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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Συνεδριάζει η "Φαταχ"[ 317 ]
Taliban cells have been broken up, [ 316 ]
Pakistan police battle Taliban
Police in Pakistan are cracking down on the Taliban in the country's most populous province, Punjab.
A number of Taliban cells have been broken up, and key figures have been arrested - including a self-confessed bomb-maker, and a would-be suicide bomber.
Orla Guerin reports from Lahore.
Μεταφραση
Η αστυνομία στο Πακιστάν εισεβαλε στο χωρο των Taliban στην πιό πυκνοκατοικημένη επαρχία της χώρας, Punjab.
Ενα πλήθος από στοιχεία (κύτταρα ) των Taliban έχουν διασπαστεί, και βασικοί παράγοντες έχουν συλληφθεί - συμπεριλαμβανομένου ενός κατασκευαστή βομβών
που το ομολόγησε ο ίδιος, και ενός εν δυνάμει βομβιστή αυτοκτονίας.
Εκθέσεις της Orla Guerin από Lahore.
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Violence against Chinese migrants in Algiers[ 315 ]
 Many migrant workers compete with Algerians for work in the building trade |
About 100 local residents and Chinese migrant workers have clashed in the Algerian capital, some brandishing knives and rods, reports say.
Ten Chinese migrants were injured and two Chinese shops looted in the fight, Reuter said, citing a Chinese diplomat.
Violence flared after a confrontation between a shop owner and a migrant in the city's Bab Ezzouar district.
High unemployment among young Algerians has fuelled tensions over migrant workers who accept lower pay.
A shopkeeper told Reuters that the fight broke out after a disagreement with a Chinese migrant worker.
"I told him not to park his car in front of my shop, but he insulted me," 31-year-old Abdelkrim Salouda said.
"I punched him, I thought it was over, but after 30 minutes he came back with at least 50 Chinese to take revenge. It is a miracle I am still alive."
Firms in Africa's third largest economy say that they depend on Chinese labour - often better qualified and willing to accept lower wages than Algerian workers - to staff the construction sector.
Official estimates put the number of Chinese migrant workers living in Algeria at 35,000.
Some 8,000 work in the building sector in Algeria, according to Agence France Presse, and in the Bab Ezzouar district alone Chinese firms have built dozens of structures.
A diplomat at the Chinese embassy said he hoped Algerian authorities would look into the fighting but added that it would not affect relations between the two countries.
"Our friendship with Algeria is strong and this event is nothing in comparison with the links between our two countries," Ling Jun said.
Large Area burning in Alaska[ 314 ]
Hundreds of Thousands of Acres Burning in Interior Alaska
Posted August 4, 2009
Recommend this imageLarge wildfires that began in July continued to burn in interior Alaska in the first week of August 2009. These images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on August 2 show some of the state’s largest blazes and the thick pall of smoke they were creating. The top image is a natural-color (photo-like) view of the area, while the lower image combines visible, shortwave-, and near-infrared light to make burned areas (brick red) stand out better from unburned vegetation (bright green). In this kind of false-color image, the bright pink areas along the perimeters of the fires are often a sign of open flame.
According to the August 3 report from the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center, 483 fires had burned across the state so far this year, affecting about 2.4 million acres. The Railbelt Complex was the largest one burning in August, at an estimated 462,298 acres. The Tanana River appears to be creating a natural firebreak at the northern edge of the fire, which is spreading to the south. To the east, the smaller Wood River Fire (107,634 acres) has bright pink spots along both its northern and southern perimeters. Both these fires, as well as the Big Creek Fire (145,652 acres) and Little Black One Fire (292,907 acres) along the Yukon River, were triggered
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant..[ 313 ]
On April 26,1986, Reactor Number Four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the Ukraine-Belarus border exploded, and the reactor burned for days afterwards. It was the worst accident in the history of nuclear power, releasing radionuclides over parts of what today are Belarus, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation. The accident affected hundreds of thousands of people, including forcing the evacuation of 116,000 residents from a highly contaminated area, and causing some 4,000 confirmed cases of childhood thyroid cancer. The Soviet Union built a shelter, commonly referred to as a sarcophagus, around the reactor, and the Russian Federation permanently closed the site in 2000.
On April 28, 2009, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite took this true-color picture of the nuclear reactor. The large body of water in the right half of the image is the northwestern end of a 12-kilometer- (7.5-mile-) long cooling pond, and water channels run through the network of reactor-related buildings west of the pond. Reactor number four appears on the west end of a long building northeast of an L-shaped water channel.
Mixing with the network of abandoned buildings, water channels, and roads, areas of green appear—a testament to the vegetation that was growing around the site some 20 years after the accident. After the evacuation of the region affected by Chernobyl, satellite imagery revealed widespread abandonment of agricultural fields, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. That did not, however, halt vegetation growth near the site. A wider view of the area acquired by Landsat in 2004 showed green fields around Chernobyl. In fact, plants and animals appeared to have made something of a comeback, according to some studies. Residents who defied evacuation orders and remained in the region described wildlife encounters in a 2007 article from The Washington Post, although experts debated the health of the wildlife in the region.