Saturday

March 14, 2015

Disasters and accidents

The United Nations will send emergency aid to Vanuatu with at least four people officially dead and reports of dozens more dead after Cyclone Pam hit yesterday. (Reuters via Daily Mail) (AP)

A bus crash in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina kills at least 51 people. (AFP via Yahoo! News) (Reuters via Daily Mail)

International relations

After an armed band removed his personal security guards, the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Samuel Sam-Sumana, goes into hiding after applying for asylum at the United States embassy in Freetown. (AAP via SBS) (AP)

Guyana rejects the latest objections raised by neighboring Venezuela over the granting to ExxonMobil Corp. of an oil and gas concession in Caribbean waters claimed by both nations. (Miami Herald)[permanent dead link]