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UK weather forecast: STORM that FLOODED Venice to strike the UK with strong winds

10/30/2018, 4:21:58 AM
A STORM that flooded Venice and caused huge problems for other parts of Italy and southern France will strike the UK bringing rain, strong cold winds and a bitter feel later today. ✔ Mr Deakin said: Elsewhere, temperatures maybe a degree or so higher than Monday’s values, the cloud increasing across Northern Ireland through the afternoon and there will be a few showers dribbling in here and into western Scotland on Tuesday evening



New Zealand Earthquake: 6.1-Magnitude Quake Shakes Up Country

10/30/2018, 4:21:01 AM
New Zealand's parliament was suspended until further notice following the 6.1 magnitude earthquake that rattled central New Zealand. ✔ Local media reported that around 9,000 people felt the tremors within 10 minutes of its striking at 3.14 p.m. local time Tuesday (10.14 p.m. EDT Monday) ✔ I never thought I'd have to do that, suspend the House until we find out what's happened ✔ In this image, earthquake damage to State Highway 1 is seen south of Kaikoura, New Zealand, Nov.16, 2016



TEPCO apologizes over inappropriate hashtag for Fukushima plant image

10/30/2018, 7:10:07 AM
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc (TEPCO) has apologized after sharing on social media an image from inside its crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex with a hashtag #kojomoe, meaning "strong affection toward factories." After the post attracted a lot of negative attention on the power company's official Twitter and Instagram accounts,… ✔ The term kojomoe has been used in recent years with a rise in the number of people enjoying views of factories and plants ✔ The folders, offered in a set of three for 300 yen, have pictures of the Nos ✔ The utility had sold them at two convenience stores on the premises of the complex after people involved in work to scrap the plant asked the company to sell souvenirs



TEPCO’s tweet on Fukushima ‘love-factory’ fails miserably

10/30/2018, 7:15:39 AM
Tokyo Electric Power Co. quickly learned that Twitter users find nothing lovely, endearing or irresi ✔ The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 caused the meltdowns of three reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 plant ✔ Radioactive substances were released into the atmosphere, and about 80,000 people in 11 municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture were forced to evacuate their homes ✔ (This article was written by Daiki Ishizuka and Hiroshi Ishizuka.)



California hasn't mattered in national politics for a long time. Here's why this Nov. 6 is different - Los Angeles Times

10/30/2018, 7:25:21 AM
With at least half a dozen seriously competitive seats, the state is at the center of the fight for control of the House. For once, the rest of the country will be staying up late, watching to see what happens when the final polls close in California. ✔ Republicans would also be much better positioned to hang on to the northern Orange County seat of Rep ✔ The result is something many living here have never seen: an election in which the rest of the country will stay up late, watching to see what happens when the final polls close in California



Meghan Markle brushes off aftershock fears as she greets fans

10/30/2018, 7:55:00 AM
Meghan Markle stunned in an elegant cream dress, beige trench coat and nude pumps as she and Prince Harry greeted excited fans in Wellington. ✔ Meghan's team emerged victorious, with the Duchess proving quite the natural in the unusual contest, given it was most likely her first time partaking in such a sport ✔ Huge crowds lined the streets of Auckland to catch a glimpse of Meghan and Harry, with some students holding up a sign which read 'We're skipping school for you!'



The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change

10/30/2018, 5:46:01 AM
While violence and poverty have been cited as the reasons for the exodus, experts say the big picture is that changing climate is forcing farmers off their land – and it’s likely to get worse ✔ One of the things I found was that people, largely because they weren’t able to pay their debts, to get money for food, they started to migrate, Dupre said ✔ Maria Gutierrez, collects water from a hole in the sand, at the ‘El Salto’ stream, whose bed is almost completely dry, in San Francisco de Coray municipality, 100km south of Tegucigalpa, a rural community under emergency due to severe drought, on 10 September ✔ There just isn’t the global statesmanship at the moment, nowhere near it



Analysis | Bolsonaro’s politics of anger mark a return to Brazil’s past

10/30/2018, 5:28:20 AM
Brazil's president-elect finds inspiration in the legacy of the country's brutal military dictatorship. ✔ By Ishaan Tharoor Ishaan Tharoor Reporter covering foreign affairs, geopolitics and history Email Bio Follow October 30 at 12:59 AM (Mauro Pimentel) The new leader of Latin America’s biggest democracy and economy doesn’t care about your feelings ✔ He and his allies have cheered the junta’s grisly program that saw countless leftist activists disappeared, brutalized, raped and murdered



Meghan Markle and Prince Harry get ADORABLE baby gifts on New Zealand leg of Royal tour

10/30/2018, 5:31:17 AM
MEGHAN, the Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry have been accumulating an array of Royal baby gifts during their 16-day Royal Oceanic tour - their first as a married duo and they added to the collection in New Zealand today. ✔ Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, looked stunning in an understated outfit (Image: PA) Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, wore a waterproof coat as the rain came down (Image: GETTY) The Royal newlyweds were also given a green-stone necklace each, which they both wore with a smile



Indonesia deploys divers, 'pinger locators' in hunt for doomed...

10/30/2018, 7:13:29 AM
Indonesian divers resumed a search on Tuesday for an airliner that crashed with ... ✔ Dozens of relatives gathered at a police hospital where body bags were brought for forensic doctors to try to identify victims ✔ A tent has been set up next to the hospital building and a middle age woman and a teenager sat together, sobbing and comforting each other ✔ No distress signal was received from the aircraft’s emergency transmitter ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Sweet connection between Meghan's latest Royal Tour activity and her wedding

10/30/2018, 4:29:46 AM
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were asked to help plant some trees during their visit to Redvale, north of Auckland in New Zealand on Day 15 of their Royal Tour ✔ Her veil was stunning (Image: Getty Images Europe) Read More Earthquake strikes New Zealand north island where Meghan and Harry are spending last day Down Under The heavens opened shortly after they arrived, but it didn't stop them getting involved in a wellie-wanging contest with a group of local children



Meghan tosses Harry out in gumboot tussle

10/30/2018, 6:15:56 AM
Rough weather across parts of New Zealand could not put a dampener on the royals taking part in a gumboot throwing competition in Auckland. ✔ There, the couple split off and each led a team of cheering children in a competition to see who could through a rubber rainboot - known locally as a 'gumboot' - the farthest ✔ Reuters Prince Harry Most Viewed in World Loading Please explain Our weekly podcast giving you insight into the stories that drive the nation



Teen girl says Prince Harry offered her a job over a cuppa in New Zealand

10/30/2018, 6:39:52 AM
A TEEN girl says Prince Harry offered a job after she finishes her studies during a chat over a cup of tea in New Zealand. Lucia Kennedy chatted to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during an event at… ✔ Lucia said: I saw Harry's face light up when he heard about counselling offered to the defence team and New Zealand military personnel ✔ The couple heard the video saved the life of a 15-year-old young girl in Canada ✔ I think anyone who has overcome mental health problems often go out of their own way to help others



Lion Air passenger cheated death after missing doomed flight due to traffic

10/30/2018, 7:10:34 AM
Sony Setiawan was due to be on board Lion Air flight JT610, which plunged into the Java Sea leaving no hope of survivors ✔ A tug boat crew saw the plane slam into waters up to 100ft deep ✔ Read More Top news stories from Mirror Online No survivors of Indonesian plane crash Bookies slash odds on coldest November NHS reveals 20 most painful conditions Girl who 'kept tilting head' diagnosed



Indonesia hunts for victims, wreckage of air crash; survivors seen...

10/30/2018, 4:39:56 AM
Indonesia on Tuesday stepped up a search for an airliner that plunged into the s... ✔ A helicopter circled over five rubber boats carrying about 36 rescuers, as some donned rubber suits, readying to dive ✔ A witness in Karawang said he had heard an explosion from the beach around the time the aircraft went down ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Lion Air crash: Passengers recall 'panic' over engine problems on previous flight from Bali

10/30/2018, 7:07:32 AM
Divers searched on Tuesday for victims of the Lion Air plane crash in Indonesia that killed 189 people and high-tech equipment was deployed to find its data recorders as reports emerged of problems on the jet's previous flight that had terrified passengers. ✔ She said passengers sat in the cabin without air conditioning for at least 30 minutes listening to an unusual engine roar, while some children vomited from the overbearing heat, until staff faced with rising anger let them disembark ✔ It has been expanding aggressively in Southeast Asia, a fast-growing region of more than 600 million people



Indonesia plane crash search finds remains, debris at sea

10/30/2018, 5:45:08 AM
Search and rescue personnel worked through the night to find victims of the Lion Air plane crash in Indonesia, sending 24 body bags to identification experts as the airline flew dozens of grieving relatives to the country's capital. The 2-month-old Boeing jet crashed into the Java Sea early Monday, just… ✔ Specialist ships and a remotely operated underwater vehicle have been deployed to search for the plane's hull and flight recorder ✔ Distraught family members struggled to comprehend the sudden loss of loved ones in the crash of a plane with experienced pilots in fine weather ✔ This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.



Pakistan: Dammed if you do, damned if you don't

10/30/2018, 6:38:51 AM
undefined ✔ On the face of it, this is a decision that invites ridicule ✔ The renewed ban on Indian TV and film is really a way of getting the Pakistani public's attention for this campaign ✔ What is not symbolic is the 2025 deadline for more water storage capacity to avoid a collapse in food production in Pakistan ✔ He is the author of 'Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy (and Work)



Previous Lion Air flight passengers 'began to panic and vomit'

10/30/2018, 6:09:34 AM
Search and rescue personnel worked through the night, sending 24 body bags to identification experts while the airline flew dozens of grieving relatives to the country’s capital, Jakarta. ✔ National Search And Rescue Agency of Indonesia via AFP/Getty Images Fullscreen Putri, center, is consoled for the loss of her husband and child who were passengers on board Lion Air flight JT 610, in Pangkal Pinang airport in Bangka Belitung province on October 29, 2018



Trump Says He’ll Put Any Asylum Seeker From Migrant Caravan In ‘Tent Cities’

10/30/2018, 4:07:51 AM
“We’re going to put tents up all over the place,” the president said on Fox News. ✔ Having manufactured a crisis around the caravan, Trump is now explicitly vowing to waste millions of dollars of taxpayer money on it ✔ The number of applications has increased dramatically, however, and more than 14,000 people were granted protection in the 2018 fiscal year



Trump says asylum seekers will live in tent cities before their day in court

10/30/2018, 4:37:35 AM
In an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, president said he is going to Pittsburgh to "pay my respects" ✔ It's -- when I say enemy of the people I'm talking about the fake news and it is fake ✔ The president also talked about the Florida gubernatorial race, calling Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum a stone-cold thief whose city is known as the most corrupt in Florida and one of the most corrupt in the nation ✔ DeSantis, Mr. Trump said, is a Harvard-Yale guy and said he's a very good person



Can we predict when and where a crime will take place?

10/30/2018, 5:58:24 AM
Predictive policing using data analytics is gaining acceptance among police forces, but at what cost? ✔ But PredPol and others working in this space, such as Palantir, CrimeScan and ShotSpotter Missions, say that traditional hot spot analysis is just reacting to what happened yesterday, not anticipating what will happen tomorrow ✔ Follow Technology of Business editor Matthew Wall on Twitter and Facebook Click here for more Technology of Business features



Tourists flee super typhoon-ravaged Northern Marianas

10/30/2018, 5:05:31 AM
A super typhoon that ravaged a Pacific U.S. territory sent tourists fleeing and postponed elections ✔ Rota suffered the least amount of damage with 51 badly damaged or destroyed homes, but like Saipan and Tinian, Rota was still without power ✔ There was one storm-related death: a woman who took shelter in an abandoned building that collapsed ✔ Taking care of yourself and your family is even more important



The Lion Air crash dings Indonesia's aviation record, but the region is not the Bermuda Triangle for air travel everyone is making it out to be

10/30/2018, 5:52:02 AM
Some have condemned Indonesian aviation, but the tragedy is out-of-character for an industry that's worked hard to reform for more than a decade. ✔ In a clear nod to Indonesia's improving behaviors, the US Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it also upgraded the country's air safety rating, paving the way for carriers to fly to America ✔ If growth once again outstrips oversight, Indonesia's not-too-distant dark past and the new, terrible images that sink and rest at the bottom of popular imagination will not be far away



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