should take advantage of the lead time available to them. He said Pablo is expected to bring an estimated rainfall amount from 15 mm to 30 mm per hour (heavy-intense) within the 600 km diameter of the typhoon. This rainfall volume is much heavier than that of Sendong's which was only 25 mm per hour at the maximum, he said.

Typhoon Pablo is forecasted to be 30 km East of Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur tomorrow morning, 150 km West of Iloilo City on Wednesday morning, and 400 km West of Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro on Thursday morning. (PIA)Members of parliament from the ruling right-wing nationalist National Alliance along with several public organizations are planning to stage a protest outside the main government building in Riga on August 4 against a plan to resettle hundreds of refugees in Latvia.

Janis Sils, a representative of the 'Tevijas Sargi' (Fatherland Guards) organization which has a paramilitary slant and describes itself as for those interested in "militarism and Latvia's military history," told the BNS newswire that the aim of the picket is to "prevent a forced admission of immigrants in Latvia".

Sils claimed that most of the migrants arriving in EU member states from African are not refugees but migrants involved in illegal drug and arms trafficking, without providing the source for the claim.

"Most of those arriving by ships in EU