Hurricane Irma: Superstorm reaches Cuba as Florida evacuates millions - latest updates
Irma is restored to category 5 strength as it pummels Cuba and prompts orders for a quarter of Florida’s population to leave
- Hurricane Jose close to category 5 as it approaches Barbuda
- Irma’s destruction: island by island
- Where is Irma heading? Mapping the path
With Hurricane Jose gaining in strength and hot on the heels of Irma – which left 90% of the island of Barbuda devastated – almost all of its population of around 1,400 people has been evacuated to the larger sister island of Antigua.
Only a few people “resisted the call” to evacuate.
Hurricane Jose has “almost” reached category five strength, with top winds of 155 mph (250kmh) as it heads towards the eastern Caribbean islands ravaged by Hurricane Irma.
Jose was about 240 miles (390km) east-southeast of the northern Leeward Islands on Saturday morning and was forecast to hit the outlying Caribbean islands later in the day.
The US national hurricane centre said that “air force hurricane hunters find Jose even stronger ... almost a category 5 hurricane”.
It issued hurricane warnings for the eastern Caribbean islands of Barbuda and Anguilla, Sint Maarten, St Martin and St Barthelemy. A hurricane watch was in effect for Antigua, while tropical storm watch was is in effect for Montserrat, St Kitts, and Nevis, British Virgin Islands, and St Thomas and St John.
The same Texan senators who refused natural disaster relief to the East Coast are now begging for federal funding
Republican politicians will espouse their selfish rhetoric about limiting government intervention only until their states are the ones in trouble
Hurricane season has this funny knack of bringing people together. Its ruthless devastation doesn’t give a damn about the colour of your skin, who you pray to or how much money you’ve got in the bank. Mother Nature’s humbling fury forces us to cast aside our petty differences, ditch partisan politics and showcase the unbending unity and bountiful integrity that form the crux of America’s collective identity.
That’s the way most of us feel, anyway. But Republicans? Not so much.
You see, over the course of the last few decades, America’s right-wing has been guided by a single, coldblooded mantra: Big government must die.
North Korea makes call for 'cutting edge Juche weapons'
North Korea has marked its founding day with calls for more nuclear and ballistic weapons of mass destruction. The US will call a vote Monday on a draft UN resolution for more sanctions.
North Korea celebrated its founding day on Saturday with calls from state media for a buildup of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, just as the United States is pushing for a new round of international sanctions on the regime.In a front-page editorial, the North's state-run media said the country "must make cutting-edge Juche weapons in greater quantities." Juche is the country's Marxist and nationalist ideology of self-reliance.
49% of Fukushima nuke disaster evacuees returning home to live are elderly: survey
(Mainichi Japan)
Nearly half of people currently living in nuclear disaster-hit areas in Fukushima Prefecture where evacuation orders have been lifted are aged 65 or over, a survey conducted by the Mainichi Shimbun has found.
The population aging rate -- the ratio of people in this age group to the population -- in these areas is nearly twice the figure before the outbreak of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant disaster in March 2011, as many younger evacuees have not come back to their hometowns for fear of being exposed to radiation or have settled down in areas where they took shelter.
The regional communities in these areas could be endangered because their current population is less than 10 percent of the pre-disaster figure and households in these areas consist of smaller member numbers.
EQUIFAX IS PROVING WHY FORCED ARBITRATION CLAUSES OUGHT TO BE BANNED, JUST LIKE THE CFPB WANTS TO DO
EQUIFAX, THE CREDIT REPORTING BUREAU that on Thursday admitted one of the largest data breaches in history, affecting 143 million U.S. consumers, is maneuvering to prevent victims from banding together to sue the company, according to consumer protection advocates and elected officials.
Equifax is offering all those affected by the breach a free, one-year credit monitoring service called TrustedID Premier, which will watch credit reports for suspicious activity, lock and unlock Equifax credit reports, scan the internet for Social Security numbers, and add insurance for identity theft. But the service includes a forced arbitration clause, which pushes all disputes over the monitoring out of court. It also includes a waiver of the right to enter into a class-action lawsuit.
Pena Nieto declares three days of mourning after quake
Officials expect death toll to rise as rescue workers race to find survivors of Thursday's devastating earthquake.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has declared three days of national mourning following Thursday's powerful earthquake that has killed at least 61 people.
"The power of this earthquake was devastating, but we are certain that the power of unity, the power of solidarity and the power of shared responsibility will be greater," Pena Nieto said in a televised address on Friday.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported the magnitude of the earthquake that hit southern Mexico late on Thursday as 8.1, but the president described it as an 8.2-magnitude quake - "the largest registered in [Mexico] in at least the past 100 years".
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