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Tuesday 20 December 2011

World leaders to flock to Havel funeral

Candles illuminate portraits of former Czech President Vaclav Havel displayed on Tomas Garrique Masaryks statue on December 19, 2011 in Prague.

PRAGUE - World leaders will join Czech dignitaries to pay homage to Velvet Revolution icon and former president Vaclav Havel at his state funeral in an historic Prague cathedral on Friday.
Among those expected are French President Nicolas Sarkozy, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former US president Bill Clinton, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli President Shimon Peres, officials and local media said.
Austrian President Heinz Fischer, Slovenian President Danilo Turk, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic and outgoing Prime Minister Iveta Radicova have also confirmed they will attend.
Czechs continued to pay tribute to Havel, a dissident playwright who earned a special place in their hearts for leading them through the bloodless 1989 Velvet Revolution, which brought about the end of Soviet-backed communism in then Czechoslovakia.
Havel, who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and subsequently the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003, died on Sunday aged 75 following a protracted illness.
"The Czech nation and the whole of Europe has lost the most important Czech of the 20th century, so it's good that the state will honour him," Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, former head of Havel's office and a close friend, said Monday.
Flags flew at half mast across the Czech Republic on Tuesday ahead of three days of national mourning from Wednesday through Friday, the day of Havel's funeral in St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle, the seat of Czech presidents.
Czech lawmakers met to honour the former president on Tuesday.
The government of neighbouring Slovakia declared Friday a day of national mourning.
Crowds lined up outside a former church in central Prague for a second day Tuesday to pay their respects at Havel's coffin, while hundreds of people signed condolence books at Prague Castle.
On Wednesday, a ceremonial march will take Havel's coffin to Vladislav Hall at Prague Castle on a horse-drawn gun carriage that was also used for the funeral of the first Czechoslovak president Tomas Garrigue Masaryk in 1937.

In mourning, North Korea seals itself off

BEIJING/SEOUL: Kim Jong-un, the third in a dynasty that has ruled North Korea since its foundation in 1948, paid homage to his dead father Tuesday as the isolated country appeared to cut itself off even more from the outside world.

While U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clintonurged North Korea to follow a "path of peace," diplomats and commentators were struggling to understand what would happen as it transitions from the 17-year iron rule of Kim Jong-il, 69 years old when he died Saturday, to that of his untested son, in his late 20s. 
"Kimjongilia" flowers named after him. Emphasising the ruling family's lineage, Kim Jong-il's bier was placed in the mausoleum where the embalmed body of founding father Kim Il-sung is displayed in a glass sarcophagus. 

State news agency KCNA said the visitors were "wailing over the sudden and grievous death of Kim Jong-il." South Korean workers returning from an industrial park in the North said theatmosphere there was "normal but solemn." North Korea has said it does not want foreign dignitaries to attend the Dec 28 funeral and China said it had noted that, although it later said that the country's leadership was welcome to visit China "at a convenient time." 

North Korean media lauded Kim Jong-il as the "Great Father of the People" and reported that he had made several public appearances in the past week. 

Arab League Syria Team To Visit On Thursday

Arab League Syria

CAIRO -- An Arab League official says an advance team will travel to Syria Thursday to prepare for an observer mission that the Syrian government agreed to this week. The mission is tasked with ensuring the regime's compliance with an Arab plan for ending the nation's political violence.
The 12-member advance team will be led by the Arab League's assistant secretary-general, Sameer Seif el-Yazal.
Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby told reporters Monday that the advance delegation will include legal, administrative, financial and human rights experts to discuss the makeup of the observer teams.
On Monday, Syria agreed to the Arab League plan to send foreign monitors, bending to growing international pressure to end its bloody crackdown on a nine-month uprising.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
BEIRUT (AP) – Syria's state-run news agency says President Bashar Assad has issued a new law under which anyone found guilty of distributing weapons for "terrorist acts" would be sentenced to death.

Iraq Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi denies charges


Iraq's Sunni Vice-President, Tariq al-Hashemi, has denied any wrongdoing, a day after a warrant was issued for his arrest on terrorism-related charges.
Mr Hashemi was accused of funding attacks on officials and police.
He said he was "ready to face trial", but only in Iraq's semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region, AFP reports.
There are concerns the case could further raise tensions between Mr Hashemi's Sunni Arab community and the Shia-led national government.

Philippines floods:

Soldiers carry coffins of victims of Friday's flash flooding during a mass burial at a public cemetery in Iligan city in southern Philippines Tuesday Dec. 20, 2011. (AP / Bullit Marquez)

ILIGAN, Philippines — The government shipped more than 400 coffins to two flood-stricken cities in the southern Philippines on Tuesday as the death toll neared 1,000 and President Benigno Aquino III declared a state of national calamity.
The latest count listed 957 dead and 49 missing and is expected to climb further as additional bodies are recovered from the sea and mud in Iligan and Cagayan de Oro cities.
A handful of morgues are overwhelmed and running out of coffins and formaldehyde for embalming. Aid workers appealed for bottled water, blankets, tents and clothes for many of 45,000 in crowded evacuation centers.
Navy sailors in Manila loaded a ship with 437 white wooden coffins to help local authorities handle the staggering number of dead. Also on the way were containers with thousands of water bottles.
Most of the dead were women and children who drowned Friday night when flash floods triggered by a tropical storm gushed into homes while people were asleep.
Dozens of grieving relatives of at least 38 victims wept openly during funeral rites at the Iligan city cemetery. Many wore masks to try to block the stench of decomposing bodies.
"We have to give the dead a decent burial," Mayor Lawrence Cruz said. He said authorities were using part of the cemetery's passageway to build tombs.
A Briton was the first foreigner reported dead in the flooding, according to the British Embassy in Manila. It didn't provide details.
Aquino, on a visit to Cagayan de Oro on Tuesday, said the declaration of a national calamity will help local authorities gain quick access to recovery funds and keep prices of basic goods stable.
"Our national government will do its best to prevent a repeat of this tragedy," Aquino told residents who came to greet him.
He said there would be an assessment of why so many people died, if there was ample warning that a storm would sweep through the area, and why people living along riverbanks and close to the coast had not been moved to safety.