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bomb alert. French police said they'd received a call warning that four bombs would go off at the shrine, but a search of the site did not reveal any devices.
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The authorities in Bahrain say they’ve arrested three more Shiite activists on security related charges following the earlier detention of a leader of the mainly Shiite Haq Movement for Civil Liberties and Democracy, Abdul Jalil al-Singace.
He was arrested on his return from London where he’d been giving a lecture on human rights in Bahrain.
The charity Save the Children says severe flooding is causing further devastation in Niger, where nearly 300,000 children are at risk from a massive food crisis.
The country is struggling to
cope with
the worst flooding of the River Niger in 80 years. Richard Hamilton reports.
It’s thought the food crisis in Niger caused by last season’s drought was already the worst in the world this century
in terms of
the number of people affected. And now the country’s been devastated by flooding. Half the population
is reliant on
food aids. Zinder in the south is one of the regions suffering most from the current food crisis. Around 28,000 people have been affected by the floods, and more than 37,000 animals have
drown
ed.
The Anglo-Dutch oil multinational Shell has said acts of