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ElBaradei named Egypt’s interim PM
Trial of Mubarak drags on
Docs ‘rejected’ turning off Mandela life support
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Gunmen kill 42 in Nigeria school attack
Runaway fuel train explodes in Canada
Savita’s husband to initiate negligence proceedings against Irish hospital
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ElBaradei named Egypt’s interim PM
Cairo, July 6 ElBaradei, a 71-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner and former UN nuclear agency chief, had been favourite to head the temporary leadership installed by the military after it ousted elected President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday. He was holding a second meeting of the day with interim head of state Adli Mansour late on Saturday ahead of his expected appointment. Tens of thousands of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets on Friday to protest against what they called a military coup, and clashes between them, security forces and anti-Mursi protesters left more than 30 people dead. Within minutes of the news that ElBaradei would be named, a senior Brotherhood official said the Islamist movement would reject his candidacy and any other measures implemented by the army-backed administration. "We reject this coup and all that results from it, including ElBaradei," Farid Ismail of the brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), said. He described ElBaradei as "Washington's choice", a reference to suspicions among brotherhood members of US complicity in Mursi's overthrow. An Islamist coalition led by the Brotherhood also called for another wave of demonstrations on Sunday, raising the prospect of further violence that has thrown the most populous Arab nation of 84 million people into fresh turmoil. A Coptic Christian priest was shot dead on Saturday in Egypt's lawless North Sinai province in what could be the first sectarian attack since Mursi's overthrow. The army has given few details and no timeframe for elections, adding to political uncertainty at a time when many Egyptians fear that bloodshed could polarise society still further. Mursi's dramatic removal and subsequent violence is the latest twist in a tumultuous two years since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in the Arab uprisings that swept the region. — Reuters
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Trial of Mubarak drags on
CAIRO, July 6 The presiding judge adjourned the case on charges of conspiracy to murder hundreds of demonstrators in 2011 until August 17, after the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, to allow the defence more time to review recently presented evidence. The televised trial of the 85-year-old former president, toppled by a popular uprising in 2011, seemed outwardly unaffected by the ouster President Islamist Mohamed Mursi. Outside the courthouse, supporters of Mubarak sang and danced around a bronze bust of Mubarak on a wooden pedestal in celebration of Mursi's fall. — Reuters |
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Docs ‘rejected’ turning off Mandela life support
Johannesburg, July 6 Denis Goldberg, a friend of Mandela for more than five decades, told the weekly 'City Press' that the matter of switching off the life support had been discussed and dismissed. "I was told that the doctors said they would only consider such a situation if there was a genuine state of organ failure," Goldberg said, as the 94-year-old leader spent nearly one month in the hospital. "Since that hasn't occurred, they were quite prepared to go on stabilising him until he recovers," Goldberg added. Confirming that Mandela was breathing with assistance from machines, Goldberg told the weekly: "But he responds to voices and tries to talk, yet mumbles." "I spoke to him for about 10 minutes and he responded positively to what I was saying. — PTI
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Gunmen kill 42 in Nigeria school attack
Kano, July 6 According to witnesses who escaped, the attackers rounded up students and staff of the school and placed them in a dormitory, then threw explosives inside and opened fire, said Haliru Aliyu of Potiskum General Hospital. "We received 42 dead bodies of students and other staff of Government Secondary School (in) Mamudo last night. Some of them had gunshot wounds, while many of them had burns and ruptured tissues," Aliyu told AFP. "From accounts of teachers and other students who escaped the attack, the gunmen gathered their victims in a hostel and threw explosives and opened fire, leading to the death of 42." Aliyu said security personnel were combing the bushes around the school in search of wounded students who were believed to have escaped. "So far, six students have been found and are now in the hospital being treated for gunshot wounds," he said. Mamudo is 5 km from Potiskum, the commercial hub of the north-eastern state of Yobe, which has been a flashpoint in the Boko Haram insurgency in recent months. A local resident confirmed the attack. "It was a gory sight. People who went to the hospital and saw the bodies shed tears," he said. He said the attack was believed to be a reprisal by the Boko Haram for the killing of 22 of the group's members during a military raid in the town of Dogon Kuka on Thursday. — AFP
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Runaway fuel train explodes in Canada
Quebec, July 6 A number of people were feared missing while several buildings were destroyed in the incident. The mishap occurred when the runaway train with 73 cars sped into the picturesque lakeside town of around 6,000 people near the border with Maine, and came off the rails. Witnesses said the town centre was crowded at the time. Four of the pressurised tank cars caught fire and blew up in a fireball that mushroomed many hundreds of feet up into the air. The train had been parked and the conductor was not aboard when "somehow, the train got released”, Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway Inc vice-president Joseph McGonigle said on Saturday. The police said they could not yet get close enough to determine the number of victims from the fires. — Reuters
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Savita’s husband to initiate negligence proceedings against Irish hospital
London, July 6 There were multiple grounds to initiate medical negligence proceedings including, "failing to treat, diagnose, chart, do tests, follow up blood tests, failures at every level", Praveen Halappanavar's solicitor Gerard O'Donnell told The Irish Times. Halappanavar's claim will be for injuries, distress and for the loss of his wife. O'Donnell said the question of whether the case would go to court depends on whether the Health Safety Executive and the hospital contest the claim. — PTI
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Venezuela, Nicaragua offer asylum to Snowden
Washington, July 6 Currently, stranded at the Moscow airport for more than a week, CIA whistleblower Snowden had sought asylum in more than two dozen countries, including India. Simultaneous announcements by presidents of Nicaragua and Venezuela offering asylum could be seen as a big disappointment for the US, which had been asking countries not to grant Snowden an asylum. "The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (has) decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young American, Edward Snowden, so that he can live (without) persecution from the empire," President Nicolas Maduro told a military parade marking Venezuela's independence day. Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega made a similar offer, but did not elaborate. "It's clear that if the circumstances permit it, we will gladly receive Snowden and will grant him asylum here in Nicaragua," he said. — PTI
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