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By Bart Biesemans LA PALMA (Reuters) - Juergen Doelz and his girlfriend Jacqueline Rehm were in the process of selling their small sailboat on the Spanish island of La Palma when the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted, forcing them to flee their dream home and move to the boat. Doelz, 66, and Rehm, 49, who are from Germany, had been trying sell the boat to save money after she lost her job at a car rental company due to the coronavirus pandemic. On Sept. 19, when the volcano starting spewing red-hot lava just 4 km from their home in Todoque, the couple had just returned from a trip with a potential ...

LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands—Hundreds of people in Spain's Canary Islands feared for their homes and property ...

Over 700 residents were ordered to abandon their homes on Tuesday on the Spanish island of La Palma as red-hot lava advanced towards their neighbourhood.

By Bart Biesemans and Silvio Castellanos LA PALMA, Spain (Reuters) -Over 700 residents were ordered to abandon their homes on Tuesday on the Spanish island of La Palma as red-hot lava advanced towards their neighbourhood. As the river of molten magma descended from the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the northeast of the Canary Island, authorities ordered between 700 and 800 inhabitants of La Laguna to leave home with their belongings and pets, according to the Canary Islands Volcanic Emergency Plan (Pevolca). We have been obliged to evacuate a new area. The lava is advancing slowly. People should hav...

Share this article by Bart Biesemans (Reuters) HMS Queen Elizabeth took part in her first NATO exercises in the Mediterranean this week, ahead of the eight-month voyage that will cross through the South China Sea in a signal to Beijing that sea lanes must remain open. The carrier is “a hugely powerful statement,” Commodore Steve Moorhouse, the ship’s commanding officer and captain told Reuters on deck off the Portuguese coast as F-35B fighter jets took off around him. “It shows that we are a global navy and wanting to be back out there,” he said. “The aim for us is that this deplo...