Tropical Storm Gustav is heading for Cuba, after leaving up to 78 people dead as it battered its way across the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.
The United States began storm preparations as Gustav moved west, amid fears it could become a "major Gustav kills 59 in Caribbean ...
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Global Media Forum continues ... hurricane" before reaching western Cuba on the weekend. Gustav is forecast to head west-northwest towards the Caymans, a British outpost and key banking center. Anxiety was also mounting on the US Gulf Coast on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Authorities in Louisiana and Mississippi have already declared states of emergency before Gustav's expected landfall late on Monday. In New Orleans authorities are considering mandatory evacuation to prevent a repeat of the devastation and deaths of 2005.
(Deutsche Welle)
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