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The country's National Emergency Management Agency described the eruption as "moderate", although the plume of ash was clearly visible from the mainland and from satellites flying overhead.
The latest reform was hailed by young Saudis but dismissed by arch-conservatives on social media, with one Twitter user saying it went "against sharia", or Islamic law
Since the local elections the city's chief executive has remained steadfast in her opposition to further concessions and Beijing has stuck by her even as she languishes with record low approval ratings.
The Shebaab released a statement taking responsibility for killing "10 crusaders among them secret security agents and government employees".
The prime minister has so far declined to undergo an uncomfortable grilling from Andrew Neil, who is one of the BBC's top political interviewers.
In court testimony, Musk said the "pedo guy" tweet he shared with his 22 million followers was an off-the-cuff insult and did not mean he was accusing Unsworth.
"Because I was just buying a service, I don't feel any guilt towards real people."
Local prefect Jaroslaw Wieczorek said that two of the bodies recovered were children and the other four were adults.
Residents were advised to obey a dawn-to-dusk curfew, staying in their homes and displaying a red flag if any occupants were not yet immunised
Similar performances have been staged by women as far away as Paris, Barcelona and Mexico City
Disaster officials did not offer details on how the other victims died, but local police reports indicated some may have drowned or been crushed by trees.
"The tweets are not allegations of crimes. They are joking, taunting tweets in a fight between two men."
Geneva: The UN launched a humanitarian appeal for nearly USD 29 billion on Wednesday as climate change and increasingly protracted conflicts put tens of millions of people in urgent need of aid. The world body's Global Humanitarian Overview estimated that 168 million people worldwide will need some form of emergency assistance in 2020, includi
People deemed "susceptible to harassment or cyberbullying based on their physical or mental condition" had the reach of their posts restricted, German site NetzPolitik.org reported, citing leaked documents from Tiktok.
Misty Hong, a student in Palo Alto, California, filed the suit against the Chinese-based app in California federal court last week, according to a report in The Daily Beast on Monday.
Millions of wannabe sleuths "solve" real-life murders as they listen during morning commutes.
Fires ravage Brazil's Amazon and Australia, while Venice is swamped by flooding not seen in decades.
In its annual analysis of fossil fuel trends, the Global Carbon Project said CO2 emissions were on course to rise 0.6 percent this year
Authorities were still assessing the storm's impact, but a small local airport was seriously damaged, many power poles toppled and homes were battered.
Thousands of worshippers from Nepal and neighbouring India have spent days sleeping out in the open and offering prayers ahead of the event in Bariyarpur village, close to the Indian border.
