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How did a hurricane kill over 100 people in Florida?
Some accuse the US of disregarding human life in its evacuation and relief strategy after over 100 died and thousands were displaced or went missing, writes NATALIA MARQUES
STRANDED: A resident wades through floodwaters in a flooded mobile home community near Fort Myers, Florida, September 29
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
OVER 100 people are dead in Florida after Hurricane Ian ripped through the state, making landfall on September 28 as a Category 4 storm.
Over 202,000 Florida homes and businesses are still without power. The hurricane caused damage that US President Joe Biden claimed could rank as “the worst in the nation’s history,” with economic damage that could cost up to $75 billion — possibly among the five costliest storms in US history.
The death toll combined with the imagery of utter destruction paints a harrowing picture of the fate of Floridians after this storm. Cities such as Fort Myers were levelled, Sanibel Island completely cut off from the mainland, and 3.4 million homes and businesses experienced power outages across several states and a boil water notice was issued in the hardest hit county.
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