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Storm Idalia strengthens into hurricane ahead of Florida landfall - BBC

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Tropical Storm Idalia has strengthened into a hurricane as it barrels towards Florida, with officials warning of potential destruction and risk to life.

It will intensify into an "extremely dangerous major hurricane", forecasters say, before slamming into the state's western shoreline on Wednesday.

Much of Florida, including the heavily populated area around Tampa, will be affected by severe weather.

High winds, heavy rain and potentially deadly storm surges are all forecast.

"Don't be complacent. Don't get relaxed," Mayor Dan Allers of Fort Myers Beach told residents on Monday.

The coastal city, which is still recovering from last year's deadly Hurricane Ian, is one of many areas in south-west Florida where residents are weighing whether to evacuate.

Some 14 million people in the state are under hurricane and weather warnings, owing to Idalia's uncertain path as it gathers force and moves northward over the Gulf of Mexico.

"This is going to be a powerful hurricane," Governor Ron DeSantis said at a news conference on Monday. "This is absolutely going to impact the state of Florida in many, many ways."

President Joe Biden has approved an emergency declaration in preparation for it making landfall. Governor DeSantis, meanwhile, has declared a state of emergency in dozens of counties and evacuation orders are in place for 21 of them.

Mr DeSantis encouraged Florida residents in low-lying coastal areas to seek higher ground. "Floridians, you need to be executing your plans now," he said. "Buckle up for this one."

Map shows predicted path of the hurricane

"There's going to be destruction of houses and homes and structures," said David DeCarlo, director of Hernando County Emergency Management. "This is going to be [a] life-impacting storm surge."

Idalia is expected to bring sustained winds topping at least 111mph (179kph) on Wednesday before coming ashore north of Tampa at around 08:00 local time (12:00 GMT).

In Cuba, thousands evacuated towns along the island's west coast as Idalia skirted past and brought intense rain and winds on Monday.

Residents battened down homes and secured fishing boats, while brown floodwaters had swamped the small fishing village of Guanimar, south of Havana, by mid-afternoon.

"We've had two days of rain already," Yadira Alvarez, 34, told Reuters on Monday. She said stormwater had already swelled to knee-height inside her home.

In Florida, Governor DeSantis said more than 1,100 National Guardsmen had been mobilised with 2,400 high-water vehicles and other rescue equipment.

Officials have prepared 400,000 gallons of fuel to be deployed at petrol stations along evacuation routes.

State officials also warned that many residents in the area would be without power as the storm took hold.

They said the major threat to life would come from storm surges, meaning walls of seawater that are pushed inland by the hurricane's high winds.

Much of the Florida coast is under warnings for surges such as these, with some of up to 11ft (3.3m) forecast for several north-western towns.

The states of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina could see heavy rainfall as well, forecasters said.

Far to the east of Idalia, Hurricane Franklin, the first major hurricane of the season, risked bringing life-threatening storm surges to the US East Coast and Bermuda. It is not, however, expected to pose a serious threat on land.

The impact of climate change on the frequency of tropical storms is still unclear, but increased sea surface temperatures warm the air above and make more energy available to drive hurricanes. As a result, they are likely to be more intense with more extreme rainfall.

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'Alive and wriggling' parasitic worm removed from Australian woman's brain - The Independent

A live, 8cm-long (3in) worm has been removed from the brain of a 64-year-old Australian woman by a neurosurgeon investigating the patient’s mystery symptoms.

The surgeon, Hari Priya Bandi, was operating on the woman’s skull when she discovered the parasite still alive – thought to be a world-first.

“I just thought: ‘What is that? It doesn’t make any sense. But it’s alive and moving,’” Dr Bandi was quoted by local media. She ended up plucking the worm out with forceps. “It continued to move with vigour. We all felt a bit sick.”

The roundworm – Ophidascaris robertsi – was still “wriggling”, according to a study of the case just published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, following the operation last year. It was the larva of the Australian-native species, not previously known to be a human parasite.

Dr Brandi co-wrote the case study with Sanjaya Senanayake, an infectious diseases physician at Canberra Hospital. Dr Senanayake said he was on duty at the hospital in June last year when the worm was found.

“I got a call saying: ‘We’ve got a patient with an infection problem. We’ve just removed a live worm from this patient’s brain,’” Dr Senanayake said. “This is the first-ever human case of Ophidascaris to be described in the world”.

Doctors said the woman’s symptoms first started in January 2021. She first developed abdominal pain and diarrhoea, “followed by fever, cough and shortness of breath”.

The patient was first admitted to a local hospital in late January 2021 after suffering three weeks of abdominal pain and diarrhoea, followed by a constant dry cough, fever and night sweats.

They said these symptoms were likely due to the migration of roundworm larvae from the bowel and into other organs such as the liver and the lungs.

When respiratory samples and a lung biopsy were performed, no parasites were identified in these tissue specimens.

“At that time, trying to identify the microscopic larvae, which had never previously been identified as causing human infection, was a bit like trying to find a needle in a haystack,” said Karina Kennedy, another author of the study from Canberra Hospital.

By 2022, doctors said the patient was experiencing forgetfulness and depression, prompting an MRI scan that showed an atypical tissue injury within the right frontal lobe of the brain.

Dr Senanayake said the brain biopsy was expected to reveal a cancer or an abscess.

"This patient had been treated ... for what was a mystery illness that we thought ultimately was an immunological condition because we hadn’t been able to find a parasite before and then out of nowhere, this big lump appeared in the frontal part of her brain,” the physician said.

“Suddenly, with [Dr Bandi’s] forceps, she’s picking up this thing that’s wriggling. She and everyone in that operating theatre were absolutely stunned,” Dr Senanayake added.

Dr Bandi said her patient regained consciousness after the worm was successfully extracted. “She was so grateful to have an answer for what had been causing her trouble for so very long.”

Six months after the worm was removed, the patient’s neuropsychiatric symptoms had improved but persisted, the journal article said.

The patient had been sent home soon after the surgery with antiparasitic drugs and had not returned to hospital since, Dr Senanayake said. “She’s done OK, but obviously because this is a new infection, we're keeping a close eye on her,” the doctor told Ten Network television.

Detection of ‘Ophidascaris robertsi’ nematode infection in a 64-year-old woman from southeastern New South Wales, Australia

(Emerging Infectious Diseases)

This worm is usually commonly found in carpet pythons. Its larvae are usually found in small mammals and marsupials, which are then eaten by the python, allowing the life cycle to complete itself in the snake.

Researchers said the worm typically lives in a python’s oesophagus and stomach and sheds its eggs in the host’s faeces. Humans would be considered accidental hosts of Ophidascaris robertsi larvae, they said.

The patient, from southeastern New South Wales, likely caught the roundworm after collecting a type of native grass, called Warrigal greens, beside a lake near where she lived.

This is where a python may have likely shed the parasite through its faeces.

In the new case study, researchers said the woman used Warrigal greens for cooking and was likely infected with the parasite from touching the native grass or after eating the greens.

Roundworms are known to be resilient and capable of thriving in a wide range of environments.

They are known to cause stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, appetite and weight loss, fever, and tiredness in humans.

Researchers cautioned that the case highlights the danger of diseases and infections passing from animals to humans in a world where the habitats have increasingly come to overlap with each other.

“There have been about 30 new infections in the world in the last 30 years. Of the emerging infections globally, about 75 per cent are zoonotic, meaning there has been transmission from the animal world to the human world. This includes coronaviruses,” Dr Senanayake said.

“People who garden or forage for food should wash their hands after gardening and touching foraged products,” Dr Kennedy said.

“Any food used for salads or cooking should also be thoroughly washed, and kitchen surfaces and cutting boards, wiped downed and cleaned after use.”

Associated Press contributed to this report

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EU's €86bn budget battle casts shadow over Ukraine funding - Financial Times

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Vladimir Putin sends condolences to family of Yevgeny Prigozhin - The Guardian

Vladimir Putin has sent his condolences to the family of the Wagner group head, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin has said, adding that it did not know when the warlord’s funeral would take place and whether the Russian president would attend.

“The Kremlin does not yet have information about the format and date of Prigozhin’s funeral, so there can be no answer to the question of whether Putin will attend it,” Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said, speaking to journalists during his daily call.

“As soon as a decision is made, it will be communicated to the public. Such decisions are always made together with the relatives,” Peskov added.

Russia’s investigative committee on Sunday confirmed Prigozhin was among the people killed in a plane crash last Wednesday. The committee said in a statement that after forensic testing, all 10 bodies recovered at the site had been identified, and their identities “conform to the manifest”.

Several Wagner members told the Guardian on Monday that they did not know when and where Prigozhin’s funeral would be held.

“We have not been told anything. I hope he gets the farewell that he deserves,” one Wagner soldier who fought with the group in Ukraine said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Makeshift memorials have sprung up across the country, with tearful visitors leaving flowers and other tributes to Prigozhin. In St Petersburg, one Wagner fighter identified as Yuri Novikov was detained after shooting in the air with an AK-47. Local media reports said Novikov was distressed about the death of Prigozhin.

Several channels on the Telegram messaging app close to Prigozhin have speculated that “enemies within Russia” had him killed in retaliation for his brief mutiny against Russia’s military leadership in June. The Wagner group has not yet issued an official statement following Prigozhin’s death.

One Telegram account with links to Prigozhin suggested the warlord’s funeral may take place on Tuesday at a cemetery for Wagner fighters in the Krasnodar area of southern Russia.

Others have speculated that an event would be organised in Prigozhin’s home town of St Petersburg. The St Petersburg outlet Fontanka reported he could be buried either at the Bogoslovsky or Serofimov cemeteries in the city.

Meanwhile, the Russian investigative committee has not yet put forward a list of possible causes of last week’s deadly crash.

A preliminary US intelligence assessment concluded that an intentional explosion caused the crash that killed the mercenary head along with nine others. One western official who described the initial assessment said it determined that Prigozhin was “very likely” targeted and that the explosion was in line with Putin’s “long history of trying to silence his critics”. Joe Biden also suggested Putin could be behind the plane crash

“There’s not much that happens in Russia that Putin’s not behind,” the US president told reporters last week.

Raw flight tracking data indicates Prigozhin’s plane experienced a sudden drop in altitude and remained in the air for several more minutes before falling from the sky. Aviation experts have suggested that the precipitous drop and widespread debris found at the crash site indicated an explosion or sudden breaking apart of the aircraft rather than a mechanical failure.

The Kremlin has denied it killed the Wagner chief, calling western intelligence assessments of Putin’s potential involvement “an absolute lie”.

Also on Monday, Russian authorities said its air defences destroyed one drone approaching Moscow and two in a region bordering Ukraine.

Air defences in the Lyubertsy district south-east of the Russian capital “destroyed a drone flying toward Moscow”, the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, wrote on Telegram without specifying whether it was Ukrainian.

Moscow and other Russian regions have been targeted by a series of Ukrainian drone attacks in recent weeks after Kyiv vowed earlier this summer to “return” the conflict to Russia.

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Jacksonville gunman who shot three dead had racist manifestos - police - BBC

The photograph of Ryan Christopher Palmeter, 21, is shown at a news conference in Jacksonville

By Antoinette Radford

BBC News

A man who shot dead three people in a racially motivated attack in Florida wrote of his hatred of black people, police say.

Twenty-one year old Ryan Christopher Palmeter fired eleven rounds at one woman sitting in her car in Jacksonville, before entering a shop and shooting another two people.

Sheriff T K Waters said he then turned the gun on himself.

Mayor Donna Deegan said the attack was driven by racist hatred.

At a news conference on Sunday, Sheriff Waters confirmed the gunman had no previous criminal history and had lived with his parents in Clay County.

The three victims were identified as Anolt Laguerre Jr, 19, Jerrald De'Shaun Gallion, 29 and 52 year-old Angela Carr.

Mr Laguerre worked at the Dollar General store where the attack happened, the company said.

He had authored several manifestos detailing his hatred of black people, police said.

Sheriff Waters said those manifestos "detailed the shooter's disgusting ideology of hate".

"Finely put: this shooting was racially motivated and he hated black people." he said.

"The manifesto is, quite frankly... the diary of a madman," he said. "He knew what he was doing. He was 100% lucid. He knew what he was doing and again, it's disappointing that anyone would go to these lengths to hurt someone else".

Mr Waters said the gunman had been detained for 72 hours in 2017 under the Baker Act, mental health legislation that allows the involuntary detainment of an individual for treatment.

But the sheriff said his weapons had been acquired legally, telling reporters the problem was not with the availability of guns, but with the killer being "a bad guy".

He urged people not to "look for sense in a senseless act of violence".

Jacksonville police played CCTV video at the news conference showing the moment the attacker walked up to the car where he killed the first woman. It then cut to video of him entering the shop.

Mr Waters also confirmed that the gunman let some people out of the shop without injuring them.

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"Why? I don't know. Some of them were white, but I do believe there was a couple that were not," he said.

US Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Sunday the Justice Department was "investigating this attack as a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism".

"No person in this country should have to live in fear of hate-fuelled violence and no family should have to grieve the loss of a loved one to bigotry and hate," he said.

The attack happened less than a mile from the historically black Edwards Waters University.

The gunman first went to the university campus, where he was asked to identify himself by a security officer, the university said in a statement. When he refused, he was asked to leave.

"The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident," the statement added.

Sheriff Waters said the gunman was then seen putting on a bullet-resistant vest and a mask before leaving the campus.

The university went into lockdown after the shooting.

Minggu, 27 Agustus 2023

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash, Russia’s investigative committee confirms - The Guardian

Russia’s investigative committee has confirmed that the Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash.

The committee said on Sunday that after forensic testing, all 10 bodies recovered at the site of the crash had been identified, and their identities “conform to the manifest”.

Russia’s civil aviation authority said earlier this week that Prigozhinand some of his top lieutenants were on the list of those onboard the plane that crashed on Wednesday.

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