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NEWS in brief
Laden was one-eyed:
Zawahiri
AFP, Dubai
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri resurfaced for the second time in a month on Wednesday in an online video on the life of his
late predecessor Osama bin Laden who he said was blind in one eye.
Dressed in a white thawb cloak and turban, Zawahiri revealed "for those who do not know" that Saudi-born bin Laden was left blind in the right eye after an accident in his youth.
He also said bin Laden was a former member of the Saudi branch of the Muslim Brotherhood before Storms deluge historic British city
AFP, London
Britain's most severe September storms for 30 years flooded homes and businesses in the historic city of York yesterday and threatened chaos for much of northern England.
Residents took to boats to navigate the picturesque streets of the city dating from Roman times but officials said flood defences would cope as the River Ouse reached near record levels, three metres higher than normal.
Further rain was forecast for Thursday, putting
Mugabe hints at March polls
AFP, Harare
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has set out plans for a constitutional referendum in
November and elections in March, a timetable that was quickly denounced by the opposition as "unrealistic".
In a High Court filing seen yesterday, Mugabe, 88, set out his most concrete timetable to date for two votes that are key to a bipartisan deal designed to stop Zimbabwe descending further into political violence.
G8 to extend aid to sub-Sahara
AfP, New York
The United States and other G8 nations are expanding a program to lift 50 million people in sub-Saharan Africa out of poverty and hunger within the next decade, US officials said Wednesday.
More than 60 companies pledging some $4 billion in private business commitments to help build seed, fertilizer or small-scale irrigation firms have joined the Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition.
The initiative was launched by President Barack Obama in May at a G8 summit and brings together G8 nations, African countries and private sector firms.
17 killed in India bus plunge
A?, New Delhi
Police said 17 people died when the bus they were travelling in plunged into a river in western India.
The bus was crossing the Puma river in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra state on Wednesday morning when the accident took place. The area is 650 kilometers north of state capital Mumbai.
Head Constable Surendra Mahaske said at least 10 passengers were injured. The cause was not immediately clear because the driver was among those killed. Iran media chief jailed
AFP, Tehran
A top aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who heads Iran's official IRNA news agency, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, was arrested and jailed on Wednesday, IRNA reported.
Authorities also closed Iran's leading moderate newspaper, Shargh, after it published a satirical cartoon seen as insulting war veterans, according to the website of state broadcaster IRIB.
China rejects Weiwei's tax appeal
AFP, Beijing
A Chinese court yesterday rejected Ai Weiwei’s appeal against a hefty fine for alleged tax evasion which the acclaimed artist and government critic has called an attempt to silence his activism.
Ai, 55, had been seeking an open trial on the allegations of tax evasion by the company he founded, Fake Cultural Development, which had resulted in a $2.4m fine by the Beijing tax bureau last year.
The burly, wispy-bearded avant-garde artist, who denies the allegations, said the ruling by the intermediate court marked his lastchancetocontestthefinein court.