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While you were sleeping: 18 November
Dozens killed in Mozambique truck blast, Abe 'confidence' after Trump meeting, and teenage girl to be cryogenically frozen.
“If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.”
Winston Churchill
A court application by civic rights groups Freedom Under Law and the Helen Suzman Foundation has slammed the accelerator on events surrounding the survival of National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams. It has hauled out the hate mail between Abrahams and Hawks head Mthandazo Ntlemeza and ripped open a rare window
Dozens killed in Mozambique truck blast
At least 73 Mozambicans have died in a deadly truck explosion. An oil truck in Caphiridzange, Tete province, detonated after scores of people attempted to syphon fuel from the vehicle. It is not entirely clear whether they had been buying fuel or stealing it. Regardless, the resulting blast left dozens dead and over 100 injured.
Japan’s Shinzo Abe has become the first foreign head of state to meet with America’s future president. During his 90 minute meeting, Abe stated that he had “great confidence” in the Orange One. Abe is himself a staunch nationalist, advocating the re-militarisation of Japan, thereby hinting at great overlapping foreign policy interests with Trump.
Romney and Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney have been tipped as the top contenders for Donald Trump’s secretary of state. Romney, a long-time opponent of Trump, appeared to be completely fine playing the utter hypocrite and working for him. Giuliani has been a long-time backer of
British girl wins right to freeze her body
A 14-year-old girl in Britain has won a landmark case to have her body frozen. The teenager died of a rare form of cancer and will have her body cryogenically frozen in the United States. The hope here is that, in the distant future, she might be able to be woken up and cured.
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FACT OF THE DAY
Today in 2003 Massachusetts became the first state in the US to legalise same-sex marriage.
The FBI have at least one of virtually every firearm made. They are kept for reference purposes to solve crimes.
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