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Disaster prevention drill

8/31/2018, 10:03:06 PM
School children wearing padded hoods to protect them from falling debris, take part in an earthquake simulation drill at an elementary school in Tokyo on Friday, ahead of Disaster Prevention Day on Saturday, which is held each year to commemorate the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. ✔ School children wearing padded hoods to protect them from falling debris, take part in an earthquake simulation drill at an elementary school in Tokyo on Friday, ahead of Disaster Prevention Day on Saturday, which is held each year to commemorate the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake


At a showcase D.C. library, showers outside mean rain inside

8/31/2018, 10:28:30 PM
The Tenley-Friendship building has soaked up a river of repair money, and the roof still leaks. ✔ By Reis Thebault August 31 at 6:02 PM When it opened in 2011, the $18 million Tenley-Friendship Library was the crown jewel of the District’s crop of new public libraries ✔ It won a design award for its use of natural light, which streamed in from a glass skylight ✔ The skylight has not leaked since, a spokesman said


He was accused of stealing millions and implicated in a deadly disaster. Now he's a Mexican senator

8/31/2018, 9:38:12 PM
Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, a former union boss, fled to Canada after being accused of embezzling money from workers and being faulted in a mining accident that killed 65. He is about to be sworn in as a Mexican senator representing Morena, the party of president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. ✔ In 2006, a methane explosion tore through the Pasta de Conchos coal mine in northern Mexico, killing 65 men toiling underground ✔ Millionaire businessman Alfonso Romo, another Lopez Obrador backer, has compared Gomez and his exile to the confinement in prison of Nelson Mandela


'It's a DISASTER!' Political commentator demands UK fishing regain control BEFORE 2020

8/31/2018, 9:10:10 PM
POLITICAL commentator Isabel Oakeshott has called on Theresa May to allow UK fishermen regain control of their waters before the post-Brexit transitional period is over, following the violent attack on British boats by French fishermen on Tuesday. ✔ French fishermen have accused the British of unfairly catching scallops in the Baie de Seine in the summer months when French boats are banned from doing so under rules imposed by the Paris government to conserve stocks of the shellfish ✔ France bans its fishermen from scallop dredging between May 15 and Oct. 1, but Britain allows its vessels to operate year-round


Ecuador says received $500 million from repo deal with Goldman Sachs

8/31/2018, 10:49:18 PM
Ecuador's government said on Friday it had received $500 million from a repurchase agreement with Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs as the Andean country seeks to plug its fiscal deficit. ✔ The deal had a rate of the three-month London interbank offered rate (Libor) plus 4.25 percent, the Economy and Finance Ministry said in a statement ✔ Ecuador is seeking to improve ties with U.S. banks and multilateral lenders that deteriorated under the rule of former President Rafael Correa ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Expelled Labour MP Frank Field vows to drag Jeremy Corbyn through the courts

8/31/2018, 10:54:58 PM
VETERAN MP Frank Field vowed to drag Jeremy Corbyn through the courts to overturn his expulsion from the Labour Party. Labour chiefs ripped up the 76-year-old poverty campaigner’s party membership … ✔ Rex Features 5 Frank Field says he is considering challenging the Labour Party in a by-election Labour denied Mr Field had been ejected from the party, insisting instead that he had in effect expelled himself ✔ RING  The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or  WHATSAPP  on 07423720250 or  EMAIL  exclusive@the-sun.co.uk


California's deadliest fire is 100% contained; focus shifts to larger blaze in Mendocino County

8/31/2018, 9:38:11 PM
California’s deadliest fire in 2018 has been 100% contained and it’s largest one is not far behind, according to state fire officials. ✔ After moving predictably in its first days, the Carr fire exploded on July 26 as it moved into Redding ✔ Considered a singular incident, the fire was 93% contained Friday and had scorched 459,102 acres, dwarfing all other fires in modern state history ✔ For comparison’s sake, the second-largest fire in state history, the Thomas fire, which burned in Southern California last year, was 281,893 acres


No heat rule ahead of hotly-anticipated Williams sisters matchup

8/31/2018, 10:49:19 PM
U.S. Open tennis fans were gearing up for the most anticipated match of the tournament so far on Friday with Serena and Venus Williams set to meet for the 30th time and extend a sibling rivalry that has endured for two decades. ✔ Third-seeded Sloane Stephens will continue the defense of her U.S. Open title against twice Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, who leads her American opponent 3-2 head to head ✔ On the men’s side, world number one and defending champion Rafael Nadal faces Russian 27th-seed Karen Khachanov in Arthur Ashe Stadium, while Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro will be favorite in his third-round match against Spain’s Fernando Verdasco having won four of their five previous encounters ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Lord Blunkett warns 'bullying and thuggery' under Jeremy Corbyn risks throwing Labour into 'decline and irrelevance'

8/31/2018, 11:51:51 PM
JEREMY Corbyn’s shambolic handling of the anti-Semitism crisis risks Labour falling into “irrelevance, Lord Blunkett has warned. The former Home Secretary added that Frank Field’s… ✔ Mr Field also said he is considering triggering an embarrassing by-election, in which he would run against an official Labour candidate ✔ Rex Features 6 Frank Field says he is considering challenging the Labour Party in a by-election Labour denied Mr Field had been ejected from the party, insisting instead that he had in effect expelled himself ✔ Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368


The new thirst for Australian crime reads

8/31/2018, 9:39:52 PM
Crime fiction is headed to a screen near you, writes Linda Morris. ✔ ''The smart producers will get onto manuscripts quickly, and option quickly before the word is out and there is competition, but often we don’t option film rights until after the book has been published,'' said Curtis Brown's Fiona Inglis ✔ Scrublands, Chris Hammer A priest turns a gun on five townsfolk and a year later a journalist hopes to discover why


Argentina peso falls 52% against the dollar this year - Will it continue to fall?

8/31/2018, 9:25:28 PM
LATIN America’s third-largest economy is going through an economic crisis as the Argentina peso has fallen 52 percent against the dollar this year. But will it continue to fall? ✔ The value of Argentina’s peso dropped more than 13 per cent on Thursday alone, after plunging seven percent on Wednesday ✔ The central bank asked for the early release of a $50 billion loan from the IMF, which was agreed in June ✔ The Turkish Lira crisis in Turkey has put pressure on other currencies around the world, including the Indian Rupee


Glee's Kevin McHale Transformed His Body to Fix Stomach Issues: 'I Was Constantly in Pain'

8/31/2018, 8:27:36 PM
Glee's Kevin McHale transformed his body to fix digestion issues, and lost 8.2 percent body fat in the process ✔ While only a few of the exercises were new to me, the attention to detail and technique was completely new, he said ✔ Now, I feel good, I feel like I know how to properly workout in a gym, I know how to eat well and most importantly I feel like I came away with the knowledge that I’ll be able to use forever


Love at first bite as smitten billionaire's on buys a slice of Black Star Pastry

8/31/2018, 9:39:48 PM
Today Australia Street, tomorrow the world for new Sydney icon the strawberry watermelon cake. ✔ Busloads of Chinese visitors visit Blackstar’s Rosebery premises, and tourists regularly make the shop near the airport their first port of call or last, visiting with eskies and ice to take the cake back to eager consumers in Asia ✔ Photo: Anna Kucera To make 258 slabs (more than 16,000 slices) of strawberry watermelon cake 30 Black Star Pastry chefs require: Two tonnes of watermelon from Flemington Markets 300 kilos of strawberries 900 litres of cream (in short supply because of the drought) 100 litres of rosewater (imported from Iran) Nine kilos (6 1.5 kilo boxes) of rose petals (also imported from Iran)


UN renews warning against government offensive in Syria's Idlib

8/31/2018, 8:07:49 PM
Protests in Idlib as head of UNHCR cautions over fresh displacement from potential push on last rebel stronghold. ✔ Grandi warned that the offensive on rebel-held Idlib will cause civilian deaths and mass displacement [File: Denis Balibouse/Reuters] The head of the United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR) has warned that a potential government offensive in the last rebel-held stronghold in Syria risks causing renewed displacement and discourage others Syrians from returning home ✔ It is important for all of us to neutralise these radical groups, he said


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