Russia warned the United States Saturday against carrying out any attacks on Syrian government forces, saying it would have repercussions across the Middle East as government forces captured a hill on the edge of the northern city of Aleppo under the cover of airstrikes.
Russian news agencies quoted Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying that a U.S. intervention against the Syrian army “will lead to terrible, tectonic consequences not only on the territory of this country but also in the region on the whole.”
She said regime change in Syria would create a vacuum that would be “quickly filled” by “terrorists of all stripes.”
U.S.-Russian tensions over Syria have escalated since the breakdown of a cease-fire last month, with each side blaming the other for its failure. Syrian government forces backed by Russian warplanes have launched a major onslaught on rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo.
The US government on Saturday ended its formal oversight role over the internet, handing over management of the online address system to a global non-profit entity. US and ICANN officials have said the contract had given Washington a symbolic role as overseer or the internet’s “root zone”
Jamaicans were bracing on Saturday for the arrival of Hurricane Matthew, as it approached that island as well as Haiti and Cuba, bringing winds reaching 140 miles per hour (220 kph), powerful enough to wreck homes.
Matthew, the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean since Felix in 2007, was forecast to make landfall as a major storm on Monday on Jamaica’s southern coast, home to the country’s capital, Kingston, and its only oil refinery. It could also affect tourist destinations such as Montego Bay in the north.
With Matthew about 400 miles (645 km) southeast of Kingston, the U.S. National Hurricane Center ranked it at Category 4 of the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity. Earlier it had been ranked at the top Category 5.
I have a hunch it will get back to a Cat 5 again.. Either way, categories aside, this is going to be potent and deadly..
The latest spaghetti plot for Hurricane Matthew.. the storm system seems to now be converging into one possible track.. From Cuba and Haiti, storming by Florida, and then up the East Coast..
The purple line that is next to the East Coast is still a little too close for comfort .. The month of October is also known in modern weather history as the time frame when Superstorm Sandy formed and struck the Northeast.
“It simply did not stop,” WFAN anchor John MinKo, who witnessed the crash, told 1010 WINS. “It went right through the barriers and into the reception area.”
I think I read this article last year. And the year before that.. as a matter of fact, I think I read the same exact article just about every year at this time. I get it.. Halloween spending is high… and the highest of all time. Sexy outfits.. party attire.. all in a year’s life. It is going to be the biggest Halloween since ………last year….
Action/Superhero Princess Animal (Cat, Dog, Lion, Monkey, etc.) Batman Character Star Wars Character Tie: Witch AND DC Superhero (excl. Batman) Frozen Character (Anna, Elsa, Olaf) Marvel Superhero (excl. Spiderman) Zombie Spiderman
And the big choices for adults: Every costume listed above in a semi-nude state.
I disliked the Rob Zombie HALLOWEEN remake. It sounds like John Carpenter did too.. Carpenter called Zombie a piece of excrement.. he said he lied. And he really did not seem to like the retake or remake or whatever you’d call the piece of refuse that Zombie offered up a few years ago..
Halloween. The original. By John Carpenter. The only real Halloween.
This is the big announcement that was planned by NASA for about a week or longer.. And it could mean that we would find out more about the water on Europa without drilling..
