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WORLD NEWS Monday 26 SepteMber 2022

Canada sends troops to help clear Fiona's devastation

Associated Press troops would be deployed. McDougall said it is amaz-
TORONTO (AP) — Hundreds Fiona was blamed for at ing there are no injuries.
of thousands of people in least five deaths in the Ca- Prince Edward Island Pre-
Atlantic Canada remained ribbean, and while there mier Dennis King said few
without power Sunday were no confirmed fatali- communities were spared
and officials tried to assess ties in Canada, authorities damage, with the devas-
the scope of devastation on Sunday were searching tation seemingly beyond
of from former Hurricane for a woman missing in the anything before seen in the
Fiona, which swept away hardest hit town of Chan- province.
houses, stripped off roofs nel-Port Aux Basques on Entire structures were
and knocked out power the southern coast of New- washed into the sea as rag-
across the country's Atlan- foundland. ing surf pounded Port Aux
tic provinces. As of Sunday morning, Basques, Newfoundland.
After surging north from the more than 256,000 Nova Much of the town of 4,000
Caribbean, Fiona came Scotia Power customers had been evacuated and
ashore before dawn Sat- and over 82,000 Maritime Button said officials on
urday as a post-tropical Electric customers in the Sunday will identify areas
cyclone, battering Nova province of Prince Edward In this photo provided by Wreckhouse Press a home fights where people can safely
Scotia, Prince Edward Is- Island — about 95% of the against high winds caused by post Tropical Storm Fiona in Port go back to their homes. He
land, Newfoundland and total — remained in the aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador, Saturday, Sept. 24, asked for patience, noting
Quebec with hurricane- dark. So were more than 2022. some residents are showing
strength winds, heavy rains 20,600 homes and business- up at barricades angry and
and huge waves. es in New Brunswick. eryone. emergency. She said she wanting to go to home.
Defense Minister Anita More than 415,000 Nova Cape Breton Regional Mu- couldn't count the number Government officials
Anand said Canadian Scotia Power customers — nicipality Mayor Amanda of homes damaged in her across Eastern Canada
troops would help remove about 80% in the province McDougall said Sunday own neighborhood. were assessing the full
fallen trees throughout of almost 1 million people over 200 people had been She said it was critical for scope of damage caused
Eastern Canada, restore — had been affected by displaced and were in the military to arrive and by the storm now that the
transportation links and do outages Saturday. temporary shelters. Over help clear debris, noting fierce winds have subsided
whatever else is required Utility companies say it 70 roads are completely that the road to the airport in most places. Fiona had
for as long as it takes. She could be days before the inaccessible in her region, is inaccessible and the tow- moved inland over south-
didn't specify how many lights are back on for ev- which declared a state of er has significant damage. eastern Quebec.q

Germany secures more gas shipments as Scholz visits Gulf

BERLIN (AP) — German After visiting the Jubail mad Al Thani, and discuss
Chancellor Olaf Scholz Mangrove Park in Abu bilateral relations, regional
planted a tree at a man- Dhabi, Scholz met with UAE issues such as tensions with
grove park in the United President Sheikh Moham- Iran and the Gulf nation's
Arab Emirates on Sunday, a med bin Zayed Al Nahyan upcoming hosting of soc-
token nod to environmen- to sign an accord on en- cer's World Cup.
talism during a two-day visit ergy cooperation and dis- Speaking to reporters in
to the Gulf region focused cuss the country's hosting Doha, Scholz acknowl-
mainly on securing new fos- of next year's U.N. climate edged that there had been
sil fuel supplies and forging talks. progress on improving con-
fresh alliances against Rus- German utility company ditions for foreign workers
sia. RWE announced Sunday involved in the construc-
Germany is trying to wean that it will receive a first tion of the venues for the
itself off energy imports shipment of liquefied natu- tournament, but left open
from Russia in response to ral gas from the Abu Dhabi whether he would attend
the invasion of Ukraine, National Oil Company this any of the games himself.
while avoiding an energy year. In a separate deal, The German leader's first In this photo made available by the United Arab Emirates Pres-
idential Court, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Presi-
shortage in the coming RWE will partner with UAE- stop Saturday was Saudi dent of the UAE left, shakes hands with German Chancellor Olaf
winter months. based Masdar to explore Arabia, where he met with Scholz, at Al Shati Palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates,
To do so, the German gov- further offshore wind ener- Crown Prince Mohammed Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022.
ernment has sought out gy projects, the company bin Salman.
new natural gas suppliers said. Human rights groups criti- killing of Saudi journalist Ja- discussed "all the questions
while also installing termi- From Abu Dhabi Scholz cized the meeting because mal Khashoggi. around civil and human
nals to bring the fuel into flew to Qatar to meet the of Prince Mohammed's al- Scholz told reporters after rights" with the prince, but
the country by ship. emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Ha- leged involvement in the the meeting that he had declined to elaborate.q