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Dempsey Outlines Key Themes in Letter to Troops
Powerful Typhoon Nalgae makes landfall in northern Philippines
Small plane crashes into ferris wheel in Australia
Car bomb kills at least 8, injures dozens at Iraqi funeral
Sumatran tiger on the brink of extinction, Greenpeace warns

Dempsey Outlines Key Themes in Letter to Troops

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 10:00 PM PDT

Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outlined key themes for the military in a letter released to the force.

Powerful Typhoon Nalgae makes landfall in northern Philippines

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:04 PM PDT

DINAPIGUE, PHILIPPINES (BNO NEWS) -- Powerful Typhoon Nalgae made landfall in the northern Philippines on Saturday morning, forecasters said, days after another typhoon tore a path of destruction through the region.

Nalgae, which is locally known as Quiel, made landfall over Dinapigue, a 4th class municipality in the province of Isabela on the island of Luzon. The storm had maximum sustained winds of around 160 kilometers (99.4 miles) per hour with gusts up to 195 kilometers (121 miles) per hour.

While Nalgae has the potential to cause serious damage and casualties, the typhoon will affect the Philippines for only several hours. The storm is expected to move to the west, crossing the provinces of Quirino, Nueva Vizcaya, Ifugao, Benguet and La Union before entering the South China Sea on Saturday afternoon.

In anticipation of the storm, the Philippine government on Friday deployed additional search and rescue units from the Army, Navy and Air Force, including six helicopters, to certain areas in Central Luzon.

The island of Luzon was already hit hard earlier this week when Typhoon Nesat, locally known as Pedring, caused widespread flooding. As of Saturday morning, the death toll from Nesat stood at 50 while at least 31 others remain missing. Most of the victims were reported in Bulacan province.

Nalgae is the 19th named storm, 12th severe tropical storm and the 9th typhoon of the 2011 Pacific typhoon season. The season runs throughout 2011, with most tropical cyclones forming between May and November.

In July, the City University of Hong Kong predicted a total number of 31 tropical cyclones to form in the western North Pacific, of which 27 would become tropical storms and 17 which would further grow into a typhoon.

Small plane crashes into ferris wheel in Australia

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:15 PM PDT

OLD BAR, AUSTRALIA (BNO NEWS) -- A small plane crashed into a ferris wheel at a fair on the eastern coast of Australia on late Saturday morning, police said, miraculously causing no injuries.

The accident happened just after 10 a.m. local time when an ultra-light Cheetah S200 aircraft crashed into the top of a ferris wheel at a fair in Old Bar, a coastal town near Taree about 315 kilometers (196 miles) north of Sydney.

"The ultra-light Cheetah S200 is currently stuck in the ferris wheel," a spokesperson for the New South Wales Police Force said. "Police from Manning Great Lakes Local Area Command are at the location and have secured the area."

Two people were on board the aircraft while two children, a boy and a girl, were on the ferris wheel at the time of the accident. "They have not been injured," the spokesperson added. "Police and emergency services are working to safely remove the children from the ferris wheel and the occupants from the plane."

It was not immediately known what caused the accident, which happened at the end of a grass airstrip.

Car bomb kills at least 8, injures dozens at Iraqi funeral

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:57 PM PDT

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BNO NEWS) -- At least eight people were killed on Friday and dozens more were injured when a car bomb exploded during a funeral ceremony in central Iraq, officials said on Saturday.

The attack happened on Friday evening near the tomb of Prophet Ayoub in Hilla, the capital of Iraq's Babil province and about 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Baghdad. The funeral ceremony was held to mourn the death of a relative of a judge at Babil's Appeal Court.

There were conflicting reports about the number of casualties, but medical officials said at least eight people were killed while more than 60 others were injured. Hospitals in the area were overwhelmed by the number of injured, some of whom were critically injured.

The judge as well as several provincial officials had left the gathering only minutes before the attack. It is unclear if they were the target of the attack, but Hilla is a Shiite town and authorities are not ruling out that the explosion may have been part of the increasing number of sectarian attacks against Shiites.

Last Sunday, at least 15 people were killed and more than 80 others were wounded in the Shiite town of Karbala during a series of bomb explosions outside a government office.

Sumatran tiger on the brink of extinction, Greenpeace warns

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:58 PM PDT

JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) -- Environmentalists have expressed grave concern as Indonesia's tiger population in the Sumatran jungle has been reduced to only 400, Greenpeace activists said on Friday. The Sumatran tiger faces imminent extinction.

Illegal logging and plantations have been signaled as the main problem facing the tigers. According to the government of Indonesia, each year approximately 1 million hectares (2.4 million acres) of forest is being cleared. The devastating rate is likely to soon drive the Sumatran tiger into extinction unless urgent action is taken.

Forests around Sumatra's Tesso Nilo are being converted into acacia plantation by PT. Arara Abadi (a subsidiary of Asia Pulp and Paper-APP), Greenpeace Southeast Asia told the Antara news agency, adding that the last remaining forest areas where the tiger lives continues to be destroyed.

The environmental group has urged the Indonesian government to urgently review all existing concessions and increase measures to protect the forests, especially the carbon-rich peatlands.

As the natural habitat of the tigers are being destroyed, the animal is being forced out of their areas and are often seen in villages in search of food or shelter. This has increased tensions among tigers and locals.

On Thursday, Indonesian President Susilo Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expressed his commitment to save Indonesia's remaining forests but Greenpeace Southeast Asia forest campaigner Rusmadya Maharuddin emphasized that the commitment needs to materialize into concrete action.

Increasing population and the subsequent need for agricultural plantation such as rice paddies previously drove Indonesia's other two tiger sub-species into complete extinction. In the 1930s, the Bali tiger became extinct due to hunting and deforestation and in the 1970s the Javan tiger suffered the same fate, leaving the Sumatran tiger as the sole tiger sub-species in the country.

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