Typhoon Haima Leaves at Least 7 Dead in Northern Philippines
VIGAN, Philippines — Super Typhoon Haima weakened and blew out to sea Thursday after smashing the northern Philippines with ferocious wind and rain overnight. Flooding, landslides and power outages were evident, but large casualties appeared to have been averted after nearly 100,000 people fled to safer ground.Haima's blinding winds and rain had rekindled fears of the catastrophe wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, but there were no immediate reports of any major damage. Several villages are cu..>> view originalThe Latest: French Minister Says Calais Camp Closure Near
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Image copyright AP Image caption Jeremy Wright, the government's most senior legal officer, took centre stage It lasted three days, brought together some of the country's most eminent legal minds and, in the words of one, considered an issue of "fundamental constitutional importance" to the government, Parliament and the UK as a whole.Bearing all of this in mind, it is perhaps no surprise that the 582-page transcript of the High Court hearing into Bre..>> view originalTurkish air raid kills as many as 200 Kurdish militia members
Turkish military officials say they hit 18 targets with 26 airstrikes in the areas under the control of Kurdish militia, destroying their headquarters, ammunition dumps and shelters.The statement said one Free Syrian Army fighter died and another one was injured in a series of clashes with the PYD/PKK. The military also reported a cross-border exchange of fire early Thursday morning, originating in the town of Afrin in Kurdish territory on the Syrian side and striking an area in the province of ..>> view originalThe Latest: France Warns Up to 1 Million Could Flee Mosul
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U.K. warships are monitoring a Russian aircraft-carrier group sailing past Britain’s eastern coast to the Mediterranean Sea to supplement President Vladimir Putin’s forces in the region, as international condemnation mounts of Russia’s military campaign in Syria.The deployment signals Putin’s determination to assert Russian interests as U.S. and European leaders accuse him of war crimes and dangle the threat of sanctions in response to the bombing of Aleppo by Russian warplanes. Putin floated a..>> view originalUK to pardon thousands of gay men convicted under defunct laws
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Protesters called it Black Wednesday, and turned it into a day to demand an end to violence against women nationwide. Lucia Perez was abducted outside her school in Mar del Plata on October 8. She was drugged, repeatedly raped and sodomized with an "unspecified object" so violently that she eventually bled out from her internal injuries. Three suspects have been arrested and are still in custody. The prosecutor on the case, María Isabel Sánchez, told Telam news agency that the assailants washed ..>> view originalThe Latest: Philippines Says China's Xi Offers $9B in Loans
BEIJING — The Latest on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's meetings with top officials in China (all times local):7:40 p.m.The Philippines says China's president has committed more than $9 billion in low-interest loans to the impoverished Southeast Asian nation in his meeting with the Philippine leader who has set aside territorial disputes in a bid for Beijing's help.The Presidential Communications Office in Manila said in a statement Thursday that the loans that Chinese leader Xi Jinpi..>> view original
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Typhoon Haima Leaves at Least 7 Dead in Northern Philippines and other top stories.
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