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2012年1月11日星期三

Heidi is expected to make landfall

Tropical Cyclone Heidi intensified to category Burberry women t-shirts, cheap burberry short t-shirts for women outlet two as it bore down on Western Australia's mineral-rich Pilbara region, where mining giants such as Rio Tinto and BHP operate.
"Destructive winds with gusts to 155 kilometres (96 miles) per hour are possible overnight close to the cyclone centre between Whim Creek and Pardoo, including Port Hedland," the weather bureau said, upgrading the storm's strength.
Heidi is expected to make landfall shortly before 2am local time (1800 GMT), bringing wild winds, flooding tides and up to 250 millimetres (10 inches) of rainfall to the mining-intensive region.
Port Hedland Port Authority spokesman Steed Farrell said they had activated their cyclone contingency plan in preparation for the wild weather.
"We cleared inbound traffic into the port and cleared the port of vessels that needed to get out," he said.
Rio Tinto and fellow iron ore producer Fortescue Metals said they have stopped loading ships but their mines were still operating as normal.
Meanwhile, Santos Ltd shut its Mutineer-Exeter oil field and Woodside Petroleum suspended output at several of its fields.
Residents were urged to seek shelter and prepare an emergency kit with first aid supplies, a portable radio, torch, batteries, food and water.
Cyclones are a regular feature in Australia with the country hammered by several last year, including Yasi that ploughed into northeastern Australia's Great Barrier Reef coast, wreaking Aus$1 billion (US$1 billion) in damage.Yemen's cabinet proposed the immunity law for Saleh on Sunday to encourage him to step down under a Gulf-brokered plan to end protests that have paralyzed the country over the past year.
Washington-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement late on Tuesday that the measure could result in impunity for serious crimes such as deadly attacks on anti-government demonstrators in 2011.
"Passing this law would be an affront to thousands of victims of Saleh's repressive rule, including the relatives of peaceful protesters shot dead last year,"burberry warehouse said Sarah Leah Whitson, the group's executive Middle East director.
"Yemeni authorities should be locking up those responsible for serious crimes, not rewarding them with a license to kill."
U.N. human rights commissioner Navi Pillay has also voiced objections to the draft. However, the United States has defended it, saying the immunity provisions were negotiated as part of the Gulf Cooperation Council deal to get Saleh to leave power.
Under the arrangement, Saleh's General People's Congress party (GPC) and the opposition Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) agreed to divide up cabinet posts between them, forming a national unity government to lead the country towards presidential elections in February.
The United States and Saudi Arabia are keen for the plan to work, fearing that a power vacuum in Yemen is benefiting militants alongside the Red Sea, an important shipping channel.
The draft law, which parliament is expected to debate as early as Wednesday, violates Yemen's obligations under international law to investigate and prosecute serious crimes such as torture, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, HRW said.
HRW also said immunity would not prevent courts in other countries from prosecuting serious human rights crimes in Yemen under universal jurisdiction laws. "Even if the Yemeni parliament grants immunity, the law will not hold water abroad," Whitson said.
HRW said there had been a total of 270 confirmed deaths of protesters and bystanders in 2011 during attacks by government security forces and gangs on largely peaceful demonstrations, mainly in Sanaa.
"From north to south to central Sanaa, the Saleh government has violated the basic rights of the Yemeni people," Whitson said. "Without accountability for these crimes, there cheap burberry can be no genuine break from the past in a post-Saleh Yemen."