" Volunteers of Women's General Association of Macao clean a road in Macao http://www.predatorsauthority.com/authentic-yannick-weber-predators-jersey/ , south China, Aug. 24, 2017. Bringing heavy gusts and rainstorms, Hato destroyed more than 4,000 trees in Macao on Wednesday. (Xinhua) GUANGZHOU, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- On Thursday, parts of south Chinawere recovering from the country's strongest typhoon of the year,which has left at least 16 people dead and three missing.
Typhoon Hato blew past Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region andweakened into Yunnan Province Thursday, nearly 20 hours after itmade landfall with full force in Guangdong Province and wreakedhavoc in Macao.
In Guangdong, traffic and power supply are resuming. Train andferry services were starting to be restored late Wednesday andefforts continued on Thursday.
The provincial government said 6,425 houses collapsed and 50,000hectares of farmland sustained damage.
More than 2.7 million households had their electricity supplydisrupted, but three quarters had power back by Thursday, accordingto China Southern Power Grid.
Three coastal nuclear power stations remain unharmed.
In neighboring Guangxi, three quarters of the 611,000 householdswho experienced blackouts now have power back.
However, the region might face another onslaught soon. Accordingto Guangdong provincial meteorological bureau, a new typhoon hasformed and was spotted in the Pacific some 620 km east of thePhilippines capital Manila as of 8 p.m. Thursday.
The typhoon is forecast to move northwest at 20 km per hourtowards the coast of Guangdong. Though slightly weaker than Hato,it is likely to make landfall near Guangdong on August 27.Enditem
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by Tamara Traubsman
JERUSALEM, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Jerusalem is bracing for an annual Jewish nationalist flag-bearing parade to mark Israel's 1967 capture of Arab East Jerusalem late Sunday, an event that could further instigate already months-long tensions between Israel and Palestinians.
Police were stepping up security for fear of clashes between Jewish marchers and Muslim as this year's parade is expected to concur with the opening prayer of the Muslim holy month of the Ramadan.
The so-called "flags parade" is the main event of Israel's "Jerusalem Day" with this year commemorating the 49th anniversary of the "reunification" of the east and west sides of the city. The marchers, predominantly right-wing nationalist-religious Jewish youths, walk from western Jerusalem via the Old City's Muslim Quarter en route to the Western Wall, in a demonstration of Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem.
This year's Jerusalem Day will coincide with the opening evening prayer of the Ramadan, the exact start can only be determined on Sunday after sunset by moon sighting committees of Muslim clerics in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The committees will gather to look at the Crescent moon and based on their observation they will decide whether to start the holy fasting month on Sunday or Monday.
If the Ramadan is to start on Sunday night, dozens of thousands of Muslim worshipers will be on their way to observe the Ramadan pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque, while tens of thousands of Jews will march towards the Old City's Western Wall, just below the al-Aqsa mosque
The compound is Jerusalem's most sensitive religious site. It is the third holiest site to Muslims, who revere it as "the Noble Sanctuary," and the most sacred site for Jews, who know it as "the Temple Mount."
The celebrations come at a sensitive moment in Jewish-Arab relations in Jerusalem, an eight-month-long surge of Palestinian uprising, including knife, car-ramming, and shooting attacks. The unrest began amidst a campaign by Jewish ultranationalists who press for prayer rights at the flashpoint site.
Israel seized East Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast War, along with the rest of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It later annexed East Jerusalem and declared it as part of its "eternal and indivisible capital," in a move that has never been recognized by the international community.
The Palestinians, who makes up more than third of the city's overall population, consider east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.
According to the Palestinians and human rights groups, the flags parade is a magnate to ultranationalist activists, who pass through local neighborhood, chanting anti-Arab insults and vandalizing Palestinian property.
"They go through the Old City, shouting racist slogans, like, 'death to Arabs.' They harass people, beating people, vandalizing shops, forcing merchants to close their stores and barricade themselves inside their homes," said Jawad Salhab, a Palestinian from the neighborhood of Ras al-Amud, across from the Old City.