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NOAA: Super Typhoon Yutu strongest storm to ever hit US soil

10/25/2018, 5:43:48 AM
With winds of 178 mph as its eye passed over Tinian, Super Typhoon Yutu was the strongest storm on record to ever hit U.S. soil, according to NOAA ✔ Yutu, a Category 5 super typhoon, exceeded the magnitude of Soudelor ✔ It's one of the most powerful typhoons I've seen in my life, former Gov ✔ There's widespread destruction of property, from homes to cars ✔ You may also want to view these photo galleries: Replay Last SlideNext Slide


Minor earthquake rattles Gyeongju

10/25/2018, 4:48:47 AM
undefined ✔ According to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), the quake happened at 5:53 a.m. about nine kilometers south of the city, at a depth of 16 kilometers ✔ It was believed to be an aftershock of the 5.8-magnitude quake that struck Gyeongju on Sept ✔ Sensitive people felt the tremor, a KMA official said


Injuries reported in Marianas after super typhoon Yutu hits

10/25/2018, 5:37:35 AM
HONOLULU--Super typhoon Yutu (No. 26) crossed over the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Isl ✔ All government offices and schools shut down two days ago ✔ Dean Sensui, vice chair for Hawaii on the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, was in Saipan for a council meeting ✔ Down at the restaurant it sounded like a Hollywood soundtrack with the intense rain and howling wind ✔ A tropical storm warning was in place for Guam and other southern islands


Suspicious package investigation, Super Typhoon Yutu, Georgia voting: 5 things you need to know Thursday

10/25/2018, 7:58:49 AM
Federal agencies investigate suspicious packages, Super Typhoon Yutu and more things to start your day. ✔ Joe Raedle, Getty Images Fullscreen Cordoned offarea at Columbus Circle in New York City where a suspicious package was discovered at CNN’s NYC offices ✔ Its remnant energy and moisture will help fuel the first nor'easter of the season for the East Coast this weekend, the National Weather Service said


Rights groups push for yes vote in Irish blasphemy referendum

10/25/2018, 5:21:53 AM
Vote on whether to decriminalise blasphemy coincides with presidential election on Friday ✔ Earlier this month, the Irish Catholic church said the blasphemy provision was largely obsolete, and that such laws had been used to justify violence and oppression against minorities in other parts of the world ✔ Under the law, an offence is committed if someone publishes or voices material grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion


German parties prepare for second electoral shock in Hesse

10/25/2018, 5:21:54 AM
Dip in support for Christian Democrats and Social Democrats could spell danger for chancellor’s grand coalition ✔ Both parties are trying to play down the significance of the regional election, which comes just two weeks after a catastrophic poll in Bavaria widely blamed on the failings of the Berlin government ✔ Yet Merkel has more to worry about than a revolt from within her own party ✔ If predictions play out, the party could potentially opt to cut the CDU out of power in Hesse and install a leftwing coalition under Germany’s second-ever Green state premier


Stocks plunge as global growth, U.S. earnings spook investors

10/25/2018, 6:49:00 AM
Asian shares plunged on Thursday as hundreds of billions of dollars hemorrhaged ... ✔ In addition, a Bank of America Merrill Lynch study recently found that 58 percent of the 2,767 stocks in MSCI’s global index are now in bear market territory ✔ [O/R] Spot gold XAU= was a tad firmer at $1,236.76 an ounce ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Planning Minister Richard Wynne fast-tracks coal-to-hydrogen project

10/25/2018, 7:00:09 AM
Planning Minister Richard Wynne has intervened to approve part of a project to convert Latrobe Valley brown coal into liquid hydrogen and export it to Japan. ✔ But the Australian and Victorian governments hope the coal-to-hydrogen project will be a source of new jobs for decades to come in the Latrobe Valley, one of the state’s most economically disadvantaged regions ✔ The Andrews government has been contacted for comment


Business Live: Thursday 25 October

10/25/2018, 5:19:18 AM
All the latest news from the business world plus market updates. ✔ The sharp sell-off - which pushed the Dow and the S&P 500 into negative territory for the year - follows growing worries about corporate earnings and slowing economic growth ✔ Do stay with us for that and all the other latest news from the world of business and economics


Ricky Martin on mission to donate 100 homes to Puerto Rico residents

10/25/2018, 6:29:49 AM
On Ellen Wednesday, Martin said his latest 'goal is, before Christmas ... to hand out 100,000 keys to houses' to residents displaced by the hurricane. ✔ The 46-year-old entertainer has been tireless in fundraising for the island in the wake of the September 2017 natural disaster that killed an estimated 2,975 people and caused more than $100 billion in damage to property and the power grid ✔ 'And it feels amazing, it feels like its been a decade but this is a good thing


Bolsonaro's anti-China rants have Beijing nervous about Brazil

10/25/2018, 5:16:48 AM
The Chinese government is trying to make peace with Brazil's leading presid... ✔ Niobium is used as an additive to steel to make it stronger and lighter ✔ It is used in cars, buildings, jet engines and a host of other applications ✔ The U.S.-China trade war has given Brazil leverage for now ✔ You can’t change it that easily without severe repercussions ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


China, Japan Seek Warmer Ties Against Backdrop Of US Trade Friction

10/25/2018, 7:00:40 AM
Japan's prime minister travels to Beijing on Thursday for his first formal bilateral summit with Chinese leaders in seven years as the Asian rivals seek to build on a thaw in ties against a backdrop of trade friction with Washington. ✔ Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers his policy speech at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 24, 2018 ✔ Photo: REUTERS/Toru Hanai 'STRATEGIC TARGETS' The Belt and Road project has come under fire for saddling poor nations with debt through big projects that are not economically viable ✔ (Reporting by Linda Sieg; Editing by Robert Birsel) -Reuters


China, Japan seek warmer ties against backdrop of U.S. trade friction

10/25/2018, 7:35:23 AM
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left for Beijing on Thursday afternoon for his first formal bilateral summit with Chinese leaders in seven years as the Asian rivals seek to build on a thaw in ties against a backdrop of trade friction with Washington. China has stepped up its outreach to… ✔ China may be hoping that Abe makes a positive statement about its Belt and Road initiative, a vehicle to fund and build transport and trade links in more than 60 countries ✔ But at the end of the day, if strategic targets are different, we won't be able to establish a stable relationship


US-Backed Regime Losing Control in Afghanistan

10/25/2018, 5:04:50 AM
NOTE: This is not some pointless report about someone using a "bad word" -- shock, horror! -- like most "news stories" these days. This is a real news story about important stuff, so read on... ✔ NOTE: This is not  some pointless report  about someone using a bad word -- shock, horror! -- like most news stories these days ✔ This could almost be an account from a Victorian history book, with the besieged garrison cut off, demoralised, and finally overrun by an onrush of the angry natives


Socialite claims gagging order millionaire sexually assaulted her

10/25/2018, 6:38:23 AM
A WELL-KNOWN socialite who believes she was a victim of the gagging-row tycoon last night accused him of groping her. In an anonymous first-person account, she said: “He loved that I was scared.” S… ✔ The case has been described as a British #MeToo moment a reference to the flood of allegations in America following the revelation of film mogul Harvey Weinstein’s serial sexual harassment ✔ RING The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or EMAIL exclusive@the-sun.co.uk


Violin maker in Palestine brings sweet sounds to troubled landscape

10/25/2018, 5:33:55 AM
Shehada Shalalda grew up in Ramallah, where he developed his passion at a music school ✔ He continued his studies at Newark School of Violin Making in the UK ✔ Shalalda returned home to Palestine in 2012 and set up a workshop in the Al Kamandjati music school, which is still just up the road from his house ✔ This article is part of a series on possible solutions to some of the world’s most stubborn problems


Analysis | Trump wants America’s migration problem to be like Europe’s

10/25/2018, 5:18:31 AM
But the scale of illegal immigration to the United States is much smaller than what Europe faced in recent years. ✔ By Adam Taylor Adam Taylor Foreign reporter who writes about a variety of subjects Email Bio Follow October 25 at 12:59 AM Wishful thinking (Washington Post illustration; AFP/Getty; iStock) As you’ve certainly heard by now, there’s a caravan of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers slowly walking from Central America to the United States ✔ Germany’s Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, took a hard line on immigration to fight off the far-right and maintain its dominant position


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