Cyclone Hits Sri Lanka As Southern India Hunkers Down
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COME FORTH INTO THE LIGHT OF TODAY 1534 1791 1829 1918 QUOTE THINGS, LET NATURE BE YOUR IN OF THE TEACHER Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Mag- Britain’s Observer, oldest Sunday Britain outlaws “suttee” in US President Woodrow Wilson DAY HISTORY nificent occupies Baghdad newspaper in the world, first India (widow burning herself sails for Versailles Peace Con- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH published to death on her husband’s ference in France FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2020 funeral pyre) Azerbaijan is restoring its territories News in brief Namibia to sell u Former French Ex-French president Giscard president Valery liberated from Armenian occupation TOP Cyclone hits Sri Lanka as d’Estaing dies of Covid at 94 Giscard d’Estaing, a 170 live elephants leading advocate of European integration who led his country into a new modern era, TWEETS4 has died of Covid-19, his family said. He was 94. Giscard, who had been in hospital several southern India hunkers down times in recent months for heart problems, died 01 late Wednesday “surrounded by his family” at the family home in the Loire region. French Tropical cyclone headed for southern India after causing little damage in Sri Lanka President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to his SHAHIN ABDULLAYEV predecessor, saying Giscard’s seven-year term had “transformed France”. fter 44 days the Republic of Azerbaijan tri - Azerbaijan restrained from it and responded Armenia Thousands of u Flash floods have claimed at umphed the war against Armenia which inten- on the battlefield. Not a single civilian Armenian killed Floods kill nine in • least nine lives in southern Thailand tionally started cross border heavy shelling and during 6 weeks long war. Not a single school, house, people living along the A Foreign tourists in safari riverboats observe elephants along the There was rain and and affected half a million people, southern Thailand bombardments on various civil populations and instal- hospital or educational center was put under fire from n line with the year’s Sri Lankan coast had Chobe river bank strong winds, but the officials said as the region braced for lations. It was almost 30 years that the negotiations to Azerbaijan which showed its international commit- @UN theme of “Build- I been asked to seek cyclone did not cause even more rain. The deaths all came in ment having superior human values. AFP | Windhoek Environment Minis- resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict did not achieve ing Back Better: toward a temporary shelter inland Nakhon Si Thammarat province, where its purpose because of periodic Armenian provocations. At the same time villagers from outside Na - ter Pohamba Shifeta told any major damage in disability-inclusive, ac- a state of emergency has been declared. In late September 2020, however, with the successful gorno-Karabakh – Kalbajar, Lachin and Aghdam dis- cessible and sustainable AFP our area amibia is putting 170 that the government The youngest victim was just five years military operations of the Azerbaijan Armed Forces, tricts – set their homes and forests on fire, killed their post COVID AFP | Chennai -19 World”, Nlive elephants up for backed the policy of sell- MANGALANATH LIYANARACHCHI old. Scores of homes have been damaged which resulted in Armenia’s capitulation at the end, cattle, cut down trees and power lines in order to let us collectively keep sale to curb rising tusker ing live animals after being A LOCAL REPORTER IN TRINCOMALEE and more than half a million people from Azerbaijan was able to implement the UN Security destroy infrastructure before fleeing to Armenia ahead working towards ensur- populations under pres- criticised for shooting ele- yclone Burevi hit Sri Lan- 210,000 households are affected. Council Resolutions (822, 853, 874, 884) through lib- of a deadline that will see territories handed over to ing opportunity and im- sure from drought and phants to control overpop- ka overnight, rattling the cyclone. erating its territories under occupation. Undoubtedly, Azerbaijan as part of a peace agreement. Residents of proving accessibility for territorial conflict with ulation. island nation but leaving Kerala’s chief minister Pinari u The C US military to keep two larger Afghan Pentagon Azerbaijan’s overwhelming military advantage induced those districts in Azerbaijan, which have been con- our Divyang sisters and humans. “We decided -– after re- it relatively unscathed on its Vijayan said around 2,500 relief the Armenian government to come to the negotiation trolled by Armenian separatists for decades, began a brothers. An advertisement for the search -– to sell them in- way to southern India, officials camps had been identified to bases after drawdown to 2,500 has table and finalize its illegal military presence within a mass exodus after it was announced that Azerbaijan @narendramodi sale of 170 “high value” el- stead,” he said. said Thursday. relocate people from coastal and approved drawdown plans in Afghanistan that neighboring sovereign state’s boundary. So that on No- would regain control. ephants was carried by a The elephant popula- Burevi, the second cyclone in low lying areas. will still keep two larger bases in the country vember 10, 2020, a major step has been taken towards By the total destruction of the settlements, Armeni- state-owned daily newspa- tion had dwindled to about the southern Bay of Bengal in a Prime Minister Narendra as officials carry out President Donald Trump’s the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with the signing of a ans aimed to prevent Azerbaijanis from a possible re- per, New Era. 5,000 animals at independ- week, slammed into north-east- Modi tweeted that the central orders to slash troop levels to 2,500 by Jan. 15, trilateral statement by Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russia. turn. Nevertheless, Azerbaijan defeated Armenia both 02 The ministry says the el- ence in 1990, but increased ern Sri Lanka just before mid- government was ready to pro- the top US general said. Trump’s post-election Two men walk along a beach as Cyclone Burevi is expected to near the coast of While the senior officials of Armenia were publicly on the battlefield and at diplomatic arena. After Arme- ephants are being sold “due phenomenally thanks to a night (1830 GMT). vide “all possible support”. decision last month to cut nearly half of the Trincomalee in Sri Lanka declaring their defeat, Azerbaijanis were celebrating nian side’s capitulation, President Ilham Aliyev clearly to drought and increase in globally-lauded conserva- Packing winds up to 100 kilo- “Praying for the safety and roughly 4,500 troops currently in Afghanistan came before military leaders could the victory on the streets of the capital Baku. For Azer- pointed out that Azerbaijan will mobilize its economic elephant numbers coupled tion programme. metres (60 miles) an hour, it land, but they have now moved its way through sparsely popu- well-being of those staying in devise plans to execute a drawdown, leaving many questions unanswered about baijani side the trilateral agreement was continuation of potential to rebuild and revive Nagorno-Karabakh soon. with human-elephant con- The advertisement said soaked parts of the country but back to their homes, Liya - lated areas. affected areas,” Modi said. the future US military mission after Trump leaves office on Jan. 20. the victory on the battlefield in diplomacy. Namely, the “The situation on the lands liberated from the oc- flict incidences.” pachyderms on sale would caused no casualties and less narachchi said. The weather system was ex- Last week, a more powerful u Nearly agreement comprised the unconditional withdrawal cupation foreshadows great difficulties. There are The sparsely-populat- comprise entire herds in devastation than feared. Sri Lanka’s Disaster Manage- pected to make landfall in the cyclone skirted northern Sri half a million South Korean students take of the Armenian troops from the occupied territories currently no living conditions in these places. But we oday I announced ed semi-arid southern Af- order to preserve the im- “There was rain and strong ment Centre (DMC) had issued southern Indian state of Tamil Lanka but hit Tamil Nadu with South Korean crunch exam with virus precautions within a definite schedule, the return of all refugees, will restore these regions, all our districts, we will take TTina Flournoy as rican country is home to portant social structure in winds, but the cyclone did not a red alert and asked fishermen Nadu overnight Thursday to full force, uprooting trees and students nervously began a hyper- and the deployment of the Russian peacekeepers in the all steps to create a normal life for our citizens,” said my Chief of Staff, @Ro- some 28,000 elephants, elephant communities -- cause any major damage in not to venture out to sea. Friday and move westwards delivering 30 centimetres (12 competitive university entrance exam, several points of Nagorno-Karabakh. Furthermore, the President Ilham Aliyev as he addressed the nation. hiniKos as my Domestic according to official infants or juveniles will not our area,” Mangalanath Liya- Sri Lanka also ordered the into Kerala, Indian forecasters inches) of rain in some areas. with COVID-19 students taking the cardinal element of the statement is that there was no Noting that the first projects have already started, the Policy Advisor, and Nancy estimates. be left behind. narachchi, a local reporter in closure of schools along the said. But more accurate forecasting exam in hospital and others separated word about the status of Nagorno-Karabakh. head of state said: “The construction of the Fuzuli-Shu- McEldowney as my Na- Trincomalee, 260 kilometres path of the cyclone for three India’s National Disaster Re- and the timely evacuation of by transparent barriers. South Korea After the active phase of the operations, when the sha highway and the Barda-Aghdam railway has already tional Security Advisor.