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- Nelson Mandela suffers collapsed lung
- US government to replace color-coded terror alert system
- Boy arrested for murder after seventeen-year-old run over by bus
- BBC World Service to drop five languages
- Australia announces levy bill to offset cost of Queensland floods
- Car bomb kills at least three in Dagestan, Russia
- Ivory Coast trade embargo backed by US
| Nelson Mandela suffers collapsed lung Posted: Friday, January 28, 2011 Nelson Mandela, the former South African president, is currently recovering from a collapsed lung in Johannesburg, according the the Reuters news agency. The 92-year-old was admitted to hospital on Wednesday for 'routine tests', having been airlifted from Cape Town, where he and his wife were having a holiday, to a hospital near his home in Johannesburg. He is thought to be recovering well. The South African president Jacob Zuma stated that "President Mandela is comfortable and is well looked after by a good team of medical specialists", going on to say that "[he] urge[s] the media to afford him the dignity and respect that he is entitled to as the country's founding democratic president, as a national hero and also as a citizen of the republic" of South Africa. More... |
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| Boy arrested for murder after seventeen-year-old run over by bus Posted: Thursday, January 27, 2011 A fifteen-year-old boy has been arrested in Walthamstow, London, England after Ezekiel Amosu, 17, was run over by a bus Monday night. Metropolitan Police detectives said that Amosu may have been "involved in an altercation with a group of teenagers immediately beforehand". Amosu was walking with four friends when they were approached by a group of youths, who asked for Amosu's mobile phone. It is unclear as to whether Amousu was attempting to escape, or was pushed under the bus during the fight. The officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Chief Inspector John Sandlin, stated that "[w]hat happened exactly is unclear at this stage but we believe that he may have been the victim of an attempted robbery minutes beforehand". More... |
| BBC World Service to drop five languages Posted: Thursday, January 27, 2011 According to the BBC News website, five languages are to be cut from the BBC World Service's coverage. Albanian, Macedonian, and Serbian are no longer going to be used on the global radio station, and Portuguese will no longer be used in African regional programmes, nor English in the Caribbean. Seven undisclosed languages are also going to be scaled back. The cuts mean that approximately 650 jobs will be lost in order to save around £65bn. The cuts were officially announced at a staff briefing on Thursday. The BBC's director of global news, Peter Horrocks, said that the cuts were "not a reflection on the performance of individual services or programmes", and were cut due to a "need to make savings", after the Government's grant-in-aid funding was cut. The BBC took over funding the World Service in October 2010, previously funded by the Foreign Office. The move comes just days after announcements that the funding for the BBC website is to be slashed by £34m as part of 25% cuts across the spectrum of services offered by the taxpayer-funded broadcaster. More... |
| Australia announces levy bill to offset cost of Queensland floods Posted: Thursday, January 27, 2011 The Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard has today announced a new bill into Parliament to assist in the Queensland floods recovery. The proposed levy will be a once-off tax, given only to those with an annual income of above $50,000. Exemptions to the flood relief fund will be given to those who are income earners of less than $50,000 a year or those who were affected by the flood crisis. Anyone earning between the ranges of $50,000 to $100,000 will contribute 0.5 percent of their income whilst anyone earning over $100,000 annually will pay 1 percent. More... |
| Car bomb kills at least three in Dagestan, Russia Posted: Thursday, January 27, 2011
According to police, at least three civilians were killed and three others injured by a car bomb in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia. More... |
| Ivory Coast trade embargo backed by US Posted: Thursday, January 27, 2011
The United States has stated Monday that it will support a month-long ban on cocoa exports from the Ivory Coast, which was called for by its internationally recognised president, Alassane Ouattara. The move comes as Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president of Côte d'Ivoire, refused to concede the presidency after November's election. More... |
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