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Hurricane Dorian

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Highest wind speed295 km/h
Damage≥ $4. 68 billion (2019 USD)
DateAugust 24, 2019 – September 10, 2019
CategoryCategory 5 Hurricane (SSHWS)
Lowest pressure910 mbar (hPa); 26. 87 inHg
Affected areas The Bahamas
Puerto Rico
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
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About Hurricane Dorian


Hurricane Dorian was the most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the Bahamas, and is regarded as the worst natural disaster in the country's history. It was also one of the most powerful hurricanes recorded in the Atlantic Ocean in terms of 1-minute sustained winds, with these winds peaking at 185 mph.

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... Meteorologist Bob Robichaud warned on Friday afternoon that Fiona will be bigger than Juan, and stronger than 2019 s Hurricane Dorian, which also reached the shores of Nova Scotia...

Caribbean tour: Prince William says future is for the people to decide

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... The couple also visited a church on the Abaco Islands to speak to locals about destruction caused by Hurricane Dorian in 2019, and a coral conservation project that was among last year s winners of the Royal Foundation s Earthshot Prize for contributions to environmentalism...

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... When Hurricane Dorian asked in the direction of the US East coast last September at least a million people to evacuate, the three U...

Striking reportages from all over the world in 2019

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Feb 16,2020 9:36 am

... To see a destroyed house in the Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco, Bahamas...

Sussexes and Cambridges to reunite at Remembrance event

Sussexes and Cambridges to reunite at Remembrance event
Feb 16,2020 8:01 am

... It also celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and pays tribute to the RFA Mounts Bay, which delivered supplies and aid to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian this year...

News Daily: Supreme Court decision and Thomas Cook customers' anger

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Feb 16,2020 6:32 am

... News events keep the trending list of top 50 rumours current with a question over the veracity of images emerging as a result of Hurricane Dorian popping up...

Snopes: How do you survive 25 years debunking fake news?

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... News events keep the trending list of top 50 rumours current with a question emerging as a result of Hurricane Dorian popping up...

Faster pace of climate change is 'scary', a former chief scientist says

Faster pace of climate change is 'scary', a former chief scientist says
Feb 16,2020 6:15 am

... We cannot wait for scientific certainty, Prof king said the world could not wait for scientific certainty on events such as the Hurricane Dorian...

News Daily: Supreme Court decision and Thomas Cook customers' anger

Feb 16,2020 6:14 am

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Parliament suspension: Supreme Court to give ruling

Did Boris Johnson act within or against The Law When he suspended Parliament for five weeks? At 10:30 BST the

If it finds against the Prime Minister , Parliament could be reconvened immediately. It's currently meant to return on 14 October - 17 days before Brexit is due to happen.

The government says suspending - proroguing - Parliament is not a court matter, but it has promised to abide by the Supreme Court's decision. Critics argue that ministers are trying to limit scrutiny of their Brexit plans.

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Thomas Cook : Customers complain over replacement flight cost

Customers who booked flights with the Now -collapsed travel firm Thomas Cook are complaining that Angela Mills told the BBC The Price of a flight from Glasgow to Rhodes, Greece, had been £280 on Sunday, but was Now £1,000. Tourists were in a "state of shock", she added.

When It Comes to cancellations. And we report on what happened with one staff member described as being "in floods of tears".

Obesity 'not caused by lack of willpower'

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Plus, here's what some people are

How do you survive 25 years debunking fake news?

By Dhruti Shah

The Snopes website and social feeds have become a reservoir of bizarre facts, political nuggets, investigative journalism into hard-hitting subjects - as well as The Most weird stories you can imagine.

From questions around President Donald Trump 's tweeted policy suggestions to queries around Disney's Goofy and whether he is actually a cow, there seems to be very little the fact-checkers haven't had to cast a sceptical eye over.

News events keep the trending list of top 50 rumours current with A Question over the veracity of images emerging as a result of Hurricane Dorian popping up. But often older debunks turn up again and again, such as ones focusing on a story about "dangerous cosmic rays passing close by the earth" and viral "deathbed warnings" by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs .

What the papers say

The with the Daily Mail , Daily Mirror and Daily Express calling for bosses at the travel firm to pay back millions of pounds in salaries and bonuses. Meanwhile, The Sun accuses other airlines of "Daylight Robbery " in hiking the prices for replacement flights. Elsewhere, The Guardian concentrates on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn defeating an attempt to change The Party 's Brexit stance at its conference in Brighton. And the i reports on Climate Change activist Greta Thunberg 's "powerful" address to the UN General Assembly .

Daily digest

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