Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, has erupted again, lighting up the sky over much of eastern Sicily and shooting up a towering column of ash. The eruption, which began late on Saturday and tapered off on Sunday morning, did not endanger any of the villages dotting the mountain’s slopes and no evacuation was ordered. Etna’s last major eruption occurred in 1992.

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