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Current Events #2

Current Events #2. There Be a Storm a Brewing. Typhoon Usagi has killed at least 25 people in Guangdong province of south China, the government has said.

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Current Events #2

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  1. Current Events #2

  2. There Be a Storm a Brewing Typhoon Usagi has killed at least 25 people in Guangdong province of south China, the government has said. Winds of up to 180 km/h (110 mph) were recorded in some areas, toppling trees and blowing cars off roads. Its victims drowned or were hit by debris. The storm has affected 3.5 million people on the Chinese mainland. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24193201

  3. Step 1…Check An international monitoring group says the Syrian government has handed over an inventory of its chemical weapons, a provision in a U.S.- Russian plan to avert a possible U.S. strike on Syria. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says it has received the "expected disclosure" from the Syrian government. http://www.voanews.com/content/syria-submits-chemical-weapons-list-to-watchdog/1754337.html

  4. Watch Out for that Tree The tiny, copper-hued golden lion tamarin is so beloved in Brazil that its image graces the country's 20-real bank note. But this lion-maned monkey is in peril. There's only one place on earth where the golden lion tamarin lives in the wild: in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, or Mata Atlantica, just north of Rio de Janeiro. Deforestation in the region has reduced the monkey's habitat, once a massive ecosystem stretching for a half-million square miles, to just 2 percent of its original size. http://www.npr.org/2013/09/19/224101468/beloved-brazilian-monkey-clings-to-a-shrinking-forest

  5. Turn the Other Cheek? Compounding that grief for the Campbell family and others affected by the bombing is the question of whether suspect DzhokharTsarnaev should face the death penalty if he’s convicted — a punishment that has not been handed down in Massachusetts in 66 years. In 1984, pushed in part by its heavily Catholic population, Massachusetts officially banned the practice for state cases. While it’s still in place for federal cases like Tsarnaev's, the death penalty charge has been rarely invoked — though some wonder if that could change this time. http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-bombing-victims-death-penalty-tsarnaev-132145081.html

  6. Shoot-Out at the Park CHICAGO Those behind a late-night attack at a southwest Chicago park in which 13 people were wounded, including a 3-year-old, used an assault-style weapon to spray the crowd with bullets, making it "a miracle" no one was killed, the city's police superintendent said Friday. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57603810/chicago-park-shooting-leaves-13-wounded-including-3-year-old-boy/

  7. Terror in the Food Court NAIROBI— Thick smoke poured from the besieged Nairobi mall where Kenyan officials said their forces were closing in on Islamists holding hostages on Monday, the third day since Somalia's al Shabaab launched a raid that has killed at least 62 people. It remained unclear how many gunmen and hostages were still cornered in the Westgate shopping centre, after a series of loud explosions and gunfire were followed by black smoke billowing from one part of the complex. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-kenya-mall-attack-20130923,0,4701268.story

  8. $500 Million Swoosh It was just another biennial gala for Oregon Health & Science University's Knight Cancer Institute when Phil Knight took the stage Friday night and threw the evening on its head. The Nike co-founder got the full attention of the 400 guests on the sixth floor ballroom in downtown Portland's The Nines Hotel in short order: Here's $500 million for cancer research, he said, if OHSU can match it in the next two years. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/09/phil_and_penny_knight_to_ohsu_1.html

  9. Expensive Luggage Fees? There was something odd about the 30 suitcases that showed up on a flight from Venezuela. The colorful bags weren't registered to any of the passengers on the plane. When French officials opened them up, they discovered why -- 1.3 tons of pure cocaine were stuffed inside the anonymous bags. The street value of the stash? About 200 million euros, or $270 million. On Sunday, Venezuela's Public Ministry said that authorities had detained three members of the National Guard in connection with the incident. http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/22/world/europe/air-france-cocaine-found/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2

  10. Bedlam Unearthed London — In an open pit near the old Bedlam insane asylum, where the curious once ogled chained lunatics for the price of a shiny coin, the skeletons in London’s closet are climbing to the surface. And dead men do tell tales. Take, for example, one poor soul recently unearthed from a long-lost graveyard in Bedlam’s back yard — a 16th-century gentleman who was, perhaps, not so gentle in his day. His chalky skull bares the telltale signs of crude brain surgery. An honest attempt to cure the madness within? Or a joyride of an operation to slake the exotic tastes of doctors at a hospital whose name became synonymous with mayhem? (Bedlam is an archaic variation of its current name, Bethlem Royal Hospital.) http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/crossrail-project-unearths-londons-macabre-past/2013/09/21/766aa41a-2213-11e3-ad1a-1a919f2ed890_story.html

  11. Do Not Eat “High” Fish Fish that live year-round just above Bonneville Dam are so chock-full of contaminants that health authorities on Monday advised the public not to eat them at all. They also urged the public to limit the consumption of so-called resident fish in a 150-mile stretch upstream from Bonneville Dam. http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/09/columbia_rivers_contaminated_r.html

  12. The World is Shaking Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- An earthquake in Pakistan, powerful enough to prompt the appearance of a small island off the coast, has killed more than 200 people, Pakistani officials said. The 7.7-magnitude quake struck in a remote area of southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, but it had severe consequences. http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/24/world/asia/pakistan-earthquake/index.html?iref=allsearch

  13. Bad Week for Pakistan Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Choir members and children attending Sunday school were among 81 people killed in a suicide bombing at a Protestant church in northwest Pakistan. It was one of the deadliest attacks ever on the Christian community in Pakistan. The attack took place at the All Saints Church of Pakistan, in the violence-plagued city of Peshawar, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the country's capital, Islamabad. http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/22/world/asia/pakistan-attack/index.html?iref=allsearch

  14. Alpinist Indiana Jones A young man climbing a French glacier finds a cache of glittering jewels wrapped in bags stamped "Made in India" -- remnants, perhaps, of cargo from an ill-fated airliner called the Malabar Princess. The best thing about it? This story is true. It happened early this month on a glacier overlooking the southeastern French village of Chamonix, Albertville police Chief Sylvain Merly said Thursday. http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/world/europe/france-mountain-jewels/index.html?c=homepage-t&page=2

  15. Mother Nature Takes a Bite [I]n the predawn blackness of Aug. 3, 2012, the earth opened up — a voracious maw 325 feet across and hundreds of feet deep, swallowing 100-foot trees, guzzling water from adjacent swamps and belching methane from a thousand feet or more beneath the surface. More than a year after it appeared, the Bayou Corne sinkhole is about 25 acres and still growing, almost as big as 20 football fields, lazily biting off chunks of forest and creeping hungrily toward an earthen berm built to contain its oily waters. It has its own Facebook page and its own groupies, conspiracy theorists who insist the pit is somehow linked to the Gulf of Mexico 50 miles south and the earthquake-prone New Madrid fault 450 miles north. It has confounded geologists who have struggled to explain this scar in the earth. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/us/ground-gives-way-and-a-louisiana-town-struggles-to-find-its-footing.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=1&

  16. Fairly Nearly Tracker-Jackers Hong Kong (CNN) -- At least 19 people have been stung to death by hornets -- which may include the world's largest hornet species Vespa mandarinia -- in China's central Shaanxi province in the last three months, according to the city government of Ankang, the apparent epicenter of a recent spate of fatalities and injuries. A total of 583 people in the area have been stung by hornets since July 1, say city officials. Seventy victims are still recovering in hospitals. http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/world/asia/china-asian-hornet-deaths/index.html

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