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Super Typhoon Nears Philippines

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09/14/2018

09/14/2018

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Super Typhoon Nears Philippines

Top News: Typhoon Mangkhut, the equivalent of a category-five hurricane, is set to hit the Philippines this weekend, with wind gusts reaching speeds over 150 miles per hour. The storm could affect 5 million people, and is almost as strong as Typhoon Haiyan, which left more than 7,000 people dead and displaced millions in 2013.

Mangkhut knocked out 80 percent of electricity on the U.S. island of Guam thursday. It is set to pass over the northern Philippines and continue on toward Hong Kong and southern China.

Russia: The two men Britain named as suspects in the poisoning of former Russia spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England earlier this year appeared on RT, Russian government-funded television, to defend their presence in Salisbury during the attack, claiming they were tourists seeking to visit the Salisbury Cathedral. “Our friends had been suggesting for a long time that we visit this wonderful town,” one of them said.

AFRICA

•  Zimbabwe’s government launched a crowdfunding campaign as part of its efforts to fight a cholera outbreak.

•  Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta rejected a legislative effort to postpone an unpopular fuel tax but called on lawmakers to cut the tax from 16 to 8 percent.

•  Facing a deepening economic crisis, Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir has dissolved parliament and named a new prime minister and cabinet members, including ministers of finance and water resources.

AMERICAS

•  A judge in the European principality of Andorra has charged two men who served as deputy energy ministers under former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, along with more than 20 others, of taking bribes to facilitate contracts with PDVSA, Venezuela’s state oil company.

•  U.S. President Donald Trump accused Democrats, without providing evidence, of exaggerating the death toll of Hurricane Maria—which devastated the U.S. island of Puerto Rico last year—in order to make him look bad.

•  Hurricane Florence, now a category-one storm, made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina on Friday morning and is expected to move slowly for the next 48 hours, dumping up to 40 inches of rain in some areas, leading to severe flooding.

ASIA

•  Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ruled out a peace deal with Russia—the two countries have not signed a formal peace treaty since World War II—before the resolution of territorial disputes over four islands.

•  North and South Korea opened a joint liaison office on the North’s side of the border, allowing for direct communications between the two countries rather than relying on fax machines and special telephone lines.

•  South Korea launched its first submarine capable of firing missiles.

EUROPE

•  Spain’s parliament voted to exhume former dictator Francisco Franco from El Valle de los Caídos, the basilica he built for himself using forced labor.

•  Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he was considering a legal challenge to the European Parliament’s plenary vote to begin disciplinary proceedings against Hungary over rule of law violations.

•  African swine flu reached western Europe for the first time.

MIDDLE EAST

•  David Keyes, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who was reportedly under consideration for a Israel’s U.N. ambassadorship, took a leave of absence amid multiple accusations of sexual assault and harassment.

•  In southern Syria, U.S.-backed rebels conducted military exercises alongside U.S. troops in what rebel commanders say is a signal to Iran and Russia that they intend to stay.

•  Turkish troops were observed reinforcing military observation posts in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province ahead of an expected Syrian government offensive there.

- By Benjamin Soloway

(Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)

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