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At least 15 people have been killed in floods set off by heavy rains in Cameroon’s capital

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:55:45 GMT

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — At least 15 people were killed and more than 50 were injured in floods set off by heavy rains in Cameroon’s capital, authorities said Monday as rescuers searched for those missing following the deluge the previous day. The rains unleashed floodwaters in the district of Yaounde 2 of the country’s capital on Sunday, sweeping away buildings and reducing many to rubble. Rescue workers are still digging through the mud and rubble “with the hope of saving lives,” Daouda Ousmanou, the top government official in the district, said Monday. Floodings have been frequent in Cameroon in recent years, with experts often blaming climate change, and their impact has been exacerbated by shoddy construction that often circumvents regulations. In the city’s Mbankolo neighborhood, at least 30 houses were swept away while several collapsed on residents inside, Ousmanou said. Others drowned as they were swept away by floodwaters. Ernest Zebaze, a 24-year-old universit...

Evacuations ordered as remnants of Typhoon Koinu hit southern China

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:55:45 GMT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — People have been moved to shelters and nearly 2,000 boats recalled to port as the remnants of Typhoon Koinu slammed into southern China on Monday after leaving one dead and over 300 injured in Taiwan. The storm bore down on the southern Chinese island province of Hainan on Monday, just south of the financial center of Hong Kong and the key manufacturing regions in the surrounding area on mainland China. The Hong Kong Observatory said on its website that Koinu was weakening from a typhoon into a tropical depression as it moved southwest along the coast of China’s Guangdong province.Air and rail services have been suspended as Koinu, meaning puppy in Japanese, rolled into the region. Koinu arrived a month after southern China and Hong Kong were lashed by Typhoon Saola, which triggered Hong Kong’s highest storm signal on a scale of 11. A week later, Guangdong province and Hong Kong were hit with the heaviest rains in almost 140 years. The storm also broke a winds...

Viladecans, Vilnius, and Treviso win 2025 European Green City awards

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:55:45 GMT

The winners of the European Green Cities 2025 Awards were announced yesterday afternoon. Vilnius (Lithuania) will be the 2025 European Green Capital, and the title of European Green Leaf 2025 for smaller cities went to Viladecans (Spain) and Treviso (Italy). This year's European Green Capital, Tallinn, hosted the Awards ceremony.Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius said: “Bravo to Vilnius, Viladecans and Treviso! Welcome to the European Green Cities group. You have been working hard to make your cities greener, healthier and more pleasant places to live. Climate change will exacerbate extreme weather events such as droughts and floods that we faced this summer. The answer to those has to be greener cities – cities with lower pollution, which care more for citizens' well-being. That is exactly what today's winners are doing.”The expert jury crowned Vilnius as the 2025 European Green Capital Winner for its commitment to a sustainable future, including ...

Word Game: Oct. 9, 2023

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:55:45 GMT

TODAY’S WORD — TRAVAIL (TRAVAIL: truh-VALE: A physical or mental exertion; a work of a painful or laborious nature.)Average mark 16 wordsTime limit 30 minutesCan you find 19 or more words in TRAVAIL? The list will be published tomorrow.SATURDAY’S WORD — SECTION scent scion scone sect sent since sine site snit snot sone sonic stein steno stoic stone cent cento cite coin cone cosine cost cote tine tone tonic icon insect inset into once onset otic nest nice nicest noes noise nose note noticeTo purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last!RULES OF THE GAME:1. Words must be of four or more letters.2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed.3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible.4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or ...

Single family residence sells for $4.1 million in Palo Alto

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:55:45 GMT

2313 Santa Ana Street – Google Street ViewA 2,309-square-foot house built in 1999 has changed hands. The spacious property located in the 2300 block of Santa Ana Street in Palo Alto was sold on Sept. 1, 2023, for $4,050,000, or $1,754 per square foot. This single-story house provides a generous living space with its four bedrooms and three bathrooms. On the exterior, the home features composition shingles on the roof. Inside, a fireplace enhances the ambiance of the living area. In addition, the house features a one-car garage, allowing for convenient vehicle storage.Additional houses that have recently been sold close by include:On Greer Road, Palo Alto, in August 2023, a 1,944-square-foot home was sold for $3,500,000, a price per square foot of $1,800. The home has 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.A 1,324-square-foot home on the 2300 block of Greer Road in Palo Alto sold in December 2022, for $2,090,000, a price per square foot of $1,579. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.In Novem...

Ask Amy: These are the five reasons I don’t want to go to Paris with my wife

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:55:45 GMT

Dear Amy: My stepson and his spouse intend to go to Paris in March to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary, and have invited both sets of parents to join them there.Related ArticlesAdvice | Ask Amy: The neighbors’ girl was crying in the street, and what I saw in the house scared me Advice | Ask Amy: They kept talking during the minute of silence. What should I have done? Advice | Ask Amy: I want to change my children’s names, but one of them may not be happy about it Advice | Ask Amy: I’m hurt that they’re going to the wedding after what the groom’s mom did to me Advice | Ask Amy: They’re not shallow people but their wedding plan seems shifty My wife wants to go. I don’t.Primary reasons I don’t want to go are: 1) we don’t drink, the others do; 2) our interests don’t coincide (for example, they want to tour wineries); 3) the other parents are considerably more “fre...

ANÁLISIS | Putin apuesta por un apoyo vacilante a Ucrania, en medio de una carrera contra el tiempo

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:55:45 GMT

(CNN) — ¿Cómo termina la guerra en Ucrania? A principios de este año, el expresidente Donald Trump se jactó de que, si fuera reelegido, “habría resuelto esa guerra en un día, en 24 horas”.El presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, está haciendo un pronóstico un poco menos ambicioso: si las cosas salen como él quiere, la guerra puede terminar en una semana.En declaraciones el pasado jueves en la reunión anual del Club de Discusión Valdai, una confabulación amiga del Kremlin sobre temas globales, Putin predijo que Ucrania colapsaría si Occidente cerrara los grifos de la ayuda militar y la asistencia económica.“En general, la economía ucraniana no puede existir sin apoyo externo”, dijo. “Una vez que detengas esto, todo terminará en una semana. Se acaba. Lo mismo se aplica al sistema de defensa: imaginen que los suministros se detendrán mañana; solo tendrá una semana de vida cuando se acaben las municiones”.Estos comentarios fueron quizás la articulación más clara de Putin hasta la f...

Last call from Israel festival attack: ‘I heard only gunshots, screams and Arabic’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:55:45 GMT

ASHKELON, Israel — Near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, terror and confusion reign. As POLITICO arrives at the cataclysmic scene, parents hunt desperately for their missing children and demand retribution against the Hamas terrorists who perpetrated a bloodbath of monstrous proportions. Israel has been in a state of emergency since Iranian-backed Hamas militants stormed out of the Gaza Strip at dawn on Saturday and unleashed a lethal assault on civilians, leaving more than 700 Israelis confirmed dead and 2,150 wounded.It was the “largest civilian massacre” in Israeli history, army spokesman Doron Spielman tells POLITICO. Sunday morning, we fly aboard a Ryanair jet from Berlin into Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport on one of the few commercial flights to Israel that has not been canceled. Typically vibrant and bustling, the city — which has come under fire from Palestinian rocket attacks — has been turned into a ghost town. Driving south from Tel Aviv toward ...

Israel intensifies its strikes and vows to besiege Gaza as it scours south for Hamas fighters

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:55:45 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military scoured the country’s south for Hamas fighters, guarded breaches in its border fence and pounded the Gaza Strip from the air on Monday as it vowed to lay total siege to the impoverished, Hamas-ruled territory in the wake of an unprecedented weekend incursion.More than two days after Hamas launched its surprise attack from Gaza, the military said the fighting had largely died down for now. Israel’s vaunted military and intelligence apparatus was caught completely off guard, bringing heavy battles to its streets for the first time in decades.Israel formally declared war on Sunday, portending greater fighting ahead, and a possible ground assault into Gaza — a move that in the past has brought intensified casualties. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy “the military and governing capabilities” of the militant group, which is deeply rooted in Gaza.As Israel hit more than 1,000 targets in Gaza and its tan...

Police investigating shooting in Chelsea that left person hospitalized

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:55:45 GMT

Police are investigating a shooting in Chelsea overnight that left one person hospitalized.Officers responding to a reported shooting in the area of 89 Congress St. around 11 p.m. Sunday assisted in transporting a person to the hospital with undisclosed injuries, according to the Chelsea Police Department.No additional information was immediately available.https://twitter.com/CityofChelseaPD/status/1711218864694911163This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.