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Malala and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize –
Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian child rights campaigner, have jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the age of just 17, Malala is the youngest ever recipient of the prize. The teenager was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in October 2012 for campaigning for girls’ education. She now lives in Birmingham in the UK. Malala said she was “honoured” to receive the award, saying it made her feel “more powerful and courageous”. She revealed she found out the news after being called out of her chemistry class at her school in Birmingham. [BBC]
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Barack Obama gets a job offer at Paltrow fundraiser –
A technology entrepreneur has offered President Barack Obama a job for after he leaves the White House. With speculation mounting abut what Mr Obama will do when he exits the presidency Ariel Jalali became the first employer to make an offer of a new post. The offer was made during a fundraising event at actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s house in Los Angeles. Paltrow told the crowd she was one of the president’s “biggest fans, if not the biggest” and gushed: “You’re so handsome that I can’t speak properly.” [Daily Telegraph]
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Other News Stories –
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- ISIL forces capture the headquarters of Kurdish forces defending the Syrian border town of Kobane with the United Nations warning of massacre. (AAP via SBS)
- Health
- Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa:
- Three people in Mali, which has had no cases, are injected with an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus, the first such trial in Africa. (Haaretz)
- The World Health Organisation estimates that the death toll from the outbreak has passed 4000 with all but nine deaths occurring in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. (BBC)
- International relations
- Nobel Peace Prize:
- Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian children’s rights advocate Kailash Satyarthi share the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. (BBC), (Huffington Post)
- The local KGB in Minsk arrests about 100 Ukrainian and 30 Belarusian soccer fans at a qualifying match between Ukraine and Belarus for the 2016 European Championship after they a sang the song, Putin-Huilo! (which roughly translates as “Putin is a dickhead!”). (FP)
- Politics and elections
- 2014 Hong Kong protests:
- Hong Kong‘s Occupy Central protest leaders call for supporters to hold a major rally after the Government of Hong Kong calls off planned talks. (BBC)
- Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, fails to show at an event marking the 69th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea, increasing speculation about his prolonged absence from public view. (BBC)
- Violeta Bulc is nominated as Slovenia‘s new candidate for EU commissioner after the former prime minister Alenka Bratušek was rejected by the European Parliament. (Slovenia Times)
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