The death toll from Indonesia's natural disasters rose to more than 375 people today as volcano Mount Merapi erupted for the second time in a week. Almost all of the deaths were associated with Merapi's initial eruption and a tsunami that hit earlier in the week. Tens of thousands of people have been forced out of their homes by the events. AlertNet.org/Reuters(10/28) , The New York Times (free registration) (10/28)
If we know or believe action by us will lead to torture taking place, we're required by UK and international law to avoid that action. And we do, even though that allows the terrorist activity to go ahead."
Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, Sir John Sawers. Click here for the full story.
"The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that more than 70,700 people are homeless and at least 175,000 people are affected by Cyclone Giri, which pummeled Burma/Myanmar this week."
UN tribunal staff attacked in Lebanon Three employees of the UN-backed court investigating the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri, former prime minister of Lebanon, were robbed and beaten Wednesday in Beirut by a large group of assailants. In a statement, the court called the attacks "a deplorable attempt to obstruct justice." CNN (10/28)
Cambodia wants shake-up at UN rights office The prime minister of Cambodia on Wednesday threatened to shutter the UN human rights office in Phnom Penh if UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon did not replace a local representative he accused of wading into opposition politics. Ban defended the representative to the premier, Hun Sen, who also told Ban to limit the scope of the Khmer Rouge war crimes investigation. Reuters (10/27)
UN tests peacekeeping base for cholera A United Nations military team has taken samples of waste from behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base in an effort to investigate accusations from area residents it might be the cause of Haiti's recent cholera outbreak. More than 300 people have died and 4,722 hospitalized since the outbreak first registered Oct. 20. Google/The Associated Press (10/27)
Investors back CDM past 2012 Investors are expressing renewed optimism for the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism beyond 2012 in the wake of three multimillion dollar deals for carbon credits. The future of the value of carbon credits associated with the CDM, the world's only functioning carbon emissions market, had been in doubt as the mechanism was created as part of the Kyoto Treaty which expires in 2012. Reuters (10/28)
New app targets broken water systems Water for People has developed a new Android cell phone application to help people and groups in the developing track installed water systems and identify broken pumps. The Flow app allows people to photograph systems, answer questions about operating functionality and log GPS coordinates. CNN (10/22)
Rwanda taps technology for health goals Rwanda has placed a heavy emphasis on utilizing technology to help drive a dramatic change in the country's health care picture as part of a government strategy to increase access and achieve Millennium Development Goals. Cell phone-based systems are being used to help store and access patient and treatment programs for HIV/AIDS patients, provide pregnant women with prenatal information and provide 45,000 Community Health Workers with tools to increase access for rural populations. The Independent (Uganda) (10/10)
U.S. grants aid despite child soldier use The United States is being criticized by human-rights group after opting to continue to give military aid to four countries condemned for their use of child soldiers. U.S. officials said revoking such aid to the countries -- Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, and Yemen -- would harm efforts to fight terrorism and introduce reforms to the respective militaries. The Washington Post (10/27)
Asian neighbors to quiz Myanmar over poll Indonesia, on the eve of a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, called upon Myanmar's foreign minister, Nyan Win, to address what it sees is a "credibility deficit" in the run-up to the military dictatorship's first national election in more than two decades. Philippine officials, too, said they would raise the issue of the continued house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Mail & Guardian Online (South Africa) (10/27)
MI6 chief publicly addresses terrorism The chief of British intelligence services, known as MI6, spoke publicly today for the first time in the agency's history to address concerns over anti-terrorism efforts. Sir John Sawers said MI6 intelligence-sharing activities with foreign agencies does not occur in cases where British officials believe the information will result in the use of torture against suspects, but that occasionally counterterrorism efforts do involve working with agencies representing countries that are not "friendly democracies." The Independent (London)/U.K. Press Association (10/28)
Bin Laden calls French kidnappings retaliatory The kidnappings of five French nationals last month in Niger were retribution for France's treatment of Muslims and its ban on Islamic veils that fully cover the face, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden said in an audio message broadcast Wednesday by Al Jazeera. The north African wing of al-Qaida had already claimed responsibility for the abductions, which included two Africans. AlertNet.org/Reuters (10/27)
Karzai delays private security phaseout Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pushed back by at least two months the deadline for the exit of private security companies, which he says are abusing their power and retarding the maturation of government forces. The move followed days of discussions with UN and U.S. representatives. BBC (10/27)
Acquittals up among terror suspects in Pakistan Suspected terrorists are walking free in Pakistan, a country bereft with assassinations and suicide bombings, because of subpar police work and flawed prosecutions, legal experts say. "Our criminal justice system is weak. It's rubbish and needs a lot of improvement," one prosecutor said. Los Angeles Times (10/28)
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The two young women were named by AP news agency as 18-year-old Ayan Mohamed Jama and 15-year-old Huriyo Ibrahim - though other reports suggest they may have been older.
Al-Shabab militiamen walked through the town's streets, telling residents about the executions by loudspeaker and ordering everyone to attend, reports the agency.
The militia group's regional commander, Sheikh Yusuf Ali Ugas, said the two had been found guilty of spying and being what he described as "enemies of Islam".
'Surprising'
But Ayan Mohamed's aunt told a local radio station that they were not guilty.
"How can young school girls be spies for a government or Western countries, that is a very surprising matter," she said.
"These militants are doing whatever they want, we don't know what to do and where to run."
A woman who witnessed the execution, Sadia Osman, also said one of the young women had said she was innocent of the charges, AP reported.
Another eyewitness described how people in the crowd were shocked by the sight of the killings.
"One of the women who saw the execution today collapsed and lost consciousness after she saw the cruel way the girls were shot," Da'ud Ahmed said.
Somalia's UN-backed government authority only controls parts of Mogadishu and a few other areas, although it has been gaining ground from al-Shabab in recent weeks.
Indonesia's president has visited the islands, which were inundated after a 7.7-magnitude undersea earthquake triggered the tsunami three days ago.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cut short a trip to Vietnam to oversee the rescue effort, flying in a helicopter loaded with food and other basic necessities to the remote and inaccessible islands.
There he met both survivors and local officials, promising the central government would help West Sumatra's government to build temporary homes, health facilities and schools, his spokesman said.
The aid effort comes as Indonesia also struggles with the devastation caused by this week's eruption of Mount Merapi in central Java, which killed more than 30 people.
Villages flattened
Local officials say most of the villages hit by the tsunami have been reached, with victims from the worst-hit areas being buried in mass graves.
But almost 400 remain unaccounted for, and rescuers are now working on the assumption that a large number of those missing will not be found alive, having been washed out to sea by the wave.
Although three aid ships carrying food, water, medical supplies and volunteers have now arrived in the disaster zone, bad weather and rough seas remain a major challenge to the relief effort, officials say.
Poor communications infrastructure are also making it difficult for aid teams to send in reports of damage.
The scale of the damage in the worst-affected communities is slowly emerging. Aerial images of the destruction taken from helicopters show survivors picking through debris-strewn roads and beaches littered with swollen bodies.
Relief workers have begun burying the victims, but lack the equipment needed to recover some bodies from beneath trees and debris.
Some villages were simply washed away by Monday's 3m (10ft) wave, and on South Pagai, the hardest-hit island, two villages were completely destroyed, said Hendri Dori Satoko, chairman of the Mentawai legislative council. No houses, government buildings or medical facilities remained standing.
He said most people had been fast asleep when the tsunami struck.
"People who managed to escape went to the mountains," he told the BBC. "Others are missing and presumed dead.
"Those who survived have nothing left except for the clothes on their body. They had to run and had no time to save their belongings."
Some survivors have been evacuated to North Pagai by speedboat, and the Mentawai Islands district chief, Edison Saleleubaja, said work would continue through the night to evacuate the injured for treatment at health clinics.
Thousands of refugees who lost their homes in the disaster have been moved into temporary shelters, says the BBC's Indonesia correspondent Karishma Vaswani.
The local government says it plans to set up a rehabilitation and reconstruction programme and move people away from the coastline where hundreds of houses were flattened, adds our correspondent.
No warning
The relief effort was limited, said Hartje Robert Winerungan, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency, as helicopters and aid ships were taking hours to reach affected areas.
Many villages were simply washed away by the 3m (10ft) wave
"Some villages in the remote island can't be reached so far," said Mr Winerungan. "We're working on it."
Search teams have found bodies strewn along beaches and roadsides as they scour the islands.
However, many are still looking for their loved ones, even as the fear grows that they will not find them alive.
Indonesian officials said locals had been given no indication of the coming wave, as a high-tech tsunami warning system installed in the wake of 2004's giant Indian Ocean tsunami was not working.
Two buoys monitoring rising water levels off the Mentawai islands had been vandalised and were out of service, officials told the BBC.
But even a functioning warning system may not have provided sufficient warning, as the epicentre of the earthquake was so close to the islands that residents had just a few minutes following the quake to escape to higher ground.
The vast Indonesian archipelago sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, one of the world's most active areas for earthquakes and volcanoes.
More than 1,000 people were killed by an earthquake off Sumatra in September 2009.
In December 2004, a 9.1-magnitude quake off the coast of Aceh triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed a quarter of a million people in 13 countries including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.
Sikakap hospital
Hundreds of injured survivors crowd into makeshift hospital; several villages nearby completely flattened
Macaronis resort
Villas destroyed; only the main building is still standing, which owner Mark Loughran said "saved everybody from being swept away"
Muntei Baru Baru
Entire village flattened, including 70 houses, a school and a church; dozens of victims buried in mass grave
Sabeugungung
Village completely destroyed, with 50 reported dead and 150 missing
Bosua
Some 10 people reported dead and 80 houses destroyed
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Business this week from The Economist by Biodun Iginla, BBC News and The Economist Topic: bbc news, biodun iginla, the eco
Oct 28th 2010 From The Economist print edition
SGX, Singapore’s main stock exchange, launched a takeover bid for ASX, its Australian counterpart. The chief executives of both bourses touted the benefits of the A$8.4 billion ($8.3 billion) proposal, which would create Asia’s fourth-biggest exchange by market cap of listed firms. But the deal must surmount regulatory impediments in Australia, including a 15% cap on foreign ownershipof ASX. See article
UBS reported that its wealth-management business netted SFr1 billion ($1 billion) in new money in the third quarter, after several quarters during which it recorded steep outflows of cash as clients withdrew their funds. But the Swiss bank’s earnings disappointed some analysts; net profit was boosted by a tax credit and its investment-banking unit made a pre-tax loss. See article
In contrast to some of its rivals, Deutsche Bank said its investment-banking business had performed well. However, the German bank posted an overall quarterly loss of €1.2 billion ($1.6 billion), thanks to charges related to its purchase of Deutsche Postbank.
Two of China’s biggest banks posted robust earnings for the quarter, with profit up by around 30% at Agricultural Bank of Chinaand Bank of China. The ratio of bad loans to total loans fell at both, though analysts expect that the recent consumer-credit boom will cause trouble for Chinese banks next year.
The appointment of Todd Combs as an investment manager atBerkshire Hathaway led to speculation that he would be part of the team running the company when Warren Buffetteventuallyretires as chairman and chief executive. The low-profile Mr Combs runs a hedge fund in Connecticut; he will now be in charge of a large chunk of Berkshire’s portfolio. The 80-year-old Mr Buffett said Mr Combs was a “100% fit” with Berkshire, which is known for its long-term approach to investing.
Home prices in America dipped a bit in August, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index. Its measure of prices in 20 cities declined by 0.2% compared with July, and was up by only 1.7% over the previous 12 months.
Britain’s economy grew by 0.8% between July and September from the previous three months (or 2.8% compared with a year earlier), twice the rate that had been forecast by most economists. Growth between April and September was the strongest for ten years. See article
Increased sales in its crucial North American market helpedFord record net income of $1.7 billion for the third quarter, its sixth successive quarterly profit. The carmaker, which avoided a government bail-out last year, also said it had further reduced its debt burden and expects that this will be one of its strongest-ever years. In 2008 Ford made a loss of $14.6 billion.
LVMH, a luxury-goods group that includes Louis Vuitton, TAG Heuer and Moët & Chandon among its brands, declared that it had accumulated a stake in Hermès amounting to around 17% of the company. The news surprised the luxury-goods business, not least the members of the Hermès family who retain control of the maker of expensive silk scarves and handbags. Bernard Arnault, LVMH’s chairman, is known for his penchant for acquiring family-owned firms.
America’s Department of the Interior gave the go-ahead for what will be the world’s largest solar-energy project. Backed by a German company and built on public lands near Blythe, California, the venture will eventually produce enough output from four solar-thermal plants to power between 300,000 and 750,000 homes.
Vestas, the world’s biggest manufacturer of wind turbines, announced 3,000 job losses because of lower-than-expected demand in Europe. The company will close four factories in its native Denmark and one in Sweden.
LimeWire was forced to shut down after a judge issued a permanent injunction against the popular file-sharing website for copyright infringement. America’s recording industry began its lawsuit against the site four years ago; damages will be determined in January. LimeWire’s owner is soon to start a new service that makes legal downloads possible.
Martin Broughton, the chairman of British Airways, lambasted some of the security measures at airports imposed by America in response to terrorist threats, describing certain checks, such as the requirement to remove shoes, as “completely redundant”. He also questioned the necessity of having to take a small computer out of its bag, and said airport authorities were still unsure about whether to classify the iPad as a laptop. See article
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Oct 28th 2010 From The Economist print edition
Democrats and Republicans made one final pitch to voters before America’s mid-term elections on November 2nd, in which Barack Obama’s party is expected to fare badly. All 435 districts in the House of Representatives and more than a third of seats in the Senate are being contested, as well as 37 governorships. More than 100 state referendums will also take place, along with elections to state legislatures. See article
Jesse Jackson junior decided not to run for mayor of Chicago. The congressman was one of the biggest potential rivals to Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s former chief of staff, who resigned from the White House to campaign for the job. The election is in February.
Néstor Kirchner, Argentina’s former president and the husband of the current one, Cristina Fernández, died suddenly of a heart attack. His demise throws open a presidential election due next year in which he had been expected to run. See article
Gunmen murdered 13 people at a drug-rehabilitation centre in Tijuana, in northern Mexico. The killings came days after police seized 134 tonnes of marijuana in the city. Separately, several people from another rehabilitation centre in western Mexico were also killed.
There were hopes in Haiti that a cholera outbreak that has killed around 300 people could be contained before it spreads from the rural Artibonite valley, where it began, to the crowded makeshift camps of earthquake survivors in the capital, Port-au-Prince. But the UN said aid agencies should plan for a nationwide outbreak of the disease. See article
Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, ordered the nationalisation of the local business of Owens-Illinois, an American glassmaker. His government recently announced similar takeovers of an agricultural-services firm and farmland.
The Iranian authorities said they had for the first time loaded fuel into a nuclear reactor at Bushehr that has been under construction off and on since 1970, and will be operated by Russians under the eye of the International Atomic Energy Agency. This should not affect Iran’s row with the West over its nuclear activities elsewhere.
Wefaq, a Shia opposition party, won 18 out of 40 seats in the national assembly in a general election in Bahrain, a Gulf island run by a Sunni monarch. A run-off for nine seats will ensue. Even if allies of the al-Khalifa family were to lose control of the lower house, the appointed upper house can overrule it.
Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein’s long-serving foreign minister, was sentenced to death by Iraq’s Supreme Court for his part in crimes committed during his period in office, including complicity in murder. He is expected to appeal.
East African leaders moved the venue of a regional summit to start on October 30th from Kenya to Ethiopia to accommodate President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court. As a signatory to the treaty that set up the court, Kenya, unlike Ethiopia, would be obliged to arrest him, though he has visited Kenya unscathed in the past.
Two days of violence shook Conakry, the capital of Guinea. The two rival candidates in a presidential election run-off, now rescheduled for November 7th, called for calm.
The French parliament approved the final version of a controversial reform to the pension system that will raise the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62. In recent weeks strikes and protests against the reform had brought millions on to the streets and led to widespread fuel shortages. See article
Tensions resurfaced over a Franco-German proposal to rewrite European Union treaties to make a bail-out fund for troubled euro-zone economies permanent. Viviane Reding, the European Commission’s vice-president and justice commissioner, who crossed swords with the French government during the summer over its expulsion of illegal Romanies, described the plan as “irresponsible”.
Poland and Russia approved details of a deal that will see Gazprom, the Russian state-owned gas monopoly, sell over 10 billion cubic metres of gas a year to Poland from 2012 to 2022. Some fear the deal will leave Poland overdependent on Russia for its energy.
EU foreign ministers agreed to send Serbia’s accession bid to the European Commission, bringing the country a step closer to joining the club. But they warned the government that it needed to step up its attempts to find Ratko Mladic, the commander of Bosnian Serb forces during the wars of the 1990s, who is wanted by a war-crimes tribunal. See article
The EU agreed to send a team of armed guards to patrol Greece’sborder with Turkey, in an effort to stem illegal immigration. Although overall illegal immigration into the EU has dropped, land crossings into Greece from Turkey have risen dramatically this year.
William Hague, Britain’s foreign secretary, played down the potential for talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, telling Parliament: “we are not remotely at the stage of laying down the terms of a political settlement.” Earlier this month speculation increased that both sides may be trying to negotiate an end to the war in Afghanistan, when General David Petraeus confirmed that NATO-led forces had helped a senior Taliban commander make the journey to Kabul to meet officials. See article
Meanwhile, Hamid Karzai confirmed a report in the New York Timesthat his chief of staff had received cash from Iran, handed over in bags. The Afghan president said it was a “transparent” process “to help the presidential office”.
Leaders from the member countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathered in Hanoi for a summit.
An earthquake and tsunami hit the remote Mentawai islands off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, killing over 300 people. Hundreds more were missing. As questions were raised about the failure of the tsunami early-warning system on the islands, and with an erupting volcano causing deaths in another part of Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cut short his visit to Vietnam to deal with the disasters.
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by Suzanne Gould, BBC News Analyst, for the BBC's Biodun Iginla
Thu, October 28, 2010 -- 1:30 PM ET -----
Halliburton and BP knew weeks before the fatal explosion of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable but still went ahead with the job, the presidential commission investigating the accident said on Thursday.
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