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An intense fire in the dead of night consumed a tourist boat with dozens of sleeping scuba divers out in the Channel Islands off southern California near Los Angeles.  Four bodies have been recovered, and around 30 people are unaccounted for; US Coast Guard and volunteer vessels have been searching the waters and coastlines for possible survivors that might have been able to get off of the ship, but officials say the boat was burned down almost to the water line.  The divers were sleeping in berths in the lower decks when the first May Day calls came in after 3:00 AM local time.  The captain and four crew were on the bridge, and survived by jumping off.  Firefighters reported that the fire was too intense to allow them to board the boat; every time they thought they had put it out it would flare up again, possibly because of the fuel and oxygen tanks on board.

Hurricane Dorian has parked itself on the Bahamas, weakening slightly to a Category Four storm.  Prime Minister Hubert Minnis says the "extremely dangerous" storm has caused "unprecedented" destruction - the Red Cross estimates at least 13,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed.  At least five deaths are reported, but it is still early and it will take a few days for authorities to accurately determine the extent of fatalities, injuries, and damage.  The outer bands of Dorian have already started to reach Florida, and millions of people are under mandatory evacuation orders in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.

Boris Johnson is threatening to call a snap election on 14 October if the MPs opposed to a no-deal Brexit successfully block his plan to suspend Parliament in the weeks leading to the divorce from the European Union.  Tory rebels are joining forces with Labour and other opposition parties to bring a bill to stop the UK leaving the EU on 31 October without an agreement, pushing it back to 31 January 2020.  The Tory rebels are pressing ahead despite Johnson's threats to expel them from the Conservative Party, saying the nation's interests outweigh their own.  As for an election, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn says, "I will be delighted when the election comes," and, "I'm ready for it, you're ready for it, we're ready for it."

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam would love to quit over the protests rocking her city, but in a leaked, secret audio recording, tells a business group that she is being prevented from doing so by the Chinese government in Beijing.  "For a chief executive to have caused this huge havoc to Hong Kong is unforgivable.  If I have a choice, the first thing (I would do) is to quit, having made a deep apology," Ms. Lam is heard saying, "So I make a plea to you for your forgiveness."  Lam told the business leaders she is limited in what she can do to stop the protests.  University students boycotted the first day of classes on Monday, and protesters battled police into the night in the Mong Kok area of Kowloon.

South African police arrested dozens of people and fired tear gas and rubber bullets to stop a new round of xenophobic violence.  Looters targeted foreign-owned stores in Johannesburg's central business district.  Three people died in the last round of these mob attacks in Durban six months ago.

At least seven people are dead after a flash flood engulfed a tour group in Kenya's Hell's Gate National Park, about 100 kilometers north of Nairobi.

Actor Kevin Hart is recovering after surgery to repair "major injuries" to his back, according to his wife Eniko Hart.  The star of numerous comedy movies including "Soul Plane" and the "Ride Along" series was a passenger in his classic Plymouth Barracuda muscle car when it flipped on Mulholland Highway, a notoriously treacherous road in the hills above Los Angeles.  The driver, a friend of Hart's, is hospitalized at UCLA Medical Center and reportedly "surrounded by family", and a passenger was treated and released.