Reuters World News - Indonesia evacuations, Hurricane Lala and Ceuta arrests

Episode Date: August 16, 2026

Thousands are evacuated after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia blocks roads and triggers landslides. Hurricane Lala lashes Hawaii. Moroccan police arrest at least 111 migrants heading for the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. And  how U.S. fuel exports to Cuba are spurring a chaotic black market. 📲 Podcasts, breaking news, and video analysis from the source. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the Reuters app here.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Listen to the Morning Bid podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Sign up for the Reuters Econ World newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Listen to the Reuters Econ World podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Visit the ⁠⁠Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt out of targeted advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, I'm Tara Oaks in Liverpool. It's Sunday, August 16th. Today, thousands evacuate after the Indonesia earthquake cuts off roads and causes landslides. Hurricane Lala lashes Hawaii, leaving thousands without power. Morocco arrests over a hundred more migrants headed for Spain's Toyota, and how US fuel exports to Cuba are spurring a chaotic black market.

This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week. Don't panic, guys. That's a tool guide urging visitors to stay calm on Indonesia's Padha Island as a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck, blocking roads and causing landslides in the country's east. In the town of Nagakeo, close to the epicentre, medical and military officers have resorted to makeshift tense to treat injured survivors, as the town's hospital suffered heavy damages. 40-year-old Kumala says she covered her two children as rocks and debris started falling around them. Around 5,000 people have been evacuated and dozens killed in the country's worst. since 2022. Hurricane Lala has lashed Hawaii, leaving thousands without power,

as the National Hurricane Center warns of life-threatening conditions. Here's Hawaii Governor Josh Green. Storm has been focused on the big island in Maui. We've had 10 to 15 inches of rain there already. We expect 8 to 10 more inches of rain all across the state, so it's going to impact virtually all the islands. On Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, Lala's maximum sustained winds reached 75 miles per hour, making it a category one hurricane.

Moroccan police have arrested over 100 people as they tried to enter Spain's North African enclave of the Utah. Security has been tightened on both sides of the border after social media posts called for another mass migrant crossing. Two weeks after more than 70,000 migrants surged into the enclave. On the beach in Thayuta, migrants have built makeshift shacks along a beach to shelter from the scorching heat, as thousands remain in limbo after the crossings. One of them is 36-year-old as a Dean Zayam. He says they just want to be legal, while others warned people back home not to attempt. the crossing. Ukrainian drones have struck the Moscow region overnight, in what the provincial

governor says is one of the largest attacks to have targeted the region. In posts on Telegram, Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobiov said that an 83-year-old man had been killed, and a warehouse belonging to Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries struck. Ukraine has been targeting wildberries as part of a wider bid to damage Russian economic infrastructure. Russia's defense ministry says it downed over 800 Ukrainian drones throughout the country. Ukrainian officials say Russian forces launched missile and drone attacks on Kiev overnight. In neighboring Romania, the defense ministry says an F-18 fighter on a NATO air policing mission shot down a drone that illegally breached national airspace. A NATO spokesperson says the drone appears to be Russian.

is the fourth unmanned aircraft shot down over the country this year. At least 11 people were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Satybe, according to the Lebanese health ministry. The strikes are some of the deadliest in weeks since a US-mediated peace framework is agreed. The Israeli military says it struck Hezbollah infrastructure in what it describes as a security zone in southern Lebanon, in response to actions against its soldiers there. Iran-backed Hezbollah says in a statement that the attacks would be, quote, met with what they deserve. The United States is preparing to tell dozens of countries they must choose between Washington and Beijing in the race to dominate artificial intelligence, according to a U.S. official and an internal draft reviewed on Reuters.

The draft State Department letter is addressed to 35 countries that signed a U.S.-backed AI agreement in. June. It warns they could be excluded from a US-led AI coalition if they also join a rival Chinese initiative. Meanwhile, in the auto industry, US carmaker Ford plans to move production of some Lincoln models from China to the US, beginning in 2030. That's what Ford's CEO Jim Farley told Reuters this week. Farley says the administration's tariff policy, plus restrictions on some Chinese technology with the driving forces behind the decision. Our reporter Nora Eckert has more from Detroit. This is a substantial move for Ford as it faces pretty hefty tariffs under the Trump

administration. One of its Lincoln models, the Nautilus, had about 52.5% tariffs that it had been facing for the last year. Ford's CEO Jim Farley told us that the automaker had been preparing to make this move for some time. I mean, these tariffs have been in place for many months now. And although Ford has a very strong U.S. production base, it found capacity to move even more production to the U.S. from China. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik told us that Ford's move is really encouraging and that he wants to see more automakers following this pattern.

We already saw GM onshore production of its Vueck-envision model from China to the U.S. And we might be seeing more of these announcements as automakers confront a tariff landscape that seems here to stay. While the US imposed oil embargo on Cuba has cut off the island's government from crucial fuel to run its power grid and public services, Washington has allowed American companies to export hundreds of thousands of barrels of fuel to Cuba's private sector. That's created a thriving, informal market that's allowed some businesses to stay lit during blackouts. But it's also deepening the gap between those who can afford imported fuel and those who can't. Our reporter Laura Gottesdina is in Havana. As the U.S. government is trying to starve the Cuban government, it is also in trying to empower the Cuban private sector. It's part of the U.S. government's efforts to affect essentially regime change in Cuba.

So in recent weeks, we went to visit a number of these black market fuel distribution sites. And I'm talking about small apartments in crowded, blocks of apartment buildings, the back rooms of corner stores. It's essentially illegal, but this black market is operating in plain sight. And the prices are staggering. Earlier this year, the black market prices peaked at about $10 a liter. That's $38 a gallon. Earlier this year, as the U.S. oil blockade was essentially threatening to paralyze the country, the Cuban authorities authorized Cuban private sector businesses to import fuel for the first time. This represented a major opening of the energy sector, even though it was limited. Recently, President Miguel Dias Canel

said that not only was Washington's oil blockade a genocidal siege against the island, he also said that the economic reforms that they've proposed were not undertaken to please the United States, and he has vowed that there will be no massive privatization of national assets. Off the coast of Cyprus, a fisherman and a team of marine biologists are hunting lionfish, one of hundreds of invasive species now flooding the warming Mediterranean. Marine biologist Pericles Clytus says humans are to blame. I see that non-indigenous species is like the outcome of our actions, of our negligence, let's say, to protect a healthy ecosystem.

Scientists point to a combination of factors, climate change for one, and the Suez Canal, which creates a gateway for fish from other climates to reach the eastern Mediterranean. Some, like lionfish, are venomous and harmful to humans and local wildlife alike. But fishermen and chefs like Petros Yangu says the best way to get lionfish out of the ocean is to get them onto the menu. The venom is obviously is mugging the flesh, so it's safe breath. Now, if you're listening to this, you already know the value of staying ahead of the news. With the Reuters app, you can listen to podcasts, watch analysis, and read breaking news on the stories shaping markets, business, technology, politics, and the global economy, all in one place.

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