PORTLAND - US President Donald Trump said he will meet emergency services in California on Monday as record fires that have killed 27 people smothered the West Coast in dense smog.
He has made little comment about the blazes in recent weeks, but at a Nevada campaign event on Saturday he acknowledged the scope of the disaster. File: The sun rises over California's smoke filled sky Mettler, an unincorporated area of Kern County in Central California on September 12, 2020.More than 20,000 firefighters are battling the blazes, with officials warning that a respite provided by the arrival of cooler weather could end Monday as warmer, drier conditions return.
Preparations have been hampered by online claims that"extremists" are intentionally setting fires in Oregon, which have been debunked by the FBI. In Estacada, a rural Oregon town just miles from the fire, that was deserted earlier this week, some inhabitants returned from evacuation Saturday and patrolled the streets with guns for fear of looting, according to an AFP reporter.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: eNCA - 🏆 49. / 51 Read more »
Microsoft warns of foreign hackers’ spying attempts on Trump and BidenFancy Bear, a Russian group accused of breaching Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign e-mails, has been trying to break into accounts belonging to political consultants
Source: BDliveSA - 🏆 12. / 63 Read more »
Bahrain agrees to ’normalise’ relations with Israel - TrumpBahrain has joined the United Arab Emirates in striking an agreement to normalise relations with Israel, a dramatic move aimed at easing tensions in the Middle East.
Source: IOL - 🏆 46. / 51 Read more »
Trump and Biden to commemorate of 9/11 attacksPresidential hopeful Joe Biden has withdrawn all his campaign’s advertising for the day, as requested by 9/11 Day
Source: BDliveSA - 🏆 12. / 63 Read more »
TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance ordered by Trump to sell US assets within 90 daysTikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance ordered by Trump to sell US assets within 90 days President Donald Trump on Friday gave the Chinese company ByteDance 90 days to divest itself of any assets used to support the popular TikTok app in the United States.
Source: IOL - 🏆 46. / 51 Read more »
LOOK: Trump and Biden mark 9/11 anniversary with very different tonesPresident Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden marked the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Friday at memorial services where their differences in style couldn’t have been more sharply on display. September11
Source: IOL - 🏆 46. / 51 Read more »