WORLD NEWS SUMMER 2013
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MAY
JUNE
The Boston bombings
Nigella Lawson choked by Saatchi
Youth unemployment
Teacher ran off with 15 year old girl Asylum Seekers cost Britain 1.5 million a day Should first year count towards your degree? North Korea stages largest ever military parade
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JULY
AUGUST
Andy Murray wins Wimbledon
Ariel Castro gets sentenced to 1,000 years
Spanish Train Crash kills 78 people The Royal baby is born Edward Snowden Malia Stabbing Brazil and The Pope The Brazil Riots
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MAY
M A Y
BOSTON BOMBING
THREE MEN ARRESTED Boston police on Wednesday charged two people with conspiring to obstruct justice and another with making false statements to the authorities as part of the investigation into the deadly bomb attack at the Boston Marathon on April 15. Police on Wednesday arrested three college friends of surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of removing potentially incriminating evidence from Tsarnaev’s dorm room following the attack in order to protect him. Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured on April 15 when two bombs exploded near the marathon’s finish line. One of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died after a gunfight with police several days after the attack. His younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured the following day and lies in a prison hospital. Two of the three young men arrested Wednesday, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, are from Kazakhstan and have been charged with conspiring to obstruct justice. They face a 6
maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, the Justice Department said. A third man, American Robel Phillipos, is charged with making false statements to federal investigators. He faces up to eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to AFP.
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The three 19-year-old college friends removed a backpack containing fireworks emptied of gunpowder from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s university dorm room three days after the attack, according to the charges.
“These are very serious charges,” said FRANCE 24’s Boston correspondent Phillip Crowther. “We’re looking at people who have been arrested in conjunction with what happened after the bombing.”
The affidavit says Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev agreed to get rid of the backpack at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth after deducing from news reports that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was one of the bombers. The backpack was later found in a landfill by law
The two Kazakh men appeared in court to hear the charges on Wednesday afternoon. They did not request bail and will be held until another hearing on May 14. Phillipos is expected to go before a judge on Monday.
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More information on who and why?
“The big unknown is still where the inspiration [behind the bombing] came from, whether there might have been inspiration from abroad and who might have helped before the bombings,” Crowther added. “These are the kind of people who might be able to give us a little more information.” Former FBI investigator Jack Cloonan believes that the police may be planning to bring charges against the three men in an attempt to find out if they are hiding further links to the Boston attack. In an interview with FRANCE 24, he said that while that there is currently nothing to suggest anyone other than the Tsarnaev brothers carried out the bombing, investigators cannot be “absolutely certain that these three people haven’t been involved”. “There’s always the prospect out there that one, two, three of them may have provided some level of support to either brother, unwitting or otherwise, and if they have they face even more serious charges that could fall under the
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realm of material support for terrorism,” said Cloonan. The suspect’s brother, Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev have been held in jail for more than a week on allegations that they violated their student visas while attending college. Linda Cristello, the Boston attorney who represented them at a hearing on the immigration case Wednesday morning, confirmed earlier that they were facing separate federal charges. All three men charged Wednesday began attending University of Massachusetts with Tsarnaev at the same time in 2011, the FBI affidavit says. Authorities allege that on the night of April 18, after the FBI released photos of the bombing suspects and the three men suspected their friend was one of them, they went to Tsarnaev’s dorm room. The men noticed a backpack containing fireworks, which had been opened and emptied of powder.
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Covering up evidence The FBI said that Kadyrbayev knew when he saw the empty fireworks that Tsarnaev was involved in the bombings and decided to remove the backpack from the room “in order to help his friend Tsarnaev avoid trouble.” He also decided to remove Tsarnaev’s laptop, the FBI said in the affidavit. “This means they already knew that he’d been identified as one of the suspects and then decided to get rid of some of the evidence,” said FRANCE 24’s Phillip Crowther. After the three men returned to Kadyrbayev’s and Tazhayakov’s apartment with the backpack and computer, they watched news reports featuring photographs of Tsarnaev. The affidavit says Kadyrbayev told authorities the three men then “collectively decided to throw the backpack and fireworks into the trash because they did not want Tsarnaev to get into trouble.” Kadyrbayev said he placed the backpack and fireworks along with trash from the apartment into a large trash bag and threw it into a garbage bin near the men’s apartment. Meanwhile, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s relatives will claim his body now that his wife has agreed to release it, an uncle said. The body of Tsarnaev, 26, has been at the medical examiner’s office in Massachusetts since he died after a gunfight with authorities on April 18. Police said Tsarnaev ran out of ammunition before his 19-year-old brother dragged his body under a vehicle while fleeing the scene. His cause of death has been determined but will not be made public until his remains are claimed. “Of course, family members will take possession of the body,” uncle Ruslan Tsarni of Maryland said Tuesday night. “We’ll do it. We will do it. A family is a family.” He would not elaborate. Tsarnaev’s parents are still in Russia, but he has other relatives on his side of the family in the US, including Tsarni.
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CONCERNS WITH CAMERON OVER
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT Cameron ‘letting down a generation’ as youth unemployment ‘goes through roof’, says Labour
Youth unemployment has jumped by nearly 50,000 in the three years since the Coalition came to power, Labour said. The number of 18 to 24-year-olds out of work for more than a year has jumped from 25,800 in April 2010 to around 73,500 now, the Opposition said.
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne said: ‘Youth unemployment has gone through the roof under this Government, and ministers have failed to produce an alternative to Labour’s successful Future Jobs Fund. ‘David Cameron is letting down a generation of young people who have been out of work for more than a year and struggle to find work. ‘We desperately need a change of direction.’ 10
Labour would take decisive action to get young people into work with a compulsory jobs guarantee to give the long-term unemployed a job, which they will have to take up or lose their benefits.’ Long-term youth unemployment was more than 9,700 in Yorkshire
and the Humber, 9,600 in the North West, 9,000 in the West Midlands, and almost 7,000 in both London and Scotland, Labour’s analysis of official figures showed. The latest unemployment statistics showed there were 979,000 unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds in the three months to February, up by 20,000 on the previous three months. The unemployment rate for the age group was 21.1 per cent. It is not as bad as the employment crisis occurring in some eurozone countries, however - Spain’s total
unemployment rate rose to a new record of 27.2 per cent in the first quarter of this year, with 6.2million people out of work, while its youth unemployment climbed to 56 per cent. Close to 2million out of 17million Spanish households are now without a single person holding a job. Its total jobless rate stood at 7.9 per cent in mid-2007, but has risen relentlessly since the collapse in 2008 of Spain’s labour-intensive property boom. A study by recruiter Reed today found that overall job opportunities fell slightly last month, reversing steady growth so far this year, though it pointed out this was an expected seasonal lull. The jobs market fell by 2 per cent in April, it said, although there was a 14 per cent rise over the past year.
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Most regions of the UK were seeing more job opportunities than this time last year, despite the reduction in April. ‘April saw a steadying of the jobs market, with a slight dip due to an expected seasonal fall following the Easter Bank Holidays,’ chairman James Reed said. ‘We’re now seeing people apply for new jobs in unprecedented numbers, as many who have been sitting tight during the tough economic conditions of the last few years gain the confidence to look at furthering their careers with a new employer.
than half said working in the public sector would give them a chance to give something back to society. Spokesman Mike Booker said: ‘Positions in the public sector remain very appealing to jobseekers who see opportunities for career progression. ‘With more public sector cuts anticipated and high demand for the positions available, competition will be fierce.’
‘Salaries have remained static for over three years against a rising cost of living, so now is the time for many people to look for something new.’ Another study found jobseekers favoured working in the public sector rather than in private companies. A survey of over 2,600 people by totaljobs.com found that four out of five viewed public sector employers in a positive light. More
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J U N E
NIGELLA LAWSON
CHOKED Nigella Lawson divorce: Charles Saatchi says he is leaving celebrity chef wife after choking incident
Prominent art collector Charles Saatchi said Sunday he is divorcing his celebrity chef wife Nigella Lawson because she did not publicly defend his reputation after images emerged of him grasping her throat in a posh London restaurant. Tabloid newspapers last month published photos of the incident, which Saatchi described as a “playful tiff” during an intense debate about the couple’s children. The 70-year-old Saatchi was given a police “caution” after admitting assault. He told Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper that he was “sorry” to announce he will be divorcing Lawson, adding that they have become “estranged” and drifted apart over the past year.
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“I feel that I have clearly been a disappointment to Nigella during the last year or so, and I am disappointed that she was advised to make no public comment to explain that I abhor violence of any kind against women, and have never abused her physically in any way,” he said. In what the tabloid called an “exclusive statement” breaking the news to Lawson, Saatchi also suggested that Lawson had herself grasped his neck in a similar fashion in the past. The Mail on Sunday said that Lawson was not made aware of the divorce move prior to publication. Lawson and Saatchi married in 2003 and lived in London with Lawson’s son and daughter from her marriage to journalist John Diamond, who died of cancer in
2001, and Saatchi’s daughter from a previous marriage. Lawson’s spokesman Mark Hutchinson – who previously has confirmed that she and her children left the family home after the photos were published – declined to comment on Saatchi’s statement.
Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi outside Scott’s restaurant
Picture of misery: Nigella flees the scene of the attack
Saatchi leaves the restaurant
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TEACHER RUNS AWAY WITH 15 YEAR OLD STUDENT A MARRIED teacher eloping to France with a pupil half his age was not a “Romeo and Juliet” love story but a gross breach of trust, a court was told. A British maths teacher who took a 15-year-old student to France last October has been found guilty of child abduction. Jeremy Forrest, 30, a teacher at Bishop Bell Church of England School in Eastbourne, took the pupil to France last September, sparking an international manhunt. The jury of eight men and four women returned a unanimous verdict just two hours after retiring at Lewes Crown Court. He will be sentenced in Sussex on Friday.
Jeremy Forrest, 30, teacher
ASYLUM SEEKERS COST £1.5M A DAY BRITAIN’S SHAMBOLIC asylum system set taxpayers back more than £1.5million a day last year. The Home Office had to fork out £583million on 37,000 asylum claims, the Daily Express can reveal. Two out of three cases of people trying to stay in the UK were more than a year old and nearly 14,000 had waited at least three years, according to official figures. An illegal immigrant camp adjacent to the ferry crossing from Calais to the UK
SHOULD FIRST YEAR COUNT TOWARDS YOUR DEGREE? Is first year a time to settle in rather than sit exams? As final year students prepare to sit their summer exams, many will share one wish: that their first year marks counted. The debate about whether first year exams should influence a student’s final result has divided opinion for years. But as universities examine the possibility of replacing traditional degree classifications with Grade Point Average (GPA) – a new marking system where graduates receive a point score – the discussion is heating up.
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NORTH KOREA STAGES
LARGEST EVER MILITARY PARADE To mark the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended fighting in the Korean War, displaying its longrange missiles at a ceremony presided over by leader Kim Jong-Un.
The missiles, mounted on gigantic trailers, rolled through the sprawling Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang, as jet fighters and helicopters screeched through the overcast skies above and soldiers chanted “Let’s fight, fight, fight... for our republic!”
Thousands of troops and spectators roared “Protect Kim Jong-Un with our lives” when the youthful leader appeared on the podium, flanked by top party and military leaders, in what the Nuclear-armed North described as its largest ever such display. Kim, wearing his signature dark Mao suit, had been expected to use the anniversary to make a televised address but two hours into the parade he had yet to speak. The parade, marking the 60th
anniversary of the Korean War ceasefire on July 27, 1953 was being closely watched for any evidence that the North has made tangible progress in its ballistic
At Saturday’s parade, Kim and his troops saluted as the blue, white and red national flag and the yellow and red flag of the ruling Workers’ Party were raised.
The last mass military parade in the North Korean capital was held on April 15 last year, for the birth centenary of the North’s founder leader Kim Il-Sung.
The parade was overlooked by two large portraits of Kim’s father, Kim Jong-Il and grandfather, founding father Kim Il-Sung, hung on the gigantic Grand People’s Study Hall, which flanks the square.
missile programme.
Since then, the North successfully launched a long-range rocket in December and conducted its third nuclear test in February. Both events drew UN sanctions and triggered a dangerous surge in military tensions on the Korean peninsula that lasted for several months.
Choe Ryong-Hae, the North’s highest military official, made a speech to the massed crowds praising “our great general Kim Jong-Un” and hailing the North’s “proud and victorious history”. “A peaceful environment is more important than anything else for our country,” he said while warning that the North also had to be ready for war. 19
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J U L Y
CHAMPION CHAMPION
ANDY MURRAY It is the sentence British tennis has been waiting for ever since a wild-haired 18-year-old from Dunblane won the junior US Open. Andy Murray is the Wimbledon champion
Looking at the scorecard – a 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 win over world No. 1 Novak Djokovic – you might think that he did it the easy way. Three sets. No tie breaks. What could be simpler? Yet in all probability you watched at least some of the match – early reports suggest that more than 20million people did – and if so you will appreciate that it was an intense trial of nerve, skill and physical resilience. The final game, which swung this way and that like a hammock in a hurricane, contained as much tension as many a fivesetter. “Winning Wimbledon is the pinnacle of tennis,” said a softly spoken and still slightly bemused Andy Murray afterwards. “The last game almost increased that feeling. My head was kind of everywhere. I mean, some of the shots he came up with were unbelievable. Mentally, that last game will be the toughest game I’ll play in my career.”
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Everyone on Centre Court knew Djokovic’s reputation for bouncing back from lost causes. So even when Murray led by a two sets and a break, it never felt comfortable. Perhaps that was a good thing, because the anxious fans kept urging their man on, and played a full part in this historic occasion. When Murray fizzed down an ace to secure the second set, they gave him a standing ovation. When that crazy final game entered a labyrinthine sequence of tit-for-tat winners, they kept Murray going by chanting his name. Murray had come into the tournament pleading for a little more home bias around the elegantly landscaped grounds of Wimbledon. While the influence of the fans is hard to quantify, he definitely feeds off their energy. “The atmosphere was incredible for him,” said Djokovic afterwards. “For
me not so much.” After a gracious acceptance of Murray’s superiority, he also admitted that “I wasn’t patient enough – there were many points where I should have waited for a better opportunity.” The trouble, from Djokovic’s perspective, was that he was getting so little change in the long, almost drill-like baseline rallies that made up the majority of the points. Murray was showing no holes in his defence as he lunged out wide for the forehand and then rushed across to play the defensive slice on the backhand side. The quality of that slice backhand, more than any other, was the difference between the players. The first point of the match set the tone: a 20-shot rally in which both players were shuttling so smoothly from side to side that they could have been on rails. As the sun beat down on the hottest day of the year, Murray’s saturated shirt was
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soon clinging to his body. Between points, he was slumping his shoulders and almost staggering back to his starting position like a puppet with faulty strings. But then, as soon as the ball toss went up, he skipped back onto his toes and started floating over the turf again. Murray endured a couple of wobbly moments on his serve in the first set. With the sun right in his eyes, he sent down successive doublefaults at the start of one game. But he took control with a sequence of five successive clean winners – an ace, a smash, a forehand and two backhands – that emphasised just how complete his game has become. “The story of my career is that I had a lot of tough losses,” he said afterwards, “but the one thing I would say is that every year I always improved a little bit. They weren’t major improvements, 24
massive changes, but every year my ranking was going in the right direction.” As the spectators fanned themselves furiously in this ever more torrid atmosphere, Murray dropped behind early in the second set. Feeling the urgency of his plight, Djokovic worked his counter-intuitive magic and became more assertive, more selfconfident. Up in the player’s box, Ivan Lendl was slumping lower and lower in his seat, shielding himself behind the balcony wall like a man hiding behind the sofa. The match was already moving past the duration of the women’s final – 81 minutes – yet it felt like we were still in the first act. On Twitter, a watching Andy Roddick warned that “These guys are killing each other … they won’t be able to stand if they play five [sets].” Had the first two sets been split, it would have been ominous – for
Murray lost the Australian Open final in January in exactly that scenario. Djokovic is built like a road-runner, so lean and efficient that he seems to grow stronger the longer a match goes on. But grass-court tennis favours attackers over defenders, and Djokovic was struggling to bring his endurance into play. He wanted to establish the retrieving rhythm he found against Juan Martin del Potro in Friday’s semi-final, where he slides into his wide shots and keeps getting one more ball back until his opponent self-destructs. But Murray was just too clinical, and those desperate lunges were finding only air. As that crucial second set drew to a close, Djokovic’s equanimity was disturbed by a series of close calls that went against him. He used up all his Hawk-Eye challenges and then started laying into Mohammed Lahyani, the chair umpire, when
another Murray slice caught the tiniest sliver of the back of the line. To the line judges’ credit, this was a superbly officiated final and there was only one clear error in the whole match. While Djokovic raged, Murray pounced, reeling off a sequence of eight games out of nine that carried him to 2-0 up in the third set. On the BBC’s broadcast, Andrew Castle was convinced that Djokovic’s focus had evaporated. “I’m getting excited!” cried Boris Becker, having hitched his colours to the British flag for the day. Yet Djokovic has never been known to go quietly. Flicking through his vast database of options, he found one tactic he had yet to try – the drop shot. And he played it again and again for the next few games, like a golfer reduced to taking an iron off the tee because his driver is spraying the ball everywhere. The surprising thing was that it worked, at least for a while. Djokovic was out-Murraying Murray with these little deft touches, and Murray’s legs looked heavier and heavier as he now had to move forward and back as well as side to side.
drove the ball from close range at Djokovic’s throat – the throat of his racket, that is, from where it bounced harmlessly to the floor. That was the end of the dropshots, and now Murray was closing in on his target with cold-eyed intensity. As he served for the match, Murray maintained his mastery of that awkward yellow ball through everything that Djokovic threw at him. It would have been so easy to slip back from the brink at that moment, as the first three match points evaded him. But he kept the faith, rushing boldly to the net wherever possible. Finally, Djokovic netted a backhand on the fourth match point. The 77-year-wait was over, and Murray bounced around the back of the court with his teeth gritted in a grimace of delight. His greatest moment was also one of his hardest-won, which is exactly as it should be. That curly-headed 18-year-old had fulfilled his destiny.
What to do? On the sixth or seventh time of asking, Murray took a leaf from Lendl’s book and
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SPAIN TRAIN CRASH
KILLS 78 PEOPLE At least 78 people have been killed in the passenger train derailment in north-western Spain
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A driver of the Spanish train which hurtled off the tracks and smashed into a wall, killing at least 80 people, previously boasted of speeding on his Facebook page. Francisco Jose Garzon, one of the drivers on the train which crashed, leaving up to 141 people injured including one Briton, is reported to have posted a picture on the site of a train speedometer at 125mph last year. According to reports he also boasted about how fast he was going. The web page has disappeared after images appeared on Spanish TV and newspaper websites. Alongside the photo, which was published in March last year, he wrote: ‘What joy it would be to get level with the police and then go past them making their speed guns go off. Ha ha!.’
It came after a Spanish court said one of the drivers of the train was being held in custody in hospital. The Supreme Court of the Galicia region, which did not say which driver was being questioned, said: ‘The judge has ordered the police to take a statement from the driver, currently under formal investigation, in the hospital where he is being held in custody.’ A terrifying video meanwhile has emerged which captured the moment the train crashed. All eight carriages of the Madrid to Ferrol train derailed near the city of Santiago de Compostela last night. The Supreme Court of the Galicia region, which did not say which driver was being questioned, said: ‘The judge has ordered the police to take a statement from the driver, currently under formal investigation, in the hospital where
he is being held in custody.’ A terrifying video meanwhile has emerged which captured the moment the train crashed. All eight carriages of the Madrid to Ferrol train derailed near the city of Santiago de Compostela last night. Newspaper reports cited witnesses as saying driver Francisco Jose Garzon,who helped rescue victims, had shouted: ‘I’ve derailed! What do I do?’ into a phone. Television footage showed one wagon pointing upwards into the air with one of its ends twisted and disfigured. State-owned train operator Renfe said in a statement that 218 passengers and an unspecified number of staff were on board at the time of the accident.
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MEET GEORGE,
THE ROYAL BABY The new heir to the throne is officially here! After 10 hours of labour, the royal couple welcomed their bundle of joy at 4:24 pm. on July 22 at St. Mary’s hospital in London, and the fanfare has commenced
In these irreverent times, you won’t have far to search for an edgy comedian or curmudgeonly cynic who will ask: ‘What’s all the fuss about? It’s only a baby.’ Yet to most of us – and how this must exasperate chippy republicans on the Left! – the birth of an heir in direct line of descent from the Throne is an occasion of special significance and celebration. Indeed, a royal birth means so much else besides a new life and the continuation of a family line. For it’s the symbol of the nation’s continuity, our respect for the past and hopes for the future. And now, for the first time since Queen Victoria’s death in 1901, that continuity is underlined by our having four generations of present and future monarchs, all alive at the same time. 30
In many ways it is remarkable that the feelings aroused by a British royal birth remain much the same as they’ve been through the centuries, from the days when the news took months to work its way around the world to this age of instant communication via Twitter. In great measure, this is a tribute to the way our own ruling family has adapted to changing times (sometimes under intense political pressure, more often voluntarily) while other, more rigid hereditary monarchies have collapsed.
Diana and Charles showed a lack of restraint that tarnished the institution, giving the republican tendency a field day.
The Queen herself deserves much of the credit for the gradual evolution of the monarchy during her long reign, continuing the work of her father in turning an aloof and protocol-bound institution into one that is less formal, though still dignified today. True, there were times it became perhaps too informal, when the young royals and a warring
Indeed, this paper takes special pleasure in welcoming a Prince who will be our first sovereign with a substantial proportion of middle and working-class blood in his veins.
But with its extraordinary ability to adapt, the family is more popular than ever today. Prince William has taken the process a step further, by choosing as his bride a fellow student at St Andrews University from a very ordinary family, with no aristocratic or royal connections.
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EDWARD SNOWDEN STILL STUCK IN AIRPORT Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has not been given Russian travel documents, his lawyer has said, contradicting earlier reports. Anatoly Kucherena told reporters his client would remain in the transit zone at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, where he has been for the past month. Earlier, airport officials said that Mr Kucherena had given Mr Snowden the travel documents. The US wants him extradited for leaking details of surveillance programmes. Russian President Vladimir Putin has refused to hand him to the American authorities, but said he could stay in Russia only if he stopped leaking US secrets. MALIA STABBING A 19-year-old man who was stabbed to death in a bar brawl in Crete was killed on his birthday, it has emerged. Tyrell Matthews-Burton from Leyton was attacked outside a bar in the holiday resort of Malia during the fight involving up to 30 British tourists. Witnesses told Greek police a violent altercation took place in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
WOMEN OPENED HER EYES AS DOCTORS WHO THOUGHT SHE WAS BRAIN DEAD BEGAN TO TAKE OUT HER ORGANS FOR DONATION Doctors at St. Joseph’s hospital in Central New York were in the process of starting surgery to harvest a dead woman’s organs when that woman opened her eyes. She was still alive. That massive mistake has now cost the hospital $6,000 after a federal inquiry in addition to another fine of $16,000 after another patient fell and injured her head when she was left unattended in 2011, according to reporting in the Syracuse Post-Standard. Colleen S. Burns of North Syracuse, New York, 41, had been admitted to the hospital in October 2009 for a drug overdose. 32
A 19-year-old was arrested on suspicion of Mr Matthews-Burton’s murder, and 17 other British nationals were arrested.
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THE POPE HITS
BRAZIL Pope draws 3M to Mass as Brazil trip closes
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Pope Francis’ historic trip to his home continent ended Sunday after a marathon week long visit to Brazil that drew millions of people onto the sands of Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Copacabana beach and appeared to reinvigorate the clergy and faithful alike in the world’s largest Catholic country.
Later Sunday, he issued a more pointed message to the region’s bishops, telling them to better look out for their flocks and put an end to the “clerical” culture that places priests on pedestals — often with what Francis called the “sinful complicity” of lay Catholics who hold the clergy in such high esteem.
Dignitaries including Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer turned out at Rio’s Antonio Carlos Jobim international airport to bid farewell to the Argentine-born pontiff after a visit marked by big moments. They included a visit to a vast church dedicated to Brazil’s patron
Despite a series of organisational snafus, including a subway breakdown Wednesday that stranded hundreds of thousands of people for hours, Francis’ visit was widely hailed as a success by the Vatican, pilgrims and everyday Brazilians alike. His nonstop agenda
saint, a rainy walk through one of Rio’s dangerous slums and a papal Mass that was one of the biggest in recent history.
Speaking from a white stage on the sands of Copacabana on Sunday, Francis urged a crowd estimated at 3 million people to go out and spread their faith “to the fringes of society, even to those who seem farthest away, most indifferent.” “The church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you!” he said to applause in his final homily of World Youth Day.
was followed live on television for all seven days, his good nature and modesty charming a country has seen the phenomenal rise of Protestant and evangelical Pentecostal churches in the past decades.
“You came to see the young people but you ended up enchanting all Brazilians,” Temer said on the tarmac of Rio’s main airport minutes before the pope’s takeoff. He added that the country’s door would be permanently open to the pontiff and called on him to “just enter without knocking, because there will always be a place for Your
Holiness in Brazilians’ hearts.” Nearly the entire 4-kilometer-long (2.5 mile) Copacabana beach overflowed Sunday with flagwaving faithful, some of them taking an early morning dip in the Atlantic and others tossing T-shirts, flags and soccer jerseys into the pontiff’s open-sided car as he drove by. Even the normally stern-faced Vatican bodyguards let smiles slip as they jogged alongside Francis’ car, caught up in the enthusiasm of the crowd. The numbers clearly overwhelmed the area’s services: The stench of garbage and human waste hung in Rio’s humid air, and the beach and adjoining chic Atlantic Avenue looked like an improvised refugee camp plunked down in the middle of one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Copacabana’s famous mosaic sidewalks were strewn with trampled cardboard, plastic bags, empty water bottles and cookie wrappers as trash collectors in orange uniforms tried to restore order.
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WHERE’S WALLY? THE POPE?!
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BRAZIL RIOTS 2013
More than a million Brazilians took to the streets of at least 80 Brazilian towns and cities in demonstrations that saw violent clashes and renewed calls for an end to government corruption and demands for better public services. Riot police battled protesters in at least five cities, with some of the most intense clashes in Rio de Janeiro, where an estimated 300,000 demonstrators swarmed into the city’s central area. An 18-year-old man was killed in Sao Paulo after a car drove through barricades, while television images showed police firing tear gas canisters and rubber bullets into crowds of young men, their faces wrapped in T-shirts. The scenes prompted president Dilma Rousseff to end her near38
silence on the unrest sweeping the country by declaring that ‘the voice of the street must be heard and respected’. Rouseff delivered an address on prime time TV, which saw her pledge to improve public services and hold a dialogue with protest leaders. She said peaceful demonstrations were part of a strong democracy, but that violence could not be tolerated. ‘I’m going to meet with the leaders of the peaceful protests, I want institutions that are more transparent, more resistant to wrongdoing,’ Rouseff said in reference to perceptions of deep corruption in Brazilian politics, which is emerging as a focal point of the protests.
‘It’s citizenship and not economic power that must be heard first,’ she said. But it remained unclear exactly who could represent the massive and decentralised groups of demonstrators taking to the streets to vent their anger at woeful public services in spite of high taxes. The President has called off a scheduled visit to Japan to deal with the crisis. Though offering no details, Rousseff said that her government would create a national plan for public transportation in cities - a hike in bus and subway fares in many cities was the original catalyst for the protests.
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DEAR NON–BRAZILIAN FRIEND Please take it seriously:
DON’T COME TO BRAZIL WORLD CUP 2014. Our governors have wasted billions building stadiums that should cost half and won’t bring any improvement for the life quality of the population. Meanwhile, people are dying in the hospital lines due to lack of infrastructure. Violence against regular civilians is out of control, especially in touristic cities like Rio and Sao Paulo. Airports, public transportation, hosteling and other services can’t handle our own intern needs, so go figure what is gonna happen in the world cup when thousands of tourists come.
BRAZILIANS ARE SICK OF IT. THIS WORLD CUP IS GONNA BE MESSY, TOURIST–DECEIVING AND DANGEROUS, NOT MENTIONING DISRESPECTFUL TO OUR PEOPLE, CONSIDERING ALL OF OUR CURRENT GIANT PROBLEMS. If you still have doubts, take a quick look on any digital Brazilian newspaper right now. IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND PLANNING TO COME TO BRAZIL, PLEASE ASK HIM TO TAKE A QUICK READ ON THIS.
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ARIEL
CASTRO
Ariel Castro given life without parole plus 1,000 years
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When her chance came, kidnapping victim Michelle Knight lit into Ariel Castro, the man who held her captive and raped her in his Cleveland home for a decade. “You took 11 years of my life away,” she said. “I spent 11 years in hell. Now, your hell is just beginning.” In handing down a sentence of life without parole plus 1,000 years in prison, Judge Michael Russo told the kidnapper there was no place in the world for his brand of criminal. Castro’s first stop after country jail will be the Lorain prison in Grafton, Ohio, where officials will evaluate him and decide where he will serve his sentence. “You don’t deserve to be out in our community,” Russo told the defendant, explaining he would never leave prison. “You’re too dangerous.” Castro pleaded guilty last week to 937 counts, including murder
and kidnapping, in exchange for the death penalty being taken off the table. The charges stem from his kidnapping, rape and assault of three women: Knight, abducted in 2002; Georgina DeJesus, abducted in 2004; and Amanda Berry; abducted in 2003. Castro is the father of Berry’s 6-year-old girl, DNA tests confirmed. All three women kept diaries with Castro’s permission, providing many of the details of their abuse. Berry and DeJesus, who did not attend the hearing, sent family members to deliver impact statements on their behalves, while Knight, 32, chose to address her abductor head-on. “I cried every night. I was so alone. I worried what would happen to me and the other girls every day,” she said, promising to overcome the experience. “I will live on. You will
die a little every day.” She said her friendship with DeJesus was the only positive element of her years in captivity and expressed gratitude that her “teammate” was there to save her when she was “dying from his abuse.” In a pre-sentencing evaluation, Dr. Frank Ochberg, a pioneer in trauma science, wrote that Knight suffered “the longest and most severely.” “It was Michelle who served as doctor, nurse, midwife and paediatrician during the birth (of Berry’s child). She breathed life into that infant when she wasn’t breathing,” he wrote. “At other times, she interceded when Castro sought to abuse Gina, interposing herself and absorbing physical and sexual trauma. But each survivor had a will to prevail and used that will to live through the ordeal.”
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