World AM News Briefs For Monday, 17 October 2016
Good Morning Australia!! - Desperation sets in among Haiti's huricane victims - Russia may face new sanctions over Syria - Tragedy strikes an Olympian's family - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited, desperate and angry Haitians took matters into their own hands, grabbing whatever necessities they could from trucks delivering scant amounts of aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. Haitian security troops fired tear gas at people suspected of taking from the trucks, gassing kids in teh process. The storm eariler this month killed around 1,000 people, leveled villages and infrastructure, and appears to be worsening cholera epidemic that was brought to the impoverished nation by UN peacekeepers following the massive earthquake of 2010.
Mr. Ban said he witnessed one incident involving an aid truck. Last week, the United Nations launched an urgent appeal for US$120 Million to help Haiti, but the international community has contributed only a sliver. Mr. Ban told some of the thousands of homeless Haitians, "Kembe Fem," which is Creole for, "Hang in there," as he prepares for another appeal of UN members this week. Officials say 1.4 million people need urgent help.
Families are overcome with emotion as they are reunited with 21 of the Chibok School Girls freed by the terrorists of Boko Haram last week. Around 200 girls are still being held two years after being kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria.
The US and UK are considering new economic sanctions against Russia over the Syrian Civil War. US Secretary of State John Kerry and UK Foreign Minsiter Boris Johnson announced this after a meeting with French, German and Italian counterparts in London. Another set of talks in Lausanne, Switzerland featuring the US and Russia came and went over the weekend with no announcement of progress in curtailing the fighting in Syria.
Meanwhile, Turkish-backed rebels liberated the northern Syrian town of Dabiq from the scumbag terrorists of Islamic State. The victory carries little military or strategic value, but it is importantly in symbolism: IS propaganda pushes a "prophecy" of a great battle between its screwy version of Islam and the West being fought at Dabiq. Not this week, beardos.
Police in Montenegro arrested 20 Serbians for planning attacks against police and state agencies after voting closes in the country's election. Montenegro is trying to forge closer ties with the West, while Serbs are generally allied with Russia.
US police in the heartland state of Kansas arrested three white, male, Christian terrorists planning to murder Somalian refugees who work at the local chicken processing plant, and set off bombs at the workers' mosque. The three greying suspects in their late 40s called themselves "The Crusaders", and stockpiled a large cache of firearms, and ammunition. Authorities say they planned their terrorist murder spree on the day after the US presidential elections to "wake people up".
The 15-year old daughter of US Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay has been shot and killed in Lexington, Kentucky. Trinity Gay was apparently caught in the crossfire between shooters in two cars vehicles in a restaurant car parking lot. Mr. Gay is reportedly very distraught, as any parent would be. He is the US 100 meter record holder and is the joint second-fastest 100 meter runner of all time, behind Usain Bolt.
A bridge connecting two small islands off Bali's southern coast collapsed, killing at least eight people. Thirty other people were injured, all said to be local residents. People were crossing between Nusa Lenbangan and Nusa Ceningan as part of a Hindu ceremony at a nearby temple when it happened. "Before the bridge collapsed it was already shaking," said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
Thailand's Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn wants his coronation held off for at least a year; officials say this is to allow more time to mourn his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej who died last week.
Pope Francis canonized seven new saints at Sunday mass in Saint Peter's Square, including the first saint from the Pope's native Argentina. Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero spent most of his adult life in the late 1800s and early 1900s travelling by mule to minister to the poor, "to the point of getting leprosy," Pope Francis wrote.