Sembilan dari 10 remaja pengunjung tempat wisata Pantai Tulap,
Minahasa, Sulawesi Utara, tewas terseret om
Sembilan dari
10 remaja pengunjung tempat wisata Pantai Tulap, Minahasa, Sulawesi Utara, tewas terseret ombak.
Sedangkan satu lainnya kritis.
Kejadian memilukan ini, bermula ketika
rombongan yang berjumlah enam puluhan remaja Gereja Sentrum Liningaan, Tondano, melaksanakan
darma wisata di Pantai Tulap. Namun, tak disangka kesepuluh remaja ini yang sedang asyik mandi
tidak menyadari kalau air saat itu pasang dan arusnya begitu deras sehingga menyeret mereka
hingga tenggelam.
Pengunjung pantai yang ada dilokasi kejadian tidak
bisa berbuat banyak karena tidak tahu cara berenang di saat air pasang, sebagian dari mereka pun
memanggil warga
pesisir untuk menolong kesepuluh remaja ini.
Walaupun sudah berusaha sekuat tenaga, kesembilan remaja ini tidak tertolong. Sementara satu
lainnya kritis dan langsung dibawa ke Rumah Sakit Gunung Maria, Tomohon.
Para korban yang tewas terseret ombak rencanannya akan dimakamkan pada Senin 27 Mei 2013
mendatang.
Sebuah kelompok aktivis HAM Suriah mengatakan, serangan-
serangan Israel itu menewaskan sedikitnya 42 tentara Suriah. Perbata
Sebuah kelompok aktivis HAM Suriah mengatakan, serangan-serangan Israel itu menewaskan
sedikitnya 42 tentara Suriah. Perbatasan Israel dengan Suriah dan Lebanon cukup tenang hari Senin
(6/5/2013) meskipun pasukan keamanan ketiga negara tersebut berada dalam kondisi sangat waspada,
sehari setelah laporan serangan Israel terhadap Suriah.
Sumber-sumber keamanan
di Amerika mengatakan, target serangan itu adalah senjata-senjata canggih yang akan dikirim
kepada kelompok militan Hezbollah di Lebanon.
Suriah membantah tuduhan itu.
Menteri Penerangan Suriah Omran Al Zoubi membacakan sebuah pernyataan setelah sidang kabinet
darurat Minggu malam di Damaskus, yang menyebut serangan-serangan Israel itu sebagai tindakan
agresi terang-terangan. Menteri Penerangan Suriah Omran Al Zoubi mengatakan, Suriah berhak dan
bertanggung jawab melindungi negara dan rakyatnya dari pelanggaran apa pun di dalam atau luar
negeri.
Kantor berita Perancis AFP mengutip sumber-sumber pemerintah
yang tidak disebutkan di Damaskus hari Senin, yang mengatakan Suriah akan memilih waktu yang
tepat untuk membalas dan ini mungkin tidak terjadi dalam waktu dekat.
Ini
merupakan serangan kedua yang dilakukan Israel terhadap Suriah dalam tiga hari ini. Salah satu
sasaran dilaporkan telah diserang Israel Januari lalu.
Pejabat-pejabat Israel
menolak untuk berkomentar secara langsung atas laporan-laporan itu, tetapi Wakil Menteri Luar
Negeri Suriah Ze’ev Elkin mengatakan kepada radio Israel bahwa Israel khawatir tentang
persenjataan canggih Suriah selagi perang saudara di negara itu memasuki tahun ketiga.
Wakil Menteri Luar Negeri Israel Ze’ev Elkin mengatakan, pejabat-pejabat Israel
telah menunjukkan kekhawatiran atas persenjataan yang dikirim Iran atau negara-negara lain ke
Suriah. Ia menambahkan, yang sangat mengkhawatirkan pejabat-pejabat Israel itu adalah kemungkinan
jatuhnya senjata-senjata ini ke tangan Hezbollah.
Surat kabar Israel
Yediot Aharonot hari Senin mengabarkan, Israel telah mengirim sebuah pesan
rahasia—lewat saluran-saluran diplomatik—kepada Pemerintah Suriah dengan mengatakan
Israel tidak berniat terlibat dalam perang saudara di Suriah.
Seorang anggota
parlemen Israel—Tzachi Hanegby—yang dekat dengan Perdana Menteri Benjamin Netanyahu
mengatakan, jika ada serangan apa pun dari Israel, serangan itu ditujukan terhadap Hezbollah dan
bukan Suriah.
Mantan Duta Besar Israel untuk Amerika, Itamar Rabinovich, yang
kini menjadi profesor di Universitas Tel Aviv, mengatakan, perang saudara di Suriah telah
menimbulkan dampak pada negara-negara tetangganya yang dibanjiri para pengungsi. Itamar
Rabinovich mengatakan, sejauh ini, Israel hanya sedikit terpengaruh oleh perang itu, tetapi ini
bisa berubah setiap waktu dan kini semakin mendekati perubahan itu.
Sekutu-
sekutu Suriah—Rusia dan China—mengecam serangan tersebut. Sekjen PBB Ban Ki-Moon dan
Perancis prihatin konflik Suriah bisa meluas.
Presiden Amerika Barack Obama
mengatakan, Israel berhak melindungi dirinya dari pengiriman senjata kepada Hezbollah.
Editor
: Egidius Patnistik
From sea to shining sea, or at least from one side of the Hudson to the other, politicians you have barely heard of are being accused of wrongdoing. There were so many court proceedings involving public officials on Monday that it was hard to keep up.
In Newark, two underlings of Gov. Chris Christie were arraigned on charges that they were in on the truly deranged plot to block traffic leading onto the George Washington Bridge.
Ten miles away, in Lower Manhattan, Dean G. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on accusations of far more conventional political larceny, involving a job with a sewer company for the son and commissions on title insurance and bond work.
The younger man managed to receive a 150 percent pay increase from the sewer company even though, as he said on tape, he “literally knew nothing about water or, you know, any of that stuff,” according to a criminal complaint the United States attorney’s office filed.
The success of Adam Skelos, 32, was attributed by prosecutors to his father’s influence as the leader of the Senate and as a potentate among state Republicans. The indictment can also be read as one of those unfailingly sad tales of a father who cannot stop indulging a grown son. The senator himself is not alleged to have profited from the schemes, except by being relieved of the burden of underwriting Adam.
The bridge traffic caper is its own species of crazy; what distinguishes the charges against the two Skeloses is the apparent absence of a survival instinct. It is one thing not to know anything about water or that stuff. More remarkable, if true, is the fact that the sewer machinations continued even after the former New York Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was charged in January with taking bribes disguised as fees.
It was by then common gossip in political and news media circles that Senator Skelos, a Republican, the counterpart in the Senate to Mr. Silver, a Democrat, in the Assembly, could be next in line for the criminal dock. “Stay tuned,” the United States attorney, Preet Bharara said, leaving not much to the imagination.
Even though the cat had been unmistakably belled, Skelos father and son continued to talk about how to advance the interests of the sewer company, though the son did begin to use a burner cellphone, the kind people pay for in cash, with no traceable contracts.
That was indeed prudent, as prosecutors had been wiretapping the cellphones of both men. But it would seem that the burner was of limited value, because by then the prosecutors had managed to secure the help of a business executive who agreed to record calls with the Skeloses. It would further seem that the business executive was more attentive to the perils of pending investigations than the politician.
Through the end of the New York State budget negotiations in March, the hopes of the younger Skelos rested on his father’s ability to devise legislation that would benefit the sewer company. That did not pan out. But Senator Skelos did boast that he had haggled with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, in a successful effort to raise a $150 million allocation for Long Island to $550 million, for what the budget called “transformative economic development projects.” It included money for the kind of work done by the sewer company.
The lawyer for Adam Skelos said he was not guilty and would win in court. Senator Skelos issued a ringing declaration that he was unequivocally innocent.
THIS was also the approach taken in New Jersey by Bill Baroni, a man of great presence and eloquence who stopped outside the federal courthouse to note that he had taken risks as a Republican by bucking his party to support paid family leave, medical marijuana and marriage equality. “I would never risk my career, my job, my reputation for something like this,” Mr. Baroni said. “I am an innocent man.”
The lawyer for his co-defendant, Bridget Anne Kelly, the former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, a Republican, said that she would strongly rebut the charges.
Perhaps they had nothing to do with the lane closings. But neither Mr. Baroni nor Ms. Kelly addressed the question of why they did not return repeated calls from the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., begging them to stop the traffic tie-ups, over three days.
That silence was a low moment. But perhaps New York hit bottom faster. Senator Skelos, the prosecutors charged, arranged to meet Long Island politicians at the wake of Wenjian Liu, a New York City police officer shot dead in December, to press for payments to the company employing his son.
Sometimes it seems as though for some people, the only thing to be ashamed of is shame itself.
