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by Mark RALSTON / with Brian Knowlton in Washington Agence France-Presse CORPUS CHRISTI, United States – Hundreds of thousands of people in Texas and Louisiana were urged Friday to flee the path of Hurricane Harvey as the Gulf Coast braced for the most dangerous storm to hit the US mainland in over a decade. Roaring towards land with winds whipping up to 110 miles (175 kilometers) an hour, the category two hurricane is predicted to smash into coastal […]
Cancún, Mexico (AFP) — Tropical storm Franklin strengthened to a category-one hurricane as it raged towards Mexico for a second assault on Wednesday, the United States National Hurricane Center said. The NHC said in a report that Franklin was over the Gulf of Mexico 170 kilometers (105 miles) from the major port city of Veracruz. Franklin struck Mexico’s eastern Yucatan peninsula on Monday and was expected to make landfall again in the province of Veracruz […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Winds gusting up to hurricane force battered west and central France on Monday, leaving two people dead and 600,000 homes without electricity, authorities said. Storm Zeus — named after the paramount god in Greek mythology — hit the Atlantic coast before sweeping across to the center and southeast of the country. Weather experts said they measured gusts of up to 193 kilometres (120 miles) per hour in the west. The driver […]
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (AFP) — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon travels to Haiti on Saturday to visit areas devastated by Hurricane Matthew and highlight the emergency needs of the Caribbean nation. Ban will conduct an aerial survey of the damage along with Prime Minister Jean-Charles Enex, then visit Les Cayes on Haiti’s southern coast — one of the cities hardest-hit by Matthew — the UN Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) said in a statement. During the visit, […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) – by Kerry Sheridan with Leila Macor in Jacksonville Hurricane Matthew unleashed torrential rains and up to 120 mile-an-hour winds as it hugged the Florida coast Friday, after a blast through the Caribbean that reportedly left more than 300 dead in Haiti. Matthew was downgraded to a Category Three storm early Friday by the National Hurricane Center, as its wind speed dropped slightly. But Florida still faced its most dangerous hurricane […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) – by Kerry SHERIDAN with Daniel Woolls in Washington Residents of the US state of Florida scrambled to escape the path of Hurricane Matthews on Thursday as it pounded the Bahamas after leaving 27 people dead in the Caribbean. The storm, which is swirling near the northwest Bahamas, is expected to intensify to a Category Four hurricane as it moves northwest towards Florida. Matthew, the worst storm to hit the Caribbean […]
by David SANTA CRUZ MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Tropical Storm Newton grew into a hurricane on Monday as it rushed toward Mexico’s popular northwest resorts of Los Cabos, two years after powerful Odile wreaked havoc in the region. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that “preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion” in parts of the Baja California peninsula and that Newton would make landfall on Tuesday. The Mexican […]
YANCHENG, China (AFP) — Emergency personnel mounted rescue efforts amid scenes of carnage Friday as the toll from hurricane-force winds and a tornado in China rose to at least 98 dead, with hundreds more injured. Whole villages were levelled and huge trees felled when winds of up to 125 kilometers (77 miles) per hour struck around Yancheng city, the official Xinhua news agency said. So far 98 people have been confirmed dead and about 800 […]
