UK weather forecast: FLOODING and POWER CUTS expected as storm to BATTER nation
11/9/2018, 6:13:38 AMWEATHER warnings have been issued by the Met Office as heavy rain and winds of up to 60mph are expected to cause large waves on the coast and flood homes and business. ✔ Meteorologist Alex Deakin presents the forecast (Image: MET OFFICE) The Met Office said immediate action was needed in Haverfordwest, Middle Hill, Solva and Quayside in Wales ✔ He added: Although of course, it will feel colder because of the strength of the wind and the rain, which continues to work its way in through the afternoon and evening
Hurricane-strength 'Storm Deirdre' to batter UK - but how will you be affected?
11/9/2018, 6:47:41 AMA HURRICANE-strength storm is set to batter the UK with 60mph winds and torrential rain – just in time for the weekend. The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for parts of Britain … ✔ We have warnings in force for parts of Wales, south west England, northern Ireland and across parts of Scotland too ✔ It'll be wet, blustery, a lot spray and water on the roads ✔ The best of any sunshine will be in the north and east with temperatures staying mild
'Everything destroyed' as wildfire scorches Paradise, California
11/9/2018, 5:03:10 AMA fast-moving wildfire devastated a Northern California town of 26,000 people on... ✔ (Reuters) - A fast-moving wildfire devastated a Northern California town of 26,000 people on Thursday with authorities unsure of the casualties as they struggled to contain 150-foot flames ✔ With the town located on a ridge and limited escape routes, traffic accidents turned roads into gridlock ✔ Residents abandoned vehicles and ran from the flames carrying children and pets, officials said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Wildfire visible from space forces evacuation in California
11/9/2018, 4:32:14 AMTens of thousands are under an evacuation order. ✔ Roads are closed and areas have been evacuated as firefighters contain the blaze, raging on the western edge of Plumas National Forest ✔ Gridlock has forced some people to flee their cars on foot, the New York Times reported ✔ Support free-thinking journalism and subscribe to Independent Minds There are also other red flag warnings in Southern California
The Latest: Fire Captain Says Wildfire Destroys Calif. Town
11/9/2018, 6:26:01 AMA fire official says the Northern California town of Paradise has been "pretty much" destroyed. ✔ More than 160 firefighters have been dispatched, and eight air tankers have been ordered ✔ The National Weather Service issued red flag warnings for fire dangers in many areas of the state, saying low humidity and strong winds were expected to continue through Friday evening
Chalkboards at Fukushima base for nuke accident tell of the chaos
11/9/2018, 7:49:17 AMOKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture--As if frozen in time, unerased chalkboards still carry the scribblings ✔ Don’t return here, head west, another directive said ✔ No one since then has returned to use or tidy up the site ✔ The collection will be preserved and displayed at an education facility under construction in Futaba, scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2020
‘Recipe for Brexit DISASTER’ Sturgeon demands May keeps UK in EU single market
11/9/2018, 7:54:03 AMNICOLA Sturgeon has demanded Theresa May immediately “change course” on Brexit and seek divorce terms which would keep the UK in the European Union’s single market and customs union. ✔ Brexit news: Nicola Sturgeon has demanded Theresa May change tack in negotiations (Image: GETTY IMAGES) The SNP leader accused Mrs May of attempting to fool the British public over the impact of leaving the bloc’s free trade area ✔ Exit talks have been at an impasse over the Irish border backstop for weeks but European Council President Donald Tusk today hinted a breakthrough may be close
California Wildfires: Hill Fire Shuts Highway 101, Butte County Blaze Burns Structures
11/9/2018, 4:50:05 AMWhile the Hill Fire has spread to approximately 8,000-10,000 acres, the Camp Fire has scorched over 18,000 acres in Butte County. ✔ The National Weather Service issued a red flag fire warning signaling possible fire danger across Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties through Friday night, with winds gusts predicted to be between 60 and 70 mph in the mountains and between 40 and 50 mph in the valleys and coasts
Las Vegas mass shooting survivors were inside the California bar when gunmen opened fire
11/9/2018, 4:32:22 AM'There’s people that live a whole lifetime without seeing this, and then there’s people that have seen it twice' ✔ Rescue operations are ongoing AFP/Getty 50/50 20 September 2018 Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe celebrates after the ruling liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership election at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on September 20, 2018 ✔ The authorities have not yet been able to determine his motive
Kim Kardashian EMERGENCY EVACUATION: Star flees as deadly WILDFIRES reach California home
11/9/2018, 7:44:39 AMKIM Kardashian has shared terrifying footage as she was forced to escape her home following fast-spreading wildfires. ✔ Authorities say the town of Paradise was wiped out after strong winds propelled the flames through homes and businesses ✔ WILDFIRE: Kim Kardashian West, right, was forced to flee the California fires (Pic: GETTY/EPA) DEVASTATION: Thousands of acres of California have been destroyed in the blazes (Pic: GETTY) EVACUATED: Kim shared the clip of her escape on her Instagram story (Pic: INSTAGRAM/KIMKARDASHIAN) A blaze broke out in the Hill Canyon area in the south of the state on Thursday, spreading quickly and destroying up to 7,000 acres of land, the Ventura County Fire Department said ✔ Smoke from the fire could be seen from the site of a mass shooting in Thousand Oaks that left 12 people dead on Wednesday night
'Camp Fire' inferno: North California town of Paradise 'wiped out' as thousands flee
11/9/2018, 7:23:11 AMTens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire on Thursday in Northern California, some clutching babies and pets as they abandoned vehicles and struck out on foot ahead of the flames that destroyed hundreds of structures. ✔ Tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire on Thursday in Northern California, some clutching babies and pets as they abandoned vehicles and struck out on foot ahead of the flames that destroyed hundreds of structures ✔ A vintage car rests among debris as the Camp Fire tears through ParadiseCredit: Noah Berger/AP Terrifying videos posted on social media showed cars driving along roads that looked like tunnels of fire with flames on both sides of the road
A Northern California blaze is rapidly spreading, forcing residents to flee from walls of fire
11/9/2018, 6:49:48 AMTanah Clunies-Ross woke up in the dark to what sounded like lumps of coal raining down her Northern California home. Within minutes, her family and thousands of people were racing to escape the raging flames of the Camp Fire. ✔ MUST WATCH Fire evacuee: Our town is flattened 01:44 (CNN)Tanah Clunies-Ross woke up in the dark to what sounded like lumps of coal raining down her Northern California home ✔ The smell of the smoke and realizing the smoke was a lot closer than I thought and then seeing flames up to my knees ✔ When she came back out he was gone and so was the fire
Myanmar eases restrictions on foreign bank lending
11/9/2018, 6:46:12 AMMyanmar’s central bank on Thursday announced new rules allowing foreign banks to... ✔ Despite the reforms, local banks have continued to lend largely on preferential terms to well-connected customers ✔ A lack of access to capital is listed in survey after survey as the number one problem that Myanmar businesses face ahead, even, of problems of unreliable electricity supplies and poor infrastructure, said Turnell ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Kim Kardashian Forced to Evacuate Her Home as Fire Sweeps Through Her Hidden Hills Neighborhood
11/9/2018, 7:13:12 AMThe reality star revealed that she was forced to evacuate her home in a series of Instagram stories on Thursday night ✔ Get push notifications with news, features, and more ✔ No Calabasas tonight, she wrote alongside a photo of her car trunk packed with bags ✔ The Weather Channel also reports several people have been injured and a number of businesses and homes have gone up in flames
Why Germans won't be commemorating WWI centenary
11/9/2018, 5:12:22 AMWhen the clock strikes 11 on Sunday it will mark 100 years since World War I ended. For Germany, the landmark date has raised difficult questions about how the country remembers its wartime past. ✔ Larger disaster to come So what explains Germany's World War I memory lapse in its culture of remembering ✔ The German government has to be a role model for a peaceful foreign policy, which starts with a sentence by former Chancellor Willy Brandt: 'There must never be a war started from German soil again.' That is what we learned from German history and that has to be an obligation for us
Heroism, harrowing escapes as fire destroys California town
11/9/2018, 7:06:06 AMPARADISE, Calif. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire that ravaged a Northern California town Thursday sent residents racing to escape on roads that turned into tunnels of fire as thick smoke darkened the daytime sky, wiping out what a Cal Fire official said was a couple of thousand structures. "We were surrounded by fire, we were driving through fire on each side of the road," said police officer Mark Bass, who lives in the hard-hit town of Paradise and works in neighboring Chico. He evacuated his family and then returned to the fire to help rescue several disabled residents, including a man trying to carry his bedridden wife to safety. "It was just a wall of fire on each side of us, and we could hardly see the road in front of us."
Saudi Arabia MURDER: Crown Prince bursts into FURIOUS RANT after Khashoggi death
11/9/2018, 5:21:49 AMTHE CROWN Prince of Saudi Arabia went on a furious rant about his treatment by the international community after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi when addressing a delegation in the Middle Eastern country last week. ✔ ‘It’s a completely unacceptable mistake and it comes at a time that threatens all the reforms we are trying to get done ✔ The Public Prosecution continues its investigations with the accused in the light of what it has received and the results of its investigations to reach facts and complete the course of justice
Couple in RV rescues California fire victims as they flee flames
11/9/2018, 5:07:19 AMJane Latham and Ed Van Der Linden rescued people off the road Thursday morning as they tried to get away from the blaze as it bore down on Paradise. ✔ The couple had trouble walking, so Van Der Linden and the other man carried them into the motor home, he said ✔ But they grabbed photos, clothes and a few other supplies before joining the rush of residents leaving town ✔ California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Fullscreen Last SlideNext Slide
Exclusive: Agribusiness giant ADM made buyout approach to Argentina's
11/9/2018, 6:13:39 AMTop U.S. grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland Co has approached Argentine soy c... ✔ An ADM-Molinos combination would be in line with recent consolidation of the sector which has wrestled with a global oversupply of grains and oilseeds ✔ The escalating trade war between the U.S. and China has reordered trade flows across the global grains sector, affecting companies like ADM, Bunge (BG.N), Cargill Inc [CARGIL.UL] and Louis Dreyfus Co [AKIRAU.UL], which together are known as the ABCDs and dominate the industry ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
US navy ship ignored sinking migrants' cries for help, say survivors
11/9/2018, 6:39:28 AMUSS Trenton rescued 42 people but allegedly ignored distress calls before dinghy capsized ✔ The survivors said that the Trenton returned to the scene half an hour after the sinking ✔ Military Sealift Command reaffirms that at approximately 1010 GMC on 12 June 2018, USNS Trenton’s watch officer visual observed a capsized raft and personnel floating in the ocean ✔ In that case the migrants were recovered by the Leone Hermes
How China’s Belt and Road Initiative became a huge geopolitical controversy
11/9/2018, 4:32:12 AMChina says its infrastructure programme will spread trade and prosperity; critics warn its aim is to trap nations in debt. But for cash-strapped countries like Pakistan, there are few alternatives, as Kim Sengupta explains ✔ An international conference took place last week in Gwadar, a dusty Pakistani town perched on the edge of the Indian Ocean – an unlikely place, one would have thought, for Imran Khan’s government to invite dignitaries from 26 countries ✔ Relations between the US and Islamabad are at a particularly low ebb at present, in any case
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