US intelligence officials believe that China's President Xi Jinping is hoping to convince the president of the West African nation, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, to allow expansion of an existing port in the city of Bata, and conversion into a military base, the report said.
Were China to convert the Bata port into a military base, it would enable Beijing to repair and rearm their warships and other naval equipment in the same waters in which the US Eastern Seaboard sits, the report added.
"As part of our diplomacy to address maritime-security issues, we have made clear to Equatorial Guinea that certain potential steps involving (Chinese) activity there would raise national-security concerns," a senior Biden administration official told The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
Officials have previously mooted a Chinese military base in Atlantic waters as a nightmare scenario for the US, amid tensions between the two nations over Taiwan and the origins of Covid, the report added.
China only has one overseas military base, in Djibouti, in East Africa, which it opened in 2017. That sits on the other side of the African continent, and looks out onto the waters of the Gulf of Aden.
As per official sources, these high energy waves are hitting States on eastern, western and southern coasts of India. These waves travelled thousands of miles from the South Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean and entered the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal.
These high period waves can travel long distances and become stronger as the reach. They rise up to 2-3 metres and are dangerous because they can breach the coast, reported INCOIS.
Over the last one week, several states issued a series of alerts to their fishermen. The IMD has four colour codes to denote the levels of caution. While the Red alert is considered serious and demands action by government agencies, the Orange denotes an alert to be prepared for any extreme weather event.
Similarly, the Yellow indicates that the authorities must keep a watch on the natural calamity and the Green denotes that no action should be taken and that situation is normal.
After the devastating tsunami of 2004, India developed necessary infrastructure to issue alerts in case of any abnormal wave activity in the seas.
Absence of any alert of the devastating tsunami had claimed over 2 lakh lives in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand.
(With PTI inputs)
The Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane in the world, was forced to land in Goose Bay airport in Labrador at around 1.40 p.m. with part of the engine cowling missing, scattering debris across the runway following "serious damage" to one of the plane's four engines, Xinhua reported.
The crew on board the aircraft handled the incident perfectly and the aircraft will undergo technical checks and it is working on rerouting passengers, CTV quoted Air France as reporting.
A passengers said everything was going as normal for the first six and a half hours of the flight before there was a sound like an explosion.
Then an announcement said the plane would be diverted to Canada. There wasn't a panic that people would have expected.
At 11 p.m. (local time), Irma packed maximum sustained winds of up to 55 km per hour and was located 10 km south of Columbus, and 150 km south-southwest of Atlanta, both in the state of Georgia, reports Efe news.
The cyclone was moving at a speed of 24 km per hour towards the northwest, and it is expected to move into Alabama soon and then into western Tennessee by early Tuesday.
So Far, at least 30 people have died since Irma made landfall in the Caribbean Islands on September 6 and has recorded winds of up to 295 km per hour, which converted it into a powerful category 5 hurricane.
In the US, where it made landfall in Florida state on Sunday, has caused heavy flooding, left about 10 dead and about 6.5 million households without electricity.