Mount Etna erupts again with intense activity in southeast crater area
Lava flows from Mount Etna during a dramatic night-time eruption from its southeast crater. IMAGES
The Republican-led US Congress narrowly passes Donald Trump's flagship spending bill after a marathon voting session on the package, which is set to slash social welfare programs and add more than $3 trillion to the national debt. The text, headlined by a $4.5 trillion renewal of the president's first-term tax cuts, was approved by the House of Representatives along party lines, delivering Trump the biggest legislative win of his second term. IMAGES
Lava flows from Mount Etna during a dramatic night-time eruption from its southeast crater. IMAGES
Smoke billows from the site of Iranian strike on the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba in Israel's south. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran would "pay a heavy price" after a missile hit the hospital in Israel's south. IMAGES
Demonstrators, including a number of ecologist and rebel MPs, gather outside France's National Assembly in Paris to protest against the Duplomb-Menonville farm bill, which is on the verge of being ratified by Parliament. The law would allow farmers, via a special derogation, to use a controversial neonicotinoid pesticide - which experts say damages the environment and in particular bees. IMAGES
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