HUGE magnitude 6.2 earthquake and LANDSLIDE HIT northern Chile - mass EXODUS from beaches
11/2/2018, 1:31:06 AMA LARGE magnitude 6.2 earthquake has rocked northern Chile, close to the coastal city of Iquique, causing mass exodus from local beaches as frightened Chileans rush to safety. ✔ (Image: EXPRESS) The quake’s epicentre was located at a depth of 91 kilometres, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) ✔ The Chilean 24 Horas news outlet reported aftershocks from the quake instigated the mass exodus of people from Iquique beaches
Election Day weather: Should Republicans rejoice? Wind, rain, thunderstorms expected in Midwest, South
11/2/2018, 6:25:43 AMA powerhouse storm is forecast to soak a large part of the Midwest and South next Tuesday, Election Day. This could influence the outcome of the election. ✔ This simple checklist will help make sure your vote counts ✔ Other than some pesky showers in Washington and Oregon, the weather is expected to be mostly dry for folks heading out to vote Tuesday ✔ The study appeared in the journal American Politics Research
Severe weather warning as Hurricane Oscar looms - but will YOU be affected?
11/2/2018, 6:43:15 AMBRITS are braced for a weekend washout as Hurricane Oscar looms. The Met Office has issued a “severe weather warning” for parts of the UK with up to 3 inches of rain and 70mph winds for… ✔ BRITS are braced for a weekend washout as Hurricane Oscar looms ✔ 11 Met Map for Saturday night shows dark rain clouds threatening to soak the UK Mercury Press 11 A woman shelters under an umbrella in Liverpool Alamy Live News 11 Calm before the storm..
Lion Air crash: pilot on earlier flight asked to turn plane around
11/2/2018, 12:09:41 AMDay before disaster, same aircraft had problems minutes after takeoff but managed to continue on to Jakarta ✔ They are a step down from Mayday, which signals severe distress ✔ The country’s second-deadliest air disaster since 1997 has renewed concern about Indonesia’s patchy aviation safety record ✔ Everyone in the plane shouted Allahu Akbar [God is Greatest], Subhanallah [Glory to God]
UK hit with SEVERE weather warning as Hurricane Oscar set to BATTER Britain
11/2/2018, 5:37:56 AMBRITS are bracing for a weekend of extreme weather as the last of Hurricane Oscar is expected to batter the UK, while the Met Office warns of widespread gales and a risk of flooding. ✔ If the low-pressure system hits the UK on its own it could form Storm Deidre, the next storm on the Met Office's list ✔ Coral spokesman Harry Aitkenhead said: With more cold snaps in the run-up to Christmas, Coral is offering even odds that this winter proves to be the coldest on record
How Meghan Markle turned tour Down Under into a triumph for Commonwealth
11/2/2018, 12:19:49 AMSHE came, she saw, she conquered. Former actress Meghan Markle took Down Under by storm. Four countries, 16 days, 41 outfit changes and 76 engagements later the Duchess of Sussex passed her first b… ✔ Former actress Meghan Markle took Down Under by storm ✔ No surprise she is now being dubbed The Duchess of Success ✔ This kind of mirroring is nothing new and sister-in-law Kate often chooses local designers of the countries she’s visiting ✔ He claimed he heard about his daughter’s pregnancy from the radio
In careful moves, Japan’s nuclear industry makes a comeback
11/2/2018, 4:28:29 AMIKATA, Ehime Prefecture--On a side street near a darkened shopping arcade full of abandoned storefro ✔ IKATA, Ehime Prefecture--On a side street near a darkened shopping arcade full of abandoned storefronts in southwestern Japan, the Sushi Ko restaurant is unusually busy on a weekday ✔ Every month a nuclear reactor sits inoperative, the utility spends 3.5 billion yen ($31 million) for additional fuel at its conventional power plants
Treading carefully, Japan's nuclear industry makes a comeback
11/2/2018, 7:28:19 AMOn a side street near a darkened shopping arcade full of abandoned storefronts in southwestern Japan, the Sushi Ko restaurant is unusually busy on a weekday. Balancing a tray full of drinks, Sachiyo Ozaki said most of her restaurant's customers were there because of an industry shunned elsewhere: nuclear power.… ✔ On a side street near a darkened shopping arcade full of abandoned storefronts in southwestern Japan, the Sushi Ko restaurant is unusually busy on a weekday ✔ Shikoku has also spent 190 billion yen on safety upgrades to meet stricter rules set by the Nuclear Regulation Authority
2018 among hottest and driest years so far in parts of Australia
11/2/2018, 4:30:21 AMBom report highlights warmer temperatures as authorities warn about bushfire burning in Canberra’s southern suburbs ✔ While predictions around rainfall are quite variable, the predictions around temperature and evaporation are much clearer: every part of Australia will continue to experience increases in average temperature, and will have a higher frequency of hot days
Two weeks into journey across Mexico, migrants face illness, exhaustion and danger
11/2/2018, 6:28:17 AMThe trek is especially difficult for families as rumors of child abductors abound and vehicles offering rides are scarce ✔ As their fellow travelers rested along the side of the road, Walter Hernández and his four-year-old son David tossed a bouncy yellow ball back and forth amid the black soot of burned-off brush ✔ Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP Rumors abound that child snatchers are shadowing the caravan, said Keila Castro, 29, who was begging by the roadside with her son Gerson, six, to raise money for a ride in a minibus
Flesh-eating 'ZOMBIE' drug 10 times stronger than HEROIN hits UK
11/2/2018, 2:27:09 AMA HORRIFYINGLY addictive heroin substitute known as the deadliest drug in the world has arrived in the UK, experts have warned. ✔ DEADLY: 'Krokodil', the zombie heroin drug has reportedly arrived in the UK (Pic: GETTY) EPIDEMIC: The drug has already cost hundreds of lives in Russia and Ukraine (Pic: GETTY) This isn't the first reported instance of the drug in the county ✔ In 2016, Daily Star Online reported drug experts were warning of a Krokodil global epidemic
Japan's PM says he won't force sales tax hike if shock hits economy
11/2/2018, 2:39:00 AMJapan's prime minister on Friday warned against forcing through a proposed ... ✔ FILE PHOTO - Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, speaks during a joint news conference with Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, not pictured, at Abe's official residence in Tokyo, Japan October 29, 2018 ✔ Our basic stance is that we will proceed with the sales tax hike ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Joe Biden's Fans Wonder If He's Too Old
11/2/2018, 1:25:55 AMThe former vice president, considering a run for president, is campaigning everywhere this week for Democratic candidates. But people keep asking: “How old is he?” ✔ He has crisscrossed the country at a punishing pace, appearing alongside many of the country’s most endangered Democratic senators and in its reddest House districts, from rural Kentucky to rural Illinois ✔ In just a few hours, he would be at another rally in Michigan
Teacher's cut-in-half illusion costume baffles the internet
11/2/2018, 7:57:48 AMShay Diez is a physical education teacher at Sycamore Springs Elementary School in Dripping Springs, Texas. She created an illusion costume that looks like she was cut in half. ✔ Though she wouldn't reveal the secret to her creepy costume, a bit of Googling reveals a couple other people who have tried similar stunts, and seem to be bending their bodies at very odd angles to make it work ✔ Their mom, Krystel Hwang, dressed them up, and posted video of them on Facebook, where it has racked up tens of millions of views
Cops investigate Basil Brush and Amber Rudd for hate crimes
11/2/2018, 2:00:32 AMRICHARD LITTLEJOHN: What have Basil Brush, the pop song Kung Fu Fighting, and former Home Secretary Amber Rudd got in common? They’ve all been investigated by the police for ‘hate crimes'. ✔ Sara Thornton said police should concentrate on burglary and violent crime, instead of pursuing new hate crimes such as wolf-whistling Anyway, Sajid's a bit late ✔ If I'm ever found wandering aimlessly round Turin, it'll only be because I'm trying to avoid everyone banging on about Brexit, Seann and Katya (whoever they are), Meghan Markle and endless excuses about why Spurs' new stadium is still a building site
Pilot from the previous flight on Indonesia's doomed plane sent a radio alert
11/2/2018, 7:01:02 AMThe pilot of an earlier flight on the doomed Lion Air plane had made a radio alert minutes after take-off due to technical problems, but they were overcome and he pushed on to Jakarta. ✔ Pilots use Pan-Pan calls to flag urgent situations ✔ They are a step down from Mayday, which signals severe distress ✔ It did not say how many technicians had been suspended ✔ Everyone in the plane shouted Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest), Subhanallah (Glory to God)
Trump and China's Xi Jinping have led their nations into a dark new era of strategic competition — and no one on either side knows where the lights are
11/2/2018, 6:48:53 AMFormer Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd says the US and China are headed for conflict. ✔ China was delighted when Trump took took shots at US-led global institutions, which allowed Beijing to make its own unilateral moves ✔ We talked about many subjects, with a heavy emphasis on Trade, Trump wrote ✔ Those discussions are moving along nicely with meetings being scheduled at the G-20 in Argentina ✔ So, its time to wake up and smell the communism, Kevin
Brilliant Barbra Streisand gives us a piece of her mind
11/2/2018, 2:00:37 AMIT'S MUSIC FRIDAY: Barbra Streisand's first album of mostly new material in five years, Walls, features co-writes and four covers and it finds her addressing ‘troubling times’. ✔ Smith, 37, is at her most convincing when chronicling the way that music continues to save her from heartache ✔ Incestuous sexual abuse, foreign to Donizetti, is imposed on an already appalling tragedy ✔ Lynch's implacable Enrico repents then reverts in the final scene which should belong solely to Edgardo
This 1950's American BEST SELLER Exposes Jewish Control of US Since WW1, Jewish Role in Russian Revolution
11/2/2018, 7:20:08 AMA Book That Will Blow You Away and Your Mind Wide Open While I was on my bike ride here in Scottsdale (July 27, 2017), thinking about the new Russia sanctions that had just been passed by the warmongers in Washington, what came to me was that I should revisit the book “The Iron Curtain Over America” by Colonel John Beaty. Col. Beaty worked in military intelligence during WW II. So he was an “insider” who was privy to the real story of what happened back then. ✔ A lengthy article, Moscow’s RED LETTER DAY in American History, by William La Varre in the American Legion Magazine (August, 1951) says the move was arranged by Litvinoff, of deceitful smiles, and by Henry Morgenthau and Dean Acheson, both proteges of Felix Frankfurter
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