Offer to Vanunu

Briefs

Damn it, this is not a good news story. This is a people-are-dying story. a rationed amount of fuel.

FEMA officials said the agency had distributed 2.5 million litres of water and 2 million meals at 11 distribution centres, including on the nearby islands of Culebra and Vieques. Nearly 1700 Department of Defence personnel were on Puerto Rico, and 3000 more were expected in upcoming days.

Despite the easing of the aid distribution bottleneck, water was the greatest need cited by nearly everyone.

In the southern coastal town of Santa Isabel, 60-year-old Lebron Eduardo said he came each day to a pumping station at the water agency for supplies. ‘‘It’s not reaching the neighbourhood,’’ he said.

Nearby, 25-year-old Jorge Ortiz was taking a shower on the side of the road, using well water.

‘‘People come to get water for their families. The children are bathing and neighbours are cooking,’’ he said. ‘‘Apart from the bad experience of the hurricane, is something that is uniting us.’’ Norway has offered to let Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu live in Oslo with his Norwegian wife, but she says it is unclear if Israel will allow him to travel. Vanunu, 62, married theology professor Kristin Joachimsen in Jerusalem in 2015. They met in Israel almost a decade earlier. She applied for him to be allowed to come to Norway under rules for family reunification, and a spokesman for the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration said permission had been granted. Vanunu served an 18-year jail sentence after discussing his work at Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor with a British newspaper in 1986. After his release in 2004, Israeli defence authorities imposed strict conditions on him, including a ban on travelling abroad, alleging he was a security risk. Joachimsen said the restrictions were due for review in November.