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By modeling offshore eruptions at the active volcano, which sits to the west of Naples, researchers were able to show that tsunamis could pose a risk to the region. They believe the National Emergency Plan for Campi Flegrei should be updated accordingly. Campi Flegrei is a volcanic complex consisting of 24 craters and edifices. Many of these are underwater, in Pozzuoli Bay. The volcano last erupted in 1538, when a week-long discharge led to the formation of a new volcano, Monte Nuovo....

Riddick will interview next week for the San Francisco 49ers’ general manager opening, ESPN colleague Adam Schefter reported Tuesday. MORE: Why would anybody want 49ers job? Before joining ESPN as a “front office insider” in May 2013, Riddick held scouting and personnel roles with the Redskins and Eagles for more than a decade. He most recently served as Philadelphia’s director of pro personnel from 2010-13. But Riddick’s NFL career actually began in San Francisco....

After laying off roughly 100 employees last week, ESPN is set to add the top NBA reporter in the industry. ESPN has finalized a deal with Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical, according to a Recode report. MORE: Updated list of biggest names laid off by ESPN Recode’s Peter Kafka says Wojnarowski will start at ESPN “in time to cover the June 22 NBA Draft.” ESPN also plans to add other members of The Vertical team, though it’s unclear which reporters would make the jump....

Through Week 7, overall TV ratings were down 12 percent. The numbers are even worse for the primetime Sunday, Monday and Thursday night Games. MORE: Week 9 NFL Power Rankings: Patriots are unstoppable Many theories have been cited for the falloff, ranging from the U.S. presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, over-saturation of games , poor quality of play and fan backlash to Colin Kaepernick’s political protest through the #BoycottNFL movement....

She made the announcement on Twitter Monday morning, saying her recent visit to the doctor allowed her to be cleared to return to work on a light schedule, just in time for March Madness. Multiple people reached out to Rowe to express their congratulations. Rowe underwent surgery Feb. 2 to remove a tumor in her chest, the second tumor discovered since May last year. Rowe has been with ESPN since 1998 and primarily covers college football, men’s and women’s’ college basketball as well as softball, the NBA and WNBA....

Greenberg rarely shared his political views during his successful 18-year run with Mike Golic on ESPN Radio’s “Mike & Mike in the Morning,” but the culture wars are still raging. Greenberg doesn’t want “Get Up,” which will air from 7-10 a.m. ET beginning Monday, April 2, to be seen as having a political agenda. Yes, if President Donald Trump tweets about sports, the show will cover it, he says, but “Get Up” is going to be “exclusively” about sports, he adds, with a side order of humor courtesy of himself, the wisecracking Beadle and Rose, the former NBA and Michigan basketball star....

Die Mannschaft have been widely tipped to successfully defend the title which they won at the Brazil 2014 following an overwhelming performance at the Confederations Cup which they won without some key first team players earlier this year. “I think I’ll go for Germany [to win the cup]," said Essien, as reported by Citifmonline. “They are quite good when it comes to tournaments. “They won the last one and they have the players to do it again....

Purpose of Test Your healthcare provider will order an eGFR test if they suspect you have chronic kidney disease. The lab may also be including in your yearly general wellness labs that look at general kidney function. So, if you complain about having symptoms of kidney disease or are getting routine labs, your practitioner may order you order an eGFR test. These symptoms include: Dry and persistently itchy skin Muscle cramps Swollen ankles and feet Increase in frequency of urination Foamy or bloody urine Sleep problems Fatigue and low energy levels Concentration problems Nausea and vomiting Poor appetite High blood pressure...

Juan Francisco Estrada retained his WBC and The Ring super flyweight titles and added the WBA (Super) title to his collection with a hard-fought split-decision victory over Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez at American Airlines Center in Dallas on Saturday night. It was a rematch more than eight years in the making after Chocolatito defeated Estrada in November 2012. Estrada got his revenge in an action-packed, back-and-forth battle. A super flyweight-record 2,529 punches were thrown in the fight, with Estrada landing 314 of 1,212 (26 percent) while Chocolatito landed 391 of his 1,317 punches thrown (30 percent)....

On Friday, the U.N.’s main human rights body voted to form an international team of experts to increase inspection of reported rights abuses in Ethiopia. The Human Rights Council voted 21-15 in favor of making a three-person team to monitor and report on rights abuses in the country over the span of one year. After the European Union and other Western countries requested a special session of the Human Rights Council to pay closer attention to the war in Ethiopia, the country decried a “neocolonist mentality....

The antiviral medication remdesivir is the only drug authorized across Europe for treating coronavirus patients. On Thursday, the European Commission urged the 27 nations in the EU to join forces to help deploy additional medicinal treatments across the continent. “Vaccinations save lives, but they cannot yet eradicate COVID-19. We need a strong push on treatments to limit the need for hospitalization, speed up recovery times and reduce mortality,” Stella Kyriakides, the EU’s Health and Food Safety commissioner, said in a statement, according to the Associated Press....

This month, scientists renewed their calls for immediate and urgent climate action, citing the ongoing heat waves and historic floods as proof that European cities are ill equipped for the realities of global warming. The European Commission responded with its “Fit for 55” proposal, which will aim to address the root causes of warming and slash greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent over the next decade, establishing Europe as the first net-zero bloc by 2050....

Over the past 12 days, the competition has delivered a combination of the sublime— witness some of Belgium’s goals and Italy’s ruthless brilliance—the comical— Slovakia’s goalkeeper Martin Dubravka will never want to see his calamitous mistake against Spain again—and the downright dramatic as Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen collapsed on the field following a cardiac arrest. The 24 teams that entered the tournament have been whittled down to 16, as Euro 2020 reaches the business end with the knockout stages due to begin on Saturday....

Sitting below the Champions League and Europa League in the pecking order, the Europa Conference League combines teams that qualify directly via domestic league table position along with those that drop from the other two competitions. AS Roma hoisted the trophy last season to win the first-ever UEFA Europa Conference League title. They qualified for the Europa League in doing so, and thus will only be able to defend their title if they finish third in their Europa League group, thus dropping down to the Europa Conference League knockout stage....

Authorities Guanajuato state, in central Mexico, claimed that the trophy has been taken after an event in the city while on tour, but was soon recovered. The authorities tweeted out an image of the trophy safely laid in cloth to prove that it was in friendly hands, but did not provide more detail of the incident. The Europa League is currently in the semi-final stage of the competition, with Marseille set to face Red Bull Salzburg and Arsenal squaring off with Atletico Madrid....

We popped into a bar where hams hung overhead and barrels served as tables. Over glasses of bone-dry sherry I steered conversation toward the biggest to-do in Continental history–“enlargement” of the European Union, slated for May 1. The stitching together of Europe’s two halves–one well-developed and wealthy, the other rich in spirit but broke–has been rightly nicknamed the “Big Bang.” Never before have 25 countries and 455 million people voluntarily ditched long-nursed grudges and grievances to band together under one powerful economic-political-social umbrella that affects everything from tomatoes to taxes....

For starters, there’s last week’s warning that Europe’s vaunted “single market” is not living up to its potential. Sluggish growth and slackening productivity threaten to widen the economic gap between Europe and the United States, according to a survey by the European Commission. The report also warned of a developing “two tier” Europe, where some countries and regions (Scandinavia, for instance) will markedly outpace others, such as Greece, Italy and France....

Arnaud’s doctors never guessed the diagnosis could be true–not even after they hospitalized him a year ago for a battery of medical tests. It was his mother who suggested checking for signs of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human version of mad cow. The doctors ordered a tonsil biopsy, one of the standard tests these days for CJD. The results confirmed his mother’s worst fears: Arnaud was suffering from the mysterious, incurable brain illness that has frightened Europe and baffled medical researchers for the past 15 years (following story)....

Early Friday, waves up to 20 feet high rolled up against sea defenses in Lowestoft, the most easterly point in Britain, about 120 miles northeast of London on the North Sea coast. But the peak of the predicted surge passed without causing any major damage. “It didn’t turn out as bad as we thought,” said Jill Bird, 47, a hotel cook from Great Yarmouth, about 135 miles northeast of London....

The lanky centre back has established himself as one of the best defenders in the Premier Soccer League (PSL) in the last few years. As previously reported on Goal, Chiefs are preparing to start contract extension negotiations with Mathoho, whose current deal will expire in just over five months’ time. It has since been revealed that the South Africa international has attracted some interest from European clubs. “He has been one of the most consistent players in the team and he is happy at Chiefs," The Citizen source said....