As the United States marked 16 years since 9/11 this morning Eastern Time, Hurricane Irma rages in Western Florida even as Brexit deportees by numbers climb five times since 2010. William Lapoda and Timothy Wahome compile tonight’s Evening Paper report.
In Africa’s evening paper….
In Tanzania, the city of Dar-es-Salaam is set to develop a $600m sewage system that will curb the disease impasse and poor drainage that affect about 70 percent of the population in the biggest city in the East African country. The scheme comes courtesy of the World Bank and the government, reports, Reuters.
According to The Standard, the Hajj in Saudi Arabia this year has claimed the lives of at least 78 Egyptian pilgrims by Monday of the week with the Health Ministry of Egypt stipulating the deaths of the deceased aged between 60 to 80 years were due to heart and breathing problems.
In Europe and the UK this evening…
The Independent reveals that there has been a tide of deportations of European Union citizens from the UK since Brexit. The paper has it that the numbers of deportees, beginning 2010, are now fivefold.
In North America this evening….
The Guardian writes that the US has simmered down demands for strong sanctions following North Korea’s sixth nuclear test in order to win the unconditional support of two sideline members of the Security Council, Russia and China. Having dropped the asset freeze demand, the United States now proposed a little-by-little oil export no show.
Even as the US marks 9/11 sixteen years later, Irma still dominates the news. With strong winds and rains through Sunday, West Florida has to hold out as evacuees in homes and evacuation centers dialed again and again for news of the storm along their coastlines for what might inevitably just happen, the New York Times reports.
Asia Pacific and Australasia papers this evening say…
Speaking Monday of the week in Beijing at the start of the International Association of Prosecutors, China’s President Xi Jinping says that his Oriental country attaches a lot of expectation to judicial co-opting between world countries. This is according to Xinhua.
In the Philippines, Deseret News reports that the Church of Jesus Christ, after its five and a half-decade stint in the Far-east country since establishment, has reached a major milestone-the building of the 100th stake, the Mandaluyong Philippines Stake, a fete only equaled in other christian countries of Mexico, Brazil and the US.
South American papers this evening…
Haaretz reports on the initial ever trip by Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, who is embarking on a ten-day trip to Paraguay, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, before heading to the UN General Assembly.
End of review for tonight’s Evening Paper.
theeveningmob.wordpress.com 