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Extreme flooding in Freeport from Hurricane Dorian

But UN experts were waiting for government clearance before assessing the situation on the ground, said OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke. "We've never had a Category ...

Watch deadly hurricane in Abaco Islands as it heads for US

Risky winds and a life-threatening storm surge continue to savage Grand Bahama Island. Meanwhile in the United States, the National Hurricane Center extende...

Brexit row sees United Kingdom heading for another mid-term poll

The political careers of 21 Tory MPs, all but one of them former ministers, are likely to be over after they rebelled despite a warning from Downing Street that...

Boris Johnson to seek snap election after Commons Brexit defeat

During a speech outside Downing Street on Monday evening, Mr Johnson said he did not want a general election, but sources afterwards briefed that an October 14 ...

Palestinian Harvard student denied entry to USA finally arrives

A coalition of student groups at Harvard, led by an immigrants' rights group, launched a petition demanding Ajjawi be allowed to enter. While the State De...

British PM says to call general election after defeat in parliament

His dramatic statement came after MPs voted by 328 to 321 to put forward an emergency bill Wednesday to block Johnson from taking Britain out of the European U...

Trump ‘Not Sure’ He’s Even Heard of a Category 5 Hurricane

He is a bad mayor who should stay out of our business!' he added . Trump's response was prompted by London Mayor Sadiq Khan , with whom he has regularly ta...

New pup joins Larry the cat at Downing Street READ MORE

PupAid founder Marc Abraham said, "I'm absolutely delighted that the Prime Minister and Carrie have chosen to rescue a puppy , which will hugely help to highli...

The Tories have just lost their working majority in Parliament

Lee took a seat on the side of the Opposition members as the prime minister addressed the House of Commons. "This Conservative government is aggressively purs...

Prince Harry defends taking private jets

His comments come just a month after he and Meghan were criticised for using four private jets in just 11 days during the British summer. Prince Harry's lat...

Pakistan Would Not Use Nuclear Weapons First: Khan

Early this year, tensions flared up between India and Pakistan after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) killed 40 CRPF personnel in Kashm...

United Kingdom gov't loses working majority after defection

Later on Tuesday evening (local time) MPs are set to vote on whether to take control of Parliament on Wednesday to extend the Brexit deadline to the end of Janu...

US, Poland Sign Joint Agreement on 5G Technology Cooperation

Pence was filling in for President Donald Trump, who canceled his trip due to Hurrican Dorian. "It's really not possible to contemplate a core network that ca...

Fueled by Climate Change, Hurricane Dorian Devastates the Bahamas in "Unprecedented Disaster"

A wind gust of 61 miles per hour was recently reported at Juno Beach Pier, according to the hurricane center's early morning advisory. Those under a tropical ...

New depression forms in the Gulf, no threat to Southwest Louisiana

Hurricane Dorian is the second hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season and is the second strongest Atlantic hurricane on record. While Hurricane D...

Knife-wielding man kills 8 schoolchildren in China

According to a statement from the local government, a 40-year-old man surnamed Yu attacked students at the school at 8 a.m. local time, when students would ha...

Yemen: Western powers may be held responsible for war crimes

The Saudi-led coalition is accused of intentionally starving Yemenis as a tactic of war in the region's poorest country, which is on the brink of starvation, wh...

Australian Greens condemn recent violence against West Papuans

Ironically, the trigger for the recent round of demonstrations for West-Papuan independence came when Indonesia was celebrating its 70th Independence Day. West ...

Perth vegan demands neighbour stop cooking barbecues

She sough legal orders to try and prevent her neighbours from smoking, to prevent their children playing noisily outside and for them to turn their patio lighti...

14-Year-Old Confesses to Killing Five Relatives With Gun: Sheriff

Officers found five people shot, including an adult and two children who were dead at the scene. A 14-year-old confessed to shooting five members of his famil...

Iran Asks to Move World Cup Qualifier In Hong Kong Amid Protests

Lam suspended the bill and declared it "dead" but has refused to formally withdraw it. Lam reaffirmed that she had never contemplated resigning as she took ...

Chinese deepfake app Zao goes viral, then raises privacy concerns

Users can still upload videos they created with Zao to WeChat , but if they try to download the app or send an invite link to another WeChat user, a message ...

Metro Detroit Weather Forecast: Slight chance of rain ahead

West Michigan will start off seeing some scattered light rain showers and mostly cloudy skies. North wind around 5 miles per hour becoming calm in the evening. ...

Simone Biles Says 'Heart Aches' After Brother Charged with Triple Murder

The shooting allegedly started after the three men showed up uninvited to the party being held at the AirBnB. Delvante Johnson , 19, and Toshaun Banks , 21, w...

Woman rescues 97 dogs as Hurricane Dorian batters the Bahamas

Beasley said because the Bahamas have hardly any elevation, they can't help to break up the storm, which is why it has been able to gain so much momentum combin...

Lo and A-Rod ask Ruth Bader Ginsburg for marriage advice

Ginsburg disclosed August 23 that she had completed a three-week course of stereotactic ablative radiation therapy - a highly focused treatment that concentra...

UK PM Boris Johnson warns lawmakers against fresh Brexit delay

Former Treasury chief Philip Hammond - one of the Conservative rebels - said that he expected there would be votes to take control of business in the House ...

Mike Pence honoured & privileged to return to Ireland

Mr Pence flew to Dublin on Tuesday after spending the night at the Trump International Golf Club in Doonbeg on the west coast of Ireland. The Vice President...

American Red Cross volunteers deploy in support of Hurricane Dorian relief

The Red Cross is coordinating with community partners and emergency responders to prepare evacuation centers for people who may seek shelter over the Labor Day ...

Rhodes expats protest Brexit, closure of Parliament

The protesters held homemade banners reading "Defend our democracy" and "Stop the coup" among other slogans, echoing massive rallies across Britain on Saturday....

Iran’s Rouhani rules out bilateral talks with U.S.

Meanwhile, Rouhani addressed Iran's parliament on Tuesday and touched on ongoing negotiations aimed at saving the country's unraveling nuclear deal. Relations b...

California scuba diving boat blaze leaves at least 25 dead

The rest of the passengers are believed to have been below deck when the flames broke out. One of the crew members gave his name as Jerry and identified himself...

How Disney and other Florida parks are handling the threat of Dorian

As of 5 p.m. ET, its eye was located about 25 miles northeast of Freeport on Grand Bahama Island and 105 miles east of West Palm Beach, Fla. A storm surge was...

‘Mindless criminals’ - Onyeama reacts to fresh attack on Nigerians in South Africa

Get it for your iPhone here . Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation is advocating a "teeth for tat" approach, to deal with South Africans. "Xenophobia...

Odessa gunman got sacked hours before going on a shooting spree

On August 3, a gunman killed 22 people in another Saturday shooting at a Walmart store about 410km west of Midland in the city of El Paso. Among the wounded...