The temperature hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit in Kumagaya on Monday, making it the country’s highest temperature on record. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, several locations in the country set record temperature Monday with 241 individual weather stations hitting over 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
Local daily Kyodo News reported that 77 heat-related deaths occurredin the last two weeks and more than 30,000 were hospitalized.
Syrian refugees, fleeing the violence in their country, wait to cross the border into the autonomous …
GENEVA (Reuters) - An estimated 29,000 Syrian refugees have
entered northern Iraq since Thursday in one of the largest crossings in
Syria's two-year-old conflict and the influx is continuing, the United
Nations said on Monday.
Syrians fleeing fighting in Aleppo and other embattled parts of
northern Syria began pouring into the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq
last Thursday, taking advantage of a new pontoon bridge along the
largely closed border, it said.
"It is a massive movement of people," said Dan McNorton, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The new figure includes some 20,000 now believed to have crossed
over on Thursday and Saturday last week as well as 6,000 on Sunday and
about 3,000 on Monday morning, he said.
The previous record for Syrians fleeing the country in a 24-hour
period was around 9,000 believed to have left on a single day last
November, mainly for Turkey, according to the UNHCR.
McNorton, asked whether most of the latest refugees were Syrian
Kurds, said: "We don't have a full analysis of these people who have
crossed. We don't have a full accurate headcount of all those who are
crossing."
The recently built Peshkhabour pontoon bridge over the Tigris River
has since been closed to refugees, remaining open only to commercial
traffic, but fleeing Syrians are now using the Sahela crossing, "a more
isolated route", McNorton said.
UNHCR has sent trucks loaded with emergency supplies and erected
plastic tarpaulins at a transit site to provide shelter from the sun and
heat. A refugee camp being built at Darashakran is expected to open by
the end of August, McNorton said.
More than 1.9 million Syrian refugees have registered in neighboring
countries as well as Egypt since an uprising against Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011.
Prior to the latest exodus, they included 154,000 Syrians who had registered as refugees in Iraq.
The border between Syria and Iraq had been largely closed since
authorities of the Iraqi Kurdish regional government shut the crossing
on May 19, apart from a single formal crossing point at Al-Wahid in
Anbar province.
Some 700 Syrian refugees were allowed to cross on July 15 for medical reasons and to rejoin relatives, according to UNHCR.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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LIkely the reason for this exodus of Kurds to Iraq is because the Kurds hold the Oil Wells in Northern Syria. However, Al Qaeda wants these oil wells and is willing to do ANYTHING to the Kurdish people to get control of these oil wells. So, to survive this the Kurds are moving over the border into Iraq where they will hopefully be safer.
When you realize what you are looking at in this video is many times bigger than earth and spinning at 30,000 miles per hour it gives a pretty amazing perspective of what one is actually looking at.
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