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☆ Icelandic Villagers Return to Save Their Pets as Volcanic Eruption Looms
  + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Earthquakes have caused large cracks to appear in roads in the area around Grindavik in Iceland. Photo: road administration of iceland/ReutersResidents of an Icelandic fishing town under threat from a volcanic eruption were allowed back to their homes for five minutes to collect pets and valuables as tremors continued to rock a peninsula jutting out into the North Atlantic, reviving memories of the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano and the disruption it caused the global aviation industry. Grindavik’s 3,400 people were evacuated on Saturday after seismologists detected a 9-mile-long underground corridor of semi-molten rock moving beneath the town toward the nearby Fagradaslfjall volcano, around 30 miles southeast of the capital, Reykjavik. By Monday, 30,000 earthquakes had been recorded over the past three weeks and the aviation alert was raised to orange to indicate a heightened risk of a volcanic eruption.
Persons: seismologists Organizations: Reuters Residents Locations: Grindavik, Iceland, iceland, Icelandic, Reykjavik
☆ Iceland Braces for Possible Volcanic Eruption After Quakes Rattle Grindavik
  + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Earthquakes have caused large cracks to appear in roads in the area around Grindavik in Iceland. Photo: road administration of iceland/ReutersResidents of an Icelandic fishing town under threat from a volcanic eruption were allowed back to their homes for five minutes to collect pets and valuables as tremors continued to rock a peninsula jutting out into the North Atlantic, reviving memories of the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano and the disruption it caused the global aviation industry. Grindavik’s 3,400 people were evacuated on Saturday after seismologists detected a 9-mile-long underground corridor of semi-molten rock moving beneath the town toward the nearby Fagradaslfjall volcano, around 30 miles southwest of the capital, Reykjavik. By midday Monday, 30,000 earthquakes had been recorded over the past three weeks and the aviation alert was raised to orange to indicate a heightened risk of a volcanic eruption.
Persons: seismologists Organizations: Reuters Residents Locations: Grindavik, Iceland, iceland, Icelandic, Reykjavik
☆ Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Norwegian Author Jon Fosse
  + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones, jon, 231ff605
☆ Gray-Z: The 66-Year-Old Retired Teacher Taking Britain’s Battle-Rap Scene by Storm
  + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones
☆ U.S. Ambassador Sees Detained Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich
  + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones, evan Locations: russia
☆ England Has a North-South Divide, Too. But Where Exactly Is It?
  + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: england
☆ As Heat Waves Spread, So Too Do Unruly Climate Protests
  + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones
☆ What’s Happening With Wagner in Russia?
  + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his forces to put down what he called an armed rebellion after the founder of the Wagner mercenary group turned on Russia’s military command. Yevgeny Prigozhin , a one-time Putin confidant, took over the military headquarters for southern Russia in the city of Rostov, saying the Russian military had killed “an enormous amount” of his troops in airstrikes at Wagner camps.
Persons: Vladimir Putin, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin, “ Locations: Russia, Rostov
☆ At Least 78 Die After Migrant Ship Capsizes Off Greece
  + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones, 2673c003 Locations: greece
☆ Dozens of People Die After Migrant Ship Capsizes Off Greece
  + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: greece
☆ What We Know About the Nova Kakhovka Dam Destruction
  + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Concern over the fate of the Nova Kakhovka dam had been building throughout the war before it was finally destroyed. The reservoir was an important irrigation source for farmers who depend on it to cultivate some of Ukraine’s most productive farmland. It has supplied drinking water to Russian-occupied Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula where Moscow’s Black Sea fleet is based.
Locations: Nova, Russian, Crimea, Ukrainian
☆ Is It Just Me, or Does That Hotel Look Like…?
  + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: edinburgh
☆ The Wine Merchant Who Needs Security at the Door to Control the Crowds
  + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WAKEFIELD, England—This time last year, Mohammad Azar Nazir was running a humdrum convenience store in Wakefield, a small city in the north of England, trying to turn his life around after a four-year stretch in prison for drug offenses. “I was the biggest numpty you could meet,” he said, meaning a bit of a fool in the local Yorkshire slang, flashing a gold tooth as he smiled. He said he fell in with the wrong crowd and made some poor choices.
☆ AI-Generated Comic Book ‘Zarya of the Dawn’ Keeps Copyright But Key Images Excluded
  + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Copyright Office supported a copyright registration for a comic book created with the help of an artificial intelligence program, but said that individual AI-generated images couldn’t be granted protection, the latest development in a closely watched case that has become a barometer for how AI art might be treated in the eyes of the law. New York-based author and software developer Kris Kashtanova initially obtained copyright protection for the 18-page graphic novel “Zarya of the Dawn” last year. Kashtanova, who uses a gender-neutral honorific and pronouns, used a series of written prompts to guide the AI software Midjourney to create the images in the book, which describes the voyage of young person through several futuristic worlds and was the subject of an article in The Wall Street Journal last month.
☆ Nicola Sturgeon Resigns as Scotland’s First Minister
  + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Nicola Sturgeon said staying on as first minister might harm Scotland’s bid for independence from the rest of the U.K.EDINBURGH, Scotland—The leader of Scotland’s government and the head of its pro-independence Scottish National Party said on Wednesday she would resign, an unexpected move that follows a recent slump in support and controversy over an initiative to expand transgender rights. Nicola Sturgeon , who has led the Scottish Parliament for the past eight years, said she would have less energy for the job and that staying on might do more harm than good for the cause of independence from the rest of the U.K. Scotland’s Parliament has powers over local matters, including health and education, but not national ones, such as defense or diplomacy, which are reserved for the U.K. Parliament at Westminster.
☆ Moldova’s Pro-West President Accuses Russia of Planning Coup
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Moldova’s President Maia Sandu said the country’s security forces stopped an initial Russian plan to topple the government last fall. Moldova’s pro-European president accused Russia of trying to overthrow its democratic system and open a fresh front in Moscow’s war on Ukraine. In a televised address, President Maia Sandu said Moldovan authorities had confirmed details of an alleged Russian plot to co-opt the former Soviet republic that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky had laid out to European Union leaders in Brussels last week.
☆ Moldova’s Pro-Western Government Collapses as Fallout From Ukraine War Worsens
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Moldova’s pro-Western government resigned amid the worsening economic fallout from the war in neighboring Ukraine, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia was trying to destabilize the country. Announcing her decision Friday, Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita told a news briefing in the capital Chisinau that no one could have predicted the scale of the challenges her government has faced since the Russian invasion began nearly a year ago.
☆ Who Owns AI-Generated Art? A Comic Book Draws the Battle Lines
  + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Kris Kashtanova says doing the art for the graphic novel “Zarya of the Dawn” was like conjuring it up with a spell. “New York Skyline forest punk,” the author typed into an artificial intelligence program that turns written prompts into pictures. Then came the tinkering with the wording to get the right effect. “Crepuscular rays. Epic scene.”
☆ What Happened in the Ukraine-Russia War This Week
  + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Ukraine won promises from the U.S. and Europe to supply it with state-of-the-art battle tanks, while Russia stepped up its push in the east in what could prove to be a pivotal week in the conflict. Here are some of the key moments:
☆ Who Is Viktor Bout? What to Know About the Man Traded for Brittney Griner
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A former Soviet air force officer, Viktor Bout had been regarded as one of the world’s leading arms traffickers when the U.S. agents helped arrest him in a sting operation in Bangkok in 2008. Critics called him one of the world’s most effective arms traders and he was rumored to have been the inspiration for the Hollywood movie “Lord of War.” Suspected clients included Liberia’s Charles Taylor and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi . He has spent the last 10 years in a U.S. prison, to which he had been sentenced after being convicted of trying to sell weapons to Colombian rebels. Russian authorities had long tried to secure his release, however, finally achieving their goal in a prisoner exchange with Brittney Griner , the WNBA star who had been sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony.
☆ Who Is Viktor Bout? The ‘Merchant of Death’ Russian Arms Dealer Swapped for Brittney Griner
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A former Soviet air-force officer, Viktor Bout had been regarded as one of the world’s leading arms traffickers when U.S. agents helped arrest him in a sting operation in Bangkok in 2008. Critics called him one of the world’s most effective arms traders and he was rumored to have been the inspiration for the Hollywood movie “Lord of War.” Suspected clients included Liberia’s Charles Taylor and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi . He has spent more than a decade in a U.S. prison, to which he had been sentenced after being convicted of trying to sell weapons to Colombian rebels. Russian authorities had long tried to secure his release, finally achieving their goal in a prisoner exchange with Brittney Griner , the WNBA star who had been sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony.
☆ Tired of Twitter? The Alternatives Are Strange, Too
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Twitter users whiplashed by all the changes there since Elon Musk bought it have been experimenting with other sites in recent days. Mastodon is a popular choice. Some prefer Discord or Tribel. Others have landed on something a little more niche—the Matt Hancock app.
☆ People Are Leaving Twitter for...the Matt Hancock App?
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Twitter users whiplashed by all the changes there since Elon Musk bought it have been experimenting with other sites in recent days. Mastodon is a popular choice. Some prefer Discord or Tribel. Others have landed on something a little more niche—the Matt Hancock app.
☆ A Star of Urban Exploration Faces Spying Trial in Albania
  + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Svetlana Timofeeva built a career photographing abandoned sites around the former Soviet Union. She has published two books under her professional name, Lana Sator , stuffed with haunting images of derelict missile silos, forgotten submarines and rusting lines of armored tanks. Her Instagram account has 250,000 followers. Then she was arrested for spying.
☆ Union Boss Becomes U.K.’s Surprise Media Star
  + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( James Hookway | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
In the heat and bluster of Britain’s summer rail strikes, there is one man keeping his cool—gruff-talking union boss Mick Lynch . Over the past few days, Mr. Lynch, 60 years old, has earned a cult following, making him the highest-profile union leader since the days when Margaret Thatcher tried to break the labor movement in the 1980s.
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