BBC News:台风海燕给菲律宾等国带来巨大灾难
An huge international relief effort is being organized in the Philippines as it has become clearthat at least 10,000 people have probably been killed by Typhoon Haiyan. Four million peoplehave been affected, many left without food or shelter. Countries have pledged millions ofdollars in assistance while international aid agencies are preparing to fly emergency supplies.Aaron Ashby works for the Charity World Vision and is in Cebu.
It's really a race against time to really reach out to these people being affected in the isolatedareas, we’re providing initial relief supplies like 4,500 blankets and 3,000 plastic sheets,greatly benefit the families who are solely feeling cold right now, a sense of mourning in thecenter part of the Philippines, it’s really a great grief to see so much (many) people in pain.
In the next few hours, Typhoon Haiyan is expected to hit center and northern parts of Vietnamwhere authorities have already evacuated 600,000 people, many have been moved fromvulnerable coastal areas. Heavy rain and flooding is expected in the capital Hanoi where peoplehave been rushing to stock up on food and water. Schools have been closed and flightssuspended.
The American Secretary of State John Kerry has said there is no rush to reach an agreementwith Iran over its nuclear program and without what it called the right deal,there will be no deal.Speaking to the American television network NBC, Mr Kerry said United States was aware thatany agreement must also be in the interest of America’s allies.
We are not blind and I don’t think we’re stupid, I think we have a pretty strong sense of how tomeasure whether or not we are acting in the interest of our country and of the globe andparticularly of our allies, like Israel, and gulf states and others in the region. We’re absolutelydetermined that this would be a good deal or there will be no deal.
More than half a million Somali refugees living in Kenya will be repatriated. After United Nations’refugee agency UNHCR signed an repatriate agreement with the governments in Nairobi andMogadishu on Sunday. Under the agreement, the Somalis will be repatriated voluntarily overthe next three years. The Dadaab and kakuma refugee camps in northern Kenya, a currentlyhome to more than a million Somalis.
Syrian government forces are taking full control of a key airbase close to the internationalairport in Aleppo after fierce clashes with rebels. The Syrian opposition says that more than 50rebels and more than 30 pro-Assad fighters were killed. The Syrian opposition says atemporary lifting of the government blockage to allow some food supplies into the Damascussuburb of has been negotiated. The suburb has been under siege for a month.
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More than 30,000 Yemenis have crossed the border into their home country in the last tendays from Saudi Arabia, which is currently expelling many illegal foreign workers. Reports fromthe border say some migrants accused Saudi police of abuse and say the deportationcenters are overcrowded with insufficient food and water.
Police in Spain has broken up a major Nigerian prostitution ring, they have arrested 25Nigerians, who they accuse of trafficking women from the west African country with a promiseof a better life in Europe and then forcing them to work as prostitutes there. They said fiveNigerian women were freed in the operation.
As be a bizarre ending to a football match in Italy, a third division side called Nocerina faked somany injuries that the game it was playing against one of its biggest rivals Salernitana had to becalled off. From Rome, here is Allen Johnston.
So bitter is their rivary that the authorities have banned Nocerina's supporters from attendingand some of them responded fiercely, they decided that if they could not go, the match shouldnot happen. And according to the local authorities, the Nocerina players received death threats.They were eventually, persuaded to take the field, but it immediately became obviously thatthey hearts were , in the first couple of minutes, they used up all their substitutes, and thenone after another,Nocerina's players appeared to fake injuries, so many of them went downand got caught it off the pitch within just 20 minutes, there are only six of them left standing,at that point, what has become an alter farce of a match was called off.
An European satellite is expected to crash to earth during the next 24 hours, the Europeanspace agency said most of the 5-meter-long satellite weighing 1,000kg will burn up during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.
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