Nearly 3 million effected with almost 1 million at risk of malnutrition after years of drought in Guatemala

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Thousands of people in southern Guatemala are suffering from a prolonged drought after years of below-average rainfall.
The drought has now resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being left hungry.
The situation is particularly bad in the "dry corridor", a region in the south of the country which extends into neighbouring Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras.
Guatemala normally expects plentiful rains between May and October - but the dry corridor endures a highly variable climate.
The current drought issues started in 2012 when the rains were erratic and vastly below average. Since then, the traditional vegetable crops, such as corn, have not grown properly due to the lack of water.
In the areas of Jalapa, Chiquimula and Santa Rosa, children suffering from severe malnutrition - whose symptoms include dangerously low weight, dehydrated skin and hair loss - have been admitted to hospital.

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It is estimated that approximately 2.8 million people are effected by the drought, with 900,000 at risk of malnutrition and in need of immediate support.
Despite the desperate situation, neither the government nor international aid agencies have sufficient resources to support those in need, amid estimations that only about half of them are receiving support.
Diego Recalde, a representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Guatemala, warned that food support wounld only provide a temporary solution.
He said that it was important to think about long-term approaches that would improve the soil and ensure the conservation of watershed and water supply.
Deforestation, coupled with torrential downpours from tropical weather such as hurricanes, has allowed vast amounts of precious top soil to be washed away, and reduced the ability of the land to capture water.
Without this being addressed, the crops that have been growing for decades will continue to fail - even if the rains return.

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New World Chaos: 'Brexit' to change the world forever as 'tribulation' is no longer a word describing future events

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The day the UK announced they had voted to leave the EU coincided with Shiv'ah Asar Betammuz -Tammuz 17:  The Jewish holiday, which is a Fast Day, and commemorates the breach of the walls of Jerusalem during the siege of the city by the Roman army (70 C.E.)
1,946 years later, to the day, the UK breached the walls of the EU when their people voted 'out!'

Britain
Immediately, while the ink was still wet on the ballot papers, Muslims and east Europeans along with othe ethnic Asians began to complain of racial tension building on the streets of the UK
By the weekend hate crime had soared by 57% on the streets of Britain.

A Muslim halal butchers was destroyed after thugs threw a petrol bomb into shop.
Vandalising of Polish community centre in London was among other incidents.
People of Pakistan and Indian backgrounds who were born in the UK were seen walking around with their British passports on show to avoid confrontation with far right thugs.

Britain at the moment is run by a so called 'zombie' government, Cameron has quit and no one is stearing the ship, a new leader contest is now on the cards, which could take months, rather than weeks to complete, causing a certain blood bath within the party....Some say the Conservative party will never recover.

The labour party has already lost one of their own, after an MP died after she was shot and stabbed in a "horrific" assault in her constituency.
Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was left bleeding on the ground after the attack in Birstall, West Yorkshire just days before the referendum.
A man was arrested nearby.
Since then the Labour party has all but collapsed and is in crisis as Jeremy Corbyn refuses to resign after losing the confidence of 172 from his 229 MPs.
The future of the UK is unclear.
The pound and the stock exchange has recovered after a very bumpy few day's, however it will take only a slight nudge in a very jumpy market to fall off the cliff face and plundge the already shaky world financial markets into turmoil.
The Scotish and the Northern Irish will almost certainly vote to leave the UK, which would make Great Britain less than great consisting of only England and Wales.

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Since the British voted to Brexit, we have seen throughout Europe that France, Germany, Italy, Finland, and the Netherlands, are all calling for referendums to leave the EU.
If just one more of the above country's manage to pull off their European shackles it would almost certainly be the end of the European Union, which would cause the crash of the Euro

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Gerald Celente claims the end of the euro would hasten the collapse of the European Central Bank.
And as the European Central Banks fails, the dominos would begun to unleash even greater chaos.
The collapse of the banking system is now front and center.
We have seen share prices of banks in Europe and abroad plunging in the aftermath of Brexit.
The banks are too big for the governments to bailout, so as the dominos begin to tumble, chaos will engulf the world.
This chaos will increase populism movements not only throughout Europe but also the United States and across the planet.
This is going to change the world forever and it has.
 And the change has just begun because it is spreading across the globe and it will lead to a completely different outcome than what the elites had planned for.

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Meteorite smashes through house roof in Province of Phitsanulok Thailand: Rocks recovered

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The suspected meteorite fell through the roof of a home in Plai Chumphon sub-district at 7.26am, hit a wall and then bounced to the floor, breaking into five pieces.
"I was having breakfast when there was a loud bang, like a gunshot sound.
I looked around and found a rock about the size of an egg and some fragments nearby.
I picked up the largest chunk and let go quickly as it was very hot," 65-year-old home-owner Bualom Chalomprai said.
Mrs Bualom believes the rock is from outer space and will bring her good luck.
Mrs Bualom's husband, Kittisak, 75, said he heard a sound of explosion in the sky at about 7am before the 300g rock fell through his roof.

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Media reports said residents in adjacent districts of Nakhon Thai and Chat Trakan also heard the "explosion".
Scientists at Naresuan University's department of physics later carried out an initial examination on a small fragment taken from the Chalomprai family home and concluded the object could very likely be a meteorite given its features and the circumstance under which it had been found.
Department head Sarawut Tuantam said the rock's crust was charcoal black, indicating it had been burned entering Earth's atmosphere at very high speeds.
The test also found the chunk contained large amount of iron and was attracted by a magnet.
Prof Sarawut added that the Chalomprais could keep the suspected space rock as it had safe radioactivity levels.

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10 times the June average rainfall in 1 and a half hours kill 4 in Quetta Pakistan

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At least four people including two children were killed and over 20 injured in rain-related incidents due to heavy rains on Monday which played havoc in the metropolis.
The city received around 60 millimeter rainfall which is 10 times the June average, breaking record of last several years, an official of the local Met Office said.
The torrential rain with hailstorm started lashing Quetta city and suburbs at around 2 p.m. and continued for one and half hour.
The entire city roads and streets were inundated as flash flood coming from mountains surrounding Quetta valley entered houses, markets, shops, hospitals, government and private buildings.
The official sources said among four killed were two children, identified as Ashraf and Asghar, and over 20 others injured in rain-related incidents in different localities of the metropolis.
An 11-year-old child fell down in an open main hole of the sewerage system in Sariab road area and died, they said adding that two persons were swept away by flash flood in Kharotabad area.
The entire city was deprived of electricity after several electric transformers reportedly exploded and electricity pylons fell down.
The flash flood entered in wards of Sandeman Civil Hospital and one of the boundary walls of the hospital collapsed.
All main city roads including Jinnah Road Prince Road Liaquat Bazaar Qandhari Bazaar Brewery Road Spiny Road and others received heavy rains and look like ponds and strerams.
Thousands of vehicles were struck up in flash floods and hail storm shattered the windowpanes of the vehicles.
People were even forced to stay under shelters as trees and sign boards were falling down in torrential rain with hailstorm and windstorm.
According to officials of Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO), two dozen of feeders tripped in the rain.
Dozens of mud houses were collapsed and damaged in slums and downstream areas of the city. Several parts of the city were yet deprived of electricity on Tuesday.
The Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti along with Commissioner Quetta Qamber Dashti and Deputy Commissioner Quetta Daud Khilji visited the rain affected areas of the city.
He said rescue operation was underway to drain out accumulated water from roads and streets and to shift the affected people to safe place.
The sewerage system of the city was chocked.
However most of the roads were cleared of rainwater on Tuesday.
Hospital sources said that several people injured in rain related incidents have been brought for medical aid.
The QESCO officials said that they were trying to restore the electricity of the affected areas.

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Tonnes of dead fish wash ashore in Pedda Cheruvu India

Tonnes of dead fish washed ashore Pedda Cheruvu in Bhoodan Pochampally on Saturday Nalgonda: Tonnes of fish were found dead and floating on the water on Saturday morning in Pedda Cheruvu of Bhudan Pochampally in the district.
Fishermen labor association president Ramesh said the fish started dying from Friday night and washed ashore by Saturday morning reports the HansIndia.
About 10 tonnes of fish worth a fortune to locals died.
Blaming the factories in and around Choutuppal for the tragic incident, he alleged that these factories will release chemical wastages into Musi rivulet through tankers in the midnight.
Ramesh demanded the officials to send the water samples to laboratory tests to know the exact reason.
Bhoodan Pochampally tahsildar Komaraiah visited the spot and examined the perished fish.

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Deadly Drought: Fish and alligators dying as severe drought hits Pilcomayo river in Paraguay.

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Members of environmental NGOs warn for an impending ecological disaster in the watercourse.
It predicts that the situation will be reversed only in November and December, if a new flood occurs. Dozens of crocodiles and fish die every day due to drought Pilcomayo river in Paraguay.
The image of animals trapped in the mud moves the villagers who can do nothing in the absence of water.
The truth is that the lack of water in the river can not be solved by opening the channel, but until a new flood occurs between the months of November and December, he told Oscar Salazar, president of the National Commission of the Pilcomayo River.
Meanwhile, Victor Benitez, Altervida NGO, warned that "we are in an ecological disaster doors" to the situation that must cross the species to drought.
Several animals suffer because of the lack of the vital water.
While many of them died, others are struggling to survive.
The most affected: fish, alligators and crocodiles.
The drought will worsen Minister of the Environment Secretariat (SEAM) of Paraguay, Rolando de Barros, said the problem of drought in the Pilcomayo River "will worsen".
Hundreds of animals are losing their lives due to lack of water in the area.
"As the drought intensifies, this problem will become more acute," said Barros.
He said it is a "cyclical theme that occurs every year."
He explained that the large amount of sediment Pilcomayo brings with it does not help.
"Never bring a fixed channel, then you have to do corrective work" so that the water can enter Paraguay.
Recently a video that was viralizado showed that alligators, capybaras and fish are dying as a result of drought.
The head of the Seam noted that "every year a percentage of mortality is estimated wild animals." Similarly, the environmental ministry announced it will make a mapping to identify the major sources of mortality of wildlife, especially of the aforementioned that have more difficulties to move.
In this regard, he added that the Ministry of Works made available machinery and trucks to "temporary places" to the animals to find a technical solution.
"For us the most important thing is to preserve the species," he said.
De Barros also admitted that "based on what we did not suffer even more," because the National Commission of the Pilcomayo not done the necessary work to clear the channels so they enter the waters, among other works.

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Indian Ocean Typhoon & Tropical Storm Center monitors new Tropical Cyclone 02A

As of Monday morning, EDT, Tropical Cyclone 02A is located approximately 215 miles south-southwest of Karachi, Pakistan.
Tropical Cyclone 02A is moving westward at 7 mph. Maximum-sustained winds are 40 mph with gusts to 50 mph.

On June 27 the MODIS instrument NASA's Terra satellite captured this visible light image of Tropical Storm 02A over the Arabian Sea. Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Tropical Cyclone 02A is forecast to move westward over the next few days and slowly strengthen due to good outflow and warm sea-surface temperatures.
This system is then expected to weaken later this week as it approaches Oman due to an increase in vertical wind shear.
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For the 5th day in a row, our star is naked and clearly blushing!
The blank Sun is showing a total absence of sunspot activity.
As a result, solar activity is low.
NOAA forecasters say the chance of a strong solar flare today is no more than 1%.
For the second time this month, the sun has gone completely blank.
On June 4th, the sun went completely spotless for the first time since 2011 and that quiet spell lasted for about 4 days.
Sunspot regions then reappeared for the next few weeks on a sporadic basis, but are once again completely missing from the surface of the sun.
The blank Sun is a clear indication she is heading for a new solar minimum
Spaceweather.com reports: The Earth-facing side of the sun is quiet, but the farside is not.
We know because on Saturday something exploded there, hurling a cloud of plasma over the sun's eastern limb.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a movie of the high-flying debris: Within a few days, the underlying blast site should reveal itself as the sun's rotation brings the active region over the horizon.
We shall see if it is a large sunspot or something less threatening.
Until then, the visible disk of the sun remains blank and the odds of an Earth-directed explosion are low.
NOAA forecasters say there is no more than a 1% chance of strong solar flares on June 26th.

A magnitude 6.4 - 27km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan is the 13th major quake of June

A magnitude 6.4 - 27km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan is the 13th major quake of June and the 82nd of 2016.
Green alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses.
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A "one-in-a-thousand-year event": Rivers reach historic highs as federal disaster declared across West Virginia: 24 dead

A federal disaster declaration was approved for three of the hardest-hit counties in flood-ravaged West Virginia after a historic deluge killed at least 24 people there.
The floodwaters swept away cars, cut power to thousands and trapped hundreds in a shopping centre after 10 inches of rain pounded parts of the state in just 24 hours.
It also submerged a golf course, forcing the PGA to cancel the upcoming Greenbrier Classic.
Tour officials announced Saturday that the tournament, scheduled for July 7 through 10, was nixed due to the floods.
"Cancelling The Greenbrier Classic is certainly the most prudent course of action as our foremost concern is the well-being of those who are having to live through this tragic situation," PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said in a statement.
Meanwhile, officials were still searching Saturday for missing people in Greenbrier County, the area hardest hit by the floods with 16 deaths.
Elsewhere in the state, one person died in Ohio County, another died in Jackson County, and six died in Kanawha County, the West Virginia medical examiner's office said.
The rains - so heavy they were dubbed a "one-in-a-thousand-year event" by the National Weather Service - prompted officials to put 44 out of West Virginia's 55 counties under a state of emergency, primarily in the southeastern part of the state.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Saturday granted a request from Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin for assistance for three heavily damaged counties: Kanawha, Greenbrier and Nicholas.
On Friday night, National Guard troops raced to build a temporary roadway in Kanawha County to rescue more than 500 people who had been stuck inside the Elkview Crossings Plaza since Thursday afternoon.

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Crews resumed evacuation efforts Saturday morning for those still inside.
"It's been a long 24 hours. The next 24 hours may not be much easier," Tomblin said Friday afternoon, after authorities spent the day rescuing people off rooftops and whisking them out of their homes as water rose at an alarming speed.
The brutal floods took no mercy on their victims, killing people of all ages.
Among those found dead was 4-year-old Edward McMilllion, who went missing in Ravenswood, Jackson County, along the Ohio River, officials said.
Local reports also said an 8-year-old in Ohio County fell into a creek and later died at a hospital. Meanwhile, in Kanawha County, an elderly man was killed and a woman was swept away in her vehicle, reported NBC affiliate WSAZ.
More than 50 people who had been displaced from their homes were sheltering at Capitol High School in Charleston, officials said.
There were also incredible stories of survival: In Rainelle in Greenbrier County, wheelchair-bound Vietnam War Air Force veteran Karol Dunford, 71, was pulled out of her trailer just in time.
Dunford screamed as the floodwater crept all the way up to her shoulders, The Associated Press reported.

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Rescue teams burst in late Thursday night and saved her, but Dunford lost her wheelchair and home, as well as her pet Chihuahua.
"She got really upset when she realized she doesn't have any underwear, she doesn't have any food, she doesn't have any medicine, she doesn't have anything," her daughter, Randee Suzer, told the AP. "She lives on very modest means.
That trailer was her home.
She didn't have a lot. And she lost it all."
Dunford was taken to a veterans hospital in Beckley for an open wound on her foot, Suzer added. More than 32,000 homes and businesses were still without power across the state Saturday morning, the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security tweeted.
That number was down from a high of nearly 500,000 customers Thursday night.
In White Sulphur Springs in the southern part of the state, natural gas service was turned off after a burning home drifted down a swollen creek.
It was captured on dramatic video.
More than 60 secondary roads were still closed throughout the state as of Saturday, and highways U.S. 60 and U.S. 119 were closed in multiple locations, West Virginia Division of Homeland Security said.
Across the state, rivers reached historic highs Friday.
In Clay County, northeast of Charleston, the Elk River rose to more than 33 feet, breaking the prior record of 32 feet set in 1888, officials said.

Levels of the Elk River at Queen Shoals, West Virginia. Image: NWS...Graph from floodlist.com
The downpour was the result of a "derecho" weather system that led to at least eight confirmed tornadoes Wednesday in Ohio and northern Illinois on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, according to the NWS.
Derechos are thunderstorms that produce widespread straight-line wind damage and happen most frequently in the late spring and summer, according to Weather.com.
No flash flood warnings were issued for Saturday in West Virginia.

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45,000 cattle have died this year due to drought in Tabasco, Mexico

Translated from Spanish
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico, jun. 25, 2016.- The herd of Tabasco is undergoing one of its worst crises in recent years, severe drought and heat are killing animals.
'If you have livestock there is now water for them to drink and has spent their energies, their body fat and muscle, there are animals that lose up to 35 or 40% of their body weight before dying.
2%, 2.5% of all animals in the  food chain are deteriorating and conditions are getting worse, "said Baltazar Sánchez Fuentes, secretary of the Livestock Union in Tabasco.
The lack of rain during the month of May and June so far has meant that 12 of the 17 municipalities of the entity reporting a severe drought.
So far this year about 45 thousand cattle have died from lack of food and water .
'Lacking energy and vitamins, especially in nutrients, causes a decrease in the immune system and animals are vunrable to any bacterial and viral disease, "said Baltazar Sánchez Fuentes, secretary of the Livestock Union in Tabasco.
By the lack of rain the grass is dry, the cattle lose weight and die.
Another factor affecting cattle are high temperatures, and die when consuming warm water.
'Sometimes they get diarrhea, sometimes urinate blood, it is because they drink warm water, "said Felipe Arias, farmer.
Livestock diseases have caused 10 municipalities lose the status of export to the United States.
'You must meet appropriate health status in this case would be the A, there is a high prevalence of tuberculosis and brucella.
What is all we have the right Chontalpa status A for export to the US and the rest of the state are in B status does not allow us to export, "said Baltazar Sánchez Fuentes.
Tabasco was one of the leading producers of beef and milk in the country.
Currently there are only one million 878 thousand head of cattle and about 48 000 farmers.

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