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A long-dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in roughly 12,000 years, blanketing a neighboring village in ash and soot, authorities announced. The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located in the Afar region near the Eritrean border, erupted for several hours Sunday morning. The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located in the Afar region near the Eritrean border, erupted for several hours on Sunday morning. AP The first eruption from the volcano in modern history spewed massive plumes of ash and coated the neighboring village of Afdera in dust. Ash clouds from the freak eruption drifted across the Red Sea toward Yemen…

Can someone who cares about Candace Owens please get her to a psychiatrist? Then again, the millions of viewers who lap up her crazed content could probably use a head check, too. In an X post Saturday, Owens claimed that “a high-ranking employee of the French Government” had warned her that President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron “have executed upon and paid for” her assassination; the kill squad includes at least “one Israeli.” She’s losing her last pinky-finger hold on reality. These paranoid delusions of grandeur are no surprise to anyone who’s been paying the slightest attention to…

Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year, but the season also holds some dark secrets in the shadows. While Christmas is now mostly associated with an abundance of Amazon boxes, forced family get-togethers, and baked goods, there was a time when the season represented the dangers of icy weather. Christmas may be well lit and paved now, but once upon a time, it was the season of darkness and death. The Dark Side of Winter Let’s start with the obvious: winter is bleak. The days are short, the nights are long, and everything is covered in ice…

A 5-inch chalk sketch of a man’s right foot could fetch at least $2 million after Christie’s auction house linked it to Michelangelo’s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. The tiny drawing of the bare foot is believed to be that of a male model who posed for one of the Renaissance master’s figures on the world-famous ceiling frescoes at the Vatican in Rome, according to a press release from the New York auction house. Now the red-chalk image, which currently belongs to an anonymous seller from Northern California, is expected to become the most expensive drawing of a foot ever sold…

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MILAN, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Italian police raided two Amazon AMZN.O sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports, three sources with direct knowledge of the case said. Prosecutors suspect the e-commerce giant acted like a “Trojan horse,” bringing Chinese goods into Italy without paying sales taxes or customs duties, according to a court document seen by Reuters. The scheme could have cost the state hundreds of millions of euros and may extend across the European Union, sources said. Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports, sources said. REUTERS Dozens of officers from the Guardia di…

The death of Florida cheerleader Anna Kepner – whose body was found under a bed in her cruise ship room – was formally ruled a homicide, according to a report. Kepner, 18, was strangled on Nov. 6 while aboard the Carnival Horizon with her family, according to her death certificate issued Monday and obtained by ABC News. Confirmation that Kepner was killed comes as federal authorities have reportedly been looking into her 16-year-old stepbrother as a “suspect” in the case that has captured national attention. It was also revealed last week that Kepner was strangled to death in a bar hold. Anna…

Is the soul for real? A new book by David Barash says no and explains why we are better off without this psychological metaphor.

Gianni Russo, 81, has witnessed executions, assassinations, and conspiracies spanning six decades in the underworld. But perhaps his strangest story centers around what really happened to the pontiff. He alleges that Pope John Paul I didn’t die from a heart attack in 1978, as is widely believed, but was instead murdered by the mob after just 33 days on the job. “He was killed for not getting with the program,” Russo writes in his new memoir “Mafia Secrets: Untold Tales from the Hollywood Godfather,” written with Michael Benson (Citadel, out now). “He was taken out, given a hot shot of…

BANGKOK — A woman in Thailand shocked temple staff when she started moving in her coffin after being brought in for cremation. Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist temple in the province of Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok, posted a video on its Facebook page, showing a woman lying in a white coffin in the back of a pick-up truck, slightly moving her arms and head, leaving temple staff bewildered. Pairat Soodthoop, the temple’s general and financial affairs manager, told The Associated Press on Monday that the 65-year-old woman’s brother drove her from the province of Phitsanulok to be cremated.…