Protesters Flout Curfew As Police Move in KABUL: a Truck Crash in Northwestern Afghanistan Has ST LOUIS: Police Yesterday Killed 32 People
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10 WORLD MONDAY AUGUST 18 2014 Mountain truck fatal Protesters flout curfew as police move in KABUL: A truck crash in northwestern Afghanistan has ST LOUIS: Police yesterday killed 32 people. Ahmadullah fired multiple smoke canisters Alizai, the provincial governor into a crowd of defiant protest- of Badghis province said the ers in a suburb of the US city St incident happened in the Ab Louis where a black teen had Kamari district. He said the been shot by a white police of- truck was loaded with people ficer while walking down the and animals and was travelling street. through a mountainous rural Hundreds of other protest- area when it crashed. ers left peacefully before a midnight to 5am deadline Kurds fight for dam which took effect in Ferguson, Missouri. BAGHDAD: Kurdish forces But remaining protesters, backed by US warplanes have many chanting “No justice, No battled to retake Iraq’s largest curfew”, refused to leave the dam from jihadist fighters. area. As five armoured tactical Kurdish forces attacked the Is- vehicles approached the lamic State (IS) fighters who crowd, officers spoke through had taken over the Mosul dam a loudspeaker: “You are in viol- a week earlier, a general said. ation of a state-imposed cur- few. You must disperse Ferrari fetches $10m immediately. Failure to com- ply may result in arrest.” LOS ANGELES: A vintage As officers put on gas Ferrari once owned by actor masks, a chant from the distant Steve McQueen sold for more crowd emerged: “We have the than $10 million at Monterey right to assemble peacefully.” Car Week. The 1967 Ferrari A moment later, police 275 GTB/4, chassis number began firing smoke into the 10621, engine number 10621, crowd of protesters. went to the highest bidder on Governor Jay Nixon de- Saturday night at an RM Auct- clared a state of emergency at ions event. the weekend in Ferguson – the site where 18-year-old Michael Kenya blocks travel Brown was killed by a police officer. NAIROBI: Kenya has become The curfew announcement the latest country to ban trav- came after tensions again ellers from parts of Ebola-hit flared when local police ident- west Africa. Kenyan Health ified the officer who shot Minister James Macharia said Brown as Darren Wilson and the country is closing its bor- released documents and video ders to travellers from Guinea, footage alleging Brown had Liberia and Sierra Leone – the robbed a convenience store nations most affected by the just before he was shot. A law enforcement officer watches as tear gas is fired to disperse protesters Picture: AP worst-ever Ebola outbreak. Bali Nine hopes up NOTICE OF COMMUNITY INFORMATION SESSIONS Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the flying operations of F-35A in bid for clemency (Joint Strike Fighter) aircraft (EPBC 2010/5747) By GABRIELLE DUNLEVY Indonesia’s President Susilo Kerobokan yesterday. “It’s a “I just don’t Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), very difficult thing to put into The Department of Defence released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement BALI: The clemency bid of the who can grant them clemency. words. I just don’t want to be (EIS) for the flying operations of F-35A (Joint Strike Fighter) aircraft for public want to be comment on 21 July 2014. The public comment period is from Monday 21 July to two Bali Nine members on The two were deemed the shot, really.” Friday 19 September 2014. death row has received a boost shot, really” masterminds of the operation As part of Independence The Department of Defence is holding community information sessions during the with prison authorities recom- but have made great strides in Day celebrations at the prison, public comment period in Darwin and Katherine to enable community members mending all nine for lesser sen- rehabilitation, according to there was a rock bank, games to discuss the results and find out more about the Draft EIS. The community tences. prison authorities. and Balinese dancers. information sessions will be attended by members of the project team including To mark Indonesia’s Inde- cluding Myuran Sukumaran However SBY, considered a Since their 2006 conviction, technical specialists who will be available to discuss the findings of the Draft EIS. pendence Day, prisons can and Andrew Chan, who were great friend to Australia, leaves the nine have been split be- The below sessions are being run as drop-in information sessions or formal nominate well-behaved in- sentenced to death. office in October. tween jails. community meetings, and community members are welcome to attend at the mates for remissions. “The suggestion was made Clemency for drug offend- Si Yi Chen, Michael Czugaj published times below. The drop-in session is where members of the project team The only member of the before August 17,” he said. ers, who are severely punished and Matthew Norman are also including specialists are available to answer your questions. The formal community session is a structured meeting with a formal presentation and question time. nine Australians convicted “Those with the death sen- in Indonesia, won’t be a pri- still in Kerobokan. Community Information Session Details over the foiled 2005 heroin tence to be reduced to life in ority for his successor Joko Martin Stephens and Tan trafficking plot who was eli- jail. Widodo. Duc Thanh Nguyen have been Session 1: Katherine (Formal community meeting) gible was Renae Lawrence. “Those with life in jail Sukumaran says he is still moved to a jail in Malang, Java. When: Tuesday 19 August, 2014 However, Kerobokan pris- should become terms of pun- passing the time productively Scott Rush is detained at Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm on governor Farid Junaedi yes- ishment 15-20 years.” in the art studio, also an outlet Karangasem, also in Bali. Law- Where: Katherine Civic Centre, Council Chambers, terday told reporters he put all The cases of Sukumaran to help other inmates. rence is in Bangli, another jail 1865 Stuart Highway, Katherine of the Bali Nine forward, in- and Chan are in the hands of “It’s a hard wait,” he said at in Bali. Session 1: Darwin (Drop in session) When: Wednesday 20 August, 2014 Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm Where: Hilton Darwin, Ambassador Room, Monsoon’s deadly toll Amish sisters abducted 32 Mitchell Street, Darwin Session 2: Darwin (Formal community meeting) KATHMANDU: Rescuers in unaccounted for, according to CANTON: Two young Amish Stephen Howells Jr and When: Thursday 21 August, 2014 Nepal yesterday struggled to the home ministry. sisters were sexually abused Nicole Vaisey were arrested Time: 6:30pm – 9:00pm recover bodies after monsoon The rains have damaged after their abduction from a and arraigned on charges they Where: Hilton Darwin, Ambassador Room, rains swept away houses, kill- roads across the country’s roadside farm stand in New abducted the seven-year-old 32 Mitchell Street, Darwin ing at least 85 people and western plains bordering India, York state, a prosecutor says. and 12-year-old sisters with the How to find out more sparking fears of a deadly chol- forcing officials to rely on heli- St Lawrence County Dis- intent to physically or sexually To find out more about the Draft EIS please: era outbreak, officials said. copters to rescue stranded trict Attorney Mary Rain’s dis- abuse them. • Phone the general enquiry line on 1800 830 205 (freecall) Recent torrential rains have people and deliver emergency closure came hours after the “There was the potential • Email the project team at [email protected] led to multiple landslides and supplies. As the weather county’s sheriff said the couple there was going to be other vic- • Visit the project website at www.f35evolution.com.au GT10797 flooding, killing 85 people and cleared, thousands were evac- charged in the kidnapping tims,” St Lawrence County leaving more than 100 others uated from Bardiya district. were prowling for easy targets. Sheriff Kevin Wells said. NTNE01Z01MA - V1.