My News Roundups
Short summaries of the top global news. Ilaria Schlitz has contributed 6, including:
100 dead due to tainted medicine
100 Pakistanis have died amid suspicion that the heart medicine contained high levels of metal.The factory that was distributing the medicine for free has since been shut down.
Zulu king investigated for calling gay people "rotten"
South African human rights activists have obtained transcripts of the speech that Goodwill Zwelithini gave over the weekend in order to verify claims that the king in fact made this remark. The royal household is denying these claims.
French maths teacher sets fire to herself
Following an unproductive meeting with rowdy students a maths teacher in the south of France set fire to herself in an act of desperation. Fellow teachers tried to put the fire out but she died in the hospital after having been airlifted from the school.
Somali pirates kidnap disabled woman in Lamu archipelago
In the early hours of Saturday morning a French woman was kidnapped from her home on the island of Manda. This comes just 3 weeks after the murder of David Tebbutt and the kidnapping of his wife Judith farther north in the archipelago.
75 dead in Kenya due to explosion
A burst pipeline in the slums of Nairobi resulted in 75 deaths and 112 injuries. Many of the victims were collecting the leaking oil when a cigarette started the fire.
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