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PAHOA, Hawaii - A new fissure emitting steam and lava spatter spurred Hawaii officials to call for more evacuations on Sunday as residents braced for an expected eruption from the Kilauea volcano.

The Hawaii County Civil Defense issued an alert that an 18th fissure was discovered along a road west of a major highway on the Big Island. Residents on that road were being told to evacuate, and two nearby community centers were serving as shelters for people and pets.

The fissures, ground deformation and abundant volcanic gases indicate eruptions on the eastern flank of Kilauea are likely to continue.

The latest opening came the morning after two other fissures opened on Saturday.

Most of the lava outbreaks have occurred in and around the Leilani Estates neighborhood, where molten rock has burst through the ground, destroying more than two dozen homes and resulting in evacuation orders for nearly 2,000 people.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the 17th fissure, which opened Saturday night, was spattering but no flow had formed. The 16th fissure had spilled lava into an open field earlier in the day.

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported the fissures opened just east of the Puna Geothermal Venture energy conversion plant, where steam and hot liquid are brought up through underground wells and the steam feeds a turbine generator to produce electricity.

Geologists warn that Kilauea's summit could have an explosive steam eruption that would hurl rocks and ash miles into the sky.

Jersey City, Polish groups reach accord on moving memorial

An acrimonious battle in New Jersey over plans to move a waterfront statue commemorating the 1940 massacre of Poles has ended.

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop and local Polish groups announced late Saturday that they have reached an agreement on relocating the Katyn Memorial. Details on the deal will be announced Monday.

Fulop, a Democrat, called the deal a "win-win" in a tweet announcing the agreement. He wrote that the goal was one that "respects/cares/keeps the monument in an extremely prominent location to honor sacrifices" while also giving the city "a chance to re-purpose our waterfront."

City officials wanted to move the statue as part of a renovation of the plaza where it currently stands

But the Polish groups opposed that and had sought a court order.

President pays tribute to his mom in video, omits Melania

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump paid tribute to his late mother, Mary MacLeod, in a Mother's Day video posted on Twitter.

Trump said, "So much of what I've done and so much of what I've become is because of my mother. I miss her a lot."

The video didn't mention first lady Melania Trump, the mother of the couple's 12-year-old son, Barron. The president and first lady held a Mother's Day event at the White House on Wednesday recognizing military mothers and spouses.

In the video, Trump noted that his mother came to the United States from Scotland and was married to his father, the late Fred Trump, for many years. Trump said his mother was "warm, loving, really smart," adding she "could be tough if she had to be."

Polish officials recover bodies of 2 coal miners killed in quake

WARSAW, Poland - Officials in Poland say that they have recovered the bodies of two miners killed when an earthquake hit a coal mine in southern Poland last week, bringing the death toll to four.

The Jastrzebie Coal Company said Sunday that the two had been found after many days of rescue efforts.

One other miner remains missing about 2,950 feet below ground since the quake hit the mine on May 5.

The mine is located in the town of Jastrzebie-Zdroj, close to Poland's border with the Czech Republic.

Poland's State Mining Authority said the temblor had a magnitude of 3.4, while the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre pegged it at 4.3. The quake was also felt on the surface and shook some houses.

2 kidnapped British tourists freed in Congo

KINSHASA, Congo - Two British tourists have been released in eastern Congo two days after being kidnapped, according to announcements Sunday by Virunga National Park and the British foreign secretary.

Boris Johnson didn't give any further details, but paid tribute to the authorities from the African country and the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation "for their tireless help during this terrible case."

He said that "my thoughts are now with the family of Virunga Park ranger Rachel Makissa Baraka who was killed during the kidnapping, and with the injured driver."

The tourists' vehicle was ambushed while transporting them from the park about 6 miles north of the city of Goma, a park guard said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to speak to the media.

113-year-old Ohio woman now the oldest American

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - A 113-year-old woman living in suburban Cleveland is believed to be the oldest person in the United States after the death of a 114-year-old Pennsylvania woman.

Cleveland.com reports the 88-year-old daughter of Lessie Brown says her mother remarked, "that's good" when told Friday she had become the country's oldest person.

Brown was born in 1904 in Atlanta and moved to Cleveland when she was 18.

She married and had five children, three of whom are still living. The Cleveland Heights resident has more than 50 grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.

Family members have attributed Brown's long life to her eating a yam every day until she was 110.

A powerful dust storm and heavy rain have struck parts of India, killing at least 23 people, injuring more than 40 and taking the death toll in unseasonal storms this month to 157. An official said Sunday's storm had winds up to 45 mph, demolished dozens of homes and uprooted trees and power lines in Uttar Pradesh.

Militants attacked a provincial government building in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 10 people, officials said. The spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province said a suicide car bomb exploded outside the building, which belongs to the provincial finance directorate.

Caption: A Sunday aerial view shows a 1,000-foot fissure that erupted in Kilauea's eastern rift zone. Eighteen fissures have been reported as of Sunday in and around Leilani Estates on the Big Island. Volcanologists expect a massive eruption in the coming weeks.

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