Europe prepares for first total solar eclipse in 27 years
Europe is gearing up for its first total solar eclipse in 27 years.

Europe is gearing up for its first total solar eclipse in 27 years.







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White House says President Donald Trump still wants to buy Greenland, but has said military means are an option, too.
Report finds warmest temperatures, loss of snow cover as US joins arctic countries to push ahead with oil drilling.
Iceland joins four other nations in a boycott, after the organiser declined to hold a vote over Israel’s involvement.
Several airlines in India have been forced to cancel flights because of dangerous volcanic ash in the air.
The United States weather agency has issued a G4 geomagnetic storm watch alert, implying severe storms expected.
Iceland is no longer among the few places in the world free of mosquitoes. Scientists point to rising temperatures.
UK’s Starmer and France’s Macron will co-host a virtual meeting for the ‘coalition of the willing’ on Thursday
Residents in the nearby fishing town of Grindavik and guests at a luxury geothermal spa resort are evacuated.
Lava penetrates protective barriers near Grindavik, a fishing town on a southwestern peninsula also evacuated last year.
US president says ‘we will go as far as we have to’ to get Greenland, but others are interested in the Arctic, too.