Most of the displaced headed toward the border with Turkey, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said, packing already overcrowded camps there. Russian Federation has accused the White Helmets of staging a chemical attack in Idlib in order to provoke a Western military intervention in Syria.
Charlotte and Asheville in North Carolina, and Roanoke, Virginia, could be in for heavy rains as Florence plods inland. "The combination of a risky storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline", the hurricane center advisory said.
In a latest fit of fury, Trump successfully enraged millions of Americans by claiming the nearly 3 ,000 deaths in Puerto Rico after the devastation caused by two back-to-back hurricanes were fake news. One year after the devastating storm, a precise figure is yet to be declared. "We are scientists. We are public health people". And it's be...
A hurricane warning - meaning hurricane conditions are expected within 36 hours - is in effect for a long stretch of the coast, from the Santee River in SC to Duck, N.C., which is part of the Outer Banks. And the storm surge, which could be as much as 12 feet in some areas, will be on top of sea level rise from climate change. At 11am local time ...
The storm made landfall at Wrightsville Beach at 7:15 a.m., with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center . "The evacuation was countywide, but since we're not in a flood zone, we weren't really anxious about that", she told VOA. More than 360 people had been rescued by midafternoon Friday, but ano...
He said Germany's annual £44.5billion (€50billion) trade surplus with Britain means a hard Brexit would be "disastrous" for Berlin and called on Ms Merkel to strike a deal on trade to protect the German economy. "The fact that we are now seriously having to contemplate the possibility of Scottish and other United Kingdom travellers - including ...
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It was unclear whether any U.S. American retail sales figures for August showed households took a breather from spending, though the data was still indicative of a strong job market and more after-tax pay. USA companies in China say they are already feeling the pain from the trade war . China will not buckle to U.S. demands in any trade negotiat...
The company said that, in advance of the storm, it has shipped 1,000 truckloads of water, over 60,000 cases of batteries and 33 truckloads of personal generators. A wind gust at the Wilmington airport was clocked at almost 170km/h, the highest since Hurricane Helene in 1958. At the city's airport, the wind was gusting at 91 miles per hour.
The USA's National Hurricane Center has said the big Hurricane Florence is expected to bring life-threatening storm surge and rainfall to portions of the Carolinas and mid-Atlantic states. "These are folks who are maybe in one-story buildings and they're seeing the floodwaters rise". Governor Roy Cooper has warned of an impending disaster.
Manafort did not contest the other five counts against him. In DC, his seven criminal counts are rewritten as two. The former includes money laundering, tax fraud, failing to file Foreign Bank Accounts, and the latter includes the charge of witness tampering.
Leonel Rondon, 18, was inside a auto in Lawrence, Massachusetts, when a chimney fell on the vehicle, said Carrie Kimball-Monahan, a spokeswoman with the Essex County District Attorney's office said. Officials had cut power in the area and the streets were pitch black, except for the lights coming from emergency vehicles. With a backpack filled ...
Syria's conflict has killed more than 350,000 people and forced millions more out of their homes, but the United Nations has warned a full-blown attack on Idlib could bring unprecedented suffering. According to US officials who have cited intelligence reports, Syrian President Bashar al Assad has approved the use of chlorine gas in the upcom...
Some noted the People's Liberation Army, which hasn't fought a war since the attempted invasion of Vietnam in 1979, is keen to learn from Russia's experience in the Syrian campaign, where it tested its latest weapons and tactics. Some units of the Chinese and Mongolian army are expected to join the manoeuvres at several stages. China's participat...
In the final days of that conflagration, Soviet forces stormed into Japanese-occupied Manchuria and North Korea at the end of World War II, seizing a number of islands north of Hokkaido. Upon returning to power in 2012, Abe took a firm position on Japan's claims to the disputed island chain, aggravating tensions with Beijing. Japan's Chief Cabine...
Mitsotakis's party, New Democracy, is in the same conservative bloc in the European Parliament as Orban's, the European People's Party (EPP). Defending his country in a speech on Tuesday, Orban hit out at a report commissioned by the European Parliament that accused Hungary's government of corruption, undermining democracy, the rule of law, the i...
It comes three weeks after Paul Manafort was convicted in a separate trial on eight counts related to financial fraud, and as the Mueller investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian Federation increasingly pressures the White House.
Thursday morning on Twitter , he disputed that 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria one year ago. "We left this analysis to the scientists and experts, recognising that there would be many challenges, because we wanted to have a powerful and independent voice to minimise the uncertainty", he said in a video on Facebook...
Six people - including the shooter - died yesterday in a mass shooting incident that started at a trucking company in Bakersfield, California. The shooter then went to a house on Breckenridge Road, where he opened fire on two other men. The Sheriff's Department said the shootings took only a short period of time and were not random. Reuters ...
Speaking to reporters as Hurricane Florence closed in on the US East Coast, Trump said last year's operation was " an incredible unsung success ". "You did not do a good job in Puerto Rico". Critics blasted Trump's praise of the Puerto Rico response. But a report from the Government Accountability Office said FEMA was so overwhelmed with st...
Today, people all around the US are remembering and honoring the lives that were lost that day. It will head to Austin next. Americans have looked back on the September 11 terror attacks with solemn ceremonies and a presidential tribute to "the moment when America fought back".
Before leaving I met the finance minister and offered to settle (the issue with the banks), Mallya said, without naming the minister. So, obviously the comments are referring his meeting with Arun Jaitley. It argues Mallya, who moved to Britain in March 2016, had no intention of repaying money it borrowed from IDBI in 2009 and the loans had been ta...
Typhoon Mangkhut, which has already blasted through the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, is speeding across the Pacific with winds that can gust as high as 255 kilometres (160 miles) per hour. The Philippines is hit by about 20 typhoons and storms a year. The storm was last situated 1,845 kilometers east of Southern Luzon. Before Mangkhut arriv...
And Kavanaugh said essentially to the author that that was an overstatement. "Sometimes you just have to make a stand", said Brian Fallon, a former top adviser to Hillary Clinton and the Senate's top Democrat , New York's Chuck Schumer.
Hundreds of Chinese armoured combat vehicles, attack helicopters, fighter jets and thousands of soldiers take part in the biggest military exercise in Russian Federation since 1981, in a show of strength and friendship between Asia's two largest military powers.
Mr Putin said his government had found the pair and hoped they would appear soon and tell their story. FILE PHOTO: Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov , who were formally accused of attempting to murder former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, are seen in an image handed out by the Metropolitan P...
In terms of rape cases reported, figures showed a three per cent hike in the province with incidents going from 7 032 in the previous reporting period to 7 243 in this reporting period - a 211 increase. Cele, who took over from former police minister Fikile Mbalula in February, had attempted to clamp down on criminal activity in South Africa, espec...
Chuck Cooper, Sessions' private lawyer, said in a statement that "Attorney General Sessions has publicly testified under oath about his recollection of this meeting, and he stands by his testimony". Senator Mark Warner , the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has its own Russian Federation collusion investigation, applau...
In Moscow police beat members of a crowd of about 5,000 with truncheons in Pushkin Square, according to video published by the opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta . "The state should have found the money it needed in the budget or through fighting corruption", 19-year-old Yegor Zhukov said at the St. Petersburg protest.
President Trump welcomes Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar for a St. Patrick's Day reception at the White House in Washington, March 15, 2018. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has yet to respond to the news. No reason was given for the cancellation, although Trump was expected to face protests in Ireland. "The relationship between Ireland and the U.S...
In early August, one PIL was filed seeking arrest of the Bishop . But three more women - including two nuns -have since stepped forward, alleging they too were sexually assaulted by Mulakkal. "Investigation should be completed quickly and the culprits should be given punishment as prescribed in the law", he told reporters in Kochi. Once he is ...