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| Hello. Hurricane Milton can be seen from space drawing closer to the Florida coast. With US President Joe Biden saying it could be the worst to hit the state for 100 years, we ask what to expect. Meanwhile, Anna Holligan reports on a plea from Interpol for public help to identify 46 women murdered in Europe decades ago. And have satellite images revealed a new Chinese naval base in Cambodia? | |
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GET UP TO SPEED | - No let-up: Israel is expanding its ground invasion of Lebanon, sending thousands of additional troops into a new zone in the south-west of the country.
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QUESTIONS ANSWERED | Milton: Florida's worst storm in 100 years? |
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| | | Brandon Drenon and James FitzGerald, BBC News |
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| When will Milton hit land? | The National Hurricane Center (NHC) expects Milton to make landfall as an "extremely dangerous hurricane" in the US state of Florida on Wednesday night, local time. It could strike near the city of Tampa, whose wider metropolitan area has a population of more than three million people. Forecasters are warning of torrential rain, flash flooding, high winds and possible storm surges - which occur when water moves inland from the coast. | How strong is it? | After causing sustained wind gusts of 200mph (321km/h), Milton was placed in the most powerful hurricane category - five - though it has fluctuated in strength, and was subsequently downgraded to a category four. While it dropped in intensity on Tuesday, officials have warned that it could double in size before striking Florida on Wednesday. | What is a category five hurricane? | Category five hurricanes are considered "catastrophic" by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa). With wind speeds greater than 155mph (249km/h) they can cause "very severe and extensive damage". Noaa urges "massive evacuations" in residential areas near shorelines. Affected areas can be left uninhabitable for weeks or months. | | - How will Milton compare with Hurricane Helene, which hit the US less than two weeks ago? Here's our take.
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| Interpol asks public to help crack 46 murder cases | | Sketches and facial reconstructions of six of the women Interpol hopes to identify. Credit: Interpol | A pair of red shoes, two bead necklaces and a UK 10p coin are among the clues that could help identify a teenage girl found murdered in western France more than 40 years ago. Interpol has released details of her case and 45 others in the hope that someone will be able to identify the women, decades after they were murdered. |
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| | | Speaking near the area she was found, now overgrown with brambles, nettles and horse chestnut trees, detective Franc Dannerolle says the teenager’s body was "disposed of like garbage".
"There was no respect, no care for her before her death," he adds.
The 10p coin led investigators to believe that she was either British or had been travelling in Britain before her murder, though they acknowledge that she could have found it, or been given it.
The launch of the Operation Identify Me campaign last year marked the first time that Interpol had ever gone public with a list seeking information about unidentified bodies.
BBC coverage of last year’s appeal helped to identify a British woman some 30 years after her murder.
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| | - Rose tattoo: Rita Roberts' family spotted her distinctive tattoo in a BBC report on Operation Identify Me last year. The 31-year-old disappeared after travelling from her home in Cardiff to Antwerp in February 1992.
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THE BIG PICTURE | Is this a Chinese naval base in Cambodia? |
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| | | Two Chinese type A56 corvettes have been docked at Ream for most of this year. Credit: BlackSky | Two grey shapes visible in satellite images of Cambodia’s Ream naval base seem to confirm US fears that China's military footprint is expanding. Beijing has seized and fortified three islands in the South China Sea, and has an overseas base in Djibouti, reports Jonathan Head. But it will need a network of bases to realise its ambition of becoming a global military power. |
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FOR YOUR DOWNTIME | Extreme dwellings | New Mexico's "earthships" use waste materials to sustain desertic temperatures. | |
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And finally... in the Netherlands | The LAM museum in Lisse had to pick artwork out of the bin after a lift technician thought that the display was leftover rubbish. To be fair to him, the piece called All The Good Times We Spent Together consists of two empty, dented beer cans. Take a look. | |
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