Wednesday, 22 May 2013 12:32
Posted by Parvez Jabri
LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles councilman Eric Garcetti took a narrow lead in early results from a run-off election to succeed LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, but the race remained too close to call early Wednesday.Garcetti and City Controller Wendy Greuel, both Democrats like Villaraigosa, campaigned down to the wire after emerging from a March primary poll contested by a total of eight candidates.Shortly before midnight (0700 GMT Wednesday), four hours after polls closed, Garcetti had 51 ...
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MOORE: Severe thunderstorms barreled through this Oklahoma City suburb at dawn Thursday, complicating clean-up efforts three days after a powerful tornado killed 24 people and destroyed 2,400 homes.More rain was forecast to fall on Moore, soaking the disaster zone where residents had just the day before, under clear blue skies, started picking through the rubble of their destroyed houses to recover personal effects.Localized street flooding was liable to upset access for emergency and clean-up vehicles.Monday's exceptionally strong tornado -- one of the worst in recent years in the United States -- killed 24 people, including two infants and seven pupils trapped inside their collapsed elementary school.The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management said 2,400 homes had been damaged and 10,000 people affected, in a community of 56,000 that was hit by an even deadlier twister in May 1999.Late Wednesday, Governor Mary Fallin's office updated the number of injured to 353, from ...
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration, facing criticism for covert nature of drone operations, Wednesday for the first time publicly acknowledged that US counterterrorism operations overseas have killed four Americans since 2009.The official revelation came in a letter from Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to Congress. The letter, however, does not say how the four were killed.The American media reports say those killed include Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric who was killed in a drone strike ...
LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles councilman Eric Garcetti took a narrow lead in early results from a run-off election to succeed LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, but the race remained too close to call early Wednesday.Garcetti and City Controller Wendy Greuel, both Democrats like Villaraigosa, campaigned down to the wire after emerging from a March primary poll contested by a total of eight candidates.Shortly before midnight (0700 GMT Wednesday), four hours after polls closed, Garcetti had 51 ...
MOORE: Curtis Carver has every intention of rebuilding from scratch the house he lost in Monday's powerful and deadly hurricane that devastated this Oklahoma City suburb.But first, the construction worker and 20-year veteran of the US Marine Corps, who spent two years on active duty in Iraq, wants to recover his memories from the rubble -- and law enforcement is getting in the way."My pictures. That's all I want -- my pictures," he said Tuesday ...
GENEVA: Pinning the deadly tornado in the US state of Oklahoma on climate change is wrongheaded, even though the world is set to see a rise in high-profile weather disasters due to global warming, the leader of a UN body said on Tuesday.Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said data was still coming in about Monday's massive tornado which tore through a suburb of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 ...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in Oklahoma after deadly tornadoes struck the state on Sunday and Monday and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts, the White House said on Monday.The White House said aid can include grants for temporary housing, home repairs, uninsured property losses and other recovery efforts.Obama spoke by telephone with Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin earlier on Monday, the White House said.Copyright Reuters, 2013 ...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama called new Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Monday, to congratulate him after taking office after a prolonged period of political uncertainty."The president expressed support for Prime Minister Letta's focus on reducing youth unemployment and looked forward to further discussions about promoting economic growth at the June G8 Summit," a White House statement said."The two leaders also discussed, as allies and as friends, mutual cooperation on North African security and ...
