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While you were sleeping: 2 June 2016

Al Shabaab attack rocks Mogadishu, Trump University documents reveal a total sham, and Mad Men props go under the hammer.
John Stupart
By John Stupart
2 Jun
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Gotthard rail tunnel opening

Thursday, 2nd June
 
“There's something wrong with our bloody ships today."

– Admiral Sir David Beatty, during the Battle of Jutland

Story of the Day

Shadow play: State Security, Marikana and a bogus union 

Reports and evidence that the country’s State Security Agency and its Special Operations Unit are implicated in a number of covert actions including placing undercover agents in SARS, Lonmin’s management structures at the time of the Marikana Massacre as well as orchestrating the establishment of a rival union in the volatile Platinum Belt, paint a disturbing picture of a shadowy network of spies who have infiltrated and are influencing various levels of South African society. Most of those who have been flushed into the open, unsurprisingly, orbit one man, President Jacob Zuma. Beware, the wall near you may well have eyes. By MARIANNE THAMM.
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While you were sleeping

Ten killed in Mogadishu attack

At least 10 people have been killed in a large scale Al-Shabaab attack on Mogadishu's Ambassador Hotel. Militants detonated a car bomb late on Wednesday afternoon before storming the hotel. Fighting with security forces raged on for several hours into the night. Read more

Trump University a complete fraud

Newly released court documents relating to a case against Trump University has revealed a giant student-milking cash machine. Staff and sales managers have revealed how Trump U focused entirely on selling students the most expensive seminars, regardless of whether they were useful or even any good. Read more

Twice as many homosexual experiences – US

A survey released on Wednesday has shown twice as many Americans have had a homosexual experience since the 1990s. This is a positive indication of evolving attitudes and perceptions on homosexuality, according to the report. Your crazy uncle is still adamant it's fluoride in the water causing it all. Read more

Mad Men props go under the hammer

A fan-driven auction of Mad Men-related props has gone online. Starting from Wednesday night, lots range from sheets used in a Don Draper threesome scene to Betty's engagement ring. Shipping is worldwide, in case this commercial lunacy is up your alley. Read more

In Numbers

57.5

The length of the new Gotthard Base Tunnel, the longest in the world.

Facts of the Day

Today is International Sex Workers Day. The annual date is intended to draw attention to the many incidences of exploitation and general abuse suffered by sex workers worldwide.

Fact of the day: The inventor of autopilot was also the founder of the mile high club. Quite possibly one invention led to the other.

Weather & Financial Data

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Photo: Victoria Topay and her children pose for a family portrait at<br />her home in West Point, Monrovia, Liberia, 24 March 2016. The empty chairs<br />are a symbolic representation of Victoria's late husband and family members<br />who died of the Ebola virus during an outbreak of the disease in 2014.<br />March 30, 2016 marks the second anniversary Liberia recorded its first two<br />cases of Ebola in Foya district, Lofa County near the border with Guinea.<br />The Ebola epidemic claimed the lives of more than 11,300 people and<br />infected over 28,500. The disease brought devastation to families,<br />communities, health and economic systems of all three most affected<br />countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. EPA/AHMED JALLANZOSierra Leone: Music in the time after Ebola 
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