South Korean president Moon Jae-in was welcomed at the airport at Pyongyang by Kim Jong-un. The North Korean dictator was waiting for Moon when he stepped off the plane. The women of the two leaders were present.
Moon is about the diplomatic ties, not just the umpteenth explanation. That is what the South Korean president says, prior to his visit to Pyongyang where he will meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. It is the third time that they shake hands, since they first spoke in April.
The death toll due to hurricane Florence on the American east coast rose to at least 23. Most of the victims fell in the state of North Carolina, where the coastal town of Wilmington was cut off from the outside world by the high water. The flooding can last for weeks.
More than a hundred people have died in Nigeria in recent weeks because two rivers have left their banks. The NEMA Emergency Agency reported to the BBC that forty people were killed in the Niger state alone.
Because of the hurricane Mangkhut, at least 65 people died in the Philippines. Especially in the north of the main island of Luzon many people have become victims of landslides. In a series of landslides, some 45 people are still missing in the province of Benguet, according to Filipino media.
An Israeli settler was stabbed to death by a Palestinian on Sunday. According to the Israeli army, this happened at a busy junction for a shopping center south of Jerusalem.
Hurricane Florence has been watered down to a tropical depression, but the danger has not yet receded for the inhabitants of the American states of North and South Carolina. The wind is still blowing and there is a lot of rain. The death toll of the storm is now at thirteen, including a mother with her child.
The death toll due to hurricane Florence on the American east coast has risen to at least eleven. By the hurricane and by 'epic amounts of rain \u0026 quot; large parts of the southeastern coast of the US are flooded.
The death toll in the Philippines by the typhoon Mangkhut has risen to at least 25. That is what the disaster coordinator of the Philippine government has announced. The majority of the victims were killed by landslides in mountainous areas. Reports on possible victims still have to be received from various areas.
While the tropical storm of Florence is scouring the southeast of the United States, a small army of drones is ready to help quickly absorb and even repair the damage.
The number of deaths from hurricane Florence in the states of North and South Carolina in the United States has risen to five. There may be more, local media reports. Florence has meanwhile been watered down to a tropical storm.
Hurricane Florence leaves a trail of vandalism in the United States. Because of the storm, trees are blown away and streets run under water. In the city of New Bern, according to CNN, at least two hundred people were saved who had been in trouble because of high water.
A woman drowned during a baptismal ceremony in the sea near South Africa. During the ceremony she was seized by an undercurrent. The South African rescue brigade went out to sea, but the Miracle lifeboat could not mean anything more to the woman. A kilometer away her physical remains were found.
The appeal of the convicted Danish murderer and inventor Peter Madsen was interrupted on Friday. The hearing was suspended because a judge became unwell. It is not clear when the session will be.
Lara Croft has been running the hearts of many gamers for 22 years now, her popularity has not gotten any worse over the years. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the final piece of a successful reboot of the series.
Certainly 88,000 households in the American state of North Carolina are without power because of Hurricane Florence. The hurricane has not yet landed, which probably happens Friday morning.
North and South Korea open Friday a liaison office between the two countries in the North Korean border village of Kaesong. The opening is attended by fifty people from the north and fifty people from the south.
A gigantic iceberg, larger than North Holland and South Holland together, has become detached from the South Pole. The record was torn loose last year, but still hit against the remaining ice on the South Pole. The wind and sea currents have now driven the mass away. That happened at the beginning of this month.
The American emergency response service FEMA has asked the EU for satellite images of hurricane Florence. That request has been granted. Current images that the European Copernicus system has made of the American East Coast are made available by the European Coordination Center for Disaster Relief, so that Washington can map out the situation better.
Hurricane Florence has further weakened on the way to the American coast. It is now a storm in the second category, reports the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami. Nevertheless, heavy rainfall and possible flooding are still taken into account.
The National Hurricane Center has scaled heavy hurricane Florence to category 3 on Wednesday. However, the danger that is particularly threatening for the coastal areas in South and North Carolina remains unchanged. Houses with huge waves and enormous amounts of rain are expected.
Hong Kong braces itself for the supertyphon Mangkhut, which probably lands in the area on Sunday. It could be the heaviest tropical storm ever to hit the metropolis, comparable to a category 5 hurricane on the Atlantic. The typhoon, which is still gaining momentum, is expected to cause a lot of trouble in the north of the Philippines and Taiwan on the way to the Chinese mainland with wind speeds of 240 kilometers per hour.
A gruesome discovery for a pregnant woman in a restaurant. During a dinner party she finds a dead rat in her soup.
For Americans living on the east coast, the countdown has started. Another day and a half and then Florence comes ashore. A very heavy hurricane, meteorologists warn. ' He could even become the heaviest category '', says Johnny Willemse of Weeronline.
More than one and a half million people on the American East Coast have been ordered to leave due to the arrival of Hurricane Florence. The super storm is the toughest to threaten the area in three decades. Florence is currently a hurricane of the fourth category with wind speeds of up to 210 kilometers per hour.
On the east coast of the United States more than one million people have been advised to leave because of the approaching hurricane Florence. The powerful hurricane is expected to land onshore in North and South Carolina on Thursday. The emergency state has now been declared there, as well as in Virginia and Maryland.
Hurricane Florence is rapidly growing into a large and 'extremely dangerous'; Hurricane. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami has announced this. The hurricane would reach the mainland of the United States on Thursday. If that happens, there are very likely flooding. Florence now has wind speeds of up to 150 kilometers per hour.
The tropical storm of Florence has sunk so fast in the Atlantic on Sunday that there is now a hurricane with wind speeds of 120 kilometers per hour. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami expects Florence to develop into a whirling storm of category 3 or higher over the next 24 hours.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told an envoy from the Chinese President Xi Jinping that he will abide by the agreement with the United States on nuclear-freeing the country. That has been announced by Chinese state television.
The Italian Government strongly rejects Austria's plan to offer Austrian citizens the Austrian nationality. She has learned that Vienna is working on a legal text that allows the inhabitants of the Alto Adige province, regardless of whether they speak German or Italian, to give an Austrian passport. 'That initiative is misplaced because of the disturbing founding effect that may possibly go,' said Rome in a reaction.
