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A minimum of 22 reported dead as storm John dissipates over Mexico
Homeowners in southwestern Mexico on Saturday left from homes flooded by the remnants of Typhoon John that ravaged the Pacific shoreline for a week, bringing lethal floods and landslides that left 22 people reported dead. In Guerrero, the worst-hit state and among Mexico's. poorest, 18 people were eliminated, according to local media, numerous. due to mudslides that squashed homes. To the south, regional media. reported three deaths in Oaxaca, and a young kid died in a river. to the north in Michoacan state. John rapidly enhanced into a major typhoon on Monday. before tearing into Guerrero. It dissipated then reformed. offshore and for the remainder of the week skimmed the shoreline. north, bringing downpour and floods. John began dissipating on Friday and is no longer thought about. an active storm. Guerrero state governor Evelyn Salgado shared images on X of. emergency situation responders in the significant resort city of Acapulco. carrying out rescue operations by boat, jetski and helicopter,. and citizens wading through roadways flooded approximately waist-high. Salgado said access to the airport had actually been restored on. Saturday early morning. Citizens with kids who evacuated from flooded. communities on dinghies and surf boards asked authorities for. assistance as the city, still recovering from a disastrous 2023. storm, faced a second disaster in less than a year. Last October, Typhoon Otis struck Acapulco as a Category 5. storm that quickly heightened off the coast, leaving over 50. individuals dead and billions of dollars in damages. However John's. rainfall nearly tripled the rain generated from Otis. A lot of water has come down, resident Jazmin Barrera informed. UnoTV. We have not seen the sun since Monday. I think this time. around has actually been more devastating. Heavy rains and thunderstorms are anticipated across. Guerrero and parts of Oaxaca later on Saturday, but authorities. in Acapulco said the floodwaters were starting to fall back. Shelters and kitchen areas have been established and food supplies. are being dispersed, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. said on X. Luckily, the water is now declining and aid to. the victims will continue. Meteorologists state warmer ocean temperature levels are giving more. fuel to hurricanes, allowing them to end up being more powerful much faster and. leaving coastal communities less time to brace for their blow.
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Russian attacks eliminate top judge and 3 others in Ukraine's Kharkiv, authorities say
2 Russian attacks in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv area eliminated four individuals on Saturday consisting of a Supreme Court judge who was delivering aid to local homeowners in a civilian vehicle, Ukrainian officials stated. Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said an air attack killed 3 people and hurt a minimum of three others in the village of Slatyne, which lies about 25 km (15 miles) north of the city of Kharkiv - the local capital. Local official Vyacheslav Zadorenko said Russian forces had utilized KAB guided aerial bombs. The enemy hit civilian facilities, harmed educational institutions, stores, Syniehubov said on the Telegram messaging app. Individuals were outdoors at the time. Some 25 km (15 miles) even more north, in the village of Kozacha Lopan, an attack by a Russian first-person view drone killed the 61-year-old judge and hurt three females who remained in the automobile he was driving, the local prosecutor's office said. In a post on Telegram, the district attorney's workplace shared an image of a black sedan outside a red brick structure with its roofing partially collapsed. Ukraine's Supreme Court called the judge as Leonid Loboyko. Reuters could not immediately verify the information of the attacks. Russia denies targeting civilians, although it has actually killed thousands during more than 2-1/2 years of war.
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A minimum of 9 dead, 48 missing out on after migrant boat capsizes in Spain's Canary Islands
At least nine migrants died and 48 are missing after their boat capsized early on Saturday near the Spanish island of El Hierro, rescue services said, in what threatens to be the most dangerous such occurrence in 30 years of such crossings to the Canary Islands. The emergency situation services were able to rescue 27 of 84 migrants who were attempting to reach the Spanish coast, they included. Spanish authorities said the migrants were from Mali, Mauritania and Senegal. The rescue group got a call shortly after midnight local time from the boat, which lay around four miles east of El Hierro. It sank throughout the rescue, they said. All the migrants on board focused in the exact same side of the boat during the rescue, that made it capsize. Everyone fell into the sea, said Manuel Barroso, head of Spain's maritime rescue services. Wind and bad visibility made the rescue exceptionally challenging, he included. 9 bodies have been recuperated and the emergency services are still looking for the others. Three other boats reached the Canary Islands during the night, bring 208 migrants. Calm seas and gentle winds associated with late summer in the Atlantic Ocean off Western Africa has triggered a renewed rise of migrants, local authorities stated this month. The route from Africa to the islands, which has a population of around 2.2 million, has seen a 154% surge in migrants this year, with 21,620 migrants crossing in the very first seven months, information from the European Union's border company Frontex revealed. In some thirty years of migrant crossings to the islands the most dangerous shipwreck recorded to date happened in 2009 off the island of Lanzarote where 25 individuals passed away.
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Previous disturbances at Apple facilities in India.
A fire at a major Tata Electronic devices plant manufacturing elements for Apple iPhones in southern India halted production on Saturday, the most current in a series of events disrupting Apple's facilities in the area. It is not yet clear what caused the blaze in Tata's Tamil Nadu plant. Apple has been considering a large manufacturing base in India since it began iPhone assembly in the country in 2017. Presently, its products are produced through contracts with companies consisting of Foxconn and Tata Electronics. The level of the fire's effect on Tata's products is still unknown. One structure where iPhone components are made caught fire, however it is unclear whether a neighbouring building where manufacturing of the complete mobile phone was to begin by the year-end is impacted. Here's a look at other occurrences in the last few years that interfered with Apple centers in India: February 2024: Numerous workers at a factory of Apple supplier Flex in India's Tamil Nadu state staged a one-day strike requiring greater earnings for the next three years and the recognition of a union. December 2023: Foxconn's operations at its Indian center near Tamil Nadu's capital, Chennai, halted for a day due to weather interruptions. September 2023: Pegatron momentarily stopped iPhone assembly at its Chennai center in the very same southern Indian state after a fire at the factory. February 2023: Foxlink, which manufactures iPhone battery chargers, suspended production at its assembly facility in Chittoor in the state of Andhra Pradesh after a fire caused part of the building to collapse. December 2021: Operations at a plant belonging Foxconn in Chennai city were halted for more than 3 weeks after 250 workers fell sick, triggering demonstrations. Apple later found centers did not meet necessary standards. December 2020: Employees at a Wistron plant in Karnataka state's Narsapura destroyed home during demonstrations over non-payment of incomes, causing countless dollars in losses and requiring the Taiwanese contract maker to shut the plant for three months. Wistron sold its India business to the Tata Group in 2015.
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Thyssenkrupp steel head prepares personnel for 'difficult' cuts
Thyssenkrupp's. 27,000 steel workers must brace for deep cuts, the brand-new head of. the corporation's steel department informed a German newspaper,. setting the stage for significant layoffs. Tough cuts are required. We have to become more. successful, Dennis Grimm, spokesperson for Thyssenkrupp Steel. Europe's (TKSE) executive board, informed Westdeutsche Allgemeine. Zeitung (WAZ) in an interview. The current market situation has deteriorated again in. recent months, and unfortunately there is no healing in sight. TKSE is emerging from a major clash with its parent over. funds that are required in a proposed 50:50 joint venture. structure with Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, who already. owns a 20% stake in the steel organization. Grimm stated that presently a brand-new business plan was being. established for TKSE and it was unclear the number of tasks could have. to go. We can't yet put a specific figure on the number of people we will. utilize as soon as business strategy has been finalised and. settlements with the staff member representatives have been. completed, Grimm informed WAZ. But it will be less than today..
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Tanzania orders gold dealerships to reserve 20% for purchase by c.bank
Tanzania's mining regulator has actually bought all mining companies and traders exporting gold to allocate at least 20% of the product for sale to the central bank to strengthen the bank's transfer to diversify its foreign reserves. The reserve bank of Tanzania (BoT) started purchasing gold from local traders and miners in the last fiscal year that ended in June to improve its reserves in the middle of depreciation pressure on the local currency, the shilling. In the 12 months to June, the central bank bought 418 kg of gold to boost its reserves and in the current financial year it plans to purchase 6 metric tons of gold. The regulator, the Tanzania Mining Commission, said late on Friday in a statement that the regulation will take effect efficiently on Oct. 1 as part of a newly enacted mining law. Miners and traders, according to the declaration, will be required to submit the reserved gold to two major mineral refineries, Eye of Africa Ltd in the capital Dodoma and Mwanza Precious Metals Refinery Ltd, situated in the lake city of Mwanza in the north of the East African nation. All payments will be done according to the Bank of Tanzania plans, the declaration stated, without providing information on rates. Tanzania's forex reserves stood at $5.29 billion at the end of July, adequate to cover 4.3 months of predicted imports of items and services.
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Russian attacks on medical centre kill 6 people in Ukraine's Sumy, minister says
2 successive Russian attacks on a medical centre in Sumy in northeastern Ukraine on Saturday early morning killed 6 people, Ukraine's interior minister stated. The very first attack killed 1 individual and harmed the ceilings of a number of floors of the health center. The evacuation of patients and personnel started, Ihor Klymenko stated on Telegram. As individuals were being left, the Russians struck once again, eliminating a further five individuals, he said. Attacks on Sumy city and the Sumy region have ended up being much more frequent considering that Ukrainian forces launched an operation in Russia's neighbouring Kursk region in August and caught lots of settlements. Sumy city lies simply 32 km (20 miles) from the Russian border and Russian forces have been attacking the area and the city with drones and guided bombs. Klymenko did not define what weapons were used in Saturday's attacks however the local administration said the strike was carried out by drones. Ukrainian air forces earlier on Saturday said its soldiers shot down 69 of 73 drones during an over night Russian attack that included two ballistic and two cruise missiles. About 15 Russian attack drones were damaged by air defences on the borders and in the capital Kyiv, the armed force administration there said.
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United States southeast deals with difficult task tidying up from Helene; death toll increases
Authorities across a wide swath of the southeastern United States dealt with the challenging task on Saturday of cleaning up from Typhoon Helene, one of the most powerful to hit the nation, as the death toll continued to increase. At least 43 deaths were reported by late on Friday, and authorities feared still more bodies would be found throughout numerous states. Helene, reduced late on Friday to a post-tropical cyclone, continued to produce heavy rains across a number of states, stimulating dangerous flooding that threatened to create dam failures that could swamp whole towns. In Florida's Pinellas County near Tampa, Constable Bob Gualtieri said he had never seen damage like that which Helene wrought. I would simply describe it, having invested the last couple of hours out there, as a battle zone, Gualtieri informed a press conference. At least 3.5 million clients remained without power throughout five states, with authorities cautioning it could be a number of days before services were completely restored. Scientists say environment modification contributes to fueling stronger, more damaging cyclones. Before moving north through Georgia and into Tennessee and the Carolinas, Helene struck Florida's Huge Bend region as a. powerful Classification 4 cyclone on Thursday night, packing 140 mph. ( 225 kph) winds. It left a disorderly landscape of. reversed boats in harbors, dropped trees, submerged cars and. flooded streets. Cops and firemens carried out thousands of water. rescues throughout the affected states on Friday. More than 50 people were saved from the roofing of a medical facility. in Unicoi County, Tennessee, about 120 miles (200 km) northeast. of Knoxville, state officials stated, after floodwaters swamped. the rural neighborhood. Rising waters from the Nolichucky River avoided ambulances. and emergency lorries from leaving clients and others. there, the Unicoi County Emergency situation Management Agency stated on. social media. Emergency teams in boats and helicopters were. performing saves. Somewhere else in Tennessee, Rob Mathis, the mayor of Cocke. County, ordered the evacuation of downtown Newport because of a. prospective failure at the nearby Walters dam. In western North Carolina, Rutherford County emergency situation. officials alerted residents near the Lake Tempt Dam that it might. fail, although they stated late on Friday that failure did not. appear imminent. In neighboring Buncombe County, landslides required interstates 40. and 26 to close, the county stated on X. WAKING TO DISASTER The degree of the damage in Florida started emerging after. daybreak on Friday. In seaside Steinhatchee, a storm surge - a wall of seawater. pushed ashore by winds - of eight to 10 feet (2.4-3 meters). moved mobile homes, the National Weather Service said on X. In. Treasure Island, a barrier island neighborhood in Pinellas County,. boats were grounded in front yards. The city of Tampa posted on X that emergency workers had. finished 78 water rescues of locals which numerous roads were. impassable due to the fact that of flooding. The Pasco County sheriff's. office saved more than 65 people. Officials had actually pleaded with citizens in Helene's course to. follow evacuation orders, with National Typhoon Center Director. Michael Brennan describing the storm surge as unsurvivable. Gualtieri, the Pinellas County sheriff, stated the conditions. prevented very first responders from addressing a number of emergency situation. calls. On Friday, county authorities found a minimum of five individuals. dead. Two others in Florida passed away, stated Guv Ron DeSantis. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp's workplace reported 15 storm-related. fatalities in that state, while North Carolina Governor Roy. Cooper stated there had been 2 deaths there. At least 19 people died during the storm across South. Carolina, the Charleston-based Post and Courier newspaper. reported, mentioning local authorities.
Albemarle might lower capex if lithium prices stay low
Albemarle, the world's largest producer of lithium for electric car batteries, might look at lowering capital expenditure in the coming years if lithium rates stay flat, the business said on Thursday.
Executives at the North Carolina-based business spoke in a. call with analysts a day after reporting very first quarter profits. was down 47% year-on-year due to lower lithium prices connected to a. slowdown in the growth of global EV sales.
Albemarle maintained its outlook for the year, in which. it prepares to spend in between $1.6 billion and $1.8 billion in. capital investment, however said it may trim that quantity in the. future.
If costs stayed where they were today, you 'd see us. ramping capex down. It would take a bit of time, said. CEO Kent Masters.
He noted that the company needs to invest at least $1. billion a year to keep its properties, which he expected. investing to stay above that level in 2025.
Albemarle indicated greater EV sales in China in April,. including at significant automaker BYD, as a favorable indication. for lithium prices, however warned that current rates would. restrict brand-new tasks from getting off the ground.
You'll see new tasks that are planned coming off and. struggling to get capital if we stay at prices like they are,. Masters said.
(source: Reuters)