Brazil police storm illegal slum

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22 January 2012 Last updated at 22:57 GMT Thousands of police were involved in the operation to evict slum residents

Brazilian riot police have stormed an illegal settlement of landless workers in Sao Paulo state to reclaim the land for its private owners.

Several cars were set alight as residents tried to defend their homes in the Pinheirinho slum in Sao Jose dos Campos, and 16 people were arrested.

Police say they are now in control of the area after encountering less resistance than had been feared.

Some 6,000 residents are being evicted from the eight-year-old settlement.

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Around 2,000 police officers were involved in the operation to reclaim the private land, which had been occupied by landless workers and turned into a community.

Local government officials and social workers have been going door-to-door to evict families and help them move to alternative accommodation.

Some are being put up in temporary accommodation, while others are being offered transport back to their original home villages.

The evictions follow a legal battle between the residents and administrators for the bankrupt property company that owned the land.

Activists who supported the residents briefly blocked a main road in protest against the eviction.

The Pinheirinhos squatter camp established by a land invasion in 2002 had developed into a settled neighbourhood, complete with shops and churches.

A decade of strong economic growth and social spending has helped millions of Brazilians out of poverty into the expanding middle class.

But millions of others are still poor, and extreme inequality persists.

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Rina weakens to tropical storm

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28 October 2011 Last updated at 03:58 GMT Beaches on Mexico's popular Caribbean coast are virtually deserted now Hurricane Rina has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it is passed near Mexico's Caribbean coast, lashing key tourist resorts with wind and rain.

Despite weakening, Rina brought winds of up to 95km/h (60mph) as it moved north, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

Thousands have been evacuated from Cancun and other resorts on the eastern Yucatan peninsula since Tuesday.

The storm was expected to move inland and weaken further later on Friday.

Rina has caused travel chaos in Cancun. Hundreds of passengers flocked to the airport on Wednesday trying to leave, and 90 flights cancelled on Thursday.

Most schools in the region have closed as a precaution.

More than 4,000 residents and visitors were evacuated from the low-lying islands of Isla Mujeres and Holbox, which are prone to flooding.

The head of Mexico's West Coast National Marine Park, Jaime Gonzalez, said the storm would likely erode Cancun's famous white-sand beaches, which have been rebuilt twice since they were devastated by Hurricane Wilma in 2005.

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Tropical Storm Ophelia gains some strength: NHC

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n">(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Ophelia has gained a little strength it moves northwards to the open Atlantic, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Located about 180 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands, Ophelia was packing maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour (95 km per hour), the early Thursday report said.

Tropical cyclones become named tropical storms when their winds exceed 39 miles per hour and become hurricanes when their winds reach more than 74 mph.

(Reporting by Antonita Devotta; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

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Philippines cleans up after storm

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28 September 2011 Last updated at 04:10 GMT Kate McGeown reports on the evacuation efforts

A huge clean-up operation is under way in the Philippines after Typhoon Nesat battered the capital Manila and the main island, Luzon.

The death toll rose to 18 with 35 still missing after heavy rain and powerful winds triggered storm surges.

Most deaths occurred in and around Manila, officials said.

Nesat is now in the South China Sea with 120km/h (75mph) winds and due to reach China's Hainan Island on Thursday evening or early Friday.

Power supplies were gradually being restored to central Manila on Wednesday, officials said, and services on the Metro resumed.

However, more than a million people in Luzon remained without power.

Emergency teams were clearing away fallen trees, debris and broken-down cars while schools and offices reopened.

Civil defence chief Benito Ramos said crews were also repairing and clearing 61 road networks across Luzon damaged by landslides, debris and flooding.

Some areas are still under water including Manila Ocean Park and Taft Avenue. The US Embassy, which was flooded on Tuesday, remained closed.

City Mayor Alfredo Lim said huge waves had breached the sea wall allowing water from Manila Bay to engulf wide areas.

"This is the first time that this kind of flooding happened here," he said.

Flooding in Luzon was made worse when the government released water from four dams that had reached critical levels in Bulacan province.

Meanwhile, another tropical storm brewing in the Pacific Ocean could hit the Philippines within the week, the state weather bureau warned.

"We need to finish emergency work in the aftermath of Nesat before this storm comes," Mr Ramos said.

"We are praying for the skies to clear a little bit today."

Nesat, which had a diameter of 650km (400 miles) and carried gusts of up to 170km/h (105 mph), made landfall just before dawn on Tuesday on the Pacific coast.

The Philippines suffers frequent typhoons but Nesat is thought to be the largest this year.

It comes almost exactly two years after Typhoon Ketsana killed more than 400 people.

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Tanks storm with the troubled city

27 September 2011 12: 19 GMT state Rastan has mass protests against Bashar al-Assad regime in recent weeks, machine guns firing Syrian troops and tanks have stormed the activists say troubled headquarters of Rastan seen,.

The tanks and other armored vehicles on Tuesday after besieged it for two days of Rastan entered, she said.

The city is of strategic importance, lying on a major road in Turkey and near the city of Hims.

This step comes the Syrian authorities continue to efforts to suppress protests, which began six months ago.

In the crackdown, have according to a UN count more than 2,700 people have been killed.

The Syrian Government is condemned the recent violence on "armed bands" and foreign interference.

In the last few days in their latest concerted effort have Syrian security forces active, to suppress an area that has seen frequent mass protests against Bashar al-Assad regime in and around Homs.

Moualem: "what purpose this otherwise could serve as total chaos that would dismember Syria?"

"Container closed on Rastan over night and the sound of machine guns and explosions was non-stop," people, the himself Abu Qassem as News Agency told Reuters. "she finally issued this morning."

Unconfirmed reports of the victims were. Protests and actions in the country reports.

Activists said that on Monday, troops dead four soldiers trying to desert shot Idlib province in the Northwest.

Events from Syria are hard to verify as international journalists largely have been prevented, report it.

The BBC's Lyse Doucet, rare access to report from Damascus was this week, says Mr Assad has some support it.

But she says the brutal suppression of protests in the suburbs and in quotes and the basis is reduced villages outside Damascus.

Said Syrian Foreign Minister of the United Nations on Monday that the West was trying to create "total chaos" to Syria break.

The EU and the United States have both sanctions imposed on the Syrian regime. The United States asked the UN Security Council to impose sanctions.

In the meantime, hacker replaces the homepages of the official websites of Syrian cities with caricatures of President Assad, instructions for the control of the Government withdraw and data to those in the crackdown killed.

Members of the Group of hackers anonymous said that they were behind the attacks.

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Million urged to flee Japan storm

  In Nagoya it is feared nearby rivers may burst their banks More than a million people in central and western Japan have been urged to leave their homes as a powerful typhoon approaches.

Japan's Meteorological Agency warned that heavy rains brought by Typhoon Roke may trigger landslides and floods.
The storm is packing winds of 144km/h (90mph) and is expected to strengthen.
More than 460,000 households have been ordered to evacuate in Nagoya city, Aichi Prefecture, where it is feared nearby rivers may burst their banks.
Television footage showed Nagoya residents wading through water up to their knees. In some parts of the city rescue workers had to transport people in inflatable boats.
Evacuation advisories have also been issued in neighbouring Gifu and Hyogo prefectures. In Gifu, a nine-year-old boy and an 84-year-old man are feared drowned after being swept away by flood waters.
In the southern Kyushu prefecture of Miyazaki, nearly 400mm (16in) of rain fell on Tuesday.
Up to 40,000 people there have been advised to leave due to the risk of mudslides, where volcanic ash has accumulated after recent eruptions, public broadcaster NHK reported.
Typhoon Roke is expected to make landfall in central Japan on Wednesday and move north-east - possibly towards the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the Meteorological Agency said.
"We ask that the highest level of caution be used because of the heavy rain, strong wind, and high waves," the agency said during a televised news conference.
It warned of downpours over a wide area of the country on Wednesday, saying some places could be deluged by as much as 50mm of rain in an hour.
Earlier this month, Typhoon Talas ripped through the west of the country, leaving about 90 people dead or missing.

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