BitGou: Monday Morning Briefing: Worst flooding yet to come for waterlogged Carolinas

2018年9月17日星期一

Monday Morning Briefing: Worst flooding yet to come for waterlogged Carolinas

Highlights

Storm Florence drenched North Carolina with more downpours, cutting off the coastal city of Wilmington, damaging tens of thousands of homes and threatening worse flooding as rivers fill to the bursting point.

A woman who had anonymously accused Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexual misconduct in the early 1980s went public, prompting Republicans to plan further discussions about his nomination before a committee vote this week.

Exclusive: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has nearly doubled promotions of top American diplomats as he seeks to restore diplomatic ties with a workforce alienated by his predecessor, Rex Tillerson.

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The financial hub of Hong Kong began clearing up after being battered by one of the strongest typhoons in recent years, with financial markets and offices operating as normal.

Prime Minister Theresa May cautioned rebels in her party that unless they support her potential Brexit deal with the EU then they will face a potentially disorderly “no-deal” exit that the IMF said would make the United Kingdom significantly poorer.

The U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal struck between Iran and major powers is “doomed” to seriously affect peace and security in the Middle East, Iran’s atomic chief said.

Commentary: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s increasingly confident authoritarianism has plunged the EU into an existential crisis. But French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan for restructuring the union offers a viable path forward. Macron’s proposed “Europe of concentric circles” would accommodate “those countries that see the Union as an embryo state, and those which see it as a free trade arrangement with better inter-state cooperation on selected issues,” columnist John Lloyd writes.

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