Typhoon Smashes South Korea Haishen Triggers Landslides in Japan; 4 Missing SOKCHO: a Powerful Typhoon Lashed South Korea Collapsed in Rural Miyazaki
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International TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 300 Rohingya migrants reach Indonesia ‘after ‘Fire on all sides’ as California wildfires prompt evacuations seven months at sea’ Page 6 Page 7 SOKCHO: People walk along a coastal road watching the waves brought by Typhoon Haishen in the eastern port city of Sokcho yesterday. — AFP Typhoon smashes South Korea Haishen triggers landslides in Japan; 4 missing SOKCHO: A powerful typhoon lashed South Korea collapsed in rural Miyazaki. Dozens of police officers lion people were told to seek shelter for fear that the North Korea is still reeling from the effects of yesterday after smashing into southern Japan with were on their way to help, Chief Cabinet Secretary 200-kilometre-per-hour winds would wreak havoc on Typhoon Maysak last week. Leader Kim Jong Un record winds and heavy rains that left four people Yoshihide Suga told reporters in Tokyo. At least two Japan’s wooden housing stock. By lunchtime yesterday, appeared in state media over the weekend inspecting missing in a landslide. Half a million people were with- deaths had been reported during the storm, he said, the storm had moved over South Korea, forcing the the damage. He also sacked a top provincial official in out power after Typhoon Haishen roared past Japan’s although the causes were not immediately known. cancellation of hundreds of flights and triggering land- South Hamgyong. He ordered 12,000 ruling party southern island of Kyushu, ripping off roofs and dump- Haishen, which came on the heels of another power- slides. Traffic lights and trees were felled in and around members in Pyongyang to help with recovery efforts, ing half a meter of water in just a day. Rescue workers ful typhoon, crashed into Okinawa on Saturday and Busan, streets were flooded and power was knocked and the official KCNA news agency reported yester- were picking through mud and detritus after a hillside moved northwards throughout Sunday. Around 1.8 mil- out for around 20,000 homes across the country. day that around 300,000 had responded to his call. The typhoon cut electricity supplies to Hyundai The North’s state media have yet to specify how many Motor’s assembly lines in the city of Ulsan, bringing people Maysak left missing, injured or dead. production to a halt for several hours. Haishen churned its way up the eastern side of the peninsula into the Hotels full Sea of Japan, known as the East Sea in Korea, having In Japan, Typhoon Haishen first made its presence lost some of its destructive force, but still packed felt on a string of exposed, remote southern islands winds of up to 112 kilometers per hour. The streets of before sweeping past the Kyushu region. As it the port city of Sokcho were largely empty, but some approached Kyushu authorities issued evacuation residents braved the rain and wind to take photos and orders for 1.8 million people, with 5.6 million others marvel at the swell crashing into the harbor wall. told to take precautions. In some places, residents Outside the city, swollen rivers surged through the checked into hotels to shelter from the storm. Japan countryside carrying debris and the occasional fallen converts its municipal buildings and schools into shel- tree. Haishen was forecast to make landfall again in ters during emergencies, but some people were reluc- Chongjin, North Hamgyong province in North Korea, tant to gather in large numbers due to fears over the at around midnight, according to South Korea’s Covid-19 pandemic. Meteorological Administration. Pyongyang’s state “I am worried about coronavirus infections. We’re media have been on high alert, carrying live broad- with small children too, so we did not want other peo- casts of the situation, with one showing a reporter ple to see us as big trouble,” an elderly man in driving through a windy, inundated street in Tongchon, Shibushi city told broadcaster NHK after checking in Kangwon province. “Now is the time when we must be at a local hotel with seven relatives. The storm forced on our highest alert,” he said, adding that winds were the cancellation of nearly 550 flights and disrupted as powerful as 126 kilometers per hour. State broad- train services, the network said. Many factories also FUKUOKA: A clean-up crew works to remove roofs which were blown off into a street by strong winds brought by caster KCTV showed flooded streets and trees shak- suspended operations, including three plants operated Typhoon Haishen in Fukuoka as the storm passes the southern Japanese island of Kyushu yesterday. — AFP ing from the strong gusts. by Toyota.— AFP He was in Britain at the time but dodged an attempt to Assange: Prolific extradite him to Sweden by claiming political asylum in the Ecuador embassy. For seven years he lived in a India army uses small apartment in the embassy, exercising on a tread- leaker of secrets mill and using a sun lamp to make up for the lack of hotline to alert natural light in a situation he compared to living in a back in spotlight space station. Israelis rejoice It was revealed in April that Assange had fathered China about ‘kidnap’ LONDON: A fearless campaigner for democratic two children with his partner, South Africa-born openness? Or a criminal trying to avoid justice? lawyer Stella Moris, while at the embassy. Moris, 37, in weed from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a highly polariz- told The Times newspaper in an interview published NEW DELHI: The Indian military has alerted China of ing figure. Australian national Assange, 49, is the fig- on Saturday that she informed Assange she was preg- allegations that five men were abducted by the People’s the skies urehead of the whistleblowing website that exposed nant with Gabriel, now three, by writing it down on a Liberation Army from an area near the disputed border, government secrets worldwide, notably the explosive piece of paper to avoid surveillance. He watched the a minister said Sunday, amid rising tensions between the leak of US military and diplomatic files related to the birth on livestream and the baby was smuggled into nuclear-armed neighbors. The relationship between the TEL AVIV: Cannabis rained from on high in the embassy with the help of an actor friend posing as Asian giants has deteriorated since a clash in the Iraq and Afghan wars. But he has spent most of the Israel’s liberal hub of Tel Aviv this week as legal- past decade either in custody or holed up in Ecuador’s his father, she said. Ladakh region on June 15 in which 20 Indian troops ization campaigners used a drone to airdrop were killed. India’s Minister of State for Minority Affairs London embassy as he has tried to avoid extradition - bags of the drug, sparking delight on the ground. first to Sweden to answer allegations of rape, and then ‘Hands-on father’ Kiren Rijiju, who is also a lawmaker from the isolated “Green Drone” had pre-announced a drop of Moris described Assange as someone who “loves border state of Arunachal Pradesh, said a military hot- to the United States. hundreds of bags, each containing two grams children” and a “hands-on father”, who speaks to his line meant to defuse border tensions had been activated Born in Townsville, Queensland, in 1971, Assange (just under a 10th of an ounce), on central Tel sons regularly, although to his youngest, Max, now over the possible kidnapping. has described a nomadic childhood and claims to Aviv’s Rabin Square. “It’s time, dear friends. Is it aged 18 months, he is a “disembodied voice on the “The Indian Army has already sent hotline message have attended 37 schools before settling in a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Green Drone dis- Melbourne. As a teenager, Assange discovered a phone”. Assange has an adult son, Daniel, who was to the counterpart PLA establishment at the border tributing free cannabis from the sky,” it said on point in Arunachal Pradesh. Response is awaited,” he talent for computer hacking, which soon brought born near Melbourne in 1980, and at least one more its Telegram channel, quoted in Israeli media. him to the attention of Australian police. He admit- child, who was living in France. Moris, who changed tweeted. Police in the northeastern India state told local It urged followers to roll up for further dope media they were investigating claims made on Facebook ted most of the charges leveled against him and her name from Sara Gonzalez Devant for security rea- drops every week at different locations around walked away with a fine. After launching WikiLeaks sons after getting involved with Assange, said the cou- by a purported relative of one of the men that the PLA Israel, although police arrested two alleged had kidnapped them. The Arunachal Times reported in 2006 with a group of like-minded activists and ple planned to marry and he proposed using a virtual- drone operators on Saturday. Israeli smokers Saturday that the men were hunting when they were IT experts, he was constantly on the move, bounc- reality headset. often use encrypted messaging apps to order allegedly snatched. It was not immediately clear when ing between cities and frequently changing his Assange’s situation changed after the new govern- weed deliveries, although the drug is illegal in they might have gone missing. The alleged incident phone number. “We are creating a new standard for ment in Quito turned him over to British police in April the Jewish state. Medical use of cannabis is comes amid talks between India’s Defense Minister a free press,” Assange told AFP in an interview in 2019.