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Tornado hits Nw Amsterdam/Suriname...and neighboring plantations yesterday. No personal injuries...lot of mangrove destroyed along the Commewijne river and farms were also under attack...many sheep and goats killed...

PARIS — The European Space Agency's director general added his voice Sunday to tributes pouring in for Neil Armstrong, saying the US astronaut's first step on the Moon 43 years ago helped unite people on Earth.
"Until 21 July 1969 (the day after Armstrong's historic moonwalk), Neil Armstrong was an American and the Moonlandings were American. But after this day, Neil Armstrong belonged to humanity," Jean-Jacques Dordain said in a statement in Paris.
"After this day, the competition between the two great space superpowers in human spaceflight was replaced by cooperation, and today Americans and Russians work together in space with their Japanese, Canadian and European colleagues. And tomorrow I hope ... also with other space ambassadors."
Dordain said the legendary astronaut's passing Saturday at the age of 82 from complications following heart surgery was a sad day for the entire world.
And he paid tribute to Armstrong as someone who "has gone beyond being a hero", remaining humble and always ready to pass on his experience.
"He has inspired successive generations all around the world," said Dordain.

Police are on the hunt for two men who allegedly raped 13-year-old twin sisters last week.
The sisters who hail from the Ruimveldt area were lured to a house near Laing Avenue by the two men, who then took advantage of them.
Police sources have indicated that one of the perpetrators is known to one of the sisters.
One source said that on Friday last, the two girls went to the West Ruimveldt front road in the vicinity of a fruit stand where they met the man that is known to them.
He and another man invited them to a house in the area and forced them into having sex.
The matter might have gone unreported had it not been for the presence of a ‘Big Man’ in the said house where the alleged sexual assault took place.
The police were called in and a medical examination of the two girls revealed that they were indeed sexually molested.