At the hub in central Gaza, Aisha Na’na said she only managed to grab sticks for firewood. “We had come to get food for our children, but it was all in vain — we returned with nothing,” she said.
Officials limited access to the area and warned that waters from the Lonza River, which has been dammed up by deposits stacked tens of meters high over a 2-kilometer (1.2-mile) swath of valley, had pooled into a lake. The future course of those waters could not yet be predicted precisely.“Unfortunately, the danger has not yet been averted,” Keller-Sutter said.
While the authorities were not able to prevent the natural disaster, the country has the “expertise and financial resources” to cope with such events, she added.Blatten had been evacuated about 10 days earlier after experts determined a growing threat from the loosening glacier. However, a 64-year-old man remains missing and authorities have called off aStephane Ganzer, an elected official who runs security in the Valais, said no evacuations were as-yet planned for villages downstream from Blatten that could face flooding if the Lonza’s welled-up waters break through the pileup of mud.
“We don’t want anybody else to go missing,” he said. “We will put no person in danger on the ground: No police officer, no soldier, no specialist, no member of civil security or fire squads.”He added: “Someone asked me before: ‘Who’s the chief in charge here?’ And I replied, there’s only one chief: nature.”
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for
, the Department of Labor said Thursday.“If we manage the economy well, we can bring inflation down and make sure that we help families with the cost-of-living crisis,” he added.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) —claimed victory as the first
to clinch a second consecutive term in 21 years on Saturday and suggested his government had increased its majority by not modeling itself on U.S.“Australians have chosen to face global challenges the Australian way, looking after each other while building for the future,” Albanese told supporters in a victory speech in Sydney.