This is Beirut, 13/01 09:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to dry out "the hills and the nerves to flash point." The windstorms occur when cold air gathers in the neighboring states of Nevada and Utah. As it moves west and then rushes down California's mountains, it heats up -- and ...
This is Beirut, 12/01 19:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Days after an inferno razed Pacific Palisades, Maya Lieberman is desperate to find somewhere to live. But unscrupulous landlords who are jacking up prices are making it hard. "The price gouging is going haywire, it's obscene," the 50-year-old stylist told AFP. "I can't find anywhere for us to go." Huge fires that have torn through Los Angeles ...
This is Beirut, 12/01 13:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The multiple fires that have been raging in Los Angeles for the past five days have claimed at least 16 lives, and spread to previously unscathed areas on Saturday. Besieged by flames since Tuesday, the American megalopolis continues to count its dead: the death toll, which had hitherto stood at 11, rose on Saturday evening Despite huge ...
This is Beirut, 12/01 12:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Memphis star Ja Morant scored the game-winner with 18.6 seconds left on Saturday, lifting the Memphis Grizzlies to a 117-125 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves in a tension-packed NBA shootout. Morant, playing his second game back from a shoulder injury, scored a modest 12 points and missed all four of his three-point attempts. But he came ...
This is Beirut, 10/01 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The NBA has postponed Thursday's scheduled game between the Charlotte Hornets and Los Angeles Lakers due to the devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area. The NBA announced the move without naming a new date for the contest, the first of a scheduled five-game homestand for LeBron James and his teammates. Rampaging blazes have killed at least ...
This is Beirut, 10/01 09:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Los Angeles United States USA Wildfire
Massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighborhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, authorities said, as California's National Guard soldiers readied to hit the streets to help quell disorder. News of the growing toll, announced late Thursday by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, came as swaths of the ...
This is Beirut, 09/01 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Wildfires threatened to engulf parts of Hollywood on Wednesday as a growing number of blazes raged across Los Angeles, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and claiming at least five lives. Fast-moving flames fanned by powerful winds have levelled 1,500 structures, many of them multi-million dollar homes in a rolling tragedy ...
This is Beirut, 08/01 09:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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A ferocious wildfire in a Los Angeles suburb devoured buildings and sparked panicked evacuations Tuesday, as hurricane-force winds tore through the region. Frightened residents abandoned their cars on one of the only roads in and out of the upscale Pacific Palisades area, fleeing on foot from the almost 3,000-acre (1,200-hectare) blaze engulfing ...
This is Beirut, 05/01 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Cade Cunningham scored 40 points to lead the Detroit Pistons, who withstood a career-high 53 points by Anthony Edwards, to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 119-105 on Saturday. Edwards, who had voiced frustration after averaging just 16.3 points over the last three games in the face of strong double-team defense, found plenty of ways to score. He ...
This is Beirut, 02/01 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Karl-Anthony Towns scored 31 points and Josh Hart delivered his second straight triple-double to propel the New York Knicks to their ninth straight NBA victory on Wednesday, 119-103 over the Utah Jazz. With leading scorer Jalen Brunson sidelined with tightness in his right calf and Miles McBride also absent, Towns and Hart picked up the ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-29 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Jalen Brunson delivered a 55-point masterpiece as the New York Knicks rallied from a double-digit fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Washington Wizards 136-132 in overtime on Saturday. Brunson scored 42 of his points in the second half and overtime to help the Knicks fend off the lowly Wizards for a seventh straight NBA victory. It was his third ...
Béatrice Moreau, 2024-11-04 10:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Quincy Jones, a music legend, passed away on November 3, 2024, in Los Angeles, at the age of 91. A visionary producer, accomplished musician, and a key figure in the music industry for more than seven decades. Born on March 14, 1933, in Chicago, Quincy Delight Jones Jr. discovered music at a young age in Seattle, where he became friends with Ray ...