smuggling
at a meeting of the World Health Organisation in Geneva. The plan includes a new licensing system and an international mechanism to monitor tobacco from the point of harvest to the shops. The WHO says fighting smuggling could help countries recover more than $40bn in lost tax revenue.
An explosion at the newly reopened national theatre in the Somali capital Mogadishu has left at least seven people dead and many others injured. Among the dead are the head of the country's football association and the president of the Somali Olympic committee. The Islamist group al-Shabab said it carried out the attack, but denied using a suicide bomber. A Somali government spokesman, Abdirahman Osman, said Somalis would not allow such attacks to completely disrupt their lives.
"This group, they are working for al-Qaeda in Somalia to try to avoid Somalis to stand their normal lives to go to theatres or concerts. But that's why we are determined even more and more by, for them targeting such innocent people. And we will develop our efforts, and it's a matter of time before we
eliminate
all those threats posed by them."
A new scientific study published in the journal Nature says there's
compelling
evidence that a rise in carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere caused the end of the last ice age. The study, funded by an American government agency, countered a favourite argument of climate change sceptics, who point out that records show that rising temperatures preceded a rise in CO2.