rotten luck
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The government of Sudan has rejected allegations of crimes against humanity made by the former head of the United Nations in Sudan.
Mukesh Kapila accused Sudan of
ethnic cleansing
against the Nuba population in Southern Kordofan, where there's been fighting between the Sudanese military and rebels. However, a Sudanese official, Rabie Abdul-Atti, told the BBC that its air force
sorties
were targeting the rebels whom he accused of committing human rights abuses.
Forbes magazine says there are now a record 1,226 billionaires on its annual rich list, compared with 140 when it was launched 25 years ago.
The Mexican telecoms
magnate
Carlos Slim, who's worth an estimated $69bn, tops the list for the third year in a row followed by the software magnate Bill Gates and financier Warren Buffett. No Indian billionaires are in the top 10 this year, and the only Chinese one is the Hong Kong property magnate Li Ka-shing. Steve Forbes explains why.
"Well, what it tells us is there's a lot of churn, there hasn't been a lot of growth in the economy in the last year. The number of billionaires went up 16, but yet some regions go down: China went down a little bit; Russia went down because of weak commodity prices. But the fact the matter is there hasn't been a lot of real
vigorous
growth in the world, and that's reflected on the list this year."
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