**Heavy Fighting Reported Sunday in Kobani, Syria Airstrikes Target IS Oil Facilities**
Heavy fighting has been reported for yet another day in and around the Syrian city of Kobani along the Turkish border.
Dark plumes of smoke could be seen rising above the city Sunday as Kurdish fighters battled to defend the city from the continuing onslaught by Islamic State extremists.
U.S.-led coalition warplanes have been pounding targets in and around Kobani.
U.N. officials in the region have warned that as many as 12,000 Kurds, including hundreds of elderly people in the city's center, "will most likely be massacred" if Kobani falls. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says IS extremists controlled 40 percent of the town by early Saturday.
The Turkish government has so far refused to join the battle, citing ties between Kobani's Kurdish defenders and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party. The PKK has waged a decades-long rebellion for self-rule in southeastern Turkey and has been designated a terrorist organization by Ankara and Washington.
**联合国：科巴尼一旦陷落，大屠杀恐难避免**
据报道，靠近土耳其边界的叙利亚城镇科巴尼城内和周围星期天继续发生激战。库尔德武装仍在抵抗伊斯兰国激进分子，科巴尼冒出滚滚黑烟。
美国为首的联盟战机不断对科巴尼城内和附近目标发动空袭。
这个地区的联合国官员警告说，如果科巴尼被攻陷，城内大约1.2万名库尔德人很可能被屠杀，其中有几百位老人。总部设在英国的叙利亚人权瞭望台说，到星期六早晨为止，伊斯兰国激进分子已经控制了科巴尼40%的地方。
虽然国际社会对土耳其总统埃尔多安施加压力，但土耳其仍未派兵进行干预。土耳其政府拒绝出兵参战的理由是，保卫科巴尼的库尔德武装与被取缔的库尔德工人党有关联。
库尔德工人党几十年来一直反叛，要求在土耳其东南部实行库尔德人自治。该组织被土耳其和美国定为恐怖组织。
* 'Severe' Cyclone Kills 3 in India **
A cyclone that India's Meteorological Department described as "very severe" has made landfall in the country's east, killing at least three people.
Cyclone Hudhud had winds of up to 195 kilometers per hour Sunday as its center came ashore at the port city of Visakhapatnam.
It knocked down power lines and hundreds of trees, and forced public transportation to be suspended.
Rescue workers were on call ahead of the storm's arrival and 370,000 people were evacuated from the densely populated areas it hit.
Visakhapatnam is the largest city in Andhra Pradesh and hosts a major Indian naval base.
**飓风哈德哈德肆虐 印度三人死亡**
一场被印度气象部门称为“非常严重”的飓风，在印度东部地区登陆，造成至少三人死亡。
飓风“哈德哈德”的中心星期天在印度港口城市维萨卡帕特南登陆的时候，风速达每小时195公里，刮倒了电线杆和数百棵树木，致使公共交通瘫痪。 救援人员在风暴到来前已经部署到位，有37万人被疏散。。
维萨卡帕特南是印度安德拉邦最大的城市，并且是印度一支大型舰队的驻扎地。
