By Yadnom Awu/ Asaba
The Philippines
1 mIllion People Evacuated As Another Typhoon Readies Fir Landfall In Phillipines
About One million.people have been evacuated in the coastal areas of The Phillipines as super Typhoon, Fung- Wong readies to make landfall in the country.
The big storm, with a span the equivalent of Western Europe, is expected to make landfall by this evening.
As a precautionary measure, about one million residents of low lying areas on the path of the big storm have been evacuated to shelters and temporary shelters in churches and other structures.
Fung -Wong, packing winds of up to 240 kilometres per hour, will be the second storm to hit the country in as many weeks.
Last week, Typhoon Kamaelgi wreaked the country, leaving a trail of destruction, including at least 200 human fatalities.
More than 100 persons remain missing after Kamaelgi struck the South East Asian nation.
America
More than 1,400 flights Cancelled As Historic Shutdown Continues
In excess of 1,400 commercial flights were cancelled on Saturday across 40 airports as the longest shutdown in the history of America continued after a failed weekend effort to patch it up.
The Federal Aviation Administration which authorized the cancellations, said the tally of cancellationss, put at 4 per cent of daily flights, could rise exponentially in the coming days if the shutdown which triggered it, subsists till the coming days.
The shutdown followed the inability of the Senate to agree, across party lines, the strategy to sustain funding of the government in the face of the lock.
Already, the shutdown has left more 678,000 Federal Government employees , including many in the aviation sector, without pay for two months running and causing a significant cut down on the volume of good aid for the elderly and vulnerable.
Now in the 40th day, the shutdown is the single longest in the history of the country , and President Donald Trump has urged Senators to put the national interest above partisan political considerations in order to resolve the shutdown.
The first term of Trump as America. President was equally characterized by a protracted shutdown.
United Kingdom
UK Holds Remembrance Day
The British Monarch, King Charles, is expected to lead his compatriots to observe a two minute silence today in memory of the servicemen who put their lives on the line for the sake of their country.
The event is to hold at exactly 11 Greenwich Mean Time(GMT).
There would be a proper remembrance service at Whitehall in London at which 20 veterans of World War Two (WW11) would participate in a commemorative parade to be mounted by 10,000 troops.
The parade will hold at the Cenotaph.
This year’s Remembrance Service is important because it coincides with the 80th anniversary of the end of WW11 and Victory Day as well as the 25 year of the abolition of the rule prohibiting gays, lesbians and bisexuals from publicly serving in the country’ s Armed Forces.
America
FAA Grounds MD-11s Over Safety Concerns
The American Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has barred the MD-11 model of aircraft from flying.
This follows safety concerns after an MD- 11 aircraft belonging to the courier giant, United Parcel Services, UPS, crashed shortly after take off from Louisville Airport, Kentucky, last week.
Following the mishap, which led the death of 14 persons and the injury to several others, investigations found that the crash was the direct outcome of the falling off of the left side engine as the aircraft took off.
As a result of the import of the preliminary report into the crash, the FAA, in an apparent proactive measure, has ordered the grounding of all the units of that model of aircraft.
Palestine
Hamas Recovers Body of Israeli Soldier It Seized In 2014
The Palestinian group, Hamas, says it has recovered the remains of an Israeli military officer it seized in 2014.
Israel later identified him as Holdar Goldin.
He is not one of the remaining hostages whose bodies Hamas has yet to release under the Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel.
Both sides had been negotiating for the release of the body but have yet to agree terms.
Diplomats say that Hamas is using the body to negotiate for the free passage of around 200 of its fighters trapped in tunnels in Israeli- controlled parts of Gaza strip.
South Africa
America To Boycott G-20
Summit in South Africa
America is set to boycott the upcoming summit of the G20.
The summit is due for later in the year and is holding in South Africa.
The President of America, Donald Trump,, who made this disclosure in faraway Washington District of Columbia ( DC), gave no reasons for the boycott plan
If carried out the summit would be the second global summit of world leaders that he would have boycotted in the recent past.
He had boycotted the ongoing Cop30 Global Conference on Climate Change in Brazil.
Trump had, early in his current term, falsely accused the South African. Government of encouraging the deliberate .xenophobic mass murders of white South Africans .
He has also had public disagreements with his former ally and the world ‘ s single richest man, Elon Musk.
Musk reportedly put in around $300 million ( about N48 billion) into the campaign efforts of Donanc Trump .
