Flash floods take dramatic toll in Lima and northern Peru gulfnews.com Geographic extremes help fuel the often deadly force of the mudslides known locally as huaycos LIMA: Flash floods and landslides hit parts of Lima, leaving some communities cut off from roads on Saturday, as others in Peru fled rising rivers, and millions fretted that […]
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Otto to threaten lives and property from Panama to Honduras, El Salvador accuweather.com reported hurricane Otto, over the southwestern Caribbean Sea, will threaten part of Central America with flooding, mudslides and damaging winds this week. Otto is hovering just off the coasts of Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. It became the seventh hurricane of the […]
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fusion.net/Manuel Rueda and Tim Rogers reported so for some people who have been thinking about it for years, Trump’s win could be the final nudge that pushes them to make the leap. “I think Trump’s win will be a windfall for Nicaragua,” a U.S. expat who owns a restaurant in Granada told me. “Send us […]
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aljazeera.com reported a large slice of Western Europe looks set to experience heatwave conditions in the coming days. Temperatures from Portugal to Poland are expected to reach the 30C mark. A large area of high pressure is becoming established across much of the region. Weather fronts, and the attendant cool Atlantic breezes, are being increasingly […]
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U.S. Citizens Deaths (non-natural casuses) Jan. 2016 through May 2016. 01-06-2016 Banos Other Accident 02-28-2016 Cotocachi Other Accident 02-19-2016 Guayaquil Homicide 04-17-2016 Jama Disaster 02-20-2016 Montanita Drowning 01-02-2016 Quito Veh. Accid-Auto 02-07-2016 Quito Drug-Related 01-01-2016 Salinas Drowning ARE YOU A MEMBER OF ECUADOR EMERGENCY ON FACEBOOK? IF NOT YOU CAN JOIN TODAY SOURCE US STATE […]
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telegraph.co.uk reported mosquito inspection teams were fanning out across Miami Beach, after five people – including three tourists – were diagnosed with the first locally-transmitted cases of Zika in the popular tourist resort. “We believe we have a new area where local transmission is occurring in Miami Beach,” said Rick Scott, governor of Florida, in […]
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enews.earthlink.net/AP reported British border agents moved in Sunday to help French officials ease the gigantic backups for travelers trying to cross the English Channel into France. By Sunday afternoon, police said the backlog that saw some motorists waiting up to 10 hours or more had eased but that delays and disruptions can be expected on […]
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reuters.com reported an attempted Turkish military coup appeared to crumble in the early hours of Saturday after crowds answered President Tayyip Erdogan’s call to take to the streets to support him. Erdogan, who had been holidaying on the coast when the coup was launched, flew into Istanbul before dawn on Saturday and was shown on […]
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