Tina
Fey in London and Timothy
Wahome
in Nairobi compile the Weekend Evening Paper's report from across
seven continents. Hurricane Irma still tops the headlines and Equifax
data breach has the US and Canada eating their luck.
Africa
weekend headlines
After
months of negotiations, Kenya Airways has finally landed a direct US
flight permit, reports AllAfrica.com.
The US Department of Transportation had since June of the year been
deliberating on public willfulness to cede access and President
Trump's disapproval, if any, which did not come in 62 days, thus
giving the struggling airline from Kenya direct access to US skies.
North
America this weekend
One
of the biggest stories in the US and Canada, is the Equifax data
custodian's hacking saga that has seen millions of account holders
have their credit information under exposure in one of the largest
hacking events into a banking database in recent history. The Chicago
Tribune
has a page detailing on investigations and what victims need to do in
the wake of the data breach.
Shelving
the devastation of Hurricane Irma that has dominated the news, even
as it verges on Florida, the New
York Times also
reports on Amazon's bid to seek another North American headquarters.
This, the paper reports, has triggered a 'bidding war' from various
cities for the online retail company's mortar-and-brick offices
that'll be worth $5b.
In
Canada, CBC
reveals that the aircrews from Canada under contract are among the
very first to witness the raw impact of Hurricane Irma and flew on a
turboprop plane over the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Saba, St
Maarten and St. Barts.
UK
news this evening
The
BBC
reports on the devastation of one of the worst storms in recent
history, as Hurricane Irma wrecks havoc with 'strong winds and heavy
rain' in Cuba, as it heads to Florida where 25 percent of the
Sunshine State's populace are under evacuation. Irma, the BBC
reports, has by Saturday, killed 20 in the caribbean.
The
Guardian
reports on an unrelated story, of a Polish immigrant who was at the
IRC or immigrants detention venue when conflicting reports that the
Home Office didn't confirm said that he had died after his initial
suicide attempt while others said that he was on life support.
Europe
this evening weekend
In
France, The
Local
has the main story this weekend on Hurricane Irma's havoc on the
Atlantic calling it the worst disaster that France has seen in 35
years, having left some 1.2 billion Euros worth of damage in the
French islands of St Martin, and St Barts.
Australasia
and Asia Pacific this evening
In
South Asia, ABC
News
Australia reports of the massive floods that have hit the South Asian
populous nations of Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The floods have seen
entire hamlets left under water since the middle of August when the
stormy rains first hit.
In
the Arab world,
Al-jazeera
reports that the possibility of war overtaking the current blockade
against the state of Qatar by arab nations including Saudi Arabia,
Bahrain and the UAE, will not come to be after the Emir of Kuwait,
the top negotiator in the crisis talked with President Trump in
Washington D.C.
In
the Far-east,
Japan News
reveals that businesses from the Land of the Rising Sun are
struggling to make a footprint in the far-east of Russia, a wasteland
that President Putin is keen now to develop. He is seeking to lure
pioneering manufacturers to set base there especially from Japan,
China.
Weekend
paper's headlines from South America
Rio
Times details of how a Brazilian
ex-minister has been re-arrested after some R$51m was found on him in
Salvador.
The
Sun.co.uk reports on an interesting sporting story in Chile,
where fans, through their social media accounts, numbering 9000 in
all, are protesting against Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez's girfriend who
they accuse of apparently making him 'fat and lazy,' leading to a
recent 1-0 Chile loss in favor of Bolivia.
End of review for the Weekend Evening Paper headlining news from around the world.
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