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How we got here: The Novak Djokovic visa saga timeline. Liverpool's shortcomings without Salah, Mane give Arsenal hope. What can we expect from WNBA free agency? Seattle Storm. MMA Rank Which fighters will have the best ? Olympic men's hockey team turns to NCAA. Some of the protesters had been outraged by a monument inaugurated in the square on the eve of the Mohamed Mahmud anniversary. By Tuesday, protesters had defaced the monument to those killed in the mass protests that helped unseat two presidents in less than three years.
It came after police allegedly found a loaded gun, amphetamines and steriods inside two homes at Oxenford and Biggera Waters. Our boats are gone. How can we start rebuilding when we don't have the means to survive? Despite the damage from Typhoon Haiyan, basketballneverstops in Tacloban, Philippines.
PMBAYBAY - A crucifix crudely fashioned from broken twigs marks a shallow grave on the beach in Baybay, a once-lively Philippines fishing village where generations saw the sea as a source of bounty until it cruelly turned against them.
Driven ashore by Super Typhoon Haiyan -- known locally as Yolanda -- the ocean engulfed the villagers' homes and took their livelihoods with it. The year-old is a devout Catholic with a leathery face and a deep brown tan whose father taught him to fish as a young boy. Haiyan's furious winds stirred foot seven-meter high waves that rushed inland on November 8, destroying almost everything before them, including 1, homes in the tightly-knit community along with all their nets and boats.
Magdua could not say how many had been killed in their village. Days after the storm, bodies were still being recovered all over the area. Around 4, people are known to have died nationally, according to official figures, but Magdua believes "many, many more" could be dead.
If you get caught in waves that high, you die," the father-of-eight said. Magdua said he had evacuated his family to a friend's two-story home a kilometer two-thirds of a mile from the shore. He was securing his seafront shack with ropes and sand bags when the first wave came. He clung on to a rope and buoy, and tumbled through the water until he washed up somewhere. We cannot rely on dole outs forever," he said, as he and other fishermen inspected the destroyed village council building.
Just down the narrow path, village councilor Nonelon Wenceslao led some of the menfolk in slaughtering a pig they had found, attracting a small crowd who all wanted some of the meat. A tattered Philippine flag fluttered in the wind, behind a big wooden board on which someone had daubed: "Help.
We need food, water. Children waved at a passing military helicopter carrying relief goods, while others played on a pile of broken cement flooring that was once a popular local seafood restaurant with the now-sardonic name of Yolanda's Eatery. Wenceslao said he and other officials had yet to fully account for the village's 1, families in the chaos of the storm's aftermath. Only a few bodies had been found on the beach, he said, although many were seen carried away by the high water.
Few believe the missing are alive. Fishing has for generations been the backbone of the community, and an average fisherman earns between and pesos dollars a day -- not a lot, but enough to eke out a living. Please help us build boats," Wenceslao said, adding that the few fishermen who have savings cannot get at their money because the banks are closed.
Marjohn Mugas, 23, however, cannot wait for help. Aid was slow arriving and his wife and two children have had nothing much to eat in the week since Haiyan destroyed their home. Mugas gathered up his broken nets and dragged them through some shallow water, catching a milk fish and small snails. This is good for today," he said, smiling. Bail already posted for nine of the Arctic 30 - Greenpeace. Greenpeace International today said it has already posted bail for nine of the Arctic 30, but does not expect them to be released before the weekend.
Lawyers say they are making bail payments - set at 2 million rubles 45, euros for each detainee - as quickly as they can. At court hearings this morning Faiza Oulahsen from the Netherlands and British citizen Alexandra Harris became the 13th and 14th Arctic 30 prisoners to be granted bail.
After getting bail Faiza was asked by a friend what she will do when she is released from prison. She replied:. Lawyers for Greenpeace today said there are a number of bureaucratic issues to resolve before any of the Arctic 30 are released from jail and they do not expect any of them to be out of prison until the weekend, possibly later. It is still not clear whether their movements will then be restricted. None of them have passports after they were confiscated following the seizing of their ship Arctic Sunrise by Russian security forces.
Greenpeace cautioned that the detainees will not be free until they are home with their families. They are still charged with at least one very serious offence and if convicted could face years in prison. But Faiza has a strong personality, and she doesn't give up easily. We cannot wait to hear her voice, and to see her again. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ITLOS will announce its ruling on Friday in a case brought by the Netherlands seeking the immediate release and repatriation of the detainees, and the end of all legal proceedings against them.
Twenty-one judges will give their verdict at in Hamburg. The Australian ambassador to Russia today announced that he is visiting the Foreign Ministry in Moscow in an effort to find out why Greenpeace International activist Colin Russell was this week refused bail and ordered to return to jail for three months.
But it never helps to make public comment if people are in trouble. The U. While several parallel stream of negotiations are on at the moment, including that on finance for poor countries and the basic elements of the agreement, walk out of even one stream of parallel talks in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change threatens to bring to halt all negotiations. A secret briefing document, prepared by U. While poor countries look upon Loss and Damage reparation for the damage caused by inevitable climate change which any amount of adaptation cannot avoid, the developed countries desire that the issue be defanged from any kind of legal liability it may impose upon the key countries with highest historic emissions.
WorleyParsons shares plunge after profit warning. Only a matter of weeks after issuing guidance of a modest profit outlook for the year ahead, resources sector specialist WorleyParsons has flagged a steep profit decline, admitting there has been no uplift in activity so far this financial year. Outperformance in the US, Europe and southern Africa will not be enough to offset the weakness in Australia and Canada, despite cost cutting efforts, it said.
Additionally, in the Middle East, a number of project delays has resulted in a "slow start to the year", it said, while the Latin American market has also been hit by the downturn in minerals and metals markets, it said. The civil settlement marks the end of weeks of tense negotiations between JP Morgan Chase, the largest US bank, and government agencies.
The government is under pressure to hold banks accountable for wrongdoing that led to the housing crisis. It called the settlement the largest in US history, but the deal is really several rolled into one. The bank still faces at least nine other government investigations, covering everything from its hiring practices in China to whether it manipulated the Libor benchmark interest rate.
For the latest settlement, JP Morgan took the unusual step of acknowledging that its employees knowingly sold loans to investors that were shakier than the bank claimed. JP Morgan and government agencies led by the Justice Department reached a tentative agreement in mid-October and have been hammering out details since then.
JP Morgan's negotiations with the Justice Department began last spring, after Justice Department lawyers in California preliminarily concluded that the bank had violated US civil laws. The Justice Department had looked into mortgage bonds the bank sold from through , the company said in August. Government lawyers had prepared to file a lawsuit against JP Morgan in September and scheduled a news conference to announce it. But they cancelled it at the last minute as JP Morgan reached out to government officials to discuss a settlement.
Belgium: two dead in Total oil refinery blast in Antwerp. Two subcontractors working for French oil company Total have been killed in an explosion at a refinery in the Belgian city of Antwerp. The refinery was evacuated, and Total said there was no fire and no impact on the environment. A local newspaper reported that there had been a problem with the installation for several days, and subcontractors had been called to fix a leak.
South Africa deadly mall collapse cause not immediately identified, many trapped. The collapse of a half-built shopping mall in Tongaat, South Africa, near Durban, has killed at least one person and trapped dozens, mostly construction workers. It was not yet clear what caused the collapse. An official said the second floor of the structure had given way, and concrete blocks had fallen on people.
Hydraulic rescue equipment was brought in to break through to the people trapped inside. Greek PM attends state funeral for Cyprus's former president. Politicians, dignitaries, and hundreds of ordinary people gathered Tuesday for the state funeral of Cyprus's former president, Glafcos Clerides, who died on Friday at the age of The service was the culmination of a three-day mourning period for Clerides, whose statesmanship was the driving force behind the divided country's successful European Union membership bid.
Hundreds of people applauded and shouted "Worthy! All this was part of his undying vision for a truly free and happy Cyprus. In his eulogy, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades thanked Clerides for teaching him that in times of crisis, the homeland is best served not by grand oratory, but "daring and determination to assume your responsibilities irrespective of the political cost.
New Mexico: Police open fire on minivan full of kids. Police officers in New Mexico are under an internal investigation after a routine traffic stop quickly descended into a maniacal scene with a year old rushing an officer, a dangerous high-speed chase, an officer using Tasers and batons, smashing a window and firing at the back of a minivan full of children. The heated incident began outside Taos where Oriana Ferrell, who was taking her children on an educational trip to Memphis, Tennessee, was pulled over for going 71 mph in a 55 mph zone.
Ferrell was immediately pulled over again, and the situation quickly spiralled out of control. In the terrifying video, below, Ferrell and her son tangle with the officers, who then smashing a window of the van with their baton and fire three shots into the back of the fleeing vehicle.
A high-speed chase into Taos ensues before Ferrell gives up in front of a hotel where she was arrested for child abuse, resisting an officer, aggravated fleeing an officer, reckless driving and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The officers involved have not been named but their actions are under internal investigation, according to New Mexico State Police Chief Pete Kassetas. Second security breach in two weeks at Ranger uranium mine. Traditional owners in Kakadu National Park have been rocked by a second security breach in two weeks at the Ranger uranium mine, and say the site's radiation control measures are failing.
Four uranium storage barrels were discovered in bushland outside of Darwin on Monday, outraging the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation GAC , which acts on behalf of the Mirarr people. The weathered and fire-damaged drums had apparently been there for some time, and a preliminary inspection by the Northern Territory Department of Health and mine operators Energy Resources of Australia ERA shows no radioactive material was detected.
But the incident follows another two weeks ago when a controlled vehicle was driven off the site, allegedly through a long-standing hole in a fence, before being stopped down the highway by Ranger security personnel. This may also be a breach of ERA's mining authorisation, in which case the Rio Tinto subsidiary should be prosecuted, he said.
ERA is exploring a potential underground mining operation on the Ranger site, called Ranger 3 Deeps, but has undertaken not to begin any work without the permission of the Mirarr people. And yet this sort of Keystone Cops regulation about a major uranium operation keeps recurring. GAC is calling on federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane to honour the social contract the government entered into in the s with the community, leading to the mine's creation.
In a statement, Dawn Casey has accused the ILC of presiding over what she describes as ''perhaps the largest single evaporation of public money in the indigenous policy domain, ever''. A bipartisan stoogocracy where journalism goes to die. Greece: Doctors call rolling strikes over transfer plan.
He did not determine how many layoffs the government is likely to proceed with as the ministry is in the process of assessing what needs the primary healthcare sector has and whether any surplus doctors could be posted to public hospitals. Gold Coast detectives have charged a year-old Oxenford man following investigations into an incident involving an ATM at Upper Coomera last week. It will be alleged at around 2. A year-old man has been charged with one count each of arson, wilful damage by fire, unlawful use of a motor vehicle with a circumstance of aggravation and attempted stealing.
Police will further allege that the man is a participant of a criminal motorcycle gang. Queensland "bikie cops" accused of overreacting.
Queensland police's anti-bikie squad has been accused of overreacting after a former gang member's house was raided and he was arrested over a drug driving offence. The year-old man and two younger men were arrested on Tuesday after police from task force Maxima allegedly found an SKS semi-automatic rifle, ammunition and methamphetamines at the Northgate address in Brisbane's north.
In a statement on Wednesday, police alleged Scott Robert Paton was a member of the motorcycle gang Highway 61 and said he had been charged with possessing ammunition and failing to appear in court. However, when Paton faced the Brisbane Magistrates Court, the ammunitions charge had vanished and there was no mention of his gang association. Paton's lawyer Debbie Kilroy said her client quit the bikie gang some time ago, and he'd been charged with failing to show up in court over a drug driving offence.
Ms Kilroy told the court Paton claims never to have received the notice to appear in June following a roadside swab that allegedly tested positive for amphetamines.
Outside court, Ms Kilroy said police were reacting to a public fear of bikies that was being whipped up by news reports.
A year-old man charged with possessing a weapon and drugs had his case adjourned until Thursday, while a year-old man who was charged with drug possession is due to appear in court next month.
The only people getting uptight about Schoolies are the media grubs and police. Police are seeking public assistance to identify a man who seriously assaulted another man in Loraine Street Capalaba.
Around am on Saturday November 16, a verbal altercation has taken place about excessive noise, when one man has struck the other man over the head with a skate board. Police investigations continue. Anyone with information which could assist with this matter should contact Crime Stoppers anonymously via or crimestoppers. This policy was heavily criticized by then-opposition leader Tony Abbott. It was also struck down by the High Court due to legal arguments about the conditions for asylum-seekers in Malaysia.
It appears that Indonesia is taking a much stronger position on this issue. Indonesia is not a signatory to the convention, and therefore asylum-seekers in its territory may not have the same levels of protection as they could obtain in Australia.
This was a central argument of the successful challenge to the earlier Malaysia people swap plan. Entering into bilateral agreements on asylum and migration has been tried and largely failed in other regions. Italy was found to have breached international human rights law when it signed an agreement with Libya to accept asylum-seekers intercepted at sea in Once an asylum-seeker arrives on the territory of a country such as Australia, that country has certain obligations towards an asylum-seeker that cannot be cancelled with the stroke of a pen.
We also know that bilateral agreements have their limitations. As others have pointed out, the only way to address refugee movements is through regional approaches that ensure the same treatment and conditions for asylum-seekers throughout the various countries they move through. Making conditions in one country different to others risks simply shifting refugee movements from one place to another.
We see this phenomenon happening now in the Horn of Africa. With Israel fencing off its Sinai border, more asylum-seekers are taking riskier routes through Libya and across the Mediterranean sea to reach Europe. This has resulted in a higher number of deaths at sea and an unknown number of deaths across dangerous desert crossings. The cost and logistics of such an arrangement are high, and the policy itself will do nothing to improve longer-term conditions in Indonesia for the many asylum-seekers who will not come under such an arrangement.
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