By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Octavio Jones TAMPA (Reuters) -Hurricane Milton was expected to expand in size on Tuesday as it chugged past Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula en route to Florida’s battered Gulf Coast, where more than 1 million people were ordered to evacuate before the monster storm arrived. Florida’s densely populated west coast, still reeling from…
By Abhinav Parmar (Reuters) – U.S. airlines are canceling flights and adjusting schedules as some Florida airports close in anticipation of disruptions from Hurricane Milton, which is set to make landfall in the state on Wednesday. As of Tuesday afternoon, 896 flights within, into, or out of the United States were delayed, and 696 were…
By Shariq Khan NEW YORK (Reuters) – A growing number of gasoline retailers were flashing empty signs on Tuesday as panic-buying took hold of Florida, where residents are bracing for a monster hurricane to make landfall. Hurricane Milton was downgraded to a Category 4 storm on Tuesday as it grinded past Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula en…
(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukraine needed to secure and deploy advanced missiles and to achieve faster results with them on the battlefield. Speaking in his nightly video address, Zelenskiy said a meeting with top commanders had been devoted to the development of domestic weapons supplies in the more than 2-1/2-year…
