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·Northern California Fire
The horrifying northern California fire which started from Oct. 8th continues to ravage the state. The fire has already caused 29 deaths so far and forced more than 20,000 inhabitants to evacuate their home. It’s estimated that the casualties may rise further.
It's unclear what caused fires to form suddenly around the same time in one night, blazing through California's wine country while many residents were caught unaware as they headed to bed.
The investigation remains "very early in the process," Ken Pimlott, director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said Tuesday.
Among the factors cited behind the fires' ferocity are high winds, the start of fires at night, heavy vegetation that dried out after a hot summer and dry conditions.
The misery and heartbreak caused by the one of the deadliest wildfire outbreaks in California's history aren't going to end anytime soon.
The largest of the group of 21 fires are still burning with little containment, and the weather has not helped the thousands of firefighters battling those deadly blazes and new ones that pop up each day.
Authorities were concerned about new Red Flag warnings that said winds were going to pick up this week.
The good news was that reinforcements are coming from across the state and the country.
Fires have ravaged Northern California's wine country since Sunday night, destroying at least 3,500 structures and leading to scores of missing-person reports. At least 400 people are reported missing in Sonoma County alone, where a fire wiped out thousands of homes in Santa Rosa, a city of about 175,000 people roughly 50 miles northwest of San Francisco.
·Iran nuclear deal: Trump poised to withdraw support
The president of United States poised to withdraw the support offered in Iran nuclear deal.
However, the intending move would not withdraw the US from the deal but give Congress 60 days to decide whether to do so by re-imposing sanctions.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been consulting with counterparts in Europe and China. Mr. Trump has been under pressure at home and abroad not to scrap the deal. Under the 2015 accord, Iran agreed to freeze its nuclear programme in return for the partial lifting of sanctions. President Trump has been a longstanding critic of the deal and pledged to scrap it during his campaign.
Congress requires the US president to certify every 90 days that Iran is upholding its part of the agreement. Mr. Trump has already recertified it twice.
Speculation that Mr. Trump might refuse to recertify the deal has caused alarm among US allies and some members of his own administration.
Defence Secretary James Mattis told a Senate hearing earlier this month it was not in the national interest to abandon it.
President Trump has called the Iran nuclear accord the "worst deal ever negotiated", and threatened to tear it up.
It looks, though, as if he will first try to "fix" it. He is expected to tell Congress that Iran is not meeting certain conditions set by US law; that the deal's benefits are too meagre, for example, to justify continued sanctions relief.
Then it would be up to lawmakers to decide whether to re-impose sanctions.
Mr. Trump is unlikely to advocate they do so now. Even critics of the deal fear this would isolate the US and weaken its credibility, because Iran is complying with the agreement.
Republicans have suggested they could use decertification as leverage to get the changes they want.
The lifting of sanctions is dependent on Iran restricting its nuclear programme. It must curb its uranium stockpile, build no more heavy-water reactors for 15 years, and allow inspectors into the country.
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