Japan braces as typhoon charts course for main island
9/28/2018, 7:09:24 AMJapan braced for high winds and heavy rain as a typhoon roared north on Friday, ... ✔ Churning north across Okinawa on Saturday, Trami is then predicted to rake across the islands of Kyushu and the main island of Honshu on Sunday, a path similar to that taken by typhoon Jebi early in September ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Typhoon Trami WARNING: 200 flights CANCELLED as devastating storm approaches Japan
9/28/2018, 4:22:31 AMCLOSE to 200 domestic flights have been cancelled in southern Japan ahead of the landfall of the powerful Typhoon Trami on Sunday, which is threatening to inflict life-threatening damages on the nation. ✔ Local media reported that 198 flights have been cancelled in Japan, mostly those to and from Naha Airport, which is located in the southern state of Okinawa ✔ As of 3am, local time on Friday morning (7pm BST), the storm was located 249 miles south-east of Miyako-jima island in Okinawa
Indonesia earthquake: 6.1 magnitude quake hits near Palu
9/28/2018, 7:44:32 AMINDONESIA has been struck by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake near the city of Palu. ✔ Indonesia straddles the highly volatile Pacific 'Ring of Fire', where many of the world's volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur ✔ Reconstruction efforts are now underway on the island, with the disasters having caused £263 million ($340 million) in damage
Typhoon Trami latest update: Heavy rain WARNING for six counties and cities as storm nears
9/28/2018, 5:04:54 AMA HEAVY rain alert has been issued as Typhoon Trami careers on a collision course towards the island nation of Taiwan, threatening to leave a scourge of destruction in its wake. ✔ But conditions will feel slightly warmer in central and southern areas with the mercury reaching 30 degrees during the day ✔ The centre of Trami will not directly hit Tokyo, but impacts will affect the capital as well as Osaka and other large areas of Japan
Gigantic asteroid that looks like HUMAN SKULL to brush past Earth & people are concerned
9/28/2018, 7:02:08 AMA HUGE asteroid that could cause a mega tsunami will skim dangerously past Earth. ✔ If it were to hit Earth, it would start to break up in the atmosphere, losing some energy, so not all of that would make it to the surface ✔ From observations, we discovered that this object's most likely rotation period is 2.94 hours, in other words, this is the approximate length of its day ✔ The explosion sparked widespread panic in the city of Chelyabinsk and damaged around 3,000 buildings
Hurricane Rosa grows into Category 4 storm as Kirk drenches Caribbean
9/28/2018, 7:13:35 AMForecasters say powerful hurricane churning in Pacific is likely to weaken before hitting Baja Peninsula early next week ✔ A tropical storm warning was in effect for Barbados, St ✔ The storm had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and was located about 60 miles south-southeast of Martinique ✔ Forecasters said Kirk was expected to become a tropical depression late Friday and degenerate into a trough of low pressure by Sunday
Very strong typhoon churns toward Japan
9/28/2018, 5:20:09 AMA large, very strong typhoon churned toward Japan Friday, with the weather agency warning the storm would rip through the nation over the weekend, bringing violent winds and torrential rain. Typhoon Trami, packing gusts of a maximum 162 kilometers per hour near its centre, was in the Pacific spiraling slowly… ✔ Images from the International Space Station posted on Twitter by astronaut Alexander Gerst on Tuesday showed Trami's enormous eye which he said was as if somebody pulled the planet's gigantic plug ✔ Also in September, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake rocked the northern island of Hokkaido, sparking landslides and leaving more than 40 people dead
'Sense will prevail' Sir Richard Branson brands Brexit a 'disaster' & calls for 're-think'
9/28/2018, 7:25:35 AMSIR RICHARD Branson has called for a “re-think” on Britain’s decision to leave the European Union as he labelled Brexit a “disaster” during a damning rant. ✔ I think it's becoming clearer and clearer just what a disaster it is Sir Richard Branson I think if they do, I think it is quite likely that sense will finally prevail ✔ Sir Keir also said nobody is ruling out Remain as an option should there be another referendum on Britain’s relationship with the EU
Cyclone Warning as Gale-Force Winds Batter Greece
9/28/2018, 7:14:31 AMGreece's civil protection services have been placed on alert as the threat of a cyclone halted ferries, forest fires prompted evacuations on an island, and an earthquake rattled the south of the country. ✔ The island's emergency services were on alert as weather conditions were expected to worsen ✔ Meteorologists warned of the high probability that a Mediterranean cyclone known as a medicane which combines the words Mediterranean and hurricane could form Friday in the Ionian Sea southwest of the Greek mainland ✔ __ Follow Becatoros at http://www.twitter.com/ElenaBec and Gatopoulos at http://www.twitter.com/dgatopoulos
Gov't to boost financial aid to regions hit by recent disasters
9/28/2018, 7:19:15 AMThe Japanese government decided Friday to boost financial aid to areas recently hit by a powerful earthquake and typhoons to help with reconstruction work. The central government designated damage in Hokkaido and other areas as "extremely severe" and will provide 10 to 20 percent more subsidies to hard-hit municipalities than… ✔ The decision was the second of its kind in this fiscal year following the one for recovery from devastating torrential rains that unleashed landslides and floods in western Japan in July ✔ The expanded subsidies will cover nine typhoon-affected municipalities in Niigata, Nagano, Osaka, Nara and Wakayama prefectures ✔ The Hokkaido quake killed 41 people and triggered a prefecture-wide blackout
Why a holiday in Lanzarote will make your children smarter
9/28/2018, 7:22:16 AMundefined ✔ Once we’d had enough of viewing the lagoon we wandered down to the rocky shore, where Billy and Ada played among the rock pools; the shore was covered with volcanic pumice, which, I explained, was full of bubbles from when it was molten, and the pools were full of little blennies and shrimp and a strange black swimming crab
Beyond contempt...council official who stole £62k from blaze victims
9/28/2018, 4:22:28 AMA GRENFELL survivor yesterday By David Pilditch branded as “beyond contempt” a crooked council chief who stole £62,000 meant for victims of the disaster. Edward Daffarn told a court he was “disgusted and sickened” by finance manager Jenny McDonagh, 39, who saw the tragedy as an opportunity to make “a personal financial profit”. ✔ She showed no emotion in the dock as Mr Daffarn, 56, outlined the impact of her crimes ✔ Instead of showing empathy to the victims of the fire, this individual saw our predicament merely as a chance for personal financial profit ✔ Her husband has now moved out of the home they shared
Manga comics turn gray, but spirited, along with readers
9/28/2018, 7:41:22 AMJapan's graying population is changing the character of its beloved manga comics, spawning a new gen ✔ Japan's graying population is changing the character of its beloved manga comics, spawning a new genre in which the elderly aren't pitiable oldsters but protagonists making discoveries, finding friends and sometimes even having hot sex ✔ Characters are being illustrated in a way that feels closer to reality, said Tsurutani, 36, who said memories of her late grandmother inform her work
Brexit LIVE: Tory civil war erupts as MPs pull apart Theresa May before party conference
9/28/2018, 7:44:28 AMBORIS Johnson has published his vision of a Brexit deal after branding Theresa May’s Chequers blueprint as “humiliating”. ✔ MPs have rounded on Theresa May before the Conservative Party Conference, which starts on Sunday, with Jacob Rees-Mogg also comparing the Chequers deal to Count Dracula saying it doesn't have much life in the sunlight ✔ I hope ultimately sense prevails and there's a big re-think and the British people have a chance to vote on whatever is negotiated in the end
Avoid the flu with ONE trick when your children get home from school
9/28/2018, 7:58:06 AMAccording to Shamir Patel, the pharmacist and founder of chemist-4-u.com, encouraging children to hop into the bath or shower straight after school will lessen their chances of getting ill. ✔ According to UK pharmacist Shamir Patel by getting your child out of their uniform and into the bath or shower as soon as they get home from school 'This will likely prevent others in your family becoming unwell in the process ✔ Children aged between six months and two years are given an injected flu vaccine, whereas children aged between two and 17 are given the flu vaccine nasal spray
ITV Good Morning Britain: Richard Arnold left red faced after HUGE technical blunder
9/28/2018, 7:19:55 AMGOOD MORNING BRITAIN showbiz editor Richard Arnold usually maintains a professional stance whilst working on the morning show, but this morning saw a slip up during his section. ✔ But all that appeared was a black display with some text which read: External file not found ✔ After the entertainment portion of the show finished the host asked: Did you edit this yourself ✔ Richard confirmed: There is a bit of a gremlin in there, yes ✔ He went on to explain that although he didn’t edit the video, someone in production threw it up
Grenfell was unfightable like 9/11, says fire chief
9/28/2018, 4:36:52 AMFIRE chief Dany Cotton compared the “unfightable” Grenfell Tower blaze to the September 11 terror attacks yesterday and revealed the personal toll it has taken on her mental health. The London Fire Brigade commissioner also told of her fears for crews’ lives and revealed she suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after the tragedy. ✔ Rescuers are helpless as flames tear through Grenfell Tower (Image: Evening Standard / eyevine) Giving evidence to the Grenfell inquiry, Ms Cotton defended her team’s attempt to tackle the high-rise inferno on June 14 last year, which killed 71 people ✔ Ms Cotton said she feared some of her team would be killed and went into the tower to reassure and comfort them
Japan's household spending seen slipping in August after natural...
9/28/2018, 6:22:34 AMJapan's household spending was expected to fall slightly in August as natur... ✔ FILE PHOTO: A woman holds shopping bags as she stands in front of a railway station in Tokyo, Japan December 26, 2017 ✔ The government plans to compile an extra budget for disaster relief after Japan was hit by deadly typhoons, flooding, record heat waves and earthquakes ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh delivered emotional testimonies and Senate lawmakers squared off during historic testimony on sexual assault
9/28/2018, 4:58:07 AMSupreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when the two were in high school, delivered emotional testimonies before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. In case you missed it, here are the highlights. ✔ Kavanaugh denied that and turned the question back to Klobuchar, asking her if she had ever blacked out herself ✔ Some observers, including Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, said Ford looked extremely credible, adding, this could be a disaster for the Republicans
'We ALL decided to LEAVE, that's it!' QT audience member delivers damning rant at panel
9/28/2018, 7:06:25 AMAN ANGRY Question Time audience member ripped into the BBC panel pointing out exactly why the UK should not have another Brexit vote during a passionate speech. ✔ The only way that you and Jacob are pulled apart is that he believes this country can go on to achieve better things, and you yourself don’t believe we can, that’s the difference ✔ Deeply unhelpful of some UK figures to travel around raising this prospect while so many working hard to land a deal ✔ Labour Party frontbenchers have repeatedly said their preference is a general election instead of another Brexit vote
Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees–Mogg team up to bring down Theres May in double Brexit ATTACK
9/28/2018, 7:21:52 AMBORIS Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg have launched a two pronged Brexit attack on Theresa May as they attempt scrap her so-called Chequers Plan on which she has staked her legacy as Prime Minister. ✔ They are a moral and intellectual humiliation for this country ✔ It is almost incredible that after two years this should be the opening bid of the British government ✔ It's a disgrace that he can't take the most important decision facing this generation seriously
Yemen is undeniably the world's worst humanitarian crisis: WFP
9/28/2018, 7:19:30 AMThe UN food agency chief raises alert over Yemen's hunger crisis at the UN General Assembly as famine fears loom. ✔ He also accused Houthi rebel forces of breaking every human principle imaginable, including impeding the delivery of food supplies and using weapons at UN warehouse facilities ✔ This determination to keep the war is alarming since civilian life is not respected in this conflict
It’s not just Trump. Much of America has turned its back on Europe | Timothy Garton Ash
9/28/2018, 5:20:02 AMThe US president is reflecting the national mood, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash ✔ If Brexit goes ahead – and I believe it can and must still be averted through a second referendum – then, as the American foreign policy analyst Walter Russell Mead recently argued, an acrimonious divorce between the UK and EU will further diminish the US commitment to Europe
Reliable Sources: Left and right reactions to the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings
9/28/2018, 5:21:39 AMDid any minds change among the millions of Americans who tuned in? ✔ A version of this article first appeared in the Reliable Sources newsletter ✔ But whether, in tribal America, truth is desirable is another matter.. ✔ A frustrated President Trump turned optimistic, per CNN's reporting.. ✔ He repeatedly made conspiratorial references to a left-wing plot
What changed?
9/28/2018, 4:02:41 AMCNN Opinion asked a group of expert commentators to weigh in with their reactions to the appearance of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee, made to address Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh. ✔ I'd vote to confirm Kavanaugh, and I'd encourage the senators to do the same ✔ Kavanaugh's demeanor was almost the exact opposite of Ford's ✔ Deborah Tuerkheimer, a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan, is the Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law at Northwestern University
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