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ANKARA, Turkey (AP)
— He is one among many,
far too many. But the plight
of one boy, washed up like a
piece of debris on a Turkish
beach, has focused the
world’s attention on a wave
of war-and - deprivation-
fueled migration unmatched
since World War II.
Aylan Kurdi, 3, was
found on a Turkish beach in
sneakers, blue shorts and a red
shirt after the small rubber
boat he and his family were in
capsized in a desperate voyage
from Turkey to Greece.
Aylan died along with
well-documented risks.
Tima Kurdi’s husband,
Rocco Logozzo, told The
Canadian Press that Abudllah
Kurdi told his sister that both
boys were wearing lifejackets
when the boat capsized
but that the protective gear
somehow slipped off when
the boat flipped.
Fie said the family
had enough money and
room in his home to have
provided for their relatives
in Syria but hadn’t been
able to do because the bid
was rejected by a system
that was designed to fail.
The family lost all hope
independence in 1991 they
joined the European Union
and NATO in 2004, but
continue to be suspicious of
Moscow’s intentions.
denied in June and made the
“bad” choice to try to get to
Europe by boat, he said.
Earlier, Tima Kurdi had
told the Ottawa Citizen that
the application for refugee
status had been rejected.
She later contradicted this
account when she said no
formal bid for refugee status
had been made.
Her relatives lived in the
Syrian town of Kobani,
which was devastated by
battles between Islamic
State militants and Kurdish
fighters, said Canadian
lawmaker Fin Donnelly.
He had told The Canadian
Press that he had submitted
the application on the
family’s behalf.
She later said, however,
that no formal request for
refugee status had been
made on Abdullah Kurdi’s
behalf, saying one was filed,
and rejected, on another
relative’s behalf. She also gave
a different transliteration for
the boys’ names, calling them
Alan and Galib.
Accounts of events changed
several times Thursday as
information flowed in from
several parts of the world.
Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper said some
early accounts contained
inaccurate information.
Describing the tragedy,
Abdullah Kurdi said the
overloaded boat flipped over
moments after the captain,
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capital indicted the two
owners of a garment factory
and 11 others on homicide
charges Thursday for a 2012
fire that killed 112 workers.
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prosecuted in Bangladesh’s
lucrative garment industry,
the world’s second largest
after China.
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wife Mahmuda Akter, the
owners of Tazreen Fashions
Ltd., pleaded not guilty to
the charges.
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Rahman said the judge also
indicted 11 factory managers
and security guards. Eight
of the accused were present
in court while five remain
at large and will be tried in
absentia. Tire trial will begin
Oct. 1, Rahman said.
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owners and the others were
responsible for the deaths
of the workers because the
factory outside Dhaka had no
emergency exits and the main
exit was locked when the
fire broke out in November
2012. The defendants’ lawyer
argued that the fire was an
accident and that they should
not be indicted.
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The distraught father, who
worked as a barber in Syria,
added wistfully: “All I want
is to be with my children at
the moment.”
Abdullah Kurdi said the
boat, headed for the Greek
island of Kos, was only at
sea for four minutes before
the captain abandoned the
vessel and its 12 passengers.
The route between
Bodrum in Turkey and
Kos, just a few miles, is
one of the shortest from
in the Lithuanian capital
amid growing concerns in the
Baltic countries over Russia’s
military presence.
NATO Secretary-General
Jens Stoltenberg, who joined
Lithuanian President Dalia
Grybauskaite for the opening
ceremony, described the new
unit as a “big step forward
toward greater solidarity,
greater strength and greater
readiness.”
The NATO force integration
unit in Vilnius is one of six
small headquarters — manned
by some 40 staff each — that
opened this month in Bulgaria,
Estonia, Latvia, Poland and
Romania, as part of the
alliance’s biggest reinforcement
of collective defense since the
end of the Cold War.
Grybauskaite welcomed
the new units, saying they
would ensure the quick and
effective movement of troops.
“And they help send a very
clear message — no NATO
ally stands alone,” she said,
pointing to Russian aggression
in Ukraine as threatening
the security of Europe. “This
is why we have decided to
bolster our security.”
Lithuania and its Baltic
neighbors, Latvia and
Estonia, were occupied for
nearly five decades by the
Soviet Union. After regaining
his mother, Rehan, leaving
their distraught father,
Abdullah, to cope with his
sudden, overwhelming loss.
He said 'Thursday he wanted
one thing and one thing
only: to sit by the graves of
his wife and children.
“My kids were the most
beautiful children in the
world, wonderful. They
wake me up every morning
to play with them. They are
all gone now,” he said.
A Canadian legislator said
Canadian immigration
authorities rejected the
application, in part because
of the family’s lack of exit
visas for their departure
from Turkey and their lack
of internationally recognized
refugee status, the aunt told
the Ottawa Citizen.
Canada’s Immigration
Minister Chris Alexander
suspended his re-election
campaign to travel to Ottawa
on Thursday to determine
the facts of the case, a senior
government official said.
Hours later, the
department said no request
had ever been made for
Abdullah Kurdi’s family.
The plaintive photograph
of lifeless Aylan Kurdi,
seen around the world, has
highlighted the desperation
of those risking their lives to
try to reach Europe, sparking
fresh calls for countries to do
more to ease their passage.
In Britain, UN, refugee
agency representative Laura
Padoan said publishing
the photos may bring a
major change in the public’s
perception of the crisis.
“I think a lot of people
will think about their own
families and their own
children in relation to those
images,” she said. “It is
difficult for politicians to turn
their backs on those kind
of images and the very real
tragedy that is happening.”
The tide also washed up
the bodies of Rehan and
Galip on Turkey’s Bodrum
peninsula Wednesday. In all,
12 people drowned when
two boats capsized.
They represent only a small
fraction of the uncounted
number of those who have
died at sea in recent months
as the conflicts in the Middle
East have intensified.
Turkey’s state-run
Anadolu Agency said
eight of the 12 drowned
migrants were children.
Four people were detained
Thursday on suspicion of
acting as intermediaries in
the illegal trafficking, the
agency said.
It was not immediately
clear when the family
left Kobani or what its
movements were in Turkey.
Abdullah Kurdi said the
family had arrived in Bodrum
from Istanbul 15 days ago.
Fie said he planned to take
his family’s remains back to
Kobani for burial.
“I want the whole world
to see,” he said. “We went
through a disaster and I
don’t want other people to
suffer the same.”
According to U.N. officials,
more than 24,000 people
arrived from northern Syria
amid fighting between the
Islamic State group and
Kurdish militants.
close relatives there offering
financial backing and shelter,
but Canada’s Department of
Citizenship and Immigration
later denied that assertion.
“There was no record of
an application received for
Mr. Abdullah Kurdi and his
family,” the department said
in a statement, indicating
that a bid for another
member of the family,
Mohammad Kurdi, had been
returned as incomplete.
Tima Kurdi of Vancouver,
who is Abdullah’s sister,
initially told Canadian media
that the family had embarked
on the perilous boat journey
described as a Turkish man,
panicked and abandoned the
vessel, leaving Abdullah as
the de facto commander of
a small boat overmatched by
high seas.
“I took over and started
steering. The waves were so
high and the boat flipped. I
took my wife and my kids in
my arms and I realized they
were all dead,” he said.
In a police statement later
leaked to the Turkish news
agency Dogan, Abdullah
Kurdi gave a different account,
denying that a smuggler was
aboard. However, smugglers
often instruct migrants mat if
caught they should deny their
presence and it was unclear
whether he had been trying to
protect a smuggler’s identity in
(AP) — Fighter jets roaring
overhead, NATO on Thursday Sheep yields 89
inaugurated a military center
pounds of i eece
CANBERRA, Australia
(AP) — A lost, overgrown
sheep found in Australian
scrubland was shorn for
perhaps the first time on
Thursday, yielding 40
kilograms (89 pounds) of
wool — the equivalent of 30
sweaters — and shedding
almost half his body weight.
Tammy Ven Dange, chief
executive of the Canberra
RSPCA, which rescued the
merino ram dubbed Chris,
said she hoped to register the
40.45 kilogram (89 pound,
3 ounce) fleece with the
Guinness World Records.
An official of the London-
based organization did not
immediately respond to a
request for comment.
The most wool sheared
from a sheep in a single
shearing is 28.9 kilograms
(63 pounds, 11 ounces) taken
from a wild New Zealand
merino dubbed Big Ben in
January last year, the Guinness
World Records website said.
Chris was found near
Mulligans Flat Woodland
Sanctuary outside Canberra
by bushwalkers who feared
he would not survive the
approaching southern
summer. He was found several
kilometers (miles) from
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