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The senior Democratic Senator in the United StatesHarry Reid has said the Senate will move to imposenew sanctions on Iran as early as next month if theGeneve nuclear negotiations do not succeed. Sixworld powers, including the US, are seeking an interim deal under which Tehran would curburanium enrichment in return for the lifting of some international sanctions. From Washington,Katy Watson reports.
“For several months now, a sanctions bill has been held up in the Senate banking committee.Opinion is divided over what the best course of action should be. But President Obama hasurged a delay in introducing broader sanctions to allow time for a diplomatic solution to Iran'nuclear program. Harry Reid said on Thursday that it was a tough sanction that brought Iranto the negotiating table in the first place. Now, by voicing his support for a bill to broadensanctions when the Senate returns from holiday recess in December, he is piling on thepressure even more.”
The roof of a large supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga has collapsed, at least six people areconfirmed dead. They include two rescue workers who were killed during a second collapse.Emergency teams are looking for dozens more people who are thought to still be buried underthe rubble. Damien McGuinness reports.
“The supermarket roof collapsed just before 6pm when the shop was full of customers. Around20 minutes later, another part of the roof caved in. Eyewitnesses say the customers try to runout after the first part of the roof collapsed, but that the supermarket's electronic doors closedautomatically trapping people inside. So far, Latvian authorities are not confirmed to a causeof the collapse. The most likely explanation is the weight of soil which has been used to planta winter garden on the roof.”
Campaign groups have walked out of United Nations conference on global warming sayinggovernments at the talks in Poland had made a mockery of them. From Warsaw Matt McGrath.
To the songs of the old spiritual tune, the Green campaigners walked out into the cold Polishair, angry at what they see as a lack of ambition among the rich to deliver a strong global dealon climate. Celine Charveriat, from Oxfam International,said the campaigners could no longer sitin silence in the phase of government’s inaction.
"What we were walking out of the Warsaw talks because governments are not doing enough."Negotiators acknowledged that there were major problems, but they also said that modestprogress was possible. The most contentious issue is loss and damage by which developingcountries are seeking legally binding compensation from richer nations for extreme weatherevents.”
Police in Britain have released on bail a man and a woman in their sixtieth arrested as a part ofan investigation into slavery. It follows the rescue of three women from a house in southLondon where they appear to have been held against their will in horrific conditions for threedecades. The women are from Britain, Ireland and Malaysia.
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Several thousand off-duty Portuguese police officers protesting against public sector cuts havebroken through a line of riot police protecting the country's parliament. They reached the maindoor of the building, sang the national anthem and chanted against the governments beforedispersing. Police associations called the demonstration to protest against cutbacks.
Three black teenagers, wrongly accused of raping two white women in America's deep southmore than 80 years ago, have been given posthumous pardons. They were the last of a groupof nine young men, known as the Scottsboro Boys, to be exonerated.
From Washington, Jane O'Brien reports.
“In 1931, nine black teenagers were accused of raping two white women on a train in Alabama.They were found guilty by jury of white men and only the youngest defendant escaped beingsentenced to death. Six years later, five of the men's convictions were overturned after one ofthe women recounted her story. The case of the so-called Scottsboro Boys became aninfamous part of the American history of racial discrimination and subject of books and films.The last three Scottsboro Boys have now had their names cleared and campaigners hope tolocate their graves and direct historical markers.”
The court in the United States has added $290m to the damages of the electronic giantSamsung owes Apple for copying features found on Apple's iPhone and iPad devices. Thisbrings the total that the Samsung, from Korea, must pay the American company to $930m.
Scientists, analyzing a cosmic explosion that lit up the entire universe, say that it was thebrightest burst of radiation ever recorded. The report in the journal Science says the blast,known as a Gama ray burst, was spotted earlier this year by telescopes in space. A dying starcollapsed on itself creating a black hole and emitting a spectacular pulse of light. It's takenabout four billion years for the light to reach us.
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