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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – President Joe Biden makes a politically charged visit Wednesday to inspect the aftermath of deadly Hurricane Ian in Florida while also presenting a united front despite bitter disagreements with Republican critic and potential 2024 opponent, Governor Ron DeSantis. Authorities say at least 76 people — more than 100 according to US television networks citing local officials — died in one of the most powerful storms to hit the United States. […]
Washington, United States (AFP) Russia’s space agency is discussing with Moscow a continuation of its participation in the International Space Station past 2024, a Roscosmos official said Monday. Sergei Krikalev, head of Russia’s human space flight programs, told reporters that Roscosmos had started “to discuss extending our participation in ISS program with our government and hope to have permission to continue next year.” With ties between Russia and the West rupturing over the war in […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) – Solomon Islands said Tuesday it had objected to the first draft of a US-Pacific partnership declaration because it was “not comfortable” with some indirect references to China. The Solomons’ foreign minister, Jeremiah Manele, was quizzed by reporters in New Zealand about his country’s reported qualms over the joint statement, signed in Washington last week. “In the initial draft there were some references that we were not comfortable with,” the foreign […]
Paris, France | AFP | by Kelly MACNAMARA Climate change increased the rainfall from Hurricane Ian by more than 10 percent, according to a new quick-fire analysis, as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the United States devastated parts of Florida. Ian “could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida history”, President Joe Biden said after the storm brought ferocious winds, turned streets into churning rivers that swept away homes and left an […]
WASHINTON, United States (AFP) – President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden head to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico on Monday, in a bid to show solidarity with a US territory whose people have complained of neglect after past natural disasters. The high-profile trip will be the first of two this week for the Bidens, who head on Wednesday to Florida to assess the devastating damage caused by Hurricane Ian. Both Puerto Rico and Florida suffered […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) – At least seven people in Haiti have died from cholera, authorities said Sunday, raising fresh fears of a resurgent epidemic in the crisis-wracked Caribbean nation. Cholera killed around 10,000 people in the wake of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, when United Nations workers helping the response introduced it to the country. Nearly three years after Haiti’s last confirmed case of the illness, the country’s health ministry on Sunday said multiple suspected cases had […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The confirmed death toll from Hurricane Ian, which slammed the southeast United States last week, has risen to at least 62, officials said Sunday. Ian, one of the most powerful storms to hit the United States, flattened whole neighborhoods and knocked out power lines and bridges as it made landfall on Florida’s southwestern coast last Wednesday. Wind-driven storm surges and immense downpours left even inland neighborhoods submerged, with search and […]
Fort Myers, United States | AFP | by Gerard MARTINEZ Hurricane Ian, one of the worst storms ever to hit the United States, roared into South Carolina on Friday, delivering a powerful second punch after walloping Florida. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Ian made landfall near Georgetown, South Carolina, as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 miles (140 kilometers) per hour. It was later downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone but […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – US President Joe Biden on Thursday warned that Hurricane Ian may end up being Florida’s “deadliest” storm ever and cited fears there could be “substantial” numbers of fatalities across the state. “This could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida history,” he said after a briefing at the FEMA emergency management headquarters in Washington. “The numbers… are still unclear, but we’re hearing reports of what may be substantial loss of life,” […]
SAN JUAN Y MARTINEZ, Cuba (AFP) – Western Cuba’s tobacco growing heartland has been left devastated by Hurricane Ian with piles of wood and tiles where once stood farms. A triangle of three municipalities in the Vuelta Abajo region of Pilar del Rio province, the Cuban region worst affected by the tropical storm, is where the best tobacco leaves grow and is a pillar of the island nation’s ravaged economy. “We’ve never had a catastrophe […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – New York advanced a plan Thursday to require that all new vehicles sold in the state by 2035 be zero emissions, state Governor Kathy Hochul said. After signing legislation last year, Hochul announced officials were putting their “foot down on the accelerator” after having been required due to a federal law to wait for California to pass its own legislation. California ruled in August that an ever-increasing percentage of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – US President Joe Biden on Thursday announced $810 million in new funding for Pacific Islands at a first-of-a-kind summit with their leaders in Washington, vowing a closer partnership with a strategic but sparsely populated region where China is making inroads. Addressing leaders of South Pacific states including 12 heads of state or government, Biden said he wanted to show an “enduring commitment,” adding, “The security of America, quite frankly, and […]
