Police say astrologer suspected of eclipse day double murder-suicide UN: Nearly 55 million people face hunger in West, Central Africa Russian city calls for evacuations due to rapidly rising floodwaters

and/or a fine of up to $10,000.

A Los Angeles woman who police say fatally stabbed her partner before throwing her two children out of her moving car was an astrologer who posted days earlier that the eclipse is “a form of spiritual warfare” and “the apocalypse is here.”

Danielle Johnson, 34, who went by the alias “Danielle Ayoka” online and described herself as an astrologer, was responsible for what authorities say was a “double-murder suicide” hours before the eclipse became visible in the area.

Investigators are not looking at the eclipse as a possible motive for the crimes, said Los Angeles Police Lt. Guy Golan. “Unfortunately, both parties are no longer with us, and that makes uncovering

the facts of the motive problematic,” he wrote of Johnson and her partner, Jaelen Chaney, 29.

Investigators will continue to interview friends, families and witnesses in an attempt to piece together events, he added.

DAKAR, Senegal – Soaring prices have helped fuel a food crisis in West and Central Africa, where nearly 55 million people will struggle to feed themselves in the coming months, United Nations humanitarian agencies warned Friday.

The number of people facing hunger during the June-august lean season has quadrupled over the last five years, they said, noting that economic challenges such as double-digit inflation and stagnating local production had become major drivers of the crisis, beyond recurrent conflicts in the region.

Among the worst-affected countries are Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Mali, where around 2,600 people in northern areas are likely to experience catastrophic hunger, the World Food Program, U.N. children’s agency UNICEF and the Food and Agriculture Organization said in a joint statement.

ORENBURG, Russia – Authorities in the Russian city of Orenburg called on thousands of residents to evacuate immediately on Friday due to rapidly rising floodwaters after major rivers burst their banks due to a historic deluge of melting snow.

Water was also rising sharply in another Russian region, Kurgan; and in neighboring Kazakhstan, the authorities said 100,000 people had been evacuated so far, as rapidly warming temperatures melted heavy snow and ice.

The deluge has forced over 120,000 people from their homes in Russia’s Ural Mountains, Siberia and Kazakhstan as major rivers such as the Ural, which flows through Kazakhstan into the Caspian, overwhelmed embankments.

Emergency workers said water levels in the Ural River were more than 6 feet above what they regarded as a dangerous level.