WORLD BRIEFLY
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Airstrike in Yemen
deepens war, puts
pressure on U.S.
SANAA, Yemen (AP) —
More than 1,000 mourners
were packed into the funeral
hall, including some of the
most powerful igures in
Yemen’s rebel movement.
Ali al-Akwa, who was just
about to start reciting the
Quran, heard warplanes
overhead — but that wasn’t
strange for wartime Sanaa.
Surely a funeral would be
safe, he thought.
Moments later, a huge
explosion struck, tearing
bodies apart. The ceiling
collapsed, walls fell in and
a ire erupted. As people
scrambled frantically to get
out, a second missile struck,
killing more of them.
Nearly 140 people were
killed and more than 600
wounded in Saturday’s
airstrike — one of the
deadliest since Saudi Arabia
and its allies began an air
campaign in Yemen in
March 2015. The coalition
is trying to uproot the Shiite
Houthi rebels who took
over the capital and much
of northern Yemen from the
internationally recognized
government of President
Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
The coalition seems to
have been hoping to take
out a signiicant part of the
Houthis’ military leadership
and its allies, who were
expected at the funeral.
Instead, the attack is likely
to deepen the stalemate in a
war that has already pushed
the impoverished country
into collapse.
The bloodshed has
eclipsed new U.N. efforts
to secure even a brief
cease-ire. Amid popular
anger, the coalition has lost
potential tribal allies. In an
attempt to expand the war,
the Houthis have retaliated
by iring rockets into
neighboring Saudi Arabia
and at U.S. warships.
The only hope for
progress toward a
resolution, many Yemenis
say, is if the strike prompts
Saudi Arabia’s top ally, the
United States, and other
Western nations to halt
arms sales, pressure Riyadh
to ease the war and move
toward negotiations.
Haitians await
aid, help each
other regain some
normalcy
LES CAYES, Haiti
(AP) — People throughout
Haiti’s devastated southwest
peninsula formed makeshift
brigades Tuesday to clear
debris and try to regain
some semblance of their
pre-hurricane lives as anger
grew over the delay in aid
for remote communities
more than a week after the
Category 4 storm hit.
A community group
that formed in the southern
seaside community of Les
Anglais began clearing
tree limbs from streets and
placing them into piles
while others gathered scraps
of wood to start rebuilding
homes destroyed by
Hurricane Matthew.
The U.N. humanitarian
agency in Geneva has
made an emergency appeal
for nearly $120 million in
aid, saying about 750,000
people in southwest Haiti
alone will need “life-saving
assistance and protection”
in the next three months.
U.N. oficials said earlier
that at least 1.4 million
people across the region
need assistance and that 2.1
million overall have been
affected by the hurricane.
Some 175,500 people main
in shelters.
The National Civil
Protection headquarters
in Port-au-Prince raised
the oficial nationwide
death toll to 473, which
included at least 244 deaths
in Grand-Anse. But local
oficials have said the toll in
Grand-Anse alone tops 500.
Those who survived
the storm still faced great
challenges, including going
days without food.
East Oregonian
Zika: Health
problems mount as
babies turn one
RECIFE, Brazil
(AP) — Two weeks shy of
his irst birthday, doctors
began feeding Jose Wesley
Campos through a nose
tube because swallowing
problems had left him
dangerously underweight.
Learning how to feed is
the baby’s latest struggle as
medical problems mount
for him and many other
infants born with small
heads to mothers infected
with the Zika virus in
Brazil.
A year after a spike in
the number of newborns
with the defect known
as microcephaly, doctors
and researchers have seen
many of the babies develop
swallowing dificulties,
epileptic seizures and
vision and hearing
problems.
While more study
is needed, Zika-caused
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microcephaly appears to
be causing more severe
problems in these infants
than in patients born with
small heads because of the
other infections known to
cause microcephaly, such
as German measles and
herpes. The problems are so
particular that doctors are
now calling the condition
congenital Zika syndrome.
“We are seeing a lot of
seizures. And now they
are having many problems
eating, so a lot of these
children start using feeding
tubes,” said Dr. Vanessa
Van der Linden, a pediatric
neurologist in Recife who
was one of the irst doctors
to suspect that Zika caused
microcephaly.
Zika, mainly transmitted
by mosquito, was not
known to cause birth
defects until a large
outbreak swept through
northeastern states in
Latin America’s largest
nation, setting off alarm
worldwide. Numerous
studies conirmed the link.
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