The outer edge of Hurricane Gustav has reached the Mississippi Delta in the US state of Louisiana.
The Category 3 storm is packing winds of up to 200 kilometres per hour and has forced the evacuation of nearly two million people along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. A dusk-to-dawn curfew is in force in New Orleans, which was haunted by a crime wave after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city three years ago. Gustav has also affected the US Republican Party's national convention which is scheduled to open this Monday. Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, has ordered an abbreviated Oil prices rise as Gustav looms ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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