2015年8月7日 星期五

2015-08-08 Namibia World


Hindustan Times
   
'Number' of hostages including 5 foreigners freed in Mali siege   
Hindustan Times
A "number" of people held by gunmen during a standoff at a hotel in central Mali have been freed overnight and at least five foreigners evacuated from the site, according to Malian military sources. "We cannot say that everything is finished, but a ...
Mali: Militants Seize Hostages at a Hotel   New York Times
Suspected Islamists kill six, take hostages in Mali hotel   Reuters UK
At least 6 held hostage after suspected Islamists storm hotel in Mali   Washington Post
CNN   
9news.com.au   
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TIME
   
North Korea Is Creating Its Very Own Time Zone Today   
TIME
North Korea, a country of roughly 25 million people, is in the midst of a severe drought, which is contributing to food shortages that are leaving more than 10 million people without enough food. Even those lucky enough to have enough to eat have to ...
Kim Jong-un channels Hugo Chavez by setting a new time zone in North Korea   Sydney Morning Herald
North Korea creates its own timezone   TVNZ
North Korea, now in year 104, will set its clocks back 30 minutes   Times of India
New York Times   
Korea Times   
Xinhua   
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Reuters
   
Big storm hits Taiwan, millions without power, two dead   
Reuters
TAIPEI/YILAN, Taiwan A powerful typhoon battered Taiwan with strong wind and torrential rain on Saturday, cutting power to 2 million households and killing at least two people, media and officials said. Typhoon Soudelor made landfall early in the ...
Typhoon Soudelor Hits Taiwan; 4 Dead, 1 Missing, 27 Injured   ABC News
4 die as Typhoon Soudelor hits Taiwan; 46 inches of rain in one city   Los Angeles Times
Taiwan Battered as Typhoon Soudelor Kills at Least 3, Cuts Power   Bloomberg
CNN   
AsiaOne   
New Zealand Herald   
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Firstpost
   
Dhaka's secular claims gets soaked in blood as another Bangladeshi blogger is ...   
Firstpost
Bangladesh's blogger community has suffered its fourth casualty this year with 40-year-old Niloy Chatterjee being hacked to death on Friday afternoon by five machete-wielding assailants at his apartment in the North Gorhan area of Dhaka. Murdered ...

Fourth blogger killed in Bangladesh by suspected militants   The Indian Express
I was the target, but they killed Niloy: Blogger   Times of India (blog)
Niloy Neel, fourth blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh this year   Sydney Morning Herald
AsiaOne   
Stuff.co.nz   
CNN   
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Forbes
   
A Visit To The New Suez Canal: National Pride Or A Gift To The World?   
Forbes
It's hot here–very, very hot. I am in the Suez with temperatures of 104F. I am sitting in the press tent at the Grand Opening of the New Suez Canal with one hundred reporters from around the world. Restricted to the tent, we cannot leave due to ...
New Suez Canal a triumph, but Egyptian president still in deep water   Haaretz
Egypt's 'New Suez Canal' promising, yet challenges remain   Daily Times
63 minor injuries during New Suez Canal celebrations   Daily News Egypt
The Moscow Times (registration)   
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CHANNELS TELEVISION
   
Escapee kidnapped by Boko Haram shares her story in Minneapolis   
Minneapolis Star Tribune
A woman who escaped from the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram told a group of journalists gathered in Minneapolis on Friday to keep covering the story until the remaining kidnapped girls are freed. Joy, 19, told her story about saving herself and ...
Buhari Announces Weapons Production Plan   The Guardian Nigeria (satire) (press release) (blog)
Nigeria to step up local arms manufacture in Boko Haram fight   The Standard Digital News (satire) (press release) (registration) (blog)
Nigerian president to promote local production of weapons   Xinhua
Leadership Newspapers   
CHANNELS TELEVISION   
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Fox News
   
Dozens of Syrian Christians Missing From Town Attacked by ISIS   
New York Times
ISTANBUL — Dozens of Christian civilians are missing and are believed to be captives of the Islamic State extremist group after it seized their town in central Syria this week, according to conflict-monitoring groups and the Syrian Orthodox Church ...
More than 200 feared kidnapped by Islamic State in Syria town   Los Angeles Times
Isil captures dozens of Christians in swoop   Irish Independent
IS jihadis abduct Christians in Syrian town   Times of India
Irish Times   
The Nation   
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Daily Times
   
Severe flood in Myanmar prompts state of emergency   
Daily Times
YANGON: The flood disaster in Myanmar since June has brought the death toll nationwide to 88 and affected more than 330,000 people across the nation, prompting a state of emergency for urgent relief efforts. According to the Ministry of Social Welfare, ...

Myanmar braces for more flooding as international aid flows in | Reuters   Firstpost
In flooded Myanmar, government clears path for aid workers   Reuters
Myanmar floods: Death toll rises to 88 as heavy monsoon devastates South-East Asia   ABC Online
NDTV   
The Indian Express   
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Wall Street Journal
   
Man Arrested After Walking Through Channel Tunnel to UK From France   
Wall Street Journal
LONDON—A Sudanese man walked almost the whole length of the 31-mile Channel Tunnel from France before being arrested, British police said, highlighting the lengths to which migrants will go to reach the U.K.. Abdul Rahman Haroun was charged with ...


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EarthSky
   
El Niño conditions growing stronger   
EarthSky
El Niño has strengthened in the past several months. Will this El Niño rival the event of 1997–98? Image credit: NASA. In March 2015, scientists declared that El Niño conditions – marked by warm sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific – had ...

This year's El Niño versus the last powerful one in 1997/98   Tucson News Now

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