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Monday, June 16. 2008, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Japan turns away a Taiwan activist boat near the disputed Senkaku Islands in a protest against a ship collision last week. //in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-34077920080616 (Reuters)

An official of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that effect food crisis on Somalia is creating a worse humanitarian situation than the War in Darfur. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7457974.stm (BBC News)

Heavy rainstorm and major flooding continues in the South China region. Millions of people are affected in Anhui, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong. Tens of thousands of victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake are evacuated due to heavy rains as 65 people are dead or missing with flood warnings on the Yangtze River and Pearl River amongst other rivers. //www.afp.com/english/news/stories/newsmlmmd.f53a58ff7a91ac19c2d85276238766b6.191.html (AFP)