Radiation from leaking Fukushima kills worker through lung cancer, and Afghan conflict still displacing hundreds of thousands.
Trump says scathing op-ed in ‘failing NYT’ a ‘disgrace’
Just a day after The Washington Post carried excerpts of journalist Bob Woodward’s new White House expose, a senior official of the Donald Trump administration has penned an anonymous op-ed for The New York Times.
The piece, titled ‘I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration’, reads, “The dilemma — which (Trump) does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. I would know. I am one of them.”
President Donald Trump has dismissed this article and called it a “disgrace”.
“We have somebody in what I call the failing New York Times that’s talking about he’s part of the resistance inside the Trump administration,” he said, adding, “This is what we have to deal with. And you know the dishonest media … But it’s really a disgrace.”
The mystery over the identity of the author has reportedly wreaked havoc in the White House administration and created an atmosphere of paranoia.
While Trump has asked the official to come forward, press secretary Sarah Sanders has said he or she should resign.
Barack Obama hits campaign trail to help Democrats in midterm elections
Former US President Barack Obama is hitting the campaign trail in the US states of California and Ohio on behalf of Democratic candidates ahead of the November midterm elections, reports The Independent.
Obama has largely stayed away from campaign activities since leaving office in 2016, The New York Times noted in a report.
“The former President’s return to public politicking comes at a momentous point in the 2018 election season, furnishing Democrats again with one of their most formidable and popular campaigners in the closing months,” the NYT report added.
Earthquake in Japan kills two, leaves millions without power
A powerful earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale killed at least two and injured several others on the Japanese island of Hokkaido early Thursday, reports CNN.
Following a massive landslide in a town called Atsuma, several people were reported missing.
According to the Hokkaido Electric Power Company, around 3 million households lost power in the wake of the earthquake. “The electric supply was stopped to Tomari nuclear plant, but it can operate without external electric supply for one week,” chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said.
More than 4,000 soldiers have been deployed for rescue operations, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, and the number could rise to 25,000 if needed.
Japan confirms first worker death due to Fukushima radiation
Japan has, for the first time, acknowledged that radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown led to the death of one worker, reports BBC.
Earlier, the nation’s government had only admitted that the radiations had left four workers ill.
The employee who died was aged in his 50s. He was in charge of measuring radiation at the Fukushima No 1 plant shortly after the meltdown. According to the Japan government, he worked there twice after the earthquake, but worn a face mask and protective suit both times. He died of lung cancer, which was diagnosed in 2016.
The Fukushima reactor went into meltdown following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011.
200,000 Afghans displaced by conflict in 7 months of 2018, says UN
More than 200,000 Afghans were internally displaced by conflict in the first seven months of the year, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Wednesday, Global Times reports.
“From 1 January to 10 August 2018, 209,000 people fled their homes due to conflict in Afghanistan, with 31 of 34 provinces recording forced displacement,” the agency said in a statement.
“Displaced families often find themselves in precarious living conditions with their well-being and dignity jeopardised by inadequate shelter, lack of food and water, insufficient access to sanitation and health facilities as well as lack of protection,” the statement read.
An active insurgency has displaced more than one million Afghans since 2001, with around 445,000 displaced in 2017 alone.
The anonymous op-ed is the desperate attempt by US media to pull the legs of popular President. That media is stooping so low as to print anonymous editorial ( its not news ) is indication that the rot in media is decaying the minds of its editors.