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HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — Tropical storm Nicholas weakened as it moved inshore over Texas early Tuesday morning, with meteorologists downgrading it from a hurricane. The storm has maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kilometers) per hour, with higher gusts, and was expected to dump five to 10 inches of rain over the Texas coast and upper Louisiana, weather officials said. However, they warned there could be isolated instances of storm rainfall of 20 […]
HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — Storm Nicholas strengthened to a hurricane Monday as it tracked up the Texas coast just before its expected landfall, with meteorologists warning of dangerous levels of rainfall. Nicholas was packing maximum sustained winds of 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour, and was expected to dump up to 18 inches (around 460 millimeters) of rain in the Houston area, weather officials said. Nicholas is bringing “heavy rains, strong winds, and storm […]
HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — Tropical Storm Nicholas gained strength as it tracked up the Texas coast hours before its expected landfall late Monday, threatening to unleash a dangerous deluge of rainfall on the southern US state, meteorologists warned. At 2100 GMT Nicholas was located some 70 miles (115 kilometers) south of Port O’Connor on the Gulf of Mexico, with Texas’s largest city of Houston squarely in the storm’s sights, according to the National Hurricane […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Joe Biden has urged Americans to show unity, “our greatest strength,” in a video posted Friday, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. “To me, that’s the central lesson of September 11th. It’s that at our most vulnerable, in the push and pull of all that makes us human, in the battle for the soul of America, unity is our greatest strength,” Biden says in […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Texas on Thursday made it illegal for popular social media platforms to ban users “simply based on their political viewpoints.” Political conservatives have accused Facebook, Twitter and other social media giants of stifling their voices, providing no evidence to support the claims. Social media platforms have consistently defended themselves against such accusations. Former US president Donald Trump was booted from Facebook and Twitter after a group of his supporters […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping told his American counterpart that US policies towards Beijing have caused “serious difficulties” and that putting ties back on track was critical “to the destiny of the world”, state media reported Friday. Ties between Beijing and Washington have been strained in recent years by a bruising trade war and America’s tough stand on China’s human rights track record — while competition over tech dominance and disputes over […]
by Sebastian Smith WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) –US President Joe Biden talked with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time in seven months Thursday, urging they ensure that “competition” between the two powers does not become “conflict,” the White House said. During the call, Biden’s message was that the United States wants to ensure “the dynamic remains competitive and that we don’t have any situation in the future where we veer into unintended […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Wall Street stocks ended lower again Thursday as markets weighed better employment data against uncertainty over US monetary policy and President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package. US jobless claims dropped for a second straight week, hitting a new pandemic low and getting closer to their level before Covid-19 broke out. Meanwhile, the European Central Bank (ECB) said it would slow the pace of its massive monthly bond purchases and lifted […]
by Sebastian Smith WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a major escalation in the national Covid immunization campaign with strict new vaccination rules affecting tens of millions of workers, as he hardened his tone towards Americans who refuse the shots. The six-point plan targets businesses with more than 100 employees, in the United States’ most aggressive steps taken so far against the surging Delta variant. “A distinct minority of […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — All children aged 12 and over who attend public schools in Los Angeles will need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of the year, the city’s board of education ruled Thursday. The vote by the Los Angeles Unified School District is the first by a major school board in the United States, and could set a precedent for other local authorities. © Agence France-Presse
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Solar power could account for nearly half of the United States’ electricity supply by the middle of the century, according to a government study released Wednesday. The report, released by the Department of Energy, said solar could account for much as 40 percent of the power supply by 2035 and 45 percent by 2050, up from its current level of just three percent. However reaching this level would require […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A judge in the US state of Ohio has said a hospital cannot be forced to administer an unproven treatment to a patient with Covid-19, reversing the ruling of another court. Judge Gregory Howard had ordered West Chester Hospital to administer the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to Jeff Smith, as prescribed by his physician, for 14 days. Smith’s wife, Julie, had filed suit to force the hospital located outside Cincinnati to […]
