Storm leaves 200,000 displaced in Philippines Storm Fung-Wong churned towards Taiwan on Saturday after killing at least five people in the Philippines, and forcing some 200,000 people into temporary shelter, including in the capital Manila, to escape massive flooding. Last year, typhoon Haiyan struck in the central Philippines, killing more 6,300 people. An average of 20 typhoons hit the country every year. Turkey opens border to tens of thousands of Kurds amid fears of imminent ISIS attack Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds have cross over into Turkey over the past day, as the Islamic State terrorists inch closer to the border, seizing dozens of villages along the way, according to Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus on Saturday Man jumps White House fence, causes brief evacuation A man jumped over the fence and started running towards the White House, apparently minutes after Barack Obama and his daughters had departed for the weekend, Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan said. The incident sparked a brief evacuation of the White House. Third Russian humanitarian aid convoy arrives in Donetsk The third convoy of Russian humanitarian aid for eastern Ukraine has arrived in the war-torn city of Donetsk, reported Itar Tass. The convoy of around 200 vehicles is carrying some 2,000 tons of cereals, canned food, generators, medicine, warm clothes, and bottled water. Leader of Scottish Independence Quits After an embarrassing defeat at the voting booth on Thursday, Scotland’s first minister, Alex Salmond of the Scottish National Party, is resigning.
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