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World
    2015-05-06  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    1. Saudi king names new heir to throne

    Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on April 29 named his interior minister as heir to the throne* and a son as second in line as part of a shakeup that also saw the world’s longest-serving foreign minister replaced.

    A royal decree* removed Crown Prince Moqren bin Abdul Aziz bin Saud and replaced him with Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who headed a crackdown on al-Qaida a decade ago.

    A statement from the royal court said that Moqren was also relieved of his position as deputy prime minister.

    2. Army rescues girls from Boko Haram

    Nigeria’s army has rescued 200 girls and 93 women during a military operation to wrest back Sambisa Forest from the Boko Haram Islamist militant group, it said on April 28.

    Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls near the northern village of Chibok in April 2014, causing an international outcry*.

    “Troops this afternoon rescued 200 girls and 93 women from Sambisa Forest,” army spokesman Major General Chris Olukolade said.

    3. Mom who smacked son speaks out

    A U.S. mother was filmed smacking* her masked son after she discovered he was rioting.

    Toya Graham, a single mother of six, pulled her hooligan* son away from the mob and expressed her disgust after he was seen throwing rocks at police in Baltimore.

    The looting* and rock-throwing by mostly black rioters* broke out just hours after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered a fatal spinal cord* injury while in police custody.

    Graham told CBS she was only trying to protect her son and described the moment she spotted her son among a crowd of rioters. “I was shocked, I was angry, because you never want to see your child out there doing that,” she said. “I hope that he understands the seriousness of what was going on last night.”

    4. Boy saved 5 days after Nepal quake

    A long-absent noise — cheers — rang out in Nepal’s capital on April 30 as rescuers pulled a teenager alive from the earthquake rubble he had been trapped in for five days.

    Hundreds cheered as the 15-year-old, identified by police as Pemba Lama, was pulled out of the wreckage*, dazed and dusty, and carried away on a stretcher*.

    When Lama was lifted out, his face was covered in dust, and medics had put an IV drip into his arm. A blue brace had been placed around his neck.

    5. Britain’s royal family welcomes a girl

    The Duchess of Cambridge delighted Britain and royal enthusiasts around the world on Saturday by delivering a princess.

    The baby — Prince William and Kate’s second child — was born on Saturday morning and weighed 3.7 kilograms, officials said. She is fourth in line to the throne and the fifth great-grandchild of 89-year-old Queen Elizabeth II. Britain hasn’t welcomed a princess born this high up the line of succession for decades.

    6. U.S.-led strike kills civilians in Syria

    The death toll from an airstrike by U.S.-led forces on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo has risen to 52, including seven children, a group monitoring the conflict said on Saturday.

    Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the British-based Observatory for Human Rights, said the death toll from the strike on May 1 was the highest civilian loss in a single attack by U.S. and Arab forces since they started air raids against hard-line Islamist militant groups in Syria such as the Islamic State.

    U.S.-led strikes had killed at least 66 civilians in Syria from the start of the raids on September 23 until Friday’s strike, which brought the total to at least 118.

    (SD-Agencies)

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