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Video courtesy Eagle News Service contributor Mike Robinson in Orlando, Florida. Taken in Super Target, Hunters’ Creek. (Eagle News Service) (Video courtesy Ricky Bravo taken in Walmart in Gainesville, Florida) Hurricane Irma, now a category 5 hurricane, is expected to impact the central Florida region in the next few days. Because of this, Central Florida families have not wasted any time in preparing for this storm, which is being called the […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — As Hurricane Irma bore down on the Caribbean, a new tropical storm emerged in the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said. Tropical Storm Jose had formed in the open Atlantic to the east of Hurricane Irma, which has developed into a powerful Category Five storm, the Miami-based NHC said. The NHC did not issue any coastal watches or warnings for Jose, which is currently located some […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – A son of former Honduran president Porfirio Lobo was sentenced to 24 years in an American prison on Tuesday for conspiring to smuggle cocaine and sell it in the United States. The hefty punishment for Fabio Lobo was meant as a warning to corrupt members of Latin America’s political elite, the New York City judge ruling over the trial, Lorna Schofield, said. She said Lobo had used his connections […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Irma picked up strength and has become an “extremely dangerous” Category Five hurricane as it approached the Caribbean on Tuesday, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center reported. “Preparations should be rushed to completion in the hurricane warning area,” the NHC said in its 1200 GMT bulletin. The monster hurricane, the most powerful of the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale, is about 270 miles (440 kilometers) east of the island of Antigua packing […]
by Carole Landry with Hwang Sunghee in Seoul Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) The US has accused North Korea of “begging for war” and pushed for the “strongest possible measures” on Pyongyang following its sixth and most powerful nuclear test. As world powers scramble to react to the latest grave step in the North’s rogue weapons program, South Korea launched major live-fire naval drills to warn its isolated neighbour against any […]
https://youtu.be/q3YD3vaI6Q8 LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A massive fire described as the biggest in the history of Los Angeles was raging Saturday, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate their homes. Mayor Eric Garcetti told reporters the blaze, which broke out Friday and lit up the hills surrounding the northern suburb of Burbank overnight, had already burnt 5,000 acres (2,000 hectares), adding: “In terms of acres involved this is probably the largest fire in L.A. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump on Monday told his South Korean counterpart Washington was willing to approve arms sales worth “many billions of dollars” to Seoul following Pyongyang’s test of what it said was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb. President Trump “provided his conceptual approval for the purchase of many billions of dollars’ worth of military weapons and equipment from the US by South Korea,” said the White House, without providing […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Irma surged to a dangerous Category Four storm Monday as it churned toward the Leeward islands, sparking alarm and alerts from the Caribbean to Florida, which declared an emergency. The National Hurricane Center said at 2100 GMT that the storm was packing top sustained winds of 130 mph (215 km/h). “Additional strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours,” the NHC warned. “On the forecast track, the center of […]
by Carole Landry with Hwang Sunghee in Seoul Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The United States on Monday launched a bid at the United Nations Security Council to quickly slap the “strongest possible measures” on North Korea in response to its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, but China and Russia argued that diplomatic talks were needed to address the crisis. US Ambassador Nikki Haley said Washington will present a new […]
by Brian Knowlton with Sebastien Berger in Seoul Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States warned it could launch a “massive military response” to any threats from North Korea following Pyongyang’s provocative detonation of what it claimed was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis spoke out on Sunday after North Korea carried out an unexpectedly strong nuclear test, more powerful than the bomb that levelled Hiroshima in 1945. […]
by Dave Clark / with Max Delany in Moscow Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) US federal agents inspected a Russian trade mission in Washington to confirm its closure on Saturday, despite a furious diplomatic protest from Moscow. The United States and Russia are in the grip of a diplomatic dispute, and the trade representative’s office is part of a group of properties Washington has ordered closed. Russian officials were forewarned of the […]
US heavy bombers and stealth jet fighters delivered a show of force directed at North Korea in a live-fire drill Thursday (August 31), two days after Pyongyang’s provocative test-launch of a ballistic missile that flew over northern Japan. Two B-1B “Lancer” bombers from Guam and four F-35B stealth jet fighters from the Marine Corps’ Iwakuni airbase in Japan joined four South Korean jet fighters and two from Japan in the exercise over Japanese and South […]
