As a major city in a central location, Wuhan is well-connected. The city’s main air hub — Wuhan Tianhe International Airport — has flights to New York and San Francisco, as well as London, Tokyo, Moscow and many other international cities, and Wuhan is connected by high-speed rail to Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Chengdu.
An air tanker operated by Canada-based Coulson Aviation drops fire retardant on the Morton Fire burning in bushland close to homes at Penrose, south of Sydney, earlier this month.
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An air tanker operated by Canada-based Coulson Aviation drops fire retardant on the Morton Fire burning in bushland close to homes at Penrose, south of Sydney, earlier this month.
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Three firefighters helping fight Australia’s bushfires were killed Thursday when the C-130 tanker aircraft they were operating crashed south of the capital, Canberra.
“Tragically, there appears to be no survivors as a result of the crash down in the Snowy Monaro area,” Shane Fitzsimmons, the Rural Fire Services Commissioner for New South Wales state, said at a news conference.
He said the tanker “impacted heavily with the ground and initial reports are that there was a large fireball associated with the impact of the plane as it hit the ground.”
“There is no indication at this stage of what’s caused the accident,” he added.
Fitzsimmons said all three aboard the airplane were U.S. residents, but he declined to name them pending notification of the families.
The crash, which occurred near Cooma, northeast of the Snowy Mountains, comes as Australia continues fighting massive bushfires fueled by record-setting temperatures. A fire southeast of Canberra, one of several firefighters are battling, has engulfed nearly 1,000 square miles and is considered out of control.
Flames from the Morton Fire consume a home near Bundanoon, New South Wales, Australia, on Thursday.
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“The fire season is still far from over and today we’ve seen, again, tragic consequences, where three people have lost their lives,” New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.
“Our thoughts and prayers and heartfelt condolences go to their families,” she said.
Berejiklian said more than 1,700 volunteers were in the field helping to fight the fires.
“We can’t thank enough people who continue, notwithstanding those conditions, to put their lives at risk,” she said.
The C-130 Hercules, a converted military transport, was operated by Canadian-based Coulson Aviation. The aircraft was on a firebombing mission.
“It’s just a ball of flames,” a nearby plane reportedly radioed flight control after witnessing the crash.
Coulson, which temporarily suspended its tanker flights as a mark of respect and to reassess safety precautions, said it would send a team to the crash site to assist in emergency operations.
“The accident is reported to be extensive and we are deeply saddened to confirm there were three fatalities,” the company said in a brief statement emailed to Reuters.
Since September, 32 people have been killed as a result of the bushfires, including more than a dozen firefighters.
The bushfires, which have scorched an area larger than the state of Pennsylvania, have also killed an estimated 1 billion animals and destroyed 2,500 homes.
“Birth tourism poses risks to national security,” Carl C. Risch, assistant secretary for consular affairs at the State Department, wrote in the final rule. “The birth tourism industry is also rife with criminal activity, including international criminal schemes.”
Consular officers were already unlikely to grant visa to women who they believed were traveling to the United States solely to give birth. But with the new rule, the White House seems to be signaling to officers abroad that those close to delivering a child would be added to a growing list of immigrants unwelcome in the United States, a list that includes the poor, most refugees and asylum-seeking migrants.
Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, said in a statement that the new rule seeks to stop those who seek “automatic and permanent American citizenship for their children by giving birth on American soil.”
“It will also defend American taxpayers from having their hard-earned dollars siphoned away to finance the direct and downstream costs associated with birth tourism,” Ms. Grisham said. “The integrity of American citizenship must be protected.”
The rule raises the burden of proof for pregnant women applying for tourist visas by outlining in writing that giving birth in the country “is an impermissible basis” for visiting the United States. Even if the women say they are entering the country for medical treatment — a legitimate factor for visa eligibility — an applicant would need to prove that she has enough money to pay for such treatment to the satisfaction of the officer. The woman will also need to prove that the medical care being sought was not available in her home country.
What is coronavirus and how does it spread? Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses whose effects range from causing the common cold to triggering much more serious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which can affect humans and animals, according to the World Health Organization. China has confirmed that the new strain is being transmitted between humans. Here’s what we know so far about the virus.
In Wuhan, the Chinese city of 11 million people where the coronavirus outbreak began last month, train stations, ferries, buses and the airport all have shut down. The quarantine is spreading, with travel restrictions imposed to the nearby Huanggang and Ezhou.
First case in the U.S. is confirmed: A man in Washington state was diagnosed with the virus after returning from the Wuhan region in mid-January. His condition is stable but is being monitored as a cautionary measure, officials said.
U.S. Health officials are screening travelers from Wuhan arriving at the international airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York’s John F. Kennedy, Chicago’s O’Hare and Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson international airports. In the coming days, all flights from Wuhan to the United States will be redirected so their passengers’ point of entry is one of those five airports.
Prosecutors are seeking to recover $1bn (£760m) that Ms Dos Santos and her associates are alleged to owe the state.
“Isabel dos Santos is accused of mismanagement and embezzlement of funds during her tenure at Sonangol,” Mr Pitta Gros told a news conference on Wednesday evening.
He said that as a result she was being provisionally charged with “money laundering, influence peddling, harmful management… [and] forgery of documents, among other economic crimes”.
The Angolan authorities will now conduct a criminal investigation to determine whether she should be formally charged.
They have also named five other people as suspects in the case, one of whom was Mr Ribeiro da Cunha, and urged them to return to Angola.
Mr Pitta Gros said that if Ms Dos Santos did not return to Angola voluntarily, an international arrest warrant would be issued for her.
Ms Dos Santos was controversially appointed head of Sonangol in June 2016 by her father, the then president of Angola. She was sacked from the post in 2017 by her father’s successor, President Joao Lourenço.
An investigation into Ms Dos Santos was opened after her successor at Sonangol, Carlos Saturnino, alerted authorities to alleged irregular money transfers. Her assets in Angola have been frozen.
What is in the leaked documents?
On Sunday, the BBC and other news organisations reported on more than 700,000 leaked documents about the billionaire’s business empire.
The documents showed how Ms Dos Santos got access to lucrative land, oil, diamond and telecoms deals when her father was president. Her fortune is estimated at $2.1 bn (£1.6bn).
They also showed how Western firms helped Ms Dos Santos take her money out of Angola.
She called the allegations entirely false and claimed that the Angolan government was engaged in a politically motivated witch-hunt.
Fox Nation’s Tomi Lahren said that one thing is perfectly clear after former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton unleashed on Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt., in an interview on Wednesday: “The women of the Democratic Party have their sights set on Grandpa Socialist and they are hungry to take him down.”
“We still have roughly 10 months til the 2020 election and the Democrats are already eating each other alive,” said Lahren on Fox Nation’s“Final Thoughts.” “They’ve now weaponized identity politics and social justice warfare against one another.”
First, Lahren pointed to exchange between Sen.s Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at the conclusion of January’s Democratic presidential primary debate.
Warren confronted Sanders as the candidates left the stage and accused him of calling her a ‘liar.” During the debate, Sanders stood by his denial of a CNN report of a leaked private conversation where he allegedly told Warren that a woman can’t win the 2020 presidential race. Warren said it happened.
“Well, one of them is lying,” said Lahren. “And based on past lies, I’m going to go with the fake Native American on this one — just saying.”
And now Hilary Clinton is getting back into the act of bashing Sanders, according to Lahren. “The woman who essentially screwed him out of any chance of becoming the 2016 Democratic nominee has resurfaced yet again to blame someone yet again of sexism.”
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter about “Hillary,” the new Hulu documentary series on her life, Clinton unleashed on her former primary opponent.
“He was in Congress for years,” Clinton says in an excerpt from the documentary. “He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”
“Let’s talk about the pot calling the kettle black, Hillary,” laughed Lahren.
“She also accuses Sanders of having a culture around him of sexism,” Lahren added. “But in typical Hillary fashion, she not only went after Bernie, but his supporters.”
“It’s his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women,” said Clinton. “And I really hope people are paying attention to that because it should be worrisome that he has permitted this culture — not only permitted, [he] seems to really be very much supporting it.”
“Now, I’m not saying that Bernie Bros aren’t vicious because they’re known for that. But come on, Hillary, get off it already. Not everyone who criticized you … is a sexist, doing it to demean women,” Lahren concluded. “When will you Democrats figure it out? Not everything is about color, gender, religion or identity politics. Get a clue. It’s annoying.”
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It is often said that it’s lonely at the top, but loneliness on the job is a growing issue well beyond the corner office.
American workers are feeling more isolated, and younger workers are experiencing loneliness more so than their older co-workers, according to a new Cigna study.
Three out of every five adults, or 61%, report that they sometimes or always feel lonely, according to the second annual Cigna U.S. Loneliness Index, which is based on a survey of 10,000 adults. That’s up 7 percentage points from the 54% reading reported from the company’s first loneliness survey a year ago.
The numbers remain even higher for younger adults. Among workers aged 18-22, known as Gen Z, 73% report sometimes or always feeling alone, up from 69% a year ago.
“We had a hypothesis that society — the U.S. specifically — was dealing with an elevated level of loneliness, disconnection,” explained Cigna CEO David Cordani. “We can start to see those disconnections manifest themselves in other health issues showing up for individuals … whether you think about it through the lens of depression, stress … or more heavy, complex behavioral issues.”
One reason why younger people may feel more isolated, may be their greater tendency to use social media. The study found an increasing correlation between social media usage and feelings of loneliness. Seven out of 10 heavy social media users, 71%, reported feelings of loneliness, up from 53% a year ago. That compares to 51% of light social media users feeling lonely, up from 47% a year ago.
At least one person was killed and seven others injured — including a child — after a dispute in front of a McDonald’s led to a shooting in downtown Seattle on Wednesday night.
Multiple people fired shots and panicked people fled in different directions, Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said, and investigators are reviewing evidence to determine how many suspects are at-large.
Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins said authorities began receiving calls at about 5 p.m. Wednesday of multiple gunshot victims. One person, a woman, was found dead in a heavily trafficked area and others were injured, fire department spokesman David Cuerpo said.
“We responded immediately and we discovered victims at the scene in about a one-block radius,” Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best told reporters. “Officers immediately started life-saving measures.”
It is possible some of the injured fired shots, Best said. Investigators are reviewing footage and collecting evidence to determine who may have left the scene. Fire officials transported five injured people to Harborview Medical Center, Scoggins said, and two additional injured people went to the hospital on their own for treatment.
A 9-year-old boy was in serious condition and a 54-year-old woman was in critical condition, Scoggins said. Five others were in satisfactory condition.
Of the seven hospitalized, four were discharged, the hospital said on Twitter.
In a statement, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said he was “horrified and dismayed” by news of the shooting.
“We grieve for the one individual confirmed dead in the shooting, and wish a full and speedy recovery to those who were injured,” Inslee said.
The third shooting in downtown Seattle in two days snarled traffic, forced the temporary delays of light-rail routes and led Amazon to urge its employees to shelter-in-place.
Tyler Parsons was working the register inside the nearby Victrola Coffee Shop when the shooting occurred, the Seattle Times reported. He heard no shots – they play music loud in the store, Parsons said – but customers started dropping to the ground.
People were running behind the register, taking cover. He hustled five or six customers inside a back storage area, along with a coworker.
He waited a couple of minutes before walking back out. Parsons went into the building lobby and saw two victims: one outside, lying in front of the building, visibly injured but alive and moving. The second was inside the lobby, up against the security desk, with an apparent gunshot wound to the leg. He muttered, “I think I got shot, I think I got shot,” Parsons said.
Samantha Cook, 40, of Edmonds, said she was refilling her transit card in Westlake Station when she heard the shots.
“I was on the first set of escalators,” Cook said. “There were a lot of gunshots that started going off – maybe 10 or 11. It was just rapid fire.”
Wuhan embodies China’s rise as a global economic power, in all its complexities. Disposable income per person soared more than sixfold between 2002 and 2018, according to government figures compiled by CEIC Data, an information provider. The area is home to vast automotive factories making cars for General Motors, Nissan, Honda and other global and local brands. The city has become a popular destination for foreign investment.
The Chinese government thinks so highly of the city’s image that Xi Jinping, the country’s leader, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India there two years ago. The two walked along the city’s East Lake, building what Chinese state-run media came to call the Wuhan spirit between the two regional rivals.
The boom has come with problems. Heavy pollution has provoked protests. Its streets are often clogged with traffic. Its steel factories, long a backbone of the local economy, have struggled along with the rest of the inefficient industry in China with overcapacity and pollution problems, leading Beijing to combine the state-owned local giant, Wuhan Steel, with another company.
The area around Third Avenue and Pine Street has long been one of the grittiest in downtown Seattle, a grim reputation underscored Wednesday when gunfire erupted during the evening commute, leaving a woman dead and seven others injured, including a 9-year-old boy, and a suspect or suspects still at large.
It was the third shooting in the downtown area in a little more than 24 hours, including an incident earlier Wednesday afternoon where police shot and wounded a man who was reported to have had a gun. On Tuesday, a 55-year-old man was found dying from a gunshot wound in a stairwell at Westlake Center, less than a block away from Wednesday’s mayhem.
The shooting Wednesday occurred around 5 p.m. outside the McDonald’s on the southeast corner of the intersection, just as hundreds of commuters crowded into one of the busiest transit corridors in the country. Witnesses reported a volley of gunfire and a surge of panicked people running for cover.
Douglas Converse was standing right outside Westlake Station when he heard the gunfire. Converse, 60, said he saw two people collapse near Pine and Third.
“I saw a couple of bodies go down,” Converse said. “I saw everybody go running, and I wanted to see if I could be any help.”
Police Chief Carmen Best, who responded to the scene, said the shooting happened after a dispute outside the McDonald’s. Police believe there were multiple shooters, but they don’t know how many, and it wasn’t clear Wednesday whether any of the injured had been among the shooters or part of the argument.
“Everything is possible at this point,” Best said during a news conference Wednesday night.
Police had not announced any arrests. Detectives were interviewing witnesses and gathering video from business surveillance cameras for review, Best said.
“There were a lot of people outside, guns came out, and people started running,” Best said.
According to Seattle Fire and Susan Gregg, a spokeswoman at Harborview Medical Center, a woman in her 50s was in critical condition and a 9-year-old boy had been upgraded from serious condition to satisfactory. A 32-year-old man also was at the hospital in satisfactory condition, while four men, ages 21, 34, 35 and 49, had been treated and released by Wednesday evening. The victims were suffering from gunshot wounds to the legs, chest, buttocks and abdomen.
The woman who died at the scene was in her 40s, according to fire department spokesman David Cuerpo. A body under a sheet was visible on the sidewalk outside the McDonald’s.
Officers responding to the shooting scene found the victims in about a one-block radius, Best said.
One of the people shot was an Amazon employee, a spokesperson for the company confirmed. They were shot outside the company’s Blue Shift offices, which are in the Macy’s building, and were moved inside the building to receive medical care from first responders.
“We are deeply troubled by tonight’s events and our thoughts go out to everyone impacted by this tragedy,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best and Fire Chief Harold Scoggins describe the scene where one person was killed and several people were wounded in a shooting near 3rd Avenue and Pine Street downtown. (Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times)
Tyler Parsons, 25, was working the register at Victrola Coffee Roasters at Pine and Third on Wednesday evening when the shooting occurred. He said he heard no shots — they play music loud in the store, Parsons said — but customers started dropping to the ground.
He said people were running behind the register, taking cover. Parsons said he hustled five or six customers inside a back storage area along with a coworker.
He waited a couple of minutes before walking back out. Victrola is inside a larger retail and office space; Parsons went into the building lobby, he said, and saw two victims: one outside, lying in front of the building, visibly injured but alive and moving. The second victim was inside the lobby, up against the security desk, with an apparent gunshot wound to the leg. He muttered, “I think I got shot, I think I got shot,” Parsons said.
Police taped off the entire block, including the coffee shop.
“We’re just kind of hanging out here,” said a shaken-sounding Parsons, while he was waiting until he and others still in the building could leave. The shooting was “just kind of terrifying. Terrifying it’s so close.”
“We’re just trying to figure out how to get out of here safe,” Parsons said.
Alex Bennett, a former nurse who lives above the McDonald’s at Third and Pine, was getting coffee at Victrola when she heard a volley of gunfire.
“Everyone in the coffee shop went down on the ground, hiding behind tables,” she said. “The security guard locked the door.”
Out on the street, she described chaos as people getting off buses were met by people running from the scene of the shooting. She also saw people who’d collapsed on the sidewalk, including one man in his 30s who had been shot in the leg outside the coffee shop.
Bennett helped a security guard who was putting pressure on the man’s wound.
“He was freaking out and kept saying, ‘I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die,’” she said.
Bennett reassured the man he’d be OK and kept him calm until police and medics arrived. At the man’s request, Bennett texted his wife to tell her what had happened. She said she got a message back, that the wife was in San Diego but was heading to the airport to get a flight back to Seattle.
Within a couple minutes of the gunfire, Bennett said she saw an officer running toward the shooting with an assault-style rifle. Another shooting victim made it into the coffee shop and was helped by people inside, she said.
Samantha Cook, 40, of Edmonds, said she was refilling her Orca card in Westlake Station when she heard the shots.
“I was on the first set of escalators,” Cook said. “There were a lot of gunshots that started going off — maybe 10 or 11. It was just rapid fire.”
The scene was chaotic, she said.
“Everyone started flooding the [light-rail] tunnels,” she said.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best and Fire Chief Harold Scoggins give an update into a downtown shooting in which one person was killed and several people were wounded near 3rd Avenue and Pine Street downtown. (Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times)
The police response to both downtown shootings Wednesday snarled a major commute corridor for public transit. Westlake Station was evacuated after the shooting, at the request of law enforcement, but full light-rail service resumed later. King County Metro Transit buses in the area were being rerouted and were far behind schedule.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee issued a statement saying he joined Best and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan in urging anyone with information about the shooting to call the tip line at 206-233-5000.
“I am horrified and dismayed to hear about the shooting in Seattle tonight,” he said. “We grieve for the one individual confirmed dead in the shooting, and wish a full and speedy recovery to those who were injured.”
In a statement, the Downtown Seattle Association called on public officials “to devote the resources necessary to improve safety in downtown and take back Third Avenue from the criminals who have laid claim to it.”
“The heart of our city should feel safe and welcoming for all who live, work and visit here,” the statement said. “On behalf of residents, small business owners, employers and visitors, we say enough is enough.”
Wednesday’s shooting happened near another shooting that occurred Nov. 9, 2016, when five people were wounded outside a 7-Eleven on Third between Pike and Pine. Witnesses said some people were arguing when the gunman began to walk away, and then turned around and fired into the crowd. Downtown had additional police presence because of an anti-Trump rally that started at Westlake Center earlier in the evening. Police said the shooting was not related to the protest.
Seattle Times staffers Mike Lindblom and Vianna Davila contributed to this report.
But Gambia also asked the court for more immediate action: a temporary injunction ordering Myanmar to halt all actions that could make the Rohingya’s situation worse, including further extrajudicial killings, rape, hate speech or the leveling of homes where Rohingya once lived. The tribunal held three days of hearings on that issue last month.
In 2017, Myanmar’s military, known as the Tatmadaw, waged a brutal assault against the Rohingya in the western state of Rakhine, prompting more than 700,000 to flee to neighboring Bangladesh, where they now live in squalid conditions in the world’s largest refugee camp.
Investigators say thousands of people were killed. Surviving Rohingya have described such atrocities as the murder of children and the gang rape of women and girls by soldiers.
About half a million Rohingya are still in Myanmar, also known as Burma, including about 100,000 people who were forced from their homes — some of them in waves of violence that preceded the 2017 campaign — and now live in camps. The Gambia legal team argued that they are in “grave danger” of further genocidal acts.
A spokesman for the military, Gen. Myat Kyaw, said before the ruling that the military was not concerned about what the tribunal might decide. If presented with evidence of war crimes, he said, commanders will pursue them.
Fox News contributor Donna Brazile reacts to Clinton’s comments.
“The View” co-host Meghan McCain slammed Hillary Clinton over her recent jabs toward her former 2016 rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., calling them “stupid” and “juvenile.”
Promoting a four-part Hulu documentary series about her life and career, Clinton’s recent interview with The Hollywood Reported revealed remarks that she had made taking aim at the Vermont senator.
“He was in Congress for years,” Clinton says in an excerpt from the documentary. “He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”
When asked by The Hollywood Reporter if that statement still holds, Clinton had said: “Yes, it does.”
On Wednesday, McCain expressed sympathy toward Clinton for being attacked by “Bernie Bros” on social media but took issue with her “nobody likes him” remark.
“I think the timing is bad and I think the language is bad,” McCain told her daytime TV colleagues. “It does sound like, ‘Nobody likes you.’ I mean, as someone who knows what it feels like to have someone say ‘nobody likes you’ in the press, it’s stupid and it’s juvenile. And I do think she has much more ammo in her back pocket to use against him.”
On Tuesday night, Clinton appeared to walk back her criticisms of Sanders after she received backlash for suggesting she wouldn’t support his candidacy if he were to win the Democratic nomination this year.
“I thought everyone wanted my authentic, unvarnished views!” Clinton had tweeted. “But to be serious, the number one priority for our country and world is retiring Trump, and, as I always have, I will do whatever I can to support our nominee.”
DAVOS, Switzerland — Climate scientists at the World Economic Forum have hit back at President Donald Trump, saying their role is simply to provide evidence of the climate emergency.
In a keynote address to participants of the annual conference earlier this week, Trump said that “to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow, we must reject the perennial prophets of doom.”
The U.S. president did not name anyone directly during his speech, but he did encourage those in attendance to ignore environmental “alarmists” and their “predictions of the apocalypse.”
An intensifying climate crisis is top of the agenda at the forum, which takes place in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos.
The event, which is often criticized for being out of touch with reality, has said it aims to assist governments and international institutions in tracking progress toward the Paris Agreement and the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals.
“Some could call climate scientists ‘prophets of doom,'” Gail Whiteman, founder of Arctic Basecamp and director of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business at Lancaster University, said during a panel session on Wednesday.
“I don’t agree with that — I think we just simply give the evidence.”
The forum comes after a 12-month period which saw the hottest year on record for the world’s oceans, the second-hottest year for global average temperatures and wildfires from the U.S. to the Amazon to Australia.
The police cordoned off part of Third Avenue, along a block with a history of troubles, and also closed access to a nearby light rail station.
Douglas Converse, 60, said he was just about to enter a light rail station when he began hearing a series of gunshots — he estimated about a dozen total — and saw at least two people fall to the ground. He went into the light rail station to seek help from law enforcement officers.
Mr. Converse noted two previous shootings that occurred in the city within the last day and said he hoped police could get a handle on the violence.
“It’s really unusual,” Mr. Converse said.
All three episodes happened within a several-block radius downtown. A 55-year-old man was killed on Tuesday, and on Wednesday afternoon, a suspect was injured during a police-involved shooting.
An employee who answered the phone at Chipotle Mexican Grill on Fourth Avenue, just outside the crime scene tape, said some co-workers saw people running and that people were on edge because of the recent violence.
“A lot of people are worried and scared,” said the woman, who only gave her first name, Madison.
Mike Baker reported from Seattle, and Neil Vigdor from New York. Jason M. Bailey contributed reporting.
Rain in recent days — a torrent in some areas, a few drops in others — had offered a small reprieve. But on Thursday, with temperatures soaring over 100 degrees in previously fire-stricken states like New South Wales, fire officials once again issued emergency warnings.
By midday, more than 80 fires were burning, some out of control, in the state’s south, including the Snowy Mountains, the Rural Fire Service said. “We’re in for a long afternoon and night,” it said.
In other parts of the country, which has been gripped by drought and has just ended its hottest and driest year on record, dust storms covered towns.
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