make-or-break
moment for the middle-class and we’ve been through too much to turn back now.”
He criticized his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, saying he would reverse the gains of achieves so far. Mr Obama is also addressing a rally in Virginia, another state seen vital to victory.
A fire at a drug
rehabilitation
centre in the Peruvian capital Lima has killed 14 people. Firefighters said patients could not escape the blaze because the doors and windows were locked and barred. There is only one survivor. The cause of the fire, the Sacred Heart of Jesus clinic has not yet been established. It’s the second such tragedy in Peru this year. In January, the fire at another clinic in Lima killed 29 people that prompted calls for better regulation of rehabilitation facilities, many of which are unlicensed.
Egyptian military prosecutors have ordered that around 300 people detained during violent clashes with the security forces on Friday should be held in custody for 15 days while charges are considered. The only exception will be a few women among them. Here’s Sebastian Usher.
“On the surface, the Abbassiya district where defence ministry is located with relatively calm but
underneath
tensions are still raging.The immediate reason for the anger of the protesters was an attack on the sitting-in held outside the defence ministry on Wednesday. Some 20 people were killed when unidentified assailants used firebombs and clubs to try to drive the protesters out. Many accused the governing military council of having a very least testily allowed the onslaught.”