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Hurricane Dorian has reached the Bahamas as a Category Five storm lashing the islands with sustained winds of 185 miles an hour and much stronger gusts well around 230 mph.  According to US government forecasters, it is "the strongest hurricane in modern records" to ever hit the archipelago to the east of Florida.  The National Hurricane center warned that the Bahamas could experience up to 30 inches/76.2 centimeters of rain, leading to "life-threatening flash floods in northern portions of the Bahamas".  

It is still an unpredictable storm, and it could come down to a matter of a few kilometers before forecasters know if Dorian will hit Florida as a Cat-5, or if it will travel up the US East Coast and lose strength as it hits cooler waters.  With this threat lurking off the east, Donald Trump began this crucial Sunday the only way he could:  By getting into a twitter fight with a sit-com actor, because that's the most important thing going on when there's a hurricane and another mass-shooting in Texas.  Later, he said Dorian was threatening Alabama, forcing the National Weather Service to rush out a tweet explaining that the storm is passing way east and Alabama was safe; and he denied ever having heard of a Category Five hurricane before, when in fact he had and four such storms had the US since he took office.  So, good luck America!

Police don't want to speak the name of the gunman in America's latest mass-shooting; but he is identified as 36-year old Seth Aaron Ator, a local mope from Odessa, Texas who opened fire on troopers instead of pulling over for a "routine" traffic stop.  Ator led police on a crazed chase in the Odessa/Midland Metro area in western Texas, killing at least seven people and wounding 22 more before he stole a Postal Service truck and crashed in into cops outside a crowded movie theater.  They shot him dead before he could get inside.  One of the injured is a 17-month old baby girl who was shot in the face, suffering injuries to her lip, tongue, teeth, and jaw.  This happened exactly four weeks after a far-right gunman went to the Walmart in El Paso and murdered 22 people.  The running court is that America has lost 51 people in mass shootings - not this year, but just in August.

Nine people are dead after a medivac plane crashed into a resort compound south of Manila in the Philippines.  Police say the victims were two pilots, two nurses, a doctor, a patient, the patient's wife, and two other people - everyone on board.  The cause is under investigation.

Hong Kong protesters battled it out with police in the subway and on the roads to the airport, forcing the cancellation of several flights.  

A Saudi-led airstrike on a prison in Yemen killed at least 100 people, though the Red Cross said the death toll could be even higher.  "Witnessing this massive damage, seeing the bodies lying among the rubble, was a real shock. Anger and sadness were natural reactions," said Franz Rauchenstein, the head of the Red Cross delegation in Yemen.  The Saudi-led, US-backed coalition has faced international criticism for airstrikes that have killed civilians in schools, hospitals, and wedding parties, but this is apparently the deadliest airstrike so far this year.

Israel fired missiles at Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, retaliation for the Iran-backed militia group firing anti-tank missiles into Israel earlier.  "We fired at the Hezbollah squad responsible.  No Israelis were injured in the attack," the IDF said in a tweet.  Hezbollah claimed it was retaliating for an attempted Israeli drone attack last week.

The center has held in elections in eastern Germany over the weekend, despite a surge in far-right support.  Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union appears to have come out on top in Saxony, maintaining its three decade old title as the state's strongest party - and the center-Left Social Democrats are on track for victory in Brandenburg.  This thwarts the Alternative for Germany's (AfD) plot to surround the capital Berlin with a disaffected right-wing electorate.  The results hold off the far-right surge in the former East Germany, where some people have resented the government's welcoming attitude towards immigrants while they have yet to experience a dividend from giving up Communism 30 years ago, and where unemployment is higher than in the west.

Italy's Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte says he is aiming to form Italy's new government by Wednesday.  Conte and his majority Five Star Movement (M5S) have formed a new coalition with the center-Left Democrats after the far-right League party bailed out of the government, hoping to trigger new elections.  Of course, since World War II Italian coalitions have only managed to survive a few months, so a snap election could still be on the horizon.

Pope Francis was trapped in a broken elevator in the Vatican for about 25 minutes on Sunday morning, delaying his appearance for Sunday morning Mass.  "Thank God the Fire Brigade came," Francis later told the crowd in Saint Peter's Square, "Let's hear it for the Fire Brigade!"  He went on to deliver a sermon imploring world leaders to take drastic action to limit Climate Change.