’ by humanitarian workers.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said there ‘will not be enough space for everyone’ to leave the city on Tuesday – amid estimates that up to 300,000 people remain there – but ‘we will try to carry out the evacuation until we have gotten all the inhabitants.’
