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US ratchets up sanctions on North Korea

Washington - Muslimchronicle

US President Donald Trump is "mentally deranged" and will "pay dearly" for his threat to destroy North Korea, Kim Jong-Un said Friday, as his foreign minister hinted the regime may explode a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean. In a rare personal attack published hours after Washington announced tougher sanctions, the North Korean leader took aim at Trump overRead more

Emergency UN Security Council meeting set on N. Korea: diplomats

United Nations - Muslimchronicle

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Tuesday afternoon over North Korea's latest missile launch at the request of Japan and the United States, diplomats said. The planned meeting in New York comes as Washington and Tokyo agreed to step up pressure on Pyongyang after the nuclear-armed North fired a ballistic missile over Japan and into the PacificRead more

'Zero recovery' for corals in back-to-back Australia bleaching

Sydney - Arab Today

Coral bleached for two consecutive years at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has “zero prospect” of recovery, scientists warned Monday, as they confirmed the site has again been hit by warming sea temperatures. Researchers said last month they were detecting another round of mass bleaching this year after a severe event in 2016, and their fears were confirmed after aerial surveysRead more

El Nino can warn on cholera outbreaks

Washington - Arab Today

El Nino, the cyclical climatic phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, is linked to shifts in cholera cases in Africa, providing an early warning that could save lives, scientists said Monday. During the years when El Nino is warming the eastern Pacific, East Africa has about 50,000 additional cholera cases a year, new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ofRead more

Philippine fisherman's tale of 58 days adrift

General Santos - Arab Today

Adrift and alone in the Pacific Ocean, Rolando Omongos prayed to live long enough to bring home news of the death of his uncle, whose corpse he had cast off at sea. The 21-year-old Filipino fisherman was stranded in January after a storm separated him and his uncle from their main fishing vessel, leaving the pair on a tiny boatRead more

Philippine fisherman's tale of 58 days adrift

Manila - Arab Today

Philippine fisherman who survived 58 days adrift at sea

GENERAL SANTOS- Arab today

Coral reefs in hot water: study

Paris - AFP

A spike in water temperature lasting only days bleached all the coral in a South China Sea atoll, and killed 40 percent of the tiny organisms within weeks, researchers reported Thursday. The six degree Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) surge at Dongsha Atoll in June 2015 was produced by a perfect storm of factors: the time of year, a record ElRead more

Death toll rises to 72 in Peru rains, flooding, and mudslides

Peru - Arab Today

The intense rains, overflowing rivers, mudslides and flooding being experienced in the country are the worst seen in two decades, Peruvian authorities said Saturday, affecting more than half the nation as the death toll since the beginning of the year hit 72. The highly unusual rains follow a series of storms that have struck hard along Peru’s northern coast, withRead more

Panama bus crash kills at least 18, injures 33

Panama - Arab Today

At least 18 people died and 33 were injured in Panama on Sunday when a bus veered off a highway and flipped into a ravine and then a river, the authorities said. Civil Defence officer Jose Donderis said the bus headed from the Bocas del Toro province on the Caribbean Sea to a ranch in Chame - a town onRead more