Japan braces as North Korea threatens hydrogen bomb test in Pacific
Kim Jong-un warns ‘deranged’ Trump he will ‘pay dearly’ for North Korea threats
Kim says he is ‘thinking hard’ about response to Trump’s warnings
The low-lying Caribbean islands inhabited by Panama's indigenous Guna people are threatened by rising sea levels and increasingly unpredictable weather. But unlike many island communities facing such problems, the Guna have an escape plan.
The tiny port of Carti on the mainland of Panama is the jumping-off place for day trippers who come to swim, splash and snorkel around the idyllic-looking islands that dot the horizon. Motor boats buzz in and out carrying smiling visitors wearing life jackets and sun hats. It's one of Panama's premier tourist destinations.
The islands - almost one for every day of the year - make up the Guna Yala autonomous region, together with a strip of territory on the mainland.
Most Guna communities live on the archipelago, and have done for centuries, after they were driven offshore by disease and venomous snakes. But now many believe that only a move back to the mainland can secure their future.
Japan must brace itself for the possible launch of a nuclear-armed North Korean missile over its territory if the regime carries out a threat to test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, Japan’s defence minister has warned.
Itsunori Onodera said such a test could involve a nuclear device mounted on a medium-range or intercontinental ballistic missile.
“We cannot deny the possibility it may fly over our country,” Onodera said, hours after the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, said Donald Trump would “pay dearly” for threatening to destroy his regime.
German election becomes battle for third place in coalition
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is widely expected to secure a fourth term in office after Sunday’s general election. But with another round of coalition wrangling on the cards, the poll may yet offer a few surprises.
Europe’s biggest nation heads to the polls on September 24, with surveys suggesting there is little doubt that “Mother” Merkel – as the chancellor is affectionately known – will get a fourth term at the job she has held since 2005. But who will "Mutti" govern with next?
Merkel’s conservative CDU party enjoys an unassailable lead over her current coalition partners, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD). At 63, the chancellor is on course to match the record four terms won by her predecessors Konrad Adenauer, the founder of the German Federal Republic, and Helmut Kohl, her own political mentor.
Soon all of Hong Kong's dolphins will be dead
Why saving the pink dolphin may mean reinventing the city
Updated 0715 GMT (1515 HKT) September 22, 2017
A near constant wind buffets the top deck of Boat 36826 as it patrols the seas north of Hong Kong's largest island, Lantau.
Sitting in a white plastic lawn chair, staring intently through a pair of large, black binoculars, Charlotte Lau pulls a multicolored scarf high over her face and zips up her grey hoodie.
Down a steep staircase in the boat's main cabin, her boss Taison Chang sorts through the supplies piled on seats and a wide, curved table -- maps and charts, a GPS tracker, snacks, waterproofs, two-expensive cameras with long lenses, and several bottles of suncream in defiance of the dreary skies overhead.
Next to Lau, holding a walkie-talkie and shivering in a blue t-shirt, Viena Mak writes on a clipboard as her co-worker says: "no sighting."
Thousands of Filipinos slam Duterte's drug war
Demonstrators denounce president's 'drug war' as they mark 45 years since the declaration of martial law in Philippines.
Thousands of people have protested in the Philippines on the 45th anniversary of the declaration of martial law in the country while denouncing what they say are President Duterte's authoritarian tendencies and his bloody crackdown on illegal drugs.
Hundreds of riot police on Thursday were deployed in the capital, Manila, to secure the marches and rallies, among the largest against Rodrigo Duterte since he took office last year.
A group calling itself a "Movement Against Tyranny" used the anniversary to highlight human rights violations under Duterte's so-called drug war on drugs.
We know where the next big earthquakes will happen — but not when
With Mexico digging out from two deadly earthquakes, here are eight things to know about these seismic events.
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Two massive earthquakes have struck Mexico this month. The first, the strongest in a century at magnitude 8.2, occurred off of the Southern Mexican coast near Chiapas state on September 7, killing 98.
Another powerful — but seismically unrelated — earthquake struck Tuesday 100 miles Southwest of Mexico’s sprawling capital. This magnitude 7.1 quake has killed at least 230 people in and around Mexico City so far. Especially tragic was the collapse of an elementary school, where at least 30 students were killed. Rescuers are still searching for children and adults buried in the rubble there and elsewhere, and the death count is likely to rise.
Mexico is just one of many regions of the world at risk of big, damaging earthquakes, of course. In light of the recent tremors, and the looming possibility of a big one in the United States, here’s a refresher on earthquakes, along with some of the latest science on measuring and predicting them.
The island people with a climate change escape plan
The low-lying Caribbean islands inhabited by Panama's indigenous Guna people are threatened by rising sea levels and increasingly unpredictable weather. But unlike many island communities facing such problems, the Guna have an escape plan.
The tiny port of Carti on the mainland of Panama is the jumping-off place for day trippers who come to swim, splash and snorkel around the idyllic-looking islands that dot the horizon. Motor boats buzz in and out carrying smiling visitors wearing life jackets and sun hats. It's one of Panama's premier tourist destinations.
The islands - almost one for every day of the year - make up the Guna Yala autonomous region, together with a strip of territory on the mainland.
Most Guna communities live on the archipelago, and have done for centuries, after they were driven offshore by disease and venomous snakes. But now many believe that only a move back to the mainland can secure their future.
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