Swells and rip currents expected as hurricane’s core set to move north of the Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico over the weekend.Hurricane Lee has built up its strength to become the first Category 5 storm of the Atlantic season, with areas in the northern Caribbean bracing for swells…
ATLANTA (AP) — Hurricane Lee is rewriting old rules of meteorology, leaving experts astonished at how rapidly it grew into a goliath Category 5 hurricane.Lee — which just as quickly dropped to a still-dangerous Category 3 and held that strength Saturday — could still be a harbinger as ocean temperatures…
Consumer prices in Argentina soared 12.4 percent in August compared with the previous month, the highest rate since February 1991 — a high-water mark that could influence the country’s upcoming presidential race. Argentina’s annual inflation rate rose to 124.4 percent, according to figures released by the government’s INDEC statistics agency…
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