Nocere – Earth Disasters

Foreign soldiers deployed for missions in Afghanistan, have been the targets of Taleban’s relentless attacks. Another attack by the Taleban, involving suicide bombing, killed two Afghan civilians and wounded 20, including two US soldiers, in northern Afghanistan.

The bomb exploded in the town of Charikar, outside the offices of the Parwan provincial governor, 50km (30 miles) north of the capital, Kabul. At the time of the blast, a unit of US troops from Bagram base near Kabul was having a meeting with the provincial governor. The two injured soldiers were among those in the unit.

Clashes and violence near Kabul are in a rise, though it used to be relatively free from such attacks, said correspondents. The US is planning to send troops of 20,000 and 30,000 over the next six months to Afghanistan to aid in rising security demand.

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Uganda rebels, the Lord’s Resistance Army, in the Democratic Republic of Congo have carried out several attacks on civilians since Christmas day, amounting to approximately 400 deaths. To escape from the massacre, 20,000 people had fled to the mountains, said the head of Caritas in DR Congo to BBC news.

According to an eyewitness, the rebel force had cut off lips of five people in Faradje as a warning for them not to speak ill of the rebels. To deter and suppress the activities of the rebel force, a joint offensive has been set up by armies of Uganda, South Sudan and DR Congo. The joint offensive was thought to have established after Joseph Kony, the leader of the rebel force, had refused to sign a peace treaty in mid-December.

Uganda’s government had been into several negotiations with the LRA, hosted by the South Sudanese government. However, Mr. Kony is reluctant to come to any agreement before arrest warrants against him and his associate by the International Criminal Court are first dropped. The LRA leader and his associates has been a wanted criminal for several war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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In an attempt to force the Hamas government to cease further firing into southern Israel, the Israeli air force jets have been launched to attack the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip. Witnesses reported seeing six separate air strikes on the university, targeting a laboratory building.

The Islamic university, being a significant symbol for the Hamas, was a place where many top officials graduated.

Apart from targeting the university, Israeli jets also struck a number of Hamas government offices. Palestinian medics accounted at least 300 people have been killed in the air raids.. The casualties could have been more if the university authorities had not evacuated the campus just a few days ago after receiving information of possible air strike.

Israel has since threatened to launch another ground assault by calling up 6,500 army reservists.

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Bolivia has been receiving heavy torrential rains in the past few weeks, which resulted in the rivers swelling up and many dams have burst leaving the streets flooded and homes damaged.

Rains are common at this time of the year in Bolivia. The rains start in the month of November and continue to pour till the month of March during which the country suffers a lot of devastation.
And Bolivia being a poor country finds it hard to recover from such natural disasters.

Last year there were nearly 60 deaths that have been reported during the floods.
People are headed to safety places where they can be safe from the over flowing river water and dam water.

It is not the floods the country can’t face but it’s the after affect it has on the people and the government.

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As soon as it stopped snowing in Midwest USA, it started to rain making the situation even worse.

Midwest cities like Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and a few more have been receiving strong snow storms which resulted in power shortages, road blocks and many more devastation.
Now with rains upon these cities, the snow which has been accumulated here over the days is melting gradually creating a threat towards floods.
All the above areas have been given warnings against the floods and in many suburbs people were moved to safer places afraid of being drowned by the floods.

Midwest countries have been receiving varied weather in the recent days. Apart from the heavy snow storms there have been places where record breaking temperatures have been recorded during the recent past.

This extreme weather was caused by milder air pushing up from the southwest and colliding with cold air from the north. These storms are the atmosphere’s way of redistributing heat more evenly.

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Japan is facing serious Snow fall problems in the past few days.
The winter storm has hit Japan pretty hard, resulting in heavy snow falls and block outs at many points in the Country.
Due to this varied change in climate all the means of transport which include buses, Planes and other means have been temporarily put off.

Sapporo received a 32 cm snow fall over the past few days. Reports suggest that the snow fall is going to continue and more over it is just going to get worse.
Another storm is expected to flow from the Northern part of Japan and will flow for couple of days leaving most of the places completely in snow.

The Meteorological Agencies have issued warnings to all the people against heavy snow falls, avalanches and strongly flowing winds.
Warnings for high waves and gales were also issued for coastal regions of Hokkaido and Honshu.

Northern Japan is experiencing the place which is experiencing the worst winter of all.

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Conflict between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tigers has lasted for the past 25 years, taking away lives of nearly 70,000. Five more people would be added to the total death toll following a recent suicide bombing of a security checkpoint near a market in Wattala, a suburb of Colombo. The five killed were members of the paramilitary civil defence force. Another four were injured in the attack.

Sri Lankan army has suspected the attack to be associated with Tamil Tiger rebels. They believe that the attack could be traced back to a heavy fighting between the rebels and army in north of Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan navy provided further evidence to support this opinion. A boat that was believed to be carrying ammunitions to the attackers was sunk off along the coast in north of Sri Lanka. Four rebels were killed in the event. The suicide attack took place hours after the boat was sunk, leading officials to suspect the possibility of Tamil Tigers attack.

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Police officials suspected a recent bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Lahore to be associated with terrorist attack. According to official sources reported by AFP news agency, the bomb was placed under a car parked on the road, which exploded killing one and injuring another four. One of the injured was hit by flying debris shattered from a vehicle during the blast. Police believe that government officials were the main targets of the explosion, since many live along the bombing site. This is thought to be an attempt by terrorist to create panic and spread terror, however, further investigation is necessary before conclusion could be made, said an official.

There has been a tread a rising bombings since last year, with most taking place in borders of Afghanistan. China being one of the closest allies of Pakistan has also led to many Chinese workers and officials falling victims to terrorist attacks. In one such attack, a Chinese engineer working for a hydroelectric project in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) was shot by unidentified gunmen in a crowded market in the town of Malakand, northeast of Peshawar city.

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