* FIRED – The chief editor of a key Chinese Communist Party newspaper has been dismissed as the central government further tightened its control of the media, staff at the paper said Tuesday.
* CAUGHT – Zimbabwean game rangers have seized 22 tusks worth $216 000 and arrested two suspected elephant poachers after a dramatic cross-border gunfight with the gang, says an official. * FLOODED – Authorities declared a state of emergency on three Greek islands yesterday, after torrential rain caused extensive flooding and road damage.* MORE PEOPLE – The United States now has a population of more than 300 million people, the US Census Bureau said on Tuesday, although it will not designate the person who broke the historic barrier.* NO CO-OPERATION – Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army said on Tuesday its fighters will not return to neutral camps in south Sudan unless government troops are also quarantined amid concerns about ongoing peace talks.* LONG WAIT – A senior Zimbabwean judge has rapped local courts for inefficiency after he found 10 accused languishing for up to nine years in jail while awaiting trial or sentencing, say reports.* INDICTED – A former finance minister and current lawmaker in Cameroon has been charged with embezzlement during the time he headed a public credit agency, a justice official said Tuesday.* EQUALITY – The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) has come out in favour of a single law for all marriages, including gay unions.Nampa-Reuters-AFP-AP* FLOODED – Authorities declared a state of emergency on three Greek islands yesterday, after torrential rain caused extensive flooding and road damage.* MORE PEOPLE – The United States now has a population of more than 300 million people, the US Census Bureau said on Tuesday, although it will not designate the person who broke the historic barrier.* NO CO-OPERATION – Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army said on Tuesday its fighters will not return to neutral camps in south Sudan unless government troops are also quarantined amid concerns about ongoing peace talks.* LONG WAIT – A senior Zimbabwean judge has rapped local courts for inefficiency after he found 10 accused languishing for up to nine years in jail while awaiting trial or sentencing, say reports.* INDICTED – A former finance minister and current lawmaker in Cameroon has been charged with embezzlement during the time he headed a public credit agency, a justice official said Tuesday.* EQUALITY – The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) has come out in favour of a single law for all marriages, including gay unions.Nampa-Reuters-AFP-AP
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