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Trio of local volleyball players earn all-state tournament team honorsAt least 34 people have been killed by Cyclone Chido in Mozambique since it made landfall there on Sunday, the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said on Tuesday, citing figures from the southern African country's disaster agency. "As of Dec.17, 2024, a total of 174,158 people were estimated to be impacted, with 34 people dead and 319 injured," OCHA said in a statement. Mozambique's National Institute of Risk and Disaster Management (INGD) called the situation "heart-breaking," reported the BBC , and said the death toll will rise. An INGD spokesperson told the BBC that most of those killed were hit by falling objects, like from destroyed brick walls. Chido also destroyed or damaged 35,000 houses, affected nine schools and 10 health facilities, according to preliminary reports by the Southern African Development Community's Humanitarian and Emergency Operations Centre. An estimate 35,000 homes in Mozambique have been destroyed by Cyclone Chido, according to the Southern African Development Community's Humanitarian and Emergency Operations Centre. (Unicef Mozambique/Handout via Reuters) Drone footage from Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province showed razed thatched-roof houses near the coast and personal belongings scattered under the few palm trees still standing. Electricity and communications have also been upended — state-owned power company Electricidade de Moçambique announced that around 200,000 customers are currently without power. Thousands potentially dead in Mayotte Chido made landfall in Mozambique after wreaking havoc in Mayotte, an Indian Ocean archipelago and France's poorest overseas territory. Mozambique is one of several southern African regions and territories that were hit by Cyclone Chido. (Unicef Mozambique/Handout via Reuters) Hundreds or even thousands could be dead in Mayotte, which took the strongest hit from Cyclone Chido, French officials have said. It's the strongest storm to hit the territory in 90 years. So far, 22 deaths and about 1,400 injuries have been confirmed, Ambdilwahedou Soumaila, the mayor of the capital Mamoudzou, told Radio France Internationale. But many parts of Mayotte are still inaccessible and some victims were buried before their deaths could be officially counted. Mathieu Gouzou, a sports teacher at the Bouéni M'titi-Labattoir middle school in the town of Dzaouzi told Reuters when asked about the fate of his pupils: "It's impossible to find them all. "Many of them live in the shantytown nearby, nobody can go there." 'Several hundred' feared dead after Cyclone Chido hits French territory of Mayotte Aid rushed to cyclone-hit Mayotte, rescuers combing debris for survivors The International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies said the number of victims was likely to be much higher as about a third of the island's population was still unaccounted for because of bad communications. "It's a small island with 300,000 inhabitants, and because the cyclone has disturbed the electricity, the connection of the internet and the phone lines, about 100,000 people are still unaccounted for," IFRC communications manager Nora Peter told Reuters. It may take days to discover the full extent of the destruction. For the time being, essential goods, medical and technical staff and police were arriving via the air bridge with La Reunion, the territory's only lifeline. This combination of before and after images released by Maxar Technologies shows damage of of Rue du Collège, Mamoudzou on the French Territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean after Cyclone Chido, on Dec. 16. (Maxar Technologies/The Associated Press) "The priority today is water and food," Mayor Soumaila said. "There are people who have unfortunately died where the bodies are starting to decompose that can create a sanitary problem." "We don't have electricity. When night falls, there are people who take advantage of that situation." Dr. Claudia Lodesani of Doctors without Borders said it was crucial to restore access to drinking water to avert the outbreak of cholera and other diseases. WATCH | Scenes of devastation in the French overseas territory Mayotte See scenes of devastation from air and land in the French overseas territory Mayotte 1 day ago Duration 0:51 France's interior minister arrived in Mayotte on Monday after Cyclone Chido devastated large parts of the archipelago off east Africa, with a significant death toll feared in the densely packed territory. "An epidemic is not inevitable, but there is a very high risk," she said, saying that even before the storm access to clear water and health services was difficult in shantytowns, where many immigrants live. "France will repair the hospital quickly, but the situation in the shantytowns is worrying," Lodesani said. More than three-quarters of Mayotte's 321,000 people live in relative poverty. According to 2021 figures from statistics agency INSEE, Mayotte has an annual median disposable income of just over 3,000 euros (about $4,500 Cdn) per inhabitant, roughly eight times less than the Île-de-France region around Paris. French military members prepare supplies to be transported to Mayotte at the military airbase 181 in in Reunion Island, a French department in the Indian Ocean. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters) Concerns about undocumented immigrants In mainland France, the disaster fuelled a political row about immigration, the environment and France's treatment of its overseas territories. Mayotte has been grappling with unrest in recent years with many residents angry at illegal immigration — mostly from nearby Comoros and Madagascar — and inflation. Undocumented immigration has driven Mayotte's population up by an estimated 100,000 over the last 10 years, and the territory has become a stronghold for the far-right National Rally. France's acting interior minister Bruno Retailleau, from the conservative Republicans party, told a press conference in Mayotte that the early warning system had worked "perfectly" but many of the undocumented had not come to designated shelters. Other officials have said undocumented migrants may have been afraid to go to shelters for fear of being arrested. What is rapid intensification in hurricanes, and is it happening more often? From heatwaves to hailstorms: Environment Canada's top 10 weather stories of the year Left-wing politicians have pointed the finger at what they called the government's neglect of Mayotte and failure to prepare for natural disasters linked to climate change. In the meantime, France's interior ministry said a curfew will go into effect on Tuesday night from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. local time.

Iowa followed its lowest-scoring game of the season with a 110-point eruption the next time out. The Hawkeyes will be one week removed from that scorching effort when they host Northwestern in Tuesday's Big Ten opener in Iowa City, but rust won't be the only roadblock for a potential repeat showing. Iowa (6-1) also is bracing for stiffer competition in conference play while navigating an injury to Seydou Traore. The reserve forward suffered a sprained ankle midway through the first half of a 110-77 home rout of South Carolina Upstate on Nov. 26. Also missing frontcourt contributors Even Brauns and Cooper Koch, the Hawkeyes still flexed their resilience and depth. Brock Harding notched a double-double of 20 points and 10 rebounds and Owen Freeman netted 17 points as five Iowa players scored in double figures. "Coming off a loss, going into Thanksgiving break here, we've got a couple days off coming, it'd be easy to kinda (think), ‘All right, let's relax for this one, guys sit out,'" Harding said. "But I think we really locked in." Northwestern (6-2) overcame 40.8 percent shooting to defeat UNLV 66-61 in the third-place game of the Arizona Tip-Off on Friday in Tempe, Ariz. Brooks Barnhizer, a preseason All-Big Ten pick who was sidelined by a foot injury during the Wildcats' first four games, had team highs of 23 points, nine rebounds and six assists. He has scored at least 20 points in three of four games. Northwestern limited UNLV to a 42.1 percent effort from the floor. Matthew Nicholson propelled the defense with two of the Wildcats' seven steals to go with two blocks. "We're a defensive-minded team and, you know, our identity is just getting stops," Barnhizer said. "Everything else will take care of itself. So, the older guys were trying to come out here and do that tonight and I think we did a pretty good job of it." Strong ‘D' helped Northwestern's ball movement, too, as the Wildcats assisted on 15 of 20 made field goals. Northwestern went 8-for-18 (44.4 percent) from long range to improve to 3-0 this season when connecting on 40 percent of its 3-point shots or better. --Field Level Media

[Source: AP] Viewers may gasp, cringe or cry out watching characters die on Netflix’s “Squid Game,” but those simulated deaths have a different effect on its creator, writer and director. Instead, Hwang Dong-hyuk feels happiness seeing them go. The show has a huge cast and Hwang says it was “really difficult” to manage everyone on set. As characters would die, Hwang recalls saying to the actors on their last day, “‘Oh no! How sad! I won’t see you tomorrow,’ but I was always smiling inside.” “Squid Game” season two premieres Thursday. It once again stars Lee Jung-jae and centers around a secret competition in South Korea that targets people in debt and the winner gets a big cash prize. What they don’t know is that losing the game is deadly. Hwang originally conceived of the show 15 years ago as a two-hour film but it failed to gain traction with financiers or even interested actors. He put it aside and worked on other films instead. He then had the idea to make it a TV series instead and took the project to Netflix. There, it could reach a wide audience. “I never in my wildest dream thought it was going to be this huge,” said Hwang, who spoke with the AP about the show and what comes next. Answers have been edited for clarity and length.

A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can’t take it back on his ownOTTAWA - The union representing rank-and-file Mounties is welcoming a federal plan to spend $1.3 billion to bolster border security and ensure the integrity of the immigration system. In its fall economic update Monday, the Liberal government said it would invest in cutting-edge technology for law enforcement, so that only people who are eligible to remain in Canada do so. The money, to be spread over six fiscal years, is earmarked for the RCMP, Public Safety Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency and the cyberspies at the Communications Security Establishment. RCMP members enforce laws between official points of entry and investigate criminal activities related to the border. National Police Federation president Brian Sauvé says members have been protecting the border with limited resources, and the new money will allow them to continue delivering on their mandate. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc is expected to join other ministers this afternoon to provide more details on the plan. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 17, 2024.