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Hurricane Milton strengthens into category 5 storm again as Biden warns storm could be worst in over 100 years – live updates

National Hurricane Center announces sustained winds of up to 165mph; US president says his team is doing everything ‘to save lives’Full report: Floridians warned ‘you are going to die’ if they don’t evacuateTell us: how have you been affected by Hurricane Milton?Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book “War” also reveals that Donald Trump kept in touch with Vladimir Putin after his presidency ended, CNN reports.Citing an aide to the former president, Woodward writes that there have been “maybe as many as seven” calls between the two since Trump left the White House.

How did Hurricane Milton reach category 5 strength so quickly and when will it make landfall?

Milton is the third fastest-intensifying storm on record in the Atlantic, as experts warn the climate crisis is fueling more powerful stormsThe speed which recent hurricanes have been intensifying in strength is alarming climate experts, officials and residents facing these huge storms. More than a million people have been told to evacuate as Florida braces for the arrival of Hurricane Milton this week on the state’s west coast.Milton is the third fastest-intensifying storm on record in the Atlantic Ocean, the US National Weather Service has said as experts warn the climate crisis is fueling more powerful storms.

Tailbacks and trepidation as Floridians scramble to flee Hurricane Milton’s path

Fleeing residents clog interstates as experts warn hurricane could be one of state’s ‘most damaging and costly storms’Tell us: how have you been affected by Hurricane Milton?In happier times, Interstate 4 from Tampa to Orlando is choked with pleasure seekers heading for the theme parks of Disney and similar enjoyable Florida pursuits. But on Tuesday, a deep sense of foreboding hung over the lengthy lines of near-stationary traffic as Hurricane Milton, the strongest storm forecast to strike Tampa Bay in more than a century, churned in the Gulf of Mexico, edging ever closer to its target.
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France’s minority government survives no-confidence vote as far right refuses to back motion

A vote of no-confidence aiming to bring down the nascent government of French Prime Minister Michel Barnier failed on Tuesday after the far-right National Rally party refused to back the motion. The motion was brought forward by the left-wing New Popular Front, who won the most seats in the snap legislative elections called by President Emmanuel Macron earlier this year.
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🔴 Live: At least seven dead in Israeli strike on residential building in Damascus

Seven civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike in Damascus on Tuesday, the Syrian government said, with a UK-based war monitor saying the strike had targeted a building used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Syria’s defence ministry said women and children were among the dead in the strike on a residential and commercial building in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of the capital, which is home to embassies and security headquarters.
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“Two-State Solution Dead” US Pushes For Israel-Saudi Normalisation, Sen Graham Offers Deal To MBS

US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Oct 8 called on Saudi Arabia and Israel to normalise relations by the end of the year. Graham made the statement during a presser in Jerusalem along with Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal. The two Senators visited Israel to mark the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attack by Hamas and the subsequent war waged by Tel Aviv on Gaza. Graham also said that the two-state solution, where Israel and Palestine coexist side-by-side, is “dead” and Israeli public will not accept a Palestinian state after the Oct 7 attack.
 

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