The city of New York will pay tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks. 2977 people, including women and children, have been killed on September 11, 2001, as 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked 4 passenger aircrafts, crashing two of them into the World Trade Centers.
It is expected that power supply will be cut even more as the storm is moving north. The airports of Miami, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Tampa have been shut down.
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has been hit with tomatoes already twice within a week. The incidents happened during Merkel’s campaign trail.
Damages of the powerful Irma storm amounted near 1,2 billion Euros in the French overseas territories of Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy, CCP, the French governmental insurance company said.
“Some regions are out of power supply, and communication with remote cities is becoming gradually difficult”, BBC reported.
“By declaring a full State of Emergency we are ensuring that all resources and personnel are in place to respond, in the event they are needed here in Alabama or elsewhere,” the statement said.
The powerful quake was recorded at 8.2 magnitudes. The Mexican president said the tremors were the most powerful in 100 years.
Kurdish PKK forces and Turkish soldier clashed in the country’s Bingol province, local media said.
It was a major earthquake in scale and magnitude, the strongest in the past 100 years,” President Peña Nieto said in an address from the National Disaster Prevention Centre’s headquarters, where he was supervising the emergency response.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan received Head of EU Delegation to Armenia, Ambassador Piotr Świtalski. Issues related to Armenia’s cooperation with the European Union, new EU-Armenia agreement were discussed at the meeting.
