MADRID (Dispatches) - The Cumbre Vieja volcano in La Palma began erupting on 19 September. The ongoing eruption has destroyed almost 600 buildings, 258 hectares of land, and damaged 21 km of road to date. Live from La Palma in the Canary Islands as the volcano in the La Cumbre Vieja area continues to erupt. On Monday morning, the volcano stopped erupting for several hours, before resuming with renewed force. According to the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, the eruption is likely to last from 24 to 84 days. About 6,000 La Palma residents have been evacuated.

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PARIS (Dispatches) - Fresh tensions have surfaced between Britain and France over post-Brexit fishing rights. In the latest round of applications, the UK granted just 12 licenses from 47 bids for smaller vessels to fish in its territorial waters. French sea minister Annick Girardin reportedly said: “French fishing must not be taken hostage by the British for political ends.” Meanwhile, Jersey refused licences to 75 French fishing boats. The UK said it would consider further evidence to support remaining bids for fishing rights. Overall, the UK has granted 117 EU licenses for its inshore territorial waters and almost 1,700 EU vessels have been licensed to fish in the larger UK exclusive economic one, which stretches 200 nautical miles from shore.

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QUITO (Washington Post) - At least 30 prison inmates were killed and dozens more injured in Ecuador’s largest city, the third in a series of deadly riots this year. The violence erupted at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday as competing gangs exchanged gunfire and explosives in their battle for control of one of the units in the main prison in Guayaquil, police said. At least five of the inmates killed were decapitated, according to Gen. Fausto Buenaño, a regional police commander.

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WASHINGTON (Dispatches) - A CIA officer was reportedly evacuated from Serbia in a possible case of so-called Havana syndrome after suffering serious injuries that were in line with the mysterious illness. The Wall Street Journal, citing current and former U.S. officials, reported that the incident in Serbia, which occurred in recent weeks, is the latest in a string of such incidents caused by an unknown source and affecting American diplomats and intelligence officers. Government officials and scientists reportedly believe the symptoms are cased by a type of directed-energy source and include dizziness, memory loss and other issues, according to The Journal.

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BUCHAREST (Dispatches) - Romania’s two largest cities are gearing up for new restrictions, including a night-time curfew, after a surge of new Covid-19 cases across eastern Europe over the past two weeks. With the infection rate exceeding six cases per 1,000 people in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca and reports of hospitals filling with coronavirus patients again, authorities are also preparing to tie access to restaurants to vaccination status and ban large events. Schools may be closed on a case-by-case basis as the government tries to limit online schooling because of worsening exam results last year. The Delta variant is spreading quickly across Europe’s east, where countries are lagging their richer western neighbors in vaccinations. Ukraine on Wednesday said that new hospitalizations more than doubled in a day to the highest total since May. Poland reported the biggest daily increase in infections in four months.