a volcano on the in the nation island of java has erupted mounds murawski spewed a cloud of ash and lava some 6 kilometers into the air the eruption briefly prompted the closure of a nearby international airport but geologists have not raised the alert level from robbie in the nation's most active volcano. the world health organization says it's controlling in both outbreak in the democratic republic of congo it's reporting a sharply lower number of new cases in the disease is now been confined to one province chill credits a new isolation facility for high risk patients for the diminished numbers of new infections. france is ramping up measures to tackle the coronavirus by seizing stocks of face masks or fresh presence in many ways mccall says authorities will redistribute the masks to health professionals and those already infected with the coronavirus meanwhile in iran officials say they are temporarily releasing more than tens of thousands of prisoners who have tested negative for the coronavirus on this an effort to help stem its spread iran has the highest death toll outside china