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Hurricane Nora made landfall Saturday near Mexico’s Pacific coastline but no casualties have been reported so far, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The Category 1 storm made landfall near Tomatlan in Mexico’s Jalisco state and will continue north towards the states of Nayarit and Sinaloa, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) reported. As it passed through Jalisco on Saturday night, the hurricane brought heavy rain that “will likely result in life-threatening flash flooding […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States warned Saturday of a “specific, credible threat” near Kabul airport and urged its citizens to leave the area, days after a deadly attack on crowds fleeing Taliban rule in Afghanistan. “Due to a specific, credible threat, all US citizens in the vicinity of Kabul airport… should leave the airport area immediately,” the US Embassy in Kabul said in a security alert. © Agence France-Presse
by Daxia ROJAS NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) — People evacuating ahead of Hurricane Ida clogged roads headed north on Saturday from the US Gulf Coast, with the strengthening storm set to hit New Orleans 16 years to the day after devastating Hurricane Katrina. “Ida is turning into a very, very dangerous storm,” President Joe Biden said as it built to a Category 2 hurricane, packing 100 mile (160 kilometer) per hour sustained winds and […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Residents evacuated high-risk areas and lined up to buy supplies Friday as Louisiana braced for Hurricane Ida, expected to strengthen to an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm when it hits the southern United States this weekend. The National Weather Service is now forecasting a “life-threatening storm surge” when the hurricane makes landfall along the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi, warning of “catastrophic wind damage” and urging those in affected areas […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A judge overruled Florida’s conservative, pro-Trump governor Friday and said the state’s schools can make mask-wearing mandatory. Judge John Cooper sided with a group of parents who had filed a lawsuit challenging an executive order by Governor Ron DeSantis that barred schools from making students and school staff wearing masks to fight Covid-19. Several school districts in Florida had decided to make masks mandatory because of a rise in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — China’s embassy in Washington Friday accused the US intelligence community of “political manipulation” after a report in which Beijing was accused of withholding key information about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. “The report by the US intelligence community shows that the US is bent on going down the wrong path of political manipulation,” the embassy said in a statement. “The report by the intelligence community is based on the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States urged its citizens Friday to “immediately” leave the gates around Kabul’s airport, where a suicide bomber this week targeted crowds trying to flee Taliban rule. Earlier Friday, the Pentagon said that the high-risk Kabul airlift operation to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies still faced “specific, credible threats”. “US citizens who are at the Abbey gate, East gate, North gate or the New Ministry of Interior gate now […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An unvaccinated teacher at an elementary school in California spread the coronavirus to at least 26 other people, including 12 students in their classroom, a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday. The health agency said the case highlights the importance of vaccinating school staff in order to protect young children who are not yet eligible for vaccines, as schools reopen amid a new […]
by Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that China was withholding “critical information” on the origins of Covid-19 after the US intelligence community said it did not believe the virus was a bioweapon — but remained split on whether it escaped from a lab. The United States, however, does not believe Chinese officials had foreknowledge of the virus before the initial outbreak of the pandemic that has now claimed […]
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Hurricane Ida made landfall Friday as a Category 1 hurricane on the southwestern coast of Cuba, the local meteorological service reported. Ida struck the town of La Coloma, in the province of Pinar del Rio, around 0030 GMT, with sustained winds of 80 miles (130 kilometers) per hour, Cuba’s meteorology institute Insmet. It is expected to reach the United States Sunday as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm, according to the […]
by Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Eyes closing, voice cracking, Joe Biden physically reflected the terrible blow to his presidency from the slaying of 13 US service members during the desperate Kabul evacuation. Addressing the nation from the White House, Biden bowed his head for a moment of silence before taking questions from journalists pressing him on the bloody twist in the already tragic operation to shut down the […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Covid-19 vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech have joined forces with Brazilian pharmaceutical company Eurofarma to distribute doses in Latin America, the companies announced Thursday. Production will start next year and at full capacity will produce 100 million finished doses, the statement said. “Everyone — regardless of financial condition, race, religion or geography — deserves access to lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines,” Pfizer chief Albert Bourla said in the statement. “Our new […]
