May 5, 2013 – ALASKA – Scientists say Alaska’s Cleveland Volcano is undergoing a continuous low-level eruption. The activity began with an explosion early Saturday morning, followed by two other explosions hours later. The Alaska Volcano Observatory and U.S. Geological Survey say satellites and cameras suggest low-level emissions of gas, steam and a small amount of ash.
May 6, 2013 – KAMCHATKA – Observers in Kamchatka have registered intensification of the activity of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano, the Kamchatka volcano observatory reported on Monday, referring to data of the scientists that work at the Tolud base in the immediate vicinity of the eruption site. The activity intensification was recorded on May 4 “in the lateral outbreak crater,” the observatory specified. Lava is gushing there, ejected to a height of 100 meters.
May 6, 2013 – SYRIA – A series of massive explosions illuminated the dark sky over Damascus early Sunday, igniting renewed claims that Israel has launched attacks into the war-torn country. Syria’s government said the explosions were the second Israeli airstrike in three days.
May 6, 2013 – SYRIA - Concern over the possibility of broader war in the Middle East grew Monday in the wake of reported airstrikes on Syrian military installations.
May 7, 2013 – ISRAEL – Syria has stationed missile batteries aimed at Israel in the aftermath of alleged Israeli air strikes in the country, the website of Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen TV, considered close to the regime of President Bashar Assad, quoted a top Syrian official as saying on Sunday.
May 7, 2013 – EAST COAST, US - Residents of the East coast will get a chance to experience the eerie reappearance of the red-eyed 17-year cicada within days for the southern regions and weeks for the northern ones. Their sheer numbers will be staggering, with scientists estimating this year’s invasion at thirty billion. Some researchers think the number may be closer to one trillion. For the past 17 years, colossal numbers of the genus Magicicada have been lying low underground, eating off tree roots and waiting for just the right day when the ground temperature reaches exactly 64 degrees, setting off their biological signal to emerge en masse from their papery shells.
May 8, 2013 – SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi Arabia has had 13 cases in a recent outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus that has emerged from the Gulf and spread as far as Britain and France, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, and seven of those have died. Saudi Arabia has reported 23 confirmed cases in total.
May 8, 2013 – CHINA - Scientists said on Wednesday that flu infections were rising among pigs raised for slaughter on farms in south and southeastern China.
May 9, 2013 – MEXICO – Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano has spewed ash over several towns in the central state of Puebla, just 55 kilometers (35 miles) southeast of Mexico City.
May 9, 2013 – BRAZIL - It’s not the legendary Atlantis, but researchers are claiming to have found traces of a long-lost continent buried in the Atlantic Ocean near Brazil.
May 9, 2013 AUSTRALIA - The moon will block the sun in a potentially spectacular solar eclipse this week — a celestial event that will transform the sun into a cosmic “ring of fire” in the daytime sky. The ring-shaped solar eclipse, known as an annular eclipse, will occur Thursday and Friday Eastern Time.
May 9, 2013 – SPACE - A star being ripped to shreds in a violent supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe.
May 9, 2013 – BOSNIA – Sarajevo’s fire brigade was inundated with calls after a massive swarm of flies struck the Bosnian capital.
May 9, 2013 - U.S. evokes emergency act for H7N9: The U.S. government has declared that H7N9 bird flu “poses a significant potential for a public health emergency.”
May 9, 2013 – HEALTH – Another patient in China has died from an H7N9 influenza infection, raising the number of fatal illnesses to 32.
May 9, 2013 – ARGENTINA – A 31-yeaar old farm hand died and a 12-year old adolescent has been hospitalized in the province of Santa Fe following an outbreak of Argentine hemorrhagic fever (FHA) caused by the viral agent Junin and transmitted by camp miceThe contagion potential of the disease covers a wide area of central Argentina.
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