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U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the U.N. has deployed a humanitarian team to Barbados to work with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency to help hurricane victims, and additional teams are on standby. Dujarric told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York on Wednesday that U.N. |
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Prime Minister Gaston Browne said Wednesday nearly every building on Barbuda was damaged when Irma passed overhead and about 60 percent of the island's roughly 1,400 people are homeless. He says a 2-year-old child was killed as a family tried to escape a damaged home during the storm. 8:30 p.m. |
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8:30 p.m. The tourist board for the Caribbean island of Anguilla says the major resorts on the island survived a hit from Hurricane Irma but many private homes have been damaged. It also says that the airport did not sustain any major damage but that it remains closed along with two ports. |
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On 26 August Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and patriarch of St Mark, was met by Japanese officials and members of Japan’s Arab communities at the beginning of the first ever visit by a Coptic patriarch to the country. Pope Tawadros II inaugurated the Church of the Virgin Mary and St Mark in Osaka. |
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The latest on Hurricane Irma (all times local): 8:30 p.m. The tourist board for the Caribbean island of Anguilla says the major resorts on the island survived a hit from Hurricane Irma but many private homes have been damaged. |
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8 p.m. The United Nations says that according to estimates as many as 37 million people could be affected by Hurricane Irma. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the U.N. has deployed a humanitarian team to Barbados to work with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency to help hurricane victims, and additional teams are on standby. |
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The latest on Hurricane Irma (all times local): 11:40 p.m. Hurricane Irma is hitting Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds, and authorities say more than 900,000 people are without power. Puerto Rico's emergency management agency says more than half the island.... |
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico The latest on Hurricane Irma (all times local): 11:40 p.m. Hurricane Irma is hitting Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds, and authorities say more than 900,000 people are without power. Puerto Rico’s emergency management agency says more than half the island was.... |
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico The latest on Hurricane Irma (all times local): 8:30 p.m. The tourist board for the Caribbean island of Anguilla says the major resorts on the island survived a hit from Hurricane Irma but many private homes have been damaged. It also says that the airport did not sustain any.... |
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Pope Francis has received a spirited and symbolic welcome as he arrived in Colombia, saying he wants to bring a message of hope for Colombians as they work to heal the wounds and divisions left by Latin America's longest-running armed conflict.
Pope Francis has been greeted by a group of youths.... |
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Abner Gomez says wind gusts of up to 100 mph (160 kph) could reach Puerto Rico's capital. More than 600,000 people are without power and nearly 50,000 without water on Puerto Rico. Fourteen hospitals are using generators after losing power, and trees and lights posts are strewn across some roads. |
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