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More than 100 dead after cyclone hits Mozambique, Zimbabwe
More than 100 people have died and many more are missing in Mozambique and neighbouring Zimbabwe on Sunday after tropical cyclone Idai barrelled across the southern African nations with flash floods and ferocious winds.
Authorities in Mozambique said the toll there had risen to 62 in the centre of the country, while Zimbabwe said 65 people were killed in affected eastern areas, after the cyclone tore across the region on Friday and Saturday.
Mozambique’s environment Minister Celso Correia gave AFP the country’s updated number of deaths in Beira and Dondo districts, but warned: “We will certainly end with a higher toll.”
“The biggest natural disaster Mozambique has ever faced. Everything is destroyed. Our priority now is to save human lives,” he said at Beira international airport, which re-opened Sunday after being temporarily closed because of cyclone damage.
Idai hit Mozambique first on Thursday night before moving to Zimbabwe.
In Zimbabwe, eastern Chimanimani district was the worst hit part of the country, where houses and bridges were washed away by flash floods when the storm slammed the area.
The most affected areas are not yet accessible, while high winds and dense clouds have hampered military rescue helicopter flights.
“So far we looking at 65 people that have lost their lives,” Joshua Sacco, lawmaker for Chimanimani, told AFP by phone, adding that between “150 to 200 people” are missing.
The majority of those unaccounted for are thought to be government workers, whose housing complex was completely engulfed by raging waters. Their fate is currently unknown because the area is still unreachable.
“We are very worried because all these houses were just suddenly submerged under water and literally washed away and that is where we have about 147 missing,” he said. “It’s very sad and the situation is dire.”
Two pupils at a secondary school in the area were among those killed, after a landslide sent a boulder crashing into their dormitory, the country’s civil protection agency said.
School pupils rescued
Soldiers on Sunday helped rescue nearly 200 pupils, teachers and staff who had been trapped at the school in Chimanimani.
The group had to wade through waterlogged and mud-churned roads for some 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) to reach a relief area, where they were given food and checked by medics, according to an AFP photographer.
Tents have been set up to provide shelter for those affected by the cyclone and scores of villagers have made their way to the relief area, some having trekked for up to 20 kilometres to reach safety.
Roads have been swallowed by massive sinkholes, while bridges were ripped to pieces by the flash floods, according to the AFP photographer.
The United Nations in Zimbabwe said that nearly 10,000 were affected by the cyclone.
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who cut short a visit to Abu Dhabi over the cyclone, has declared a state of disaster in the affected areas.
‘Worst disaster’
Idai battered central Mozambique on Friday, cutting off more than half a million residents of the port city Beira where the environment minister said 80 percent of the electricity network was destroyed.
“All roads are cut, the infrastructure is destroyed, practically everything is destroyed,” said Correia.
Beira international airport was briefly shut after the air traffic control tower and navigation equipment were partially destroyed by the cyclone. Flights began flying in on Sunday.
A significant part of the central region was “absolutely decimated by this cyclone, even larger than anticipated,” said Jamie LeSueur, the International Federation of Red Cross’s roving emergency operations manager for Africa after an aerial survey of the affected areas in Mozambique.
“It’s bad and there’s potential for it to get even worse,” he said as rain continued in Zimbabwe, “which could potentially lead to another flood,” said in Beira.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said its “projections indicate at-least 1.7 million people were in the direct path of the cyclone in Mozambique, and 920,000 people were affected in Malawi. Thousands more are potentially impacted by events in Zimbabwe where assessments are ongoing”.
Despite having part of its roof torn off, Beira airport was busy handling flights and relief agencies have are setting up operation hubs there.
One Portuguese software business company owner Luis Leonor, 49, flew in from Maputo after having contacted with his wife via satellite phone on Saturday.
“She is fine. My house is fine but there’s no more running water. I don’t know what I will find there,” he said. “My five employees lost their houses, they are staying at our offices.”
Even before the cyclone made landfall on Friday, heavy rains earlier this month had already claimed 66 lives in Mozambique and 56 in Malawi.
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ടൈറ്റനിലെ യാത്രിക്കാര് മരിച്ചതായി കോസ്റ്റ് ഗാര്ഡ് സ്ഥിരീകരിച്ചു
ന്യൂഫൗണ്ട്ലാന്ഡ് കാനഡ: ടൈറ്റാനിക് കപ്പല് കാണാന് ആഴക്കടലിലേക്കു പോയ ‘ഓഷന്ഗേറ്റ് ടൈറ്റന്’ പേടകത്തിലുണ്ടായിരുന്ന അഞ്ചു പേരും മരിച്ചതായി കോസ്റ്റ് ഗാര്ഡ് സ്ഥിരീകരിച്ചു
ദുബായിലെ ബ്രിട്ടിഷ് വ്യവസായിയും ആക്ഷന് ഏവിയേഷന് കമ്പനിയുടെ ചെയര്മാനുമായ ഹാമിഷ് ഹാര്ഡിങ്, പാക്കിസ്ഥാനിലെ കറാച്ചി ആസ്ഥാനമായ ബഹുരാഷ്ട്രകമ്പനി എന്ഗ്രോയുടെ വൈസ് ചെയര്മാനും ശതകോടീശ്വരനുമായ ഷഹ്സാദ ദാവൂദ്, മകന് സുലൈമാന്, പേടകത്തിന്റെ പൈലറ്റ് ഫ്രഞ്ച് പൗരന് പോള് ഹെന്റി നാര്സലേ, ഓഷന് ഗേറ്റ് കമ്പനിയുടെ സ്ഥാപകനും സിഇഒയുമായ സ്റ്റോക്ടന് റഷ് എന്നിവരാണ് പേടകത്തിലുണ്ടായിരുന്നത്.
കഴിഞ്ഞ വെള്ളിയാഴ്ചയാണ് സംഘം യാത്ര തിരിച്ചത്. ടൈറ്റാനിക് കാണാന് ആഴക്കടലിലേക്കു പോയ യുഎസ് കമ്പനിയുടെ ‘ഓഷന് ഗേറ്റ് ടൈറ്റന്’ പേടകത്തിന് ഇന്ത്യന് സമയം ഞായറാഴ്ച ഉച്ചയ്ക്കു 3.30 നാണ് പേരന്റ് ഷിപ്പായ പോളാര് പ്രിന്സ് കപ്പലുമായുള്ള ബന്ധം നഷ്ടമായത്.
ടൈറ്റന് എവിടെയാണ് കിടക്കുന്നതെന്ന് വ്യക്തമായി അറിയാനായി തിരച്ചിലിന്റെ വ്യാപ്തി വര്ധിപ്പിച്ചിരുന്നു. സമുദ്രോപരിതലത്തില്നിന്ന് നാലു കിലോമീറ്റര് താഴെയാണ് ടൈറ്റാനിക്കിന്റെ അവശിഷ്ടം സ്ഥിതി ചെയ്യുന്നത്. സമുദ്രപേടകം കടലിന്റെ ആഴത്തിലേക്കിറങ്ങി 1.45 മണിക്കൂര് ആയപ്പോഴേക്കും ബന്ധം നഷ്ടമായിരുന്നു.
സമുദ്രോപരിതലത്തില്നിന്ന് 12,500 അടി താഴെയാണ് ടൈറ്റാനിക്കിന്റെ അവശിഷ്ടമുള്ളത്. 12,500 അടിയോളം താഴെ ചെന്ന് ടൈറ്റാനിക് കണ്ട് തിരികെ മുകളിലെത്താവുന്ന തരത്തിലാണ് ടൈറ്റന് നിര്മിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്.
Sources:nerkazhcha
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Catholic leaders condemn Israeli violence at funeral of Palestinian-American journalist
JERUSALEM — The top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land on Monday condemned the police beating of mourners carrying the casket of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, accusing the authorities of violating human rights and disrespecting the Catholic Church.
Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa told reporters at St. Joseph Hospital in Jerusalem that Friday’s incident, broadcast around the world, was a “disproportionate use of force” to the Palestinian flag-waving crowd of thousands proceeding from the hospital to a nearby Catholic church in Jerusalem’s Old City. The attack drew worldwide condemnation and added to the shock and outrage of Abu Akleh’s killing as she covered a shootout in the occupied West Bank.
The police attack, Pizzaballa told reporters, “is a severe violation of international norms and regulations, including the fundamental human right of freedom of religion, which must be observed also in a public space.” He spoke as the leaders and clergy of other Christian churches sat nearby.
On May 16, the Justice and Peace Commission of the Latin Patriarchate released a statement—entitled “Bloodshed Follows Bloodshed,” taken from a line in the book of Hosea—decrying the attacks.
“We mourn all the victims of this unending bloodshed, Jewish Israelis, Palestinian Arabs and others who have died,” the statement read. “We continue to cry out that violence is wrong and will not bring a solution but only more violence.”
“It needs to be repeated with unequivocal clarity: the root cause and primary context of the violence is the occupation of Palestine, an occupation that has gone on for fifty-five years,” it went on to say.
Israel and the Palestinians are locked in a war of narratives over Abu Akleh’s killing. The reporter, a Palestinian-American, a Catholic and a 25-year veteran of the satellite channel, was shot Wednesday while covering an Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp. She was wearing a blue vest clearly marked “Press.” Abu Akleh was a household name across the Arab world, known for documenting the hardship of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.
Palestinian officials and witnesses, including journalists who were with her, say she was killed by army fire. The military, after initially saying Palestinian gunmen might have been responsible, later backtracked and now says it’s not clear who fired the deadly bullet.
The funeral violence caused another international uproar, with the United States and the United Nations among Israel’s critics.
Israeli police have claimed that they agreed with funeral arrangements ahead of time with Abu Akleh’s family, and that a crowd of mourners violated that agreement by marching with the coffin, instead of driving with it, and shouting nationalistic slogans.
But Abu Akleh’s brother, Anton, disputed those claims. He said Monday that the family had given the funeral arrangements to Israeli police, and said the police did not want slogans or Palestinian flags. But he said “this is something we cannot control.”
Anton, who was one of the pallbearers, said police also wanted to know the funeral route, and there was no other agreement. “We wanted to put the coffin in the car,” he said. “We were going to the car when they attacked us.”
Israeli police launched an investigation into the conduct of the officers who attacked the mourners, causing the pallbearers to nearly drop the casket.
Meanwhile, Israel and the Palestinians have continued to argue over the investigation into the shooting.
Israel has sought the bullet, saying it must be analyzed by ballistics experts to reach firm conclusions. Palestinian officials have refused, saying they don’t trust Israel. Human rights groups say Israel has a poor record of investigating wrongdoing by its security forces.
After earlier saying they would accept an outside partner, the Palestinians said late Sunday that they would handle the investigation alone and deliver results very soon.
“We also refused to have an international investigation because we trust our capabilities as a security institution,” Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh announced. “We will not hand over any of the evidence to anyone because we know that these people are able to falsify the facts.”
Amid the wrangling, several research and human rights groups have launched their own investigations.
Bellingcat, a Dutch-based international consortium of researchers, published an analysis of video and audio evidence gathered on social media. The material came from both Palestinian and Israeli military sources, and the analysis looked at such factors as time stamps, the locations of the videos, shadows and a forensic audio analysis of gunshots.
The group found that while gunmen and Israeli soldiers were both in the area, the evidence supported witness accounts that Israeli fire killed Abu Akleh.
“Based on what we were able to review, the IDF Israeli soldiers were in the closest position and had the clearest line of sight to Abu Akleh,” said Giancarlo Fiorella, the lead researcher of the analysis.
Fiorella acknowledged that the analysis cannot be 100 percent certain without such evidence as the bullet, weapons used by the army and GPS locations of Israeli forces. But he said the emergence of additional evidence typically bolsters preliminary conclusions and almost never overturns them.
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യുക്രൈനിൽ നിന്ന് തിരികെയെത്തിയ വിദ്യാർഥികൾക്ക് ഇന്ത്യയിൽ പഠനം തുടരാനാകില്ലെന്ന് കേന്ദ്രം
യുക്രൈനിൽ നിന്നും നാട്ടിലെത്തിയ വിദ്യാർഥികൾക്ക് ഇന്ത്യയിൽ പഠനം തുടരാനാകില്ലെന്ന് കേന്ദ്ര സർക്കാർ. വിദ്യാർഥികൾക്ക് മെഡിക്കൽ കോളജുകളിൽ പഠനം അനുവദിച്ച ബംഗാൾ സർക്കാരിന്റെ നീക്കം കേന്ദ്രസർക്കാർ തടഞ്ഞു. വിദേശത്ത് പഠനം നടത്തുന്നവർക്ക് ഇന്ത്യയിൽ തുടർ പഠനം അനുവദിക്കാനാകില്ലെന്നും മെഡിക്കൽ കൗൺസിൽ ചട്ടം ഇത് അനുവദിക്കുന്നില്ലെന്നും കേന്ദ്രസർക്കാർ വ്യക്തമാക്കി.
യുക്രൈൻ യുദ്ധത്തിന് പിന്നാലെ മലയാളികൾ അടക്കം ആയിരക്കണക്കിന് വിദ്യാർഥികളാണ് ഇന്ത്യയിലേക്ക് മടങ്ങിയെത്തിയത്. ഇവരിൽ ഭൂരിപക്ഷവും മെഡിക്കൽ, ദന്തൽ വിദ്യാർഥികളാണ്. തുടർ പഠനത്തിനായി സർക്കാർ ഇടപെടൽ വേണമെന്ന് രക്ഷിതാക്കളും വിദ്യാർഥികളും ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ടിരുന്നു.
ലക്ഷങ്ങൾ വായ്പയെടുത്താണ് വിദ്യാർഥികളിൽ പലരും പഠനത്തിനായി യുക്രൈനിലേക്ക് പോയത്. യുദ്ധഭൂമിയിലേക്ക് ഇനി മടങ്ങാൻ സാഹചര്യമില്ലെന്നും രാജ്യത്തെ കോളജുകളിൽ പഠിക്കാൻ അവസരം നൽകണമെന്നുമാണ് വിദ്യാർഥികളുടെ ആവശ്യം.
Sources:Metro Journal
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