Hurricane records broken in 2017
Not even halfway into the 2017 hurricane season, and before Irma makes landfall in Florida, tropical mega-storms in the…
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Monstrous Irma kills 14 in Caribbean
One of most powerful Atlantic storms in a century likely to hit Florida Sunday
Myanmar violence may have killed more than 1,000 – UN
SEOUL: More than 1,000 people may already have been killed in Myanmar, mostly minority Rohingya Muslims — more than twice…
Europe mobilises to aid stricken Caribbean islands
PARIS: France, the Netherlands and Britain on Thursday rushed to provide water, emergency rations and rescue teams to territories in…
New wave of leaders step into breach for jailed Hong Kong democracy activists
HONG KONG: The jailing of Hong Kong’s best-known democracy activists has pushed a new wave of young leaders to take…
US court deals blow to Trump travel ban
LOS ANGELES: A federal court in California dealt a new blow on Thursday to the Trump administration’s travel ban, ruling that…
At least two dead as magnitude 8.4 quake rocks Mexico
MEXICO CITY: A rare and powerful 8.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico late Thursday, killing at least two people as seismologists…
Fuel shortages, bottlenecks hamper Florida mass exodus
SARASOTA: With Hurricane Irma aiming squarely at Florida, up to a million people were told to evacuate coastal areas in…