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Hawaiian residents heard no emergency warnings earlier than this week's lethal wildfires.Official data present Hawaii's emergency sirens - a part of the world's largest outside public security system - did not set off on Tuesday earlier than the devastating blaze within the historic city of Lahaina on the island of Maui. Survivors mentioned they didn't hear any of the 400 sirens throughout the island, solely turning into conscious of the fires once they noticed flames or heard explosions.Read extra: As it occurred - Wildfires overtook city with out warning as loss of life toll risesThe loss of life toll, now standing at 55, is anticipated to rise. Around 1,000 individuals have additionally been reported lacking. Image: An aerial...

TEHRAN, Iran — For months, Iranian authorities did little to implement the legislation on girls overlaying their hair however now the nation’s theocracy is pushing to make companies the brand new battleground over the obligatory scarf. ...

Footage has emerged of the second youngsters ducked and screamed in worry as a Russian missile hit a resort in Ukraine.Two Russian Iskander missiles hit the Reikartz Hotel in Zaporizhzhia metropolis centre on Thursday night, leaving one useless and 16 injured - together with 4 youngsters. Ukraine's defence ministry stated the resort was getting used as a youngsters's summer time camp which had ended simply an hour earlier than the missile strike.Ukraine battle newest: Putin's coup deal 'seemingly collapsing'Russia's defence ministry claimed its forces had hit a location the place "foreign mercenaries" had been quartered. Footage exhibits youngsters gathered close to the smoking resort duck as a missile flew overhead.A...

SEOUL, South Korea — On maybe the burning overseas coverage query of the day — What would Japan do within the occasion of a Chinese army transfer in opposition to Taiwan? — the rhetoric and the fact stay far aside in Tokyo. ...

Catastrophic wildfires in Hawaii had been sparked by a "worst case scenario" and are a part of a world improve in excessive fires, consultants say.The disastrous flames on the island of Maui have claimed the lives of greater than 50 folks and destroyed swathes of extremely flammable panorama. It's being known as the "largest natural disaster" within the US state's historical past and questions are understandably being requested about why these fires are as unhealthy as they're - and why the loss of life toll is so excessive.Read extra: Flames overtook city 'with out warning' - Hawaii fires newest updatesSky News spoke to 2 consultants on wildfires concerning the elements contributing to the tinderbox situations that ignited in Hawaii and what this catastrophe means for all ti...

Iran has transferred 5 Iranian-Americans from jail to accommodate arrest, a part of a doable deal over billions of {dollars} of Iranian belongings frozen in South Korea. ...

Further evacuations are being thought-about in Norway as flood waters proceed to swamp homes and coat vehicles with mud within the south east of the Nordic nation.Up to 2,000 individuals have already been moved away from their properties after days of torrential rain. Water ranges in swollen rivers and lakes proceed to develop.At least three individuals have been killed after Storm Hans battered northern Europe earlier this week, inflicting transport disruption, flooding and energy cuts. Image: The flooded centre of Hokksund One of the worst-affected components of Norway is the city of Honefossen, 25 miles north of Oslo, the place the Begna river burst its banks. Amid fears of landslides, authorities are conte...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sacked the administrators of Ukraine’s regional navy recruitment facilities as a part of a wide-ranging crackdown on corruption in a system that gives urgently wanted troopers for the nation’s ongoing counteroffensive in opposition to Russian occupiers. ...

A 16-year-old woman has reportedly died because of a snake chunk in western Nepal after she was pressured to remain in a hut outdoors her dwelling throughout her interval.The teenager was bitten by a snake on Tuesday whereas she was sleeping within the outbuilding in Pancheshwar, Baitadi district, in Sudurpashchim province, in line with The Kathmandu Post. "The girl was sleeping outside her house in a shed during her menstrual cycle when the incident occurred," Bina Bhatt, vice chair of the agricultural municipality, instructed the newspaper.Some Hindus view menstruating women and girls as impure and untouchable, and they're pressured to remain in a hut or shed outdoors their houses in components of Nepal whereas on their interval, beneath an historic apply often known as chh...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The brazen assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio at a crowded political rally Wednesday night time deepened the nation’s sense of vulnerability to the crime that’s unfold throughout the nation in recent times. ...