Pouring rain and heavy winds are lashing the United States' Gulf Coast as Hurricane Gustav is close to making landfall.
The Louisiana coastline is bearing the brunt of the Category 3 storm and its winds of nearly 200 kilometres per hour. Nearly two million people have been evacuated from the region, and the More criticim of moves by ICC to indict Sudan's president ...
Deutsche Post to get billion euro cashback ... city of New Orleans, devastated by Hurricane Katrina three years ago, is almost completely empty. Gustav has also affected the US Republican Party's national convention which is scheduled to open this Monday far to the north in Minnesota. Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, has ordered an abbreviated opening session and said it was no time for party politics.
(Deutsche Welle)
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