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- 04/08/2009 02:00
PERU. Peruvian authorities say attackers believed to be Shining Path rebels killed three police officers and two women in an assault on ...
PERU. Peruvian authorities say attackers believed to be Shining Path rebels killed three police officers and two women in an assault on a remote police post in a coca-growing region. Police Maj. Quispe Gonzales said that three more officers were wounded in the raid that ended in the early hours of Sunday. He says the two women killed were relatives of one of the slain officers. The attack occurred in San Jose de Secce in Ayacucho province in Peru's south-central mountains.
KENYA. Kenya's president says all prisoners on death row will immediately have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment. President Mwai Kibaki said in a statement Monday he made the decision because no death sentence has been carried out in the past 22 years, leading to more than 4,000 prisoners on death row. The president says he has directed government officials to study whether the death penalty has any impact on fighting crime.
ETHIOPIA. An Ethiopian-born Canadian was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for terrorism-related charges by the high court in the capital Addis Ababa. Bashir Makhtal was last week convicted on three charges mainly of inciting rebellion by aiding and abetting armed opposition groups in Ethiopia and being a senior member of a rebel group. Makhtal was also accused of supporting a hardline Islamist movement in neighboring Somalia who Ethiopian forces ousted in 2007 when they intervened to prop up the country's embattled government. He denied all the charges for which prosecutors had demanded the death penalty.
SOUTH AFRICA. Health officials say that a college student has become the first South African to die from swine flu. The 22-year-old male student from the University of Stellenbosch, near Cape Town, died July 28 after being sick for a week. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that the H1N1 virus was confirmed as the cause of death Monday. The student went to the campus clinic with flu symptoms but was later admitted to a private hospital. He was treated for pneumonia but did not recover. There have been more than 500 swine flu cases reported in South Africa since mid-June. Some schools in Johannesburg have temporarily closed after pupils tested positive.
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