The death toll by the devastating hurricane Michael in the southeast of the US has since risen to eighteen. Of hundreds of people is still unknown where they stayed, the authorities reported Saturday. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated before the hurricane came ashore, but not everyone left on time.
Six people were killed as a result of hurricane Michael in the southwest of the United States. Most of the deaths have fallen in the state of Florida, namely four. People also died in the states of Georgia and North Carolina. The authorities fear that the death toll can still start running.
Hurricane Michael has arrived as a category 1 hurricane in the US state of Georgia. The hurricane arrived on Wednesday afternoon as category 4 in Florida. The wind speeds were so high that it was almost a category 5 hurricane. Meanwhile the wind speeds have dropped to 130 kilometers per hour. At the climax that was 250 kilometers per hour.
Hurricane Michael has landed in the American state of Florida. The eye of the hurricane passed the coast near Mexico Beach, some thirty kilometers southeast of Panama City, in the so-called Pannensteel of Florida. The hurricane remains strong above the country and leaves a trail of destruction behind.
A solution was found for the 58 migrants aboard the ship Aquarius, which was sailing off the coast of Libya. They are brought to Malta and distributed over four countries in the EU. That's what sources around the Maltese government have stated on Tuesday.
Panama has withdrawn the registration of the Aquarius, the ship with which MSF and SOS Méditerranée rescue refugees on the Mediterranean. This means that the ship can no longer sail under the Panamanian flag, according to a MSF spokeswoman.
The conservative American soldier and politician John McCain became war hero as a prisoner of war and a powerful politician, despite unsuccessful attempts to become president. He came from a family of navy people and both his father and grandfather were admiral. He was born in the Channel Zone of the US in Panama at the end of August 1936. McCain also seemed to spend his entire life with the Navy for a long time.
The Italian police found more than 20 tons of hashish in a ship's two fuel tanks with a street value of 150 to 200 million euros. The eleven passengers, all from Montenegro, have been arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling.
Panamanian former president Ricardo Martinelli will be extradited to Panama by the United States on Monday, where he must go for espionage. One of his lawyers has informed the Reuters news agency. On Friday, the current President Juan Carlos Varela announced that the US State Department would grant the extradition request.
The tropical storm Alberto landed in the American state of Florida. That happened near Panama City in the northwest of the Sunshine State. It is expected that Alberto will take care of a lot of rain.
The tropical storm Alberto, with which the Atlantic hurricane season has been opened prematurely, has declined slightly on its way to the Florida Panhandle strip in the northwest of the American state. According to the meteorological service, the center of the depression is now 80 kilometers south of Panama City in Florida and wind speeds of 96 kilometers per hour have been measured.
Belgian football fans can not follow the performances of their Red Devils at the World Cup in Russia this summer on big TV screens in the center of Brussels. For security reasons, the city council forbids fencing in public places such as the Grote Markt and also cafes may only turn on within the TV.
An expensive 16-day cruise with the United States has become a nightmare for the 2,000 passengers. The ship was rebuilt during the trip.
The explosion that injured several dozen people on a Mexican ferry last month was not a terrorist act. Organized crime was not behind it either. The Ministry of Justice has announced this on Sunday. It did not matter about possible suspects.
The Panamanian police removed staff from the Donald Trump family business from the Trump hotel in Panama. A worker also removed the name of the American president from a large sign outside the building, reports American media.
The murder of a journalist who has written about the misuse of EU money and ties between Slovakian politicians and the infamous Italian Ndrangheta mafia keeps Europe in its grip. Europol interferes with it and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico praises a one million euro reward- simply, cash- in Bratislava for the golden tip, but according to critics, his Smer party may itself have been an accomplice.
The American ambassador in Panama, John Feeley, gets on. In a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Feeley said he was not able to serve President Donald Trump any longer.
His name is not so popular. Because when it is pronounced it is usually when a situation does not go as hoped. Edward E. Murphy was the creator of perhaps the world's best-known law: Murphy's Law. The American aerospace engineer would have become 100 years today.
The name of Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton picks up in the Paradise Papers, with new revelations about the financial trade and the walk of the richest of the earth. Hamilton would have evaded tax on the purchase of his private aircraft, which is not punishable as opposed to tax evasion.
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Again, there is a great danger that financial data from the rich of the earth can be leaked. The Bermuda-based Appleby trust office reports after a computer screen has been approached by the US International Consortium or Investigative Journalists with questions about potential tax evasion by customers. This organization was also involved last year with the publication of the Panama Papers.
After the assassination of a research journalist in Malta, thousands of people in the capital of Valletta have demonstrated justice for Sunday. They demanded a quick solution to the case and the end of corruption in politics and the authorities.
Malta's best-known research journalist has died when a powerful bomb blows her car. Daphne Caruana Galizia (53) was extremely popular among the inhabitants of the island state.
A new cocaine load has been found by the OM in Rotterdam. This time it's 400 kilos worth 10 million euros.
The large American supermarket chain Walmart has apologized for an arrangement in one of the branches that promoted firearms as back-to-school products.
The supreme court of Pakistan has left the country's prime minister out of office. Nawaz Sharif is accused of corruption and money laundering.
About eighty strangers on a beach in the state of Florida have saved a family of nine people from drowning death by forming a human chain. The family got stuck by the rising flood and threatened to swallow the water.
A witness for the parliamentary interrogation committee on tax structures may have lied to it.
The German federal detective has bought the so-called Panama Papers. It concerns millions of documents from the internal administration of Panamese business service provider Mossack Fonseca, confirming sources around the German government on Tuesday.
Panama has joined diplomatic relations with China and at the same time broke with Taiwan. Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela announced China's choice during a television speech Monday (local time).
