A ship bearing aid including food, water, medical supplies as well as body bags arrived Thursday at Sikakap, on North Pagai island, one of the two worst-hit islands in the Mentawai group.

一艘装着救援物资的船于周四抵达了北巴盖岛的锡卡克，其中包括食物、水、医疗设备以及裹尸袋。锡卡克是明打威两个灾情最严重的岛屿之一。

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By early Thursday, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington had announced new annual snow records, and more than a foot of snow lay across parts of new Jersey, Connecticut and Long Island.

星期四上午，费城，巴尔的摩，和华盛顿都已公布了新的年度降雪记录，在新泽西，康乃狄格州和长岛的部分地区雪已积到一尺多厚。

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Two brown pelicans stand among a flock of seagulls on the shore of Ship Island, Mississippi, on Thursday while an oil containment boom floats in the water nearby.

星期四，在密西西比州轮船岛的海滨，两只棕鹈鹕站在一群海鸥当中。附近，阻油围栅浮于水面。

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Japan's foreign ministry said two Russian Su-27s violated airspace for just over a minute Thursday near its northernmost main island of Hokkaido, and that Japan then scrambled four F-2 fighter jets.

WSJ: Japan: Russian Fighter Jets Enter Its Airspace

The island-wide three-day count is due to start on Thursday.

BBC: Sri Lanka wildlife groups boycott elephant census

At Parris Island, South Carolina, hundreds of Marines graduated Thursday morning from basic training -- a day earlier than planned because the base didn't want Hanna to cause problems for families coming to the celebration, Master Sgt.

CNN: Hanna closes in on U.S. as Ike becomes major hurricane