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Trump views flooding’s aftermath in hurricane-ravaged Florida

by Brendan Smialowski with Leila Macor in Miami Agence France Presse NAPLES, United States (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump viewed flood damage and handed out sandwiches to victims of Hurricane Irma in Florida on Thursday as utility workers redoubled their efforts to restore power after eight retirees died in a sweltering nursing home. A hurricane formed off the southwestern coast of Mexico, meanwhile, triggering warnings of life-threatening storm conditions in areas still recovering […]

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74 dead, including 7 Iranians, in south Iraq attack: new toll

NASIRIYA, Iraq (AFP) — Gunmen and suicide car bombers killed at least 74 people, including seven Iranians, near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya on Thursday, an official said, giving an updated toll. “There are now 74 deaths and 93 wounded,” Abdel Hussein al-Jabri, deputy health chief for the mainly Shiite province of Dhiqar, said of the attack claimed by the Islamic State group. That was up from the previous toll of 52 dead and […]

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At least 20 dead as boat capsizes in India

LUCKNOW, India (AFP) — At least 20 people died on Thursday when a boat packed with laborers capsized on the Yamuna river in northern India, an official said. Twenty bodies have been recovered, Dharam Pal Singh, additional magistrate of Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh state, told AFP. “It appears the boat was crowded beyond its capacity,” he said. “The incident happened early morning. It was a privately hired boat and was carrying some 50-55 people,” […]

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Vietnam braces for “strongest storm in a decade”

HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) —  Vietnam on Thursday ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate its central coastal area as Typhoon Doksuri closed in, with officials predicting the storm could be the most powerful in a decade. Doksuri is expected to make landfall in Vietnam midday Friday, packing heavy winds and rain. Officials ordered an offshore fishing ban, while some 47,000 people in Ha Tinh province began leaving their homes Thursday, according to an official from […]

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Roadside bombs wound 20; kill soldier in Thailand’s troubled south

YALA, Thailand (Reuters) — Roadside bombs planted by suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand killed one soldier on Thursday (September 14) and wounded 20 other people, most of them soldiers and police, security forces said. The blasts occurred in Yala, one of the predominantly ethnic, Malay Muslim provinces in the deep south where a separatist insurgency has dragged on for decades, with more than 6,500 people killed since 2004 alone. The first bomb did not […]

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Quake-stricken victims in Mexico continue to suffer with devastating aftershocks

BOCA DEL CIELO, Chiapas, Mexico (CCTV) — Victims along the southern coast of Mexico are still dealing with devastating aftershocks from the 8.2-magnitude earthquake which hit the region last Thursday. Julio Lopez is a fisherman living in a small fishing town, Boca del Cielo, in Chiapas. His house was damaged by the earthquake, so he and his family are now staying in his friend’s home in Tonala. As online rumors begin to spread about the […]

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25 people, mostly students, killed in Malaysia school fire — official

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Twenty-five people, most of them students, were killed when a fire tore through a school in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, an official said. The blaze broke out in the school, Tahfiz Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah, located in a mainly Malay settlement of Datuk Keramat just before dawn. “The number of confirmed dead are 23 students and two wardens,” Khirudin Drahman, director of Kuala Lumpur’s fire and rescue department told AFP. “They could have died […]

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PHL Embassy in Moscow urges Filipinos in Russia to take extra precautions following hoax bomb threats in some areas

  (Eagle News) — The Philippine Embassy in Moscow is urging Filipinos in Russia to take extra precautions following reports of bomb threats in some areas there. In a recent statement, Ambassador Carlo Sorreta said these were necessary even if no explosion took place in any of the places where a bomb threat was reported. These places include Krasnoyark, Vladivostok, Chelyabinsk, Magadan, Yekaterinburg, Stavropol, Ufa, Omsk, Bryansk, Novosibirsk, Ryazan and YuznoSakhalinsk. Sorreta said Filipinos should […]

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Six dead at Florida nursing home; governor pledges full investigation

by Leila Macor Agence France-Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) – Six residents of a Florida nursing home without power since Hurricane Irma died on Wednesday and the state governor vowed a full investigation into what he called an “unfathomable” event. The nursing home deaths brought the total number of storm-related fatalities in Florida to 18 and illustrated the urgency of restoring electricity to millions of people across the southern state. Around 115 residents of the […]

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Trump blocks Chinese acquisition of US semiconductor firm

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday blocked attempts by a Chinese state-owned firm to acquire an American semiconductor manufacturer, saying this posed a threat to US national security. The acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a publicly-traded Oregon company, by Chinese-owned Canyon Bridge Fund could endanger the US government’s use of sensitive products the company produces, the Treasury Department said in a statement. The Trump administration has adopted an aggressive stance toward […]

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UN council calls for ‘immediate steps’ to end Myanmar violence

by Carole Landry Agence France-Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday broke its weeks-long silence on the crisis in Myanmar and called for an end to the violence as UN chief Antonio Guterres said the military campaign amounted to the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims. Following a closed-door meeting, the 15-member council including China, a supporter of Myanmar’s former ruling junta, expressed concern about excessive force during security […]

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Air Berlin scraps more flights as pilots call in sick

  FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) – Insolvent Air Berlin cancelled dozens of more flights Wednesday as pilots again called in sick, despite warnings from the airline that the wildcat action could jeopardize rescue talks. The mass “sick-out” comes ahead of a Friday deadline for potential investors to submit bids for Air Berlin assets. “More than 30 flights” had to be scrapped early Wednesday as some 150 pilots handed in sick notices for the second […]

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