Skip to main content

Disasters - SERIES 185 {19 articles}

Storm Bronagh wanes over weekend but heavy rain and strong winds still expected

9/22/2018, 3:32:16 AM
Better weather conditions are expected by Sunday as Storm Bronagh leaves Britain's shores ✔ Commutes were treacherous (Image: PA) Commuters in Wales faced some of the most severe delays, after Bronagh caused flooding on the lines between Machynlleth and Aberystwyth, and near Mountain Ash ✔ Monday will be sunny for many, albeit with showers for western Scotland


‘The storm itself is not our biggest problem. Our problem is what comes next.’

9/22/2018, 2:14:08 AM
Hurricane Florence came and went. But many riverfront towns in North Carolina are just now experiencing the menace that has mounted steadily: water. ✔ Doctors would prescribe a visit to the hotel (now closed) so patients could ingest a concoction from the dipping wells: one scoop of water from Spring 1, mixed with two scoops from Spring 3 and half a scoop from Spring 5 ✔ The old family house is deteriorating and might have to be demolished


Villagers in Philippines landslide text loved ones pleading for help

9/22/2018, 1:57:05 AM
At least 29 people have died and dozens more are still missing after villages near Naga City in the Philippines were buried on Thursday morning. One resident said 13 members of his family are missing. ✔ Distraught relatives begged for more diggers to be brought to the mound of earth and debris, where rescuers had too little equipment to work with ✔ The central region was not directly hit by Typhoon Mangkhut – which killed at least 81, mostly in the north, last weekend – but the storm did intensify seasonal monsoon rains nationwide


Hurricane Florence RETURNS? Devastating storm could REFORM as Hurricane Kirk

9/22/2018, 2:54:40 AM
HURRICANE Florence, the powerful storm that rampaged across the east coast of the United States last week, could soon return as a new storm and bring further devastation to the eastern seaboard. ✔ The remnants of the storm are now located in the Atlantic Ocean, and may reform once again and develop into a hurricane ✔ As much as 40 inches of rain fell in some areas, causing rivers to overflow ✔ Rising river levels have increased the risk of further damage


'You better pray:' More flooding in Carolinas a week after Florence

9/22/2018, 12:38:31 AM
Residents of Georgetown County, South Carolina, where five rivers flow into the ... ✔ Slideshow (13 Images) More than 54,000 homes and businesses were without power in the Carolinas on Friday afternoon ✔ One week after Florence made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane, North Carolina was still feeling its effects, Cooper said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Grenfell survivors could have asbestos poisoning, experts warn

9/22/2018, 2:16:25 AM
Hundreds of Grenfell Tower survivors and firefighters could have asbestos poisoning after being exposed to toxic fumes, a coroner has warned. ✔ If inhaled it can cause mesothelioma, a fatal lung disease ✔ Tunisian Abdelkarim Rekaya, 28, pretended to be a survivor to take advantage of the Government’s amnesty for illegal immigrants in the block ✔ He will be sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on November 27


Hundreds feared drowned after crammed ferry sinks

9/22/2018, 3:10:53 AM
MORE than 100 bodies were recovered yesterday with hundreds still missing after an overloaded ferry capsized and sank. ✔ It overturned when crowds on deck and below moved to one side as it docked ✔ Relatives desperately looking for their loved ones faced an anxious wait as rescue efforts resumed yesterday ✔ Tanzania’s police chief Simon Sirro Mwanza said last night that the death toll had risen to 136


Running towards danger: two policemen decorated for valour

9/22/2018, 1:23:11 AM
Both police aimed at the body and were about to fire when they saw a postie on a motorbike emerge from a driveway behind the gunman. ✔ They could have left the arrest to the heavily-armed Special Operations Group, but that would have meant leaving a gunman roaming suburban streets ✔ And so they gave chase even though they knew it placed their lives in danger ✔ As one investigator observed: ‘‘Let’s put it this way, the exit wound did nothing for the artwork.’’


Cruz, O'Rourke trade attacks during testy 1st Texas debate

9/22/2018, 12:53:08 AM
DALLAS (AP) — Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O'Rourke repeatedly traded barbs during a testy first debate Friday night, underscoring how a Texas Senate race that long looke ✔ An ex-punk rocker who has attracted glowing attention from national liberal circles for his high-energy campaign and monster fundraising, O'Rourke has been mentioned as a possible 2020 Democratic vice presidential candidate and even a 2020 White House hopeful


‘Don’t get rattled’: Social conservatives rally behind embattled Supreme Court pick

9/22/2018, 12:49:06 AM
Attendees at Values Voter Summit see Kavanaugh as a target of Democrats and dismiss sexual assault accusation against him. ✔ McConnell’s promise earned an ovation from his audience of around 2,000 faith leaders and activists, many of whom framed the current crisis in scriptural or religious terms ✔ I think it’s a bunch of ungodly women who don’t like the values of conservative women, said Dayna Jones, 39, a California Realtor ✔ Has it affected Clarence Thomas’s effectiveness on the Supreme Court all these years


China drafts new nuclear energy law, focus on international market

9/22/2018, 2:36:37 AM
China will provide more support for its nuclear firms to go overseas and strengt... ✔ It also includes clauses calling for the convergence of military and civilian research into nuclear energy ✔ It calls for the establishment of a uranium reserve and a system for storing, transporting and treating spent fuel ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Bethenny Frankel Responds to Fan Who Calls Her 'Extra Thin' After Dennis Shields' Shocking Death: 'Grief Diet'

9/22/2018, 12:33:23 AM
Bethenny Frankel has lost weight in the wake of her late boyfriend's death ✔ Dennis Shields‘ death has taken both an emotional and physical toll on Bethenny Frankel ✔ On Friday, the Real Housewives of New York City star shared a smiling photo of herself wearing a fitted, floral and ruffled dress and holding a miniature clear replica of Robert Indiana’s LOVE Sculpture ✔ It’s hard to breathe & I appreciate you giving me the space & support to try to do so


Tanzania leader orders arrests as ferry death toll over 130

9/22/2018, 1:13:40 AM
undefined ✔ The death toll was above 130 but horrified witnesses feared that would rise as a second day of searching neared an end ✔ He said even the cargo far exceeded the 25 tons allowed ✔ Nearly 200 people died in 2011 when the MV Spice Islander I sank off Tanzania's Indian Ocean coast near Zanzibar


Pathologist who worked on Hungerford massacre had PTSD 30 years later

9/22/2018, 1:11:49 AM
Dr Richard Shepherd, 65, carried out autopsies on the victims killed during the 1987 massacre in Berkshire. Three years ago he had suicidal thoughts while flying over the town. ✔ Michael Robert Ryan, 27, armed with two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun, went on a shooting spree along the high street of the sleepy town He also carried out the post-mortems on young mother Rachel Nickell, murdered on Wimbledon Common in 1992, and Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager stabbed to death in a racial attack a year later


PETER OBORNE: Jeremy Corbyn needs to change track soon

9/22/2018, 12:21:29 AM
PETER OBORNE: Corbyn is coming under huge pressure to commit Labour to join calls for a second referendum on Brexit. ✔ Speaking in front of two large Union flags in her Downing Street bunker yesterday, this was a Theresa May we’ve never seen before ✔ He’s being told by advisers that this is the only way that he can bring together the disparate elements of his party, comprising Momentum (his hard-Left base of intensely loyal activists) on one side and Blairites on the other


FEMA chief used vehicles without authorizition, but won't be fired, DHS says

9/22/2018, 2:37:57 AM
Brock Long agreed to reimburse the government, though it wasn't clear how much money that might be, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said ✔ The House Oversight Committee is also looking into the allegations and has asked Long to turn over to the committee all documents related to the trips by Oct. 1, including whether his staff was put up in hotels paid for by taxpayer dollars ✔ The former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, resigned in July after allegations of massive security spending, first-class flights and a sweetheart condo lease


As sand mining grows, Asia’s deltas are sinking, water experts warn

9/22/2018, 3:33:21 AM
STOCKHOLM-- Sand mining from rivers is depriving many low-lying Asian deltas of the sediment they ne ✔ That is a problem not only because the deltas are home to millions of people but because they produce a significant share of the region’s food ✔ To give a sense of its use, for every bucket of cement, five to seven buckets of sand are used in concrete ✔ That means the rivers and everyone dependent on them are sufferers


Puerto Rico: The exodus after Hurricane Maria

9/22/2018, 1:48:29 AM
In the year since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the island has lost a precious resource: hundreds of thousands of people who've left to build their futures elsewhere ✔ Watch the full CBSN Originals one-hour special on CBSN Sunday, Sept ✔ I try to spend the most time with him… because if something happens to him, it will be hard for me to come to Puerto Rico, to be with the family in that moment, she said ✔ But, before that, he told me, if your blessings are in the United States, go


Brexit compromise still possible - Tusk

9/22/2018, 3:59:20 AM
The European Council president said it was in fact Theresa May who was "uncompromising" over her plan. ✔ But the Daily Telegraph says the prime minister is facing a showdown with her cabinet next week when ministers will call for a Plan B alternative to the Chequers proposals ✔ Labour wants to see the UK join a customs union with the EU after Brexit, but remain outside of the single market


>>> Open This Series
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

War Countries - SERIES 192 {21 articles}

Geopolitical pendulum shifts from Pyongyang to Tehran 9/27/2018, 8:40:14 AM undefined ✔ By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS ― Presidents, prime ministers, kings and potentates have converged in New York for the 73rd U.N ✔ Equally the U.S. prevailed upon China, North Korea's longtime comrade and benefactor, to coerce its minions in Pyongyang to talk rather than shoot missiles Israel prepared to reopen Golan crossing with Syria: defense chief 9/27/2018, 11:11:12 AM Israel is ready to reopen a crossing point into the Syrian-controlled Golan Heig... ✔ REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo Lieberman was referring to the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, whose monitoring operations in a demilitarized zone established in 1974 between the Israeli-occupied Golan and the Syrian sector were disrupted by Syria’s civil war Thanks to Brexit, the British voice counts for less at the UN 9/27/2018, 8:29:30 AM PM’s foreign policies have been submerged by Brexit, giving...
Post a Comment
Read more

Disasters - SERIES 115 {22 articles}

US and Caribbean brace for disaster as three hurricanes churn in Atlantic 9/10/2018, 9:01:28 AM The triple threat is almost a mirror image of last year's disastrous September when Irma, Jose and Maria killed thousands and caused widespread devastation ✔ The National Hurricane Center warned that it would be an extremely dangerous major hurricane with powerful winds, heavy rain and a life-threatening storm surge ✔ It is expected to weaken before it hits the Lesser Antilles and moves into the eastern Caribbean Sea on Wednesday night or Thursday Hurricane Florence strengthens fast on path for East Coast 9/10/2018, 10:41:20 AM Forecasters warn it could hit anywhere from Carolinas to Mid-Atlantic, and linger long enough to cause major problems ✔ Forecasters have warned of a rising threat of life-threatening storm surge, along with the damage of a hurricane's high winds ✔ Red flags flying on beaches warned swimmers to stay out of waters as seas began kicking up ✔ Florida-b...
Post a Comment
Read more

War Countries - SERIES 306 {21 articles}

Afghanistan: Roadside bomb blast kills 11 in Nangarhar's Achin 10/21/2018, 10:35:31 AM Six children and a woman among victims of explosion in Achin district of Nangarhar, as Afghans vote for a second day. ✔ There are 21,000 voting stations in 5,100 polling centres across the country's 33 participating provinces ✔ There is also an ongoing dispute over how to divide Ghazni's electoral constituencies to have a more balanced ethnic representation ✔ The electoral commission has not set a timeline for announcing official results, but preliminary results are expected within a month 'Dark day': Congo rebels kill 2 health agents fighting Ebola 10/21/2018, 6:35:36 AM JOHANNESBURG (AP) — It is a "dark day" for everyone fighting the deadly Ebola outbreak after rebels shot and killed two medical agents with the Congolese army, Congo's health minister announced late Saturday. This appears to be the first time health workers have been killed by rebels in ...
Post a Comment
Read more

War Countries - SERIES 230 {13 articles}

Nobel prize for Congo surgeon exposes region's deadly threat 10/6/2018, 1:03:07 PM JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Congolese surgeon brings rare global attention to a region surging for decades with rebel conflict that now threaten ✔ peacekeepers, a rocket explosion and an attack on the town at the center of Ebola efforts that killed at least 18 people and shut down health work for days ✔ Some combatants are fighting for control of the country’s mineral wealth, intensifying the cycle of violence Afghan official: 2 security forces killed in bomb blasts 10/6/2018, 1:52:27 PM KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least two Afghan security forces were killed Saturday in Taliban attacks in the capital Kabul, officials said. Basir Mujahid, spokesman ✔ Mujahid said a roadside bomb hit a military vehicle as police arrived to respond to an insurgent attack, then a second blast took place in the same area causing ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Travel - SERIES 302 {17 articles}

JR West tests tourism-savvy robot at Osaka Station 10/21/2018, 11:07:39 PM OSAKA--An AI robot schooled in the art of travel completed its trial duty at JR Osaka Station earlie ✔ When addressed in Japanese or English, the robotic guide showed passengers where to change trains for key tourist destinations, such as Umeda Sky Building and Tsutenkaku Tower ✔ The device learns how questions are asked through conversations with non-Japanese, according to JR West ✔ Tourists can speak or use the touchscreen to communicate with the device These 4 Destinations Should Be At The Top Of Any Brit Lit Lover's Travel List 10/21/2018, 7:43:50 PM Get to know the England that Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie knew! ✔ It is also the town where crime master Agatha Christie was born, and it's where you can also visit the places inspired many of the locations in her novels like the Imperial Hotel, Anstey's Cove or the body beach ✔ The best things at t...
Post a Comment
Read more