Friday 28 March 2014

News Rap: News Updates; Recap

News Rap: News Updates; This Week.. ''Know that man is influenced by his deeds and all his heart and all his thoughts continually pursue the deeds in which he is engaged, whether for good or bad''- Zachariah Fedel



The Oscar Trial:  15th Day State witness, Captain Francois Moller was on the stand.  Moller is a police cellphone analyst.  He studied and compile cellphone messages of the deceased and that of Pistorius.  90% of the text messages were found to be romantic; nothing was found incriminating Oscar's text messaging to Reeva Steenkamp.

                                                     Oscar and Lawyer Roux

''I am scared of you sometimes, and how you snap at me and how you react to me'', said Reeva Steenkamp

CCTV-footage shown of Oscar and Reeva kissing as evedence in court.  Then, the trial adjourned.  State closed it's case agains Pistorius on Tuesday 25.  Defence Adv. Barry Roux was granted two days to call 2 more witnesses, and postponement was due today.  The court reseme today, shortly into session Judge Thokozile Masipa announced that ''one of my assessor is sick-hospitalized...we can't proceed''.  The court will resume on the 07th April, 2014.



Breaking News: A nine-year old girl who was raped and set alight in Delft -Cape Town, died last week.  She will be buried this weekend.  She past away from injuries she sustained from the attack in January 2014.



U.S-WASHINGTON  mudslide_Natural Disaster: 90 people still missing



On Wednesday night, Snohomish Country Emergency management Director John Pennington told reports that number of people were uncounted  for had dropped to 90 from 176 the previous day, as dozens of the people were found to be alive and well.  35 people are listed as having an unknown status, because authorities have been unable to determine whether they were in the area at the time of the mudslide.


''We need to take a step back and look at the magnitude of what happened'', Mr Pennington said.  - reports by bbc.com on 27 March 2014.

Survivors were last pulled alive from the mud on Saturday.  Death toll reached 16- update on March 26.


Updates:  Malaysian announced plane lost at sea- search moved to a 'new' phase.  The Malaysia Airline flight MH370 plunged into the Indian Ocean carrying 239 passengers three weeks ago.  The search was temporarily called off on Tuesday 25, due to bad weather.  Meanwhile, the families still seek answers from Malaysia government.  On the other side, the Chinese government called for Malaysia to release all the satalitte data it used to conclude that the plane was lost.  Xi Jinping, the Chinese president said he would send a special envoy to Kuala Lumpur.



Health


Guinea Ebola outbreaks spread to neighbouring countries such as Liberia and Sierra Leon.  Precocious measures alerted to other countries, especially in Africa.



keep reading, updates coming soon..

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