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Hurricane Beryl made landfall in southeast Texas on Monday morning, killing at least two people, closing ports and airports, and leaving more than two million people without power.
Having been the season’s earliest Category 5 hurricane on record when it hit the Caribbean days earlier, leaving at least 10 dead, Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane with some 130 kilometer per hour winds.
It was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved inland across Houston.
Over 1,000 flights at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston have been cancelled, while officials warned of destructive winds and up to 40 centimeters of rain accompanied by “life-threatening” storm surges.
By Monday afternoon, according to poweroutage.us, over 2.7 million customers in Texas were left without power.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said that Beryl is expected to move over the east of the state before moving into the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Ohio Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The director of the Hurricane Center warned residents in Beryl’s path to seek shelter “as hazardous conditions will persist even after the centre of Beryl moves through.”
Japan and the Philippines signed a defense pact in Manila on Monday that will allow the two countries to deploy military in each other’s territory.
The reciprocal access agreement is the first of its kind involving Japan in Asia and was signed by Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro, and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, who praised it as a “landmark achievement.”
A joint statement highlighted the need for “the international community to speak out on the importance of maintaining and strengthening the free and open international order based on the rule of law” in the South China Sea.
Amid increased tension in the region, China’s Foreign Ministry responded by saying the Asia-Pacific region does not need military blocs that instigate bloc confrontations or a new Cold War”, while reminding Japan of its atrocities during the Second World War.
Aircraft maker Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge relating to two fatal crashes of its 737 MAX jets according to a court filing by the U.S. government on Sunday.
A Justice Department official said that the plea still requires a federal judge’s approval, and would give the company a criminal record.
Boeing will also be fined 243.6 million dollars.
This comes after the Justice Department in May found Boeing to be violating the terms of its probation over charges stemming from crashes in 2018 and 2019 which killed 346 people.
The crashes prompted a probe into the company’s manufacturing standards, and Boeing was charged in 2021 of conspiracy to defraud regulators, allegedly deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration over its MCAS flight control system, for which it was given the three-year probation.
Kim Siyoung, Arirang News.
Source : Arirang TV, https://www.arirang.com/news/view?id=273025
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