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By Reuters  &nbspJune 22, 2025 | 06:34 pm PT An Air India Airbus A320-200 aircraft takes off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, India, July 7, 2017. Photo by Reuters Air India said on Sunday that it is temporarily reducing less than 5% of its narrow-body jet routes for “operational stability”, its second such reduction following a plane crash earlier in June that killed all but one of the 242 people on board. The airline, reeling from the deadliest crash in decades, said in a post on... Read More

MANILA – A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on June 24, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, with no tsunami alert issued. The shallow quake struck about 374km east of the island of Davao, according to USGS. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, which reported the quake at a magnitude of 6.4, said no tsunami alert had been triggered. Quakes are a near-daily occurrence in the Philippines, which is situated on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, an... Read More

Meanwhile, tremors were also reported in both Thailand and Myanmar. In Thailand, a 1.9-magnitude earthquake was recorded at 1.56am in Mueang Na Subdistrict of Chiang Dao district, Chiang Mai province. In neighbouring Myanmar, two consecutive quakes were reported. The first, measuring 1.8 magnitude, struck at 1.20am at coordinates 19.935°N, 98.020°E — about 52 kilometres northwest of Pang Mapha district in Mae Hong Son province. Just four minutes later, a second quake of 2.5 magnitude occurred at 1.24am at coordinates 19.690°N, 96.270°E, approximately 183 kilometres northwest of Mae Hong Son’s Mueang... Read More

A volcano in eastern Indonesia has spewed a colossal ash tower into the sky, forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights to and from Bali. Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a 1,584m twin-peaked volcano on the tourist island of Flores, east of Bali, erupted at 5.35pm local time on Tuesday, the volcanology agency said in a statement. Officials raised Indonesia’s disaster alert level to the highest of a four-tiered system in response to the eruption. “The height of the eruption column was observed at approximately 10,000 metres above the summit. The ash... Read More

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is erupting again in spectacular fashion, sending lava shooting 1,000 feet into the sky, according to the United States Geological Survey. On Friday morning, “Episode 26” of the ongoing eruption at Halemaʻumaʻu — the pit crater within Kīlauea Caldera at the summit of the volcano — spewed lava fountains that reached massive heights, according to the USGS’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Episode 26 was preceded by small, sporadic spattering and lava overflows, according to the USGS. Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world and located... Read More