Sabtu, 07 September 2019
Carolinas reel from the wrath of Hurricane Dorian | ABC News - ABC News
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2019-09-07 13:33:20Z
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India loses contact with space craft shortly before moon landing | TheHill - The Hill
India’s historic attempt to complete a lunar landing appeared to fail on Friday, with the country’s space agency losing contact with the rover moments before it was supposed to land.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the scientists and who joined the effort after the news, saying Saturday that “we came very close” but added that “we will need to cover more ground in the time to come,” NBC News reported.
"In life, there are ups and downs. The country is proud of you,” Modi said, according to CNN. “And all your hard work has taught us something ... Hope for the best ... You have served the country well and served science and humanity well.”
Just before Chandrayaan-2 was supposed to land on the moon, the agency lost contact as images of the 3,200-pound lander, which carried a six-wheeled rover named Pragyan and scientific instruments, appeared to freeze on a computer screen, according to NBC.
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"Vikram lander descent was as planned and normal performance was observed till the altitude of 2.1 km. Subsequently the communication from the lander to ground station was lost. The data is being analyzed," said K. Sivan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation — the country's equivalent of NASA — CNN reported.
If it had been successful, India would have been one of four nations to successfully land an aircraft on the moon and the first to touch down near the lunar south pole. So far, the U.S., China and Russia are the only nations to land a spacecraft on the moon.
Israel attempted a lunar landing in April and also failed.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/india/460354-india-loses-contacts-with-space-craft-shortly-before-moon-landing
2019-09-07 12:13:07Z
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Pakistan denies Indian president's request to use airspace - Aljazeera.com
Pakistan says it has refused a request by India's President Ram Nath Kovind to fly through its airspace due to New Delhi's recent "behaviour".
The decision on Saturday comes amid heightened tensions between the two neighbours over the disputed region of Kashmir.
"The Indian president had sought permission to use Pakistan's airspace to travel to Iceland but we decided not to permit him," Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in a statement, without giving further details.
"The decision has been taken in view of India's behaviour."
Such permissions are usually granted. There was no immediate comment by India.
Pakistan closed its airspace to Indian traffic after aerial dogfights in February raised tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi.
It reopened its skies for all civilian traffic in July, ending months of restrictions affecting major international routes.
Both India and Pakistan claim Kashmir in full, but administer separate portions of it. The nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours have fought two of their three wars over the region, and their forces regularly exchange fire across a 740km Line of Control, which is the de facto border.
On August 5, India's Hindu nationalist government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked a special constitutional status accorded to Indian-administered Kashmir, imposing a communications blackout and deploying thousands of troops to the Muslim-majority state, where a rebellion has been ongoing for 30 years.
Amid a strict lockdown, hundreds of activists and political leaders, including three former chief ministers, have been detained by Indian authorities in recent weeks.
Islamabad responded by downgrading its diplomatic ties with New Delhi in August, expelling the Indian envoy, suspending trade and calling back its ambassador in a deepening row over New Delhi's clampdown in its portion of Kashmir. It also called for the international community to intervene and vowed to take the matter to the United Nations Security Council.
New Delhi insists that the dispute over the territory is an internal matter and has long maintained that it can only be resolved bilaterally with Pakistan.
SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/pakistan-denies-indian-president-request-airspace-190907104349963.html
2019-09-07 11:38:00Z
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Pakistan denies Indian president's request to use airspace - Aljazeera.com
Pakistan says it has refused a request by India's President Ram Nath Kovind to fly through its airspace due to New Delhi's recent "behaviour".
The decision on Saturday comes amid heightened tensions between the two neighbours over the disputed region of Kashmir.
"The Indian president had sought permission to use Pakistan's airspace to travel to Iceland but we decided not to permit him," Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in a statement, without giving further details.
"The decision has been taken in view of India's behaviour."
Such permissions are usually granted. There was no immediate comment by India.
Pakistan closed its airspace to Indian traffic after aerial dogfights in February raised tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi.
It reopened its skies for all civilian traffic in July, ending months of restrictions affecting major international routes.
Both India and Pakistan claim Kashmir in full, but administer separate portions of it. The nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours have fought two of their three wars over the region, and their forces regularly exchange fire across a 740km Line of Control, which is the de facto border.
On August 5, India's Hindu nationalist government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked a special constitutional status accorded to Indian-administered Kashmir, imposing a communications blackout and deploying thousands of troops to the Muslim-majority state, where a rebellion has been ongoing for 30 years.
Amid a strict lockdown, hundreds of activists and political leaders, including three former chief ministers, have been detained by Indian authorities in recent weeks.
Islamabad responded by downgrading its diplomatic ties with New Delhi in August, expelling the Indian envoy, suspending trade and calling back its ambassador in a deepening row over New Delhi's clampdown in its portion of Kashmir. It also called for the international community to intervene and vowed to take the matter to the United Nations Security Council.
New Delhi insists that the dispute over the territory is an internal matter and has long maintained that it can only be resolved bilaterally with Pakistan.
SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/pakistan-denies-indian-president-request-airspace-190907104349963.html
2019-09-07 11:04:00Z
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Hurricane Dorian's aftermath in the Bahamas: The latest - CNN
In a story of how residents came together to save one another amid dangerous conditions, Jensen Burrows and d'Sean Smith -- as well as a dozen other jet skiers -- rescued 100 people who were trapped in flooded homes in the Bahamas on Tuesday.
"They did a phenomenal job, not just with us. What we saw when we came out is that they continued to go back in and over and over again," Michael Pintard, the Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources in the Bahamas, told CNN on Friday.
Burrows and Smith, two friends that are part of the GB Jet Ski Club, were the men that drove their jet skis to save the minister and his family. Jason Albury rode on board to navigate them to the minister's house and help with the rescue.
"The wind was pelting you, so it felt like rocks being pelted at you. I had his daughter and my friend, and the jet ski tipped over," Smith said. "Jensen had the minister and his wife and Jensen also flipped over. He insisted we take the daughter and wife to safety first, so we did and came back for him."
Before the dramatic rescue of the Pintard family, Smith and Burrows had tried to rescue Smith's cousin on Monday. Conditions were too rough to ride safely, but they had to try.
After a few failed attempts to ride out on Monday, the pair made it to Pioneers Way, a street south of the decimated Grand Bahama Airport. They say they saved dozens of people pleading for help, among them pregnant women and even a baby in a Styrofoam cooler.
Read more about their rescue mission here:
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/bahamas-hurricane-dorian/index.html
2019-09-07 09:48:00Z
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Hurricane Dorian's aftermath in the Bahamas: The latest - CNN
In a story of how residents came together to save one another amid dangerous conditions, Jensen Burrows and d'Sean Smith -- as well as a dozen other jet skiers -- rescued 100 people who were trapped in flooded homes in the Bahamas on Tuesday.
"They did a phenomenal job, not just with us. What we saw when we came out is that they continued to go back in and over and over again," Michael Pintard, the Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources in the Bahamas, told CNN on Friday.
Burrows and Smith, two friends that are part of the GB Jet Ski Club, were the men that drove their jet skis to save the minister and his family. Jason Albury rode on board to navigate them to the minister's house and help with the rescue.
"The wind was pelting you, so it felt like rocks being pelted at you. I had his daughter and my friend, and the jet ski tipped over," Smith said. "Jensen had the minister and his wife and Jensen also flipped over. He insisted we take the daughter and wife to safety first, so we did and came back for him."
Before the dramatic rescue of the Pintard family, Smith and Burrows had tried to rescue Smith's cousin on Monday. Conditions were too rough to ride safely, but they had to try.
After a few failed attempts to ride out on Monday, the pair made it to Pioneers Way, a street south of the decimated Grand Bahama Airport. They say they saved dozens of people pleading for help, among them pregnant women and even a baby in a Styrofoam cooler.
Read more about their rescue mission here:
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/bahamas-hurricane-dorian/index.html
2019-09-07 09:08:00Z
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Hurricane Dorian makes one final stop in the US before racing to Canada - CNN
Before hurriedly crossing the border, the Category 1 storm is unloading rain and tropical storm force winds in Massachusetts over the weekend followed by hurricane conditions in parts of Nova Scotia.
The storm's nearly two-week path has unleashed devastation in the Bahamas, where it flattened homes and swept away neighborhoods, leaving at least 43 people dead.
In the United States, several cities were cleaning up after it made landfall in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and brushed other East Coast states Friday. Five deaths have been blamed on the storm so far.
By early Saturday, it was 170 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and 490 miles southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia, the National Weather Service said. It was moving northeast at 25 mph packing maximum sustained winds of 90 mph.
It issued tropical storm warnings for Cape Cod, saying the heaviest rain will hit into Saturday morning and be over by afternoon, it said.
In New England, the main concern is the high surf advisories for people along the coast as the storms move out, CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford said.
"Some areas can see 18 to 20 feet breaking waves, so even the strongest swimmers are warned to be cautious of high waves. Swimmers are also advised to be cautious of rip currents, which can rapidly pull swimmers out to deeper waters," Shackelford said.
Widespread regions of the East Coast can expect wind gusts of up to 30 mph throughout the day Saturday with some areas such as Nantucket potentially seeing wind gusts of between 58 mph and 73 mph, he added.
In addition to the winds, some areas along the coast will get drenched with up to three inches of rainfall throughout the day.
Flooding on NC barrier islands
Floodwaters are receding on North Carolina's Ocracoke Island after Dorian hit, easing concerns for people stuck in their homes for most of the day.
"There are people that have had knee to waist-deep water in their houses,"resident Jason Wells told CNN."Several people were rescued from their upper floors or attics by boat, or from Good Samaritans."
Since Thursday, Dorian has flooded parts of the Carolinas and spawned a number of tornadoes, as well as lashed Virginia with winds and rain.
Between 10 and 15 inches of rain fell in parts of North and South Carolina this week, the National Weather Service said.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/07/us/hurricane-dorian-saturday-wxc/index.html
2019-09-07 06:31:00Z
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