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UK PM pockets reporter's phone in hospital row
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused on Monday of grabbing a journalist's phone and putting it into his pocket to avoid looking at an image of a boy sleeping on a hospital floor. An ITV television reporter attempted to show Johnson the picture - of a boy next to an oxygen mask - but Johnson refused to look down at it and put the phone in his pocket. He eventually looked and said it was a "terrible, terrible photo", apologising to the families. The state-run National Health Service (NHS) has been one of the major battlegrounds in the run-up to the December 12 election. Johnson and his team have been involved in a series of high-profile gaffes during the election campaign but still enjoy a comfortable lead in the polls over the opposition Labour party.
2 Algeria ex-PMs get long jail terms in graft trial
An Algerian court yesterday sentenced two former prime ministers to long jail terms in the first of a series of high-profile corruption trials launched after longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned in the face of mass protests in April. Former prime ministers Ahmed Ouyahia and Abdelmalek Sellal, who were both close to the ousted president, were sentenced to 15 years and 12 years respectively. It was the first time since Algeria's independence from France in 1962 that former prime ministers have been put on trial. The state prosecutor had sought 20-year prison sentences for the two ex-premiers. The verdicts come just two days before Algeria is due to elect a president to replace Bouteflika in a vote bitterly opposed by the country's nine-month-old protest movement, which sees it as a regime ploy to cling to power.
NZ volcano toll rises to six
Fearing the volcano could erupt again, search parties were unable to set foot on New Zealand's White Island for eight people still missing yesterday, as police raised the death toll to six from the eruption a day earlier. Police doubted whether any more survivors would be found. They said latest victim died in hospital, having been among more than 30 people injured in the eruption on the uninhabited island, a popular sightseeing excursion for tourists. Police said 47 people were on White Island at the time of the eruption. Twenty-four came from Australia, nine from the United States, five from New Zealand, four from Germany, two each from China and the Britain and one from Malaysia. Police said an investigation into the deaths on White Island had been launched but clarified it was not a criminal investigation.
Toxic bushfire haze blankets eastern Australia
Toxic haze blanketed Sydney yesterday triggering a chorus of smoke alarms to ring across the city and forcing school children inside, as "severe" weather conditions fuelled deadly bush blazes along Australia's east coast. Fire engines raced office-to-office in the city centre with sirens blaring, as inland bushfires poured smoke laden with toxic particles into commercial buildings. For weeks the east of the country has been smothered in smoke as drought and climate-fuelled bushfires have burned. But the scale of the problem on Tuesday shocked even hardened residents. Authorities recommended that the vulnerable cease outdoor activity altogether and that everyone stay inside as much as possible. As the day developed there were nearly 100 bushfire incidents in the state of New South Wales alone and dozens more in Queensland. source: afp