Sabtu, 04 Mei 2019
North Korea sends a message with launch of short-range projectiles - CBS This Morning
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2019-05-04 11:24:24Z
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90 rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel: IDF - CNN
The Iron Dome aerial defense system intercepted dozens of the incoming rockets, the IDF added.
It also says an IDF aircraft has targeted two rocket launchers in northern Gaza, and that IDF tanks targeted a number of Hamas military posts.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health says one person has died as a result of the Israeli strikes Saturday, and three others are wounded.
There are no reports of any casualties in Israel from the rocket fire.
Saturday's rocket barrage comes less than a day after two militants from Hamas's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, were killed in an Israeli strike on Hamas posts in Gaza.
Israel launched airstrikes Friday after two Israeli soldiers were wounded by sniper fire along the Gaza border.
Two further Palestinians died in Gaza Friday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health -- both men succumbing to their wounds after being shot by Israeli troops during protests along the Gaza fence, according to health officials.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/04/middleeast/israel-gaza-rockets-intl/index.html
2019-05-04 10:47:00Z
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Over 90 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza: Israel's military - NBC News
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More than 90 rockets were fired from the Gaza strip into southern Israel Saturday, the Israeli military said, prompting retaliatory attacks on Hamas military posts inside the strip that killed at least one person and injured several others, according to Gazan authorities.
Earlier, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said more than 50 rockets have been fired in half an hour, of which dozens were intercepted by the country's Iron Dome aerial defense system.
Air-raid sirens sounded across southern Israel, according to the IDF, sending residents running for bomb shelters.
Palestinian Health Ministry officials in Gaza said one Palestinian was killed and four wounded as the result of Israel's retaliatory air force strikes on Saturday. Ashraf al Qudra, spokesman for the Health Ministry, said the person killed was a 22-year-old civilian.
There were no immediate reports of Israeli casualties.
The IDF said on Twitter that its tanks had begun to strike Hamas military targets.
Israel Police spokesperson Mickey Rosenfeld said there are heightened security measures in the south and increased patrols in cities after the wave of rockets. He said police bomb disposal experts were responding to rockets that have struck open areas in the south.
Saturday's missile barrage comes after the IDF said that shots were fired at Israeli troops from southern Gaza on Friday, injuring two soldiers.
In response, an IDF aircraft targeted a military post of Hamas, an Islamic militant group that has ruled over the territory since 2007. Hamas said that two of its militants were killed and three were wounded in that strike.
Egyptian mediators, credited with brokering a ceasefire after a Hamas rocket attack north of Tel Aviv in March set off a burst of intense fighting, have been working to prevent any further escalation.
Gaza, which is home to around two million Palestinians, has seen its economy suffer after years of blockades as well as recent foreign aid cuts. Unemployment stands at 52 percent, according to the World Bank.
Israel says its blockade is necessary to stop weapons reaching Hamas, which has fought three wars with Israel in the past decade.
Reuters contributed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/over-90-rockets-fired-israel-gaza-israel-s-military-n1001991
2019-05-04 10:03:00Z
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Israeli military answers Gaza rocket attack with airstrikes - New York Post
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Israeli military says Palestinian militants are firing rockets from the Gaza Strip.
The army said Saturday that sirens warning of incoming projectiles sounded several times in southern Israel.
In response, Israeli aircraft targeted two launch sites in northern Gaza. Local media reported three Palestinian casualties.
The deadly flare-up between Israel and Gaza militants enters a second day, shattering a monthlong Egyptian-mediated easing of hostilities.
On Friday, Israel said two soldiers were wounded by gunshots from the Hamas-controlled territory. No group claimed responsibility for the shooting.
Israeli aircraft carried out retaliatory strikes, killing two Hamas militants. Two other Palestinians were killed during the weekly protests along the Israel-Gaza perimeter fence.
Egypt has been trying to reach a long-term cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, who fought three wars the past decade.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/04/israeli-military-answers-gaza-rocket-attack-with-airstrikes/
2019-05-04 07:58:00Z
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At least 12 killed in India as Cyclone Fani lashes Bangladesh - Aljazeera.com
Cyclone Fani, one of the biggest to hit the Indian subcontinent in years, has barrelled into Bangladesh after leaving a trail of deadly destruction across the eastern coast of India.
At least 12 people died in Odisha, the worst-hit Indian state, the Reuters news agency reported on Saturday, citing the local Indian media.
Meanwhile, police in Bangladesh told AFP news agency that nine people perished even before the eye of the storm rumbled over the border on Saturday morning. Over a million people were moved to safety, Bangladeshi officials said.
Fourteen villages were inundated as a tidal surge breached flood dams. The dead included a minor in Bangladesh's Barguna district on the coast and five others killed by lightning.
"We are mooring our boat because it's the only means of income for us. Only Allah knows when we can go back to fishing again," Akbar Ali, a fisherman near the town of Dacope in Bangladesh, told AFP while battling surging waves to tie his boat to a tree.
With the storm weakening but still packing a punch, winds of up to 70km an hour and heavy rain battered overnight and on Saturday morning the Indian state of West Bengal and its capital Kolkata, including the Sundarbans mangrove forest area.
Reporting from New Delhi, Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler said the biggest challenge before the Indian authorities is to reach the areas hit by the monster cycylone.
"The biggest concern is clearing the roads so that they can get to the communities that are cut off," he said, adding that the hardest-hit areas are without electricity after the power grid collapsed.
Heidler said there are still fears of a heavy rainfall or storm surge along the eastern Indian coast.
"It's a total mess in islands of the Sunderbans as the cyclone has destroyed everything in its path, fuelling fears rivers could burst their banks and leave vast areas underwater," said Manturam Pakhira, Sunderbans affairs minister.
"Locals spent a sleepless night and many came out of their thatched huts and stood on the river banks measuring the level of the water," Pakhira said.
"Several homes have been flattened, roofs blown off, electric poles and trees toppled."
Several hundred thousand people were told to evacuate coastal areas of West Bengal before the arrival of Fani ("snake's hood" in Bengali), with 5,000 leaving the low-lying areas and old, dilapidated buildings of Kolkata, home to 4.6 million people.
"Nearly a dozen people were trapped as an old building in the northern part of the city has collapsed," Kolkata's mayor Firhad Hakim said. "They have been rescued and shifted to a safer place."
Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal's chief minister and a key figure in India's ongoing general election, cancelled all political rallies and set up an improvised control room in a hotel in the path of the storm.
Kolkata's international airport was ordered closed. Train services were also halted.
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| A damaged water tank after Cyclone Fani hit Puri in the eastern state of Odisha [Reuters] |
Odisha state worst hit
Worst hit was the state of Odisha where Fani made landfall on Friday, packing winds gusting up to 200km an hour, sending coconut trees flying, knocking down power lines and cutting off water and telecommunications.
Eight people were killed in Odisha, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported, including a teenage boy crushed under a tree and a woman hit by concrete debris.
While not confirming any deaths, Odisha disaster management official Prabhat Mahapatra told AFP there were about 160 people injured in the Hindu pilgrimage city of Puri alone.
"It just went dark and then suddenly we could barely see five metres in front of us," said one Puri resident.
"There were roadside food carts, store signs all flying by in the air," the man told AFP. "The wind is deafening."
PTI reported that a construction crane collapsed and that a police booth was dragged 60 metres by the wind.
As Fani headed northeast, Odisha authorities battled to remove fallen trees and other debris strewn over roads and to restore phone and internet services.
Electricity pylons were down, tin roofs were ripped off and windows on many buildings were smashed.
Puri's famous 12th-century Jagannath temple escaped damage, however.
Gouranga Malick, 48, was solemnly picking up bricks after the small two-room house he shared with his six-strong family collapsed, its roof blown away.
"I have never witnessed this type of devastation in my lifetime," he told AFP.
"Energy infrastructure has been completely destroyed," Odisha's chief minister Naveen Patnaik said.
The winds were felt as far away as Mount Everest, with tents blown away at Camp 2 at 6,400 metres and Nepali authorities cautioning helicopters against flying.
Ports have been closed but the Indian Navy has sent warships to the region to help if needed. Hundreds of workers were taken off offshore oil rigs.
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| A damaged fuel station in Odisha state's Puri after Cyclone Fani hit the city [Reuters] |
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/dead-monster-cyclone-fani-enters-bangladesh-190504051938859.html
2019-05-04 07:27:00Z
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At least nine dead as monster Cyclone Fani enters Bangladesh - Aljazeera.com
Cyclone Fani, one of the biggest to hit the Indian subcontinent in years, has barrelled into Bangladesh after leaving a trail of deadly destruction in India.
Eight people died in India, according to local media reports. Bangladeshi police told AFP news agency nine people perished even before the eye of the storm rumbled over the border on Saturday morning.
Some 400,000 people have been taken to shelters, officials told AFP.
Fourteen villages were inundated as a tidal surge breached flood dams. The dead included a minor in Bangladesh's Barguna district on the coast and five others killed by lightning.
"We are mooring our boat because it's the only means of income for us. Only Allah knows when we can go back to fishing again," Akbar Ali, a fisherman near the town of Dacope in Bangladesh, told AFP while battling surging waves to tie his boat to a tree.
With the storm weakening but still packing a punch, winds of up to 70km an hour and heavy rain battered overnight and on Saturday morning the Indian state of West Bengal and its capital Kolkata, including the Sundarbans mangrove forest area.
Reporting from New Delhi, Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler said the biggest challenge before the authorities now is to reach the areas hit by the monster cycylone.
"The biggest concern is clearing the roads so that they can get to the communities that are cut off," he said, adding that the hardest-hit areas are completely without electricity.
Heidler said there are still concerns about a heavy rainfall or storm surge.
"It's a total mess in islands of the Sunderbans as the cyclone has destroyed everything in its path, fuelling fears rivers could burst their banks and leave vast areas underwater," said Manturam Pakhira, Sunderbans affairs minister.
"Locals spent a sleepless night and many came out of their thatched huts and stood on the river banks measuring the level of the water," Pakhira said.
"Several homes have been flattened, roofs blown off, electric poles and trees toppled."
Several hundred thousand people were told to evacuate coastal areas of West Bengal before the arrival of Fani ("snake's hood" in Bengali), with 5,000 leaving the low-lying areas and old, dilapidated buildings of Kolkata, home to 4.6 million people.
"Nearly a dozen people were trapped as an old building in the northern part of the city has collapsed," Kolkata's mayor Firhad Hakim said. "They have been rescued and shifted to a safer place."
Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal's chief minister and a key figure in India's ongoing general election, cancelled all political rallies and set up an improvised control room in a hotel in the path of the storm.
Kolkata's international airport was ordered closed. Train services were also halted.
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| A damaged water tank after Cyclone Fani hit Puri in the eastern state of Odisha [Reuters] |
Odisha state worst hit
Worst hit was the state of Odisha where Fani made landfall on Friday, packing winds gusting up to 200km an hour, sending coconut trees flying, knocking down power lines and cutting off water and telecommunications.
Eight people were killed in Odisha, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported, including a teenage boy crushed under a tree and a woman hit by concrete debris.
While not confirming any deaths, Odisha disaster management official Prabhat Mahapatra told AFP there were about 160 people injured in the Hindu pilgrimage city of Puri alone.
"It just went dark and then suddenly we could barely see five metres in front of us," said one Puri resident.
"There were roadside food carts, store signs all flying by in the air," the man told AFP. "The wind is deafening."
PTI reported that a construction crane collapsed and that a police booth was dragged 60 metres by the wind.
As Fani headed northeast, Odisha authorities battled to remove fallen trees and other debris strewn over roads and to restore phone and internet services.
Electricity pylons were down, tin roofs were ripped off and windows on many buildings were smashed.
Puri's famous 12th-century Jagannath temple escaped damage, however.
Gouranga Malick, 48, was solemnly picking up bricks after the small two-room house he shared with his six-strong family collapsed, its roof blown away.
"I have never witnessed this type of devastation in my lifetime," he told AFP.
"Energy infrastructure has been completely destroyed," Odisha's chief minister Naveen Patnaik said.
The winds were felt as far away as Mount Everest, with tents blown away at Camp 2 at 6,400 metres and Nepali authorities cautioning helicopters against flying.
Ports have been closed but the Indian Navy has sent warships to the region to help if needed. Hundreds of workers were taken off offshore oil rigs.
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| A damaged fuel station in Odisha state's Puri after Cyclone Fani hit the city [Reuters] |
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/dead-monster-cyclone-fani-enters-bangladesh-190504051938859.html
2019-05-04 05:58:00Z
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Jumat, 03 Mei 2019
Theresa May heckled by her own party members after local election shellacking thanks to Brexit impasse - Fox News
Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May was heckled by her own party Friday, the morning after a shellacking in local elections that saw her Conservative Party suffer heavy losses amid an ongoing impasse over Britain's departure from the European Union.
“Why don’t you resign,” a man in the audience of the Welsh Conservative Party’s Spring Conference yelled as May took the stage. “We don’t want you.”
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A handful of other members yelled “get out, sir” but that didn't gather too much momentum from those gathered to hear the prime minister.
As ballots were still being counted Friday afternoon, the Tories had lost more than 900 seats, according to a live BBC count. While they may still remain the biggest party in local government overall, with more than 2,000 seats, it would be a significant gutting of their majority and end their control of a significant number of local councils.
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at the Welsh Conservative party conference at Llangollen Pavilion, Llangollen, Wales, Friday May 3, 2019. Britain's main Conservative and Labour parties took a hammering in local elections as Brexit-weary voters expressed frustration over the country's stalled departure from the European Union (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)
The opposition Labour Party had lost more than 100, while the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats had so far gained more than 500 seats. Other smaller parties and independent candidates picked up more than 400 seats
While local elections are supposed to be fought on local issues, they are often a referendum on the performance of the sitting government in Westminster. Brexit is currently looming over everything, and the result is likely to be seen as a damning indictment on lawmakers’ inability to get Britain out of the E.U. nearly two years after Brits voted to leave in 2016.
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May has tried repeatedly to get her withdrawal agreement, negotiated with the E.U. last year, through Parliament. But it has been overwhelmingly voted down three times, leaving May to negotiate a delay until October 31 as she reached out to opposition parties to come to a compromise and muster support for some form of agreement.
Labour Party Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell indicated Friday that the elections may give those talks more impetus, saying that message from the elections was: “Brexit - sort it.”
“Message received,” he tweeted.
The result bodes particularly poorly for May’s party ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections later this month, that the U.K. was not due to participate in until the government agreed to a delay.
Polls for the European elections suggest that the newly formed Brexit Party, led by former U.K. Independence Party leader and Fox News contributor Nigel Farage, is set to make significant gains at the Tories’ expense and could even emerge as the biggest party overall.
Additionally, polls for any general election called this year suggest that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn could end up replacing May as Prime Minister -- who was once written off by many commentators as unelectable due to his extreme left-wing positions, until his party significantly cut the Tory majority in Parliament in the 2017 general election.
Under that cloud of gloom, the calls for May to resign have been increasing. May survived a vote of confidence from her own party in December -- meaning she is safe from another such vote until December this year. She also stared down a vote of confidence in Parliament in January.
Daniel Hannan, a pro-Brexit Conservative MEP, wrote this week that May must stand down before the European elections to avoid the party taking a “hell of a beating.”
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“Staying on would be a tragedy for her, ensuring that her premiership ended in bitterness and recriminations. It would be a tragedy for the Conservative Party, which could very well cease to be viable as a party of government,” he said. “And, because it would hand power to Corbyn, [Shadow Home Secretary] Diane Abbott and John McDonnell (who on Monday was delightedly promising a socialist revolution), it would be a tragedy for Britain.”
The result comes amid a rough week for May, in which she sacked Gavin Williamson, the defense secretary for allegedly leaking details about a possible arrangement with Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to the media.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/theresa-may-heckled-brexit-impasse
2019-05-03 15:33:23Z
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