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pengebom B52 Amerika Syarikat adalah di tengah-tengah barisan satu peningkatan
ke atas pulau yang dipertikaikan di Laut China Selatan. Jet tanpa senjata
terbang ke atas wilayah dengan tidak ada alasan ZON pertahanan udara baru yang
dike-nakan oleh China.
Beijing
memberi amaran ia akan mengambil “angkah-langkah kecemasan pertahanan” jika
pesawat gagal untuk mengenal pasti diri mereka dengan betul dalam ruang udara
iaitu kira-kira 2/3 saiz Britain. Caroline Kennedy, Duta baru Amerika ke Jepun
dan anak perempuan mendiang Presiden Kennedy, memberikan reaksi beliau dalam
ucapan awam pertama.
“Tindakan
unilateral seperti yang diambil oleh China dengan pengumuman ZON penge-nalan
pertahanan China Timur Laut - udara menjejaskan keselamatan dan merupakan suatu
usaha untuk menukar status quo di Laut China Timur. Ini hanya berfungsi untuk
meningkatkan ketegangan di rantau ini,” katanya berkata.
Syarikat
penerbangan utama Amerika Syarikat sekutu Jepun juga mencabar Cina apabila
mereka melalui ZON seluruh pulau-pulau yang dipertikaikan. Sesetengah pakar
percaya langkah Beijing bertujuan kerepek jauh di Tokyo tuntutan untuk kawalan
pentadbiran ke atas pulau-pulau kecil yang tidak didiami.
South
China sea row Escalates after US B52 bombers defy
New Chinese defence ZONE . . .
Two
US B52 bombers are at the centre of an escalating row over disputed islands in
the South China Sea. The unarmed jets flew over the territory in defiance of a
new air defence zone imposed by China.
Beijing
warned it would take "defensive emergency measures" if aircraft
failed to identify themselves properly in the airspace which is about
two-thirds the size of Britain. Caroline
Kennedy, the new American Ambassador to Japan and the daughter of the late
President Kennedy, gave her reaction in her first public address.
"Unilateral
actions like those taken by China with the announcement of an East China
Sea-Air defence identification zone undermine security and constitute an
attempt to change the status quo in the East China Sea. This only serves to
increase tension in the region," she said.
US
ally Japan's main airlines also defied the Chinese when they passed through the
zone over the disputed islands. Some experts believe Beijing's move was aimed
at chipping away at Tokyo's claim to administrative control over the tiny
uninhabited islands.
Fenomena yang luar biasa: Bulatan ais Gergasi berputar
di sungai North Dakota . . .
SitiWanMahani - Seorang jurutera bersara daripada memburu di North Dakota pada hari Sabtu ternampak cakera besar ais berputar di Sungai Sheyenne, lebih 50 kaki diameter. George Loegering posted video dalam talian pada Selasa, mereka yang untuk memerhati yang luar biasa beliau, jelas menunjukkan cakera berputar yang diliputi salji.
Unusual Phenomenon: Giant Ice Circle Spinning
in North Dakota river . . .
A retired engineer out hunting in North Dakota on Saturday spotted a huge disk of ice spinning on the Sheyenne River, over 50 feet in diameter. George Loegering posted video online on Tuesday of his unusual sighting, clearly showing the snow-covered disc rotating.
SitiWanMahani - Penduduk sebuah kampung Bosnia jauh dibiarkan ternganga oleh kehi-langan mengejut kolam tempatan mereka. Penduduk kampung di Sanica, Bosnia telah meninggalkan keresahan kerana mereka bangun satu pagi untuk mencari kolam mereka yang tenang, di mana kanak-kanak sekali-kala memancing, digantikan dengan lubang gergasi.
Air kolam hilang 2 minggu lalu apabila sinkhole yang dibentuk, menelan pokok-pokok dan menghisap dalam dgn ikan bersama-sama dengan segala-galanya di dalamnya dan meninggalkan kawah misteri. Kolam itu kira-kira 130 kaki diameter dan kira-kira 26 kaki dalam. Kini, “jurang,” sebagai penduduk kampung yang menggelarnya kawah, beberapa 164 kaki lebar dan 98 kaki dalam - dan kian berkembang.
Penduduk kampung mempunyai pelbagai penjelasan tentang apa yang boleh berlaku kepadanya. Rezak Motanic mengekalkan bahawa pemilik kolam, yang mati sebulan sebe-lum ini, telah mengambil air dengan dia ke dalam akhirat.
“Hasan, mati, dan 1 bulan selepas kematiannya, segala-galanya di sini runtuh [kolam]. Air menarik diri mengikutinya,” katanya.
Teori lain yang popular - yang pakar menolak bersama-sama dengan orang lain yang dicadangkan oleh penduduk tempatan - adalah bahawa ikan boleh mencetuskan letupan salah satu daripada beberapa Perang DUNIA ke-II bom Jerman dipercayai telah dibuang ke dalam kolam oleh seorang perempuan tua selepas perang.
Ahli-ahli sains bagaimanapun berkata ia tidak umum untuk kolam dan tasik kecil untuk tiba-tiba hilang. Mereka mengatakan ia boleh disebabkan oleh perubahan dalam arus air bawah tanah atau parit tanah akibat pengairan.
Sumber: APTN
Sinkhole swallows Bosnian pond Overnight
The residents of a remote Bosnian village are left dumbfounded by the sudden disappearance of their local pond. Villagers in Sanica, Bosnia have been left unsettled since they woke up one morning to find their tranquil pond, where children once fished, replaced by a giant hole.
The pond water disappeared two weeks ago when a sinkhole formed, swallowing trees and sucking in fish along with everything else inside it and leaving behind a mysterious crater. The pond was some 130 feet diameter and about 26 feet deep. Now, the "abyss," as the villagers have dubbed the crater, is some 164 feet wide and 98 feet deep -- and growing.
Villagers have a variety of explanations as to what could have happened to it. Rezak Motanic maintains that the owner of the pond, who died a month previously, has taken the waters with him into the afterlife.
"Hasan, died, and one month after his death, everything collapsed here [the pond]. Water withdrew following him," he said.
Another popular theory -- one that experts dismiss along with others proposed by the locals -- is that fish could have triggered the explosion of one of several World War II German bombs believed to have been thrown into the pond by an old woman after the war.
Scientists however say it is not uncommon for ponds and small lakes to suddenly disappear. They say it could be caused by changes in underground water currents or soil drainage due to irrigation.
