Turkey summons Israeli envoy over aid ship attack

ANKARA: The Israeli ambassador was summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry Monday after Israeli forces stormed a Turkish aid ship and activists said two people were killed, a Turkish diplomat said.

“The ambassador (Gabby Levy) was summoned to the foreign ministry. We will convey our reaction in the strongest terms,” the diplomat, who asked not to be named, said.

Reports by activists that two people were killed and about 30 wounded on the Mavi Marmara ship “seem to be true,” the diplomat said.

Turkey summons Israeli envoy after aid ship sormed

ANKARA: The Israeli ambassador was summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry Monday after Israeli forces stormed a Turkish aid ship and activists said two people were killed, a Turkish diplomat said.

“The ambassador Gabby Levy was summoned to the foreign ministry. We will convey our reaction in the strongest terms,” the diplomat, who asked not to be named, told foreign news agency.

Reports by activists that two people were killed and about 30 wounded on the Mavi Marmara ship “seem to be true,” the diplomat said.

Israeli censor blocks reporting of convoy casualties: radio

JERUSALEM: Israel”s military censor on Monday blocked the reporting of any information about casualties being transferred to Israeli hospitals after the navy stormed a fleet of aid ships destined for the Gaza Strip.

Israel radio said the censor was referring to any casualties brought to Israel for treatment. Israeli radio and television reports said at least 10 people had been killed in the clashes and an unknown number of people injured.

Separately, a Turkish charity linked to the convoy said in Ankara that at least two people had been killed in clashes on board one of the boats.

Storm kills 90 in Central America

GUATEMALA CITY: The first tropical storm of the season in the Americas has left at least 90 people dead in Central America amid flash floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains, officials said Sunday.

Tropical Storm Agatha also forced more than 74,000 people to flee their homes as it whipped heavy rains across Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico.

Agatha slammed into Guatemala overnight with 65-kilometer (40-mile) per hour winds and was soon downgraded to a tropical depression as it dissipated over higher ground, but the damage caused by heavy rains and high winds prompted the government in El Salvador to declare a state of emergency.

US reassured Netanyahu ahead of NPT deal: Israeli official

OTTAWA: Israel”s prime minister was given “unequivocal assurances” from US President Barack Obama that a UN accord agreeing to talks on a nuclear weapons-free Mideast would not endanger the Jewish state, a senior Israeli official said Sunday.

“Two weeks ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received unequivocal assurances that included significant upgrade of Israel”s strategic and deterrent capabilities in a personal message conveyed by President Obama,” the official said in a statement in Toronto, where Netanyahu was on a visit.

The premier was “promised that there would be no resolutions adopted at the UN that would hurt the vital interests of Israel,” the official added, referring to Friday”s landmark agreement reached by the members of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that singles out Israel and seeks a 2012 conference on establishing a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons.

The document calls on Israel to join the NPT and urges it to open its facilities to inspection, but makes no mention of Iran”s controversial nuclear program.

Israel has already said it would refuse to participate in the 2012 conference and slammed the resolution as “deeply flawed and hypocritical.”

In an apparent reference to the call, Netanyahu told some 7,000 members of Toronto”s Jewish community at a pro-Israel rally on Sunday that Israel would never agree to these demands.

“The establishment of the state of Israel has given the Jewish people the power to repel the attacks on the Jewish people,” Netanyahu said.

“There are those who want to strip Israel of that power. I promise you that will never happen, Israel will never ever give up the power to defend itself.”

Netanyahu later travelled to Ottawa where he was to hold a series of meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, one of Israel”s strongest supporters in the international community.

Sunday”s statement was seen as an Israeli government effort to downplay the surprise, worry and outrage back home over the NPT agreement ahead of Netanyahu-Obama talks scheduled for Tuesday at the White House.

It appeared to be tamping down any anger Israel may have with the United States for supporting the agreement despite intensive Israeli efforts to block it.

Consternation over the resolution has welled up in Israel, where the top-selling Yediot Aharonot daily said Netanyahu”s government was “furious with the Obama administration for having failed to prevent the resolution from passing… and for choosing to support it.”

“The American support for the resolution, after decades in which it supported Israel on this issue, came as a complete surprise,” the paper said, noting that Israel, in talks between Netanyahu and Obama aides, had been promised that the resolution would not focus on Israel.

In Sunday”s statement, the Israeli official stressed that “Netanyahu acted in the last two months to ensure that the resolution at the UN would have no practical effect on Israel.

“These efforts included continuous contact between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Obama.”

Officials with Netanyahu have said the two leaders will discuss the accord when they meet in Washington, their first face-to-face talks since a frosty White House meeting in March which was viewed by many as an attempt to humiliate Netanyahu in the wake of a spat over settlements.

Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East, with around 200 warheads, but has maintained a policy of deliberate ambiguity about its capabilities since the mid-1960s.

Storm Agatha kills 82 in Central America: officials

GUATEMALA CITY: The first tropical storm of the season in the Americas has left at least 82 people dead in Guatemala and El Salvador, amid flash floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains, officials said Sunday.

Tropical Storm Agatha also forced more than 74,000 people to flee their homes as it whipped heavy rains across four countries, including Mexico and Honduras.

“As of the moment, we have reports of 73 people killed throughout the country, the majority from landslides,” Guatemala”s emergency management agency (Conred) chief David de Leon told AFP.

The Prensa Libre newspaper on its website gave an unofficial death toll of 80.
Among the dead were four children in a house that was swept away in a landslide, officials said.

In neighboring El Salvador, floods and landslides accounted for nine deaths, authorities there said.

Agatha slammed into Guatemala overnight with 65-kilometer (40-mile) per hour winds and was soon downgraded to a tropical depression as it dissipated over higher ground, but the damage caused by heavy rains and high winds prompted the government in El Salvador to declare a state of emergency.

Guatemala had been under a state of emergency since Saturday, while Honduras declared a nationwide state of emergency Sunday and established a crisis management committee to address heavy flooding and other effects from the storm.

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said flash floods and mudslides forced 74,500 people to flee their homes.

He said schools would remain closed until next week.

The worst storm-related disaster in Guatemala occurred in a village in Solola department where a landslide swept away 25 homes killing 15 people, with another 10 missing, according to San Antonio Palopo Mayor Andres Cumes.

To prevent an outbreak of disease, the bodies will be buried at once, he told reporters.

Colombia and the United States offered to send aircraft to ferry aid or help with evacuations of storm-hit areas, and Colom said six US military aircraft were en route from a base in Honduras.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon, at Colom”s behest, has offered the airport in the border city of Tapachula for emergency flights in and out of Guatemala, Calderon”s office said.

Guatemala City”s La Aurora International Airport has been closed since Friday after being showered by volcanic ash from the eruption of the Pacaya volcano two days earlier. Two people were killed and three missing after the eruption on Wednesday.

Vulcanologists at Guatemala”s national seismological institute said activity in the volcano was within a normal range, but its director Freddy Sanchez said “it”s very possible there could be more violent explosions in the coming days.”

Colom said that even though the storm had eased, authorities remained on an emergency footing, adding that there were dozens of towns and villages that were still inaccessible because of roads severed by landslides.

El Salvador”s President Mauricio Funes put his country under a state of emergency, saying that even though the storm was weakening, the risk of mudslides and flash floods “remains very high.”

El Salvador Vs Guatemala En Vivo

El Salvador Vs Guatemala En Vivo, All the emotion of the Football returns this march 3rd, when various national teams will play friendly matches, to get ready for the FIFA World Cup 2010. Corresponding to this schedule will be played the match El Salvador vs. Guatemala, that will let us discover wich team will be closer to the next round. Of course, we invite you to watch this match online here, when all live streams for this game are available and published.

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Full Story And Original Content.Thnewspk.comThe southeastern United States was spared the catastrophic damage many expect from fall hurricanes, but Hurricane Ida did its share of damage, flooding areas of North Carolina and Virginia and devastating El Salvador, where the death toll is now up to 184. Add to that the 14,000 who were displaced in the

Full Story And Original Content.Thnewspk.comThe southeastern United States was spared the catastrophic damage many expect from fall hurricanes, but Hurricane Ida did its share of damage, flooding areas of North Carolina and Virginia and devastating El Salvador, where the death toll is now up to 184.
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