HOUSTON — Clinging to a tree branch with the bayou currents rushing around him, Sammy Saldivar watched helplessly as the van carrying his parents and four great-nieces and great-nephews bobbed in the water. “He could hear the kids screaming and crying, trying to get out of the van,” Saldivar’s brother, […]
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GETTY Polish PM Beata Szydło does not agree with Macron’s reforms Emmanuel Macron wants an overhaul of the bloc’s “posted workers” which would make it more difficult for companies to hire cheap workers in one EU country and post them to a richer country where they do not have to […]
Disaster officials in Nagaland, a mountain state in northeast India, bordering Myanmar, called for calm after social media erupted with claims the monster quake could hit the region today or tomorrow. The area has previously been hit by powerful earthquakes. According to the Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA), users […]
HOUSTON — Houston-area infrastructure is proving to be no match for Harvey’s record rainfall, which overpowered a dam, a bridge and a levee within hours of one another. First came the Addicks Dam, a major dam in the nation’s fourth-largest city. It spilled over for the first time in history […]
The long-term warming of Earth almost certainly created conditions that packed more moisture into Hurricane Harvey, scientists say. But the aspect of the storm most punishing to Houston — its languid pace, while dropping all that water — is less clearly tied to climate change. The deluge is equal to […]
In a warning to Spain, the president of Catalonia called for the creation of a separate army, should the Spanish region vote for independence in the upcoming controversial referendum. Carles Puigdemont, 54, said that the creation of an independent military force was “absolutely indispensable” for any future independent Catalonia. Mr […]
Angelino Alfano said he fears new policies agreed at a high-profile summit in Paris yesterday could become “bogged down” in EU red tape. In a swipe at the bloc he said: “I have always argued that, having closed the route through Turkey, Europe should have placed all its political and […]
Once every year, Muslims retrace the steps of the Prophet Muhammad from nearly 1,400 years ago in a holy pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. The Hajj is one of the Five Pillars of Islam and all believers are required to perform it at least once in their lives, as long as […]