World news:
The death toll of ‘Harvey’ went up to 46: President Trump with his wife flew again to Houston to see the destruction in the area for a second time.
The US ordered the closure of 2 Russian Embassies, 1 in Washington DC and 1 in New York. The Russians are burning documents so they don’t fall into the hands of US security after the embassies are closed.
200 homes were evacuated in Northern Los Angeles as they were threatened by a forest fire that already burned close to 1000 acres and 30 homes.
The Swiss Courts decided that there’s no danger in returning Eritrean refugees to their homeland and ordered a woman immigrant to be sent back.
North Korea did an underground nuclear test, causing an earthquake: This caused tensions in Japan and China to rise and took place only an hour after Trump spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about increasing pressure on North Korea. They again got on the phone to work on joint cooperation between the US, Japan, South Korea and China against this threat which endangers the region and the world.
The South Korean media says this blast was 9.8 times stronger than the test of a year ago. Combined with more advanced missiles and miniaturized warheads the North Korean threat has grown exponentially in the past year. Add the increased boldness and belligerence Kim Jong-un gets with each step forward, it would seem that common wisdom dictates he is stopped before he carries out his plans for destruction.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri denies Iran is building missile bases in his country in an interview to a French newspaper. He also denies the Hezbollah controls Lebanon. “At most, Hezbollah has some grass roots support but no more than that.”