1 SEVERE STORM: Fast-moving Typhoon Mitag lashed northern Taiwan on Monday, bringing high winds and heavy rain and forcing scores of flight cancellations. Alerts were ordered for parts of the island’s east and north, including the capital, Taipei. Classes were canceled and government offices closed in Taipei and the surrounding areas of New Taipei City, Keelung, Yilan county, Taoyuan, and Hsinchu county. Similar orders were issued for islands off the east coast and ferry services were suspended. All domestic flights were suspended by early afternoon. Mitag was packing winds gusting up to 100 mph. 2 REFUGEE CRISIS: Signaling a shift in policy, Greece’s government said Monday it would accelerate efforts to move thousands of refugees and migrants from Aegean Sea islands to the mainland following a deadly fire at the country’s largest camp on the island of Lesbos. The decision was announced after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis chaired a cabinet meeting, a day after a fire at the Moria camp left one asylum-seeker dead and 17 injured. More than 12,000 people — more than four times the site’s capacity — are currently housed in the camp following a spike in migrant arrivals over the summer. 3 JAPAN MELTDOWN: Prosecutors in the only criminal trial involving the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown in Japan appealed Monday against the acquittal of three former Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives. The Tokyo District Court on Sept. 19 found ex-TEPCO chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and two others not guilty of professional negligence in the disaster and the death of 44 elderly patients who were forcibly evacuated from local hospitals. The court said a tsunami of the size that hit the plant after an earthquake was not forseeable and the executives weren’t required...
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