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A strong earthquake measuring 6,8 on the Richter scale struck near Indonesia’s Nias Island late on Tuesday, seismologists said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The underwater quake hit at 10.28pm local time at a depth of 1,9km, some 270km south-west of Sibolga on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the United States Geological Survey said.
Tests have cleared a London hotel restaurant, which Tottenham blamed for a suspected outbreak of food poisoning that affected 10 of its players before a crucial defeat. Health officials said on Tuesday that a virus was the likely cause of the illness that occurred on the eve of Tottenham’s 2-1 loss to West Ham on May 7, the final day of the Premier League season.
Richard Hatch, who won -million in the debut season of the United States reality television programme Survivor, was sentenced on Tuesday to four years and three months in prison for failing to pay income taxes on his reality TV prize and other earnings.
At least one person was killed and another wounded on Tuesday when suspected Islamic gunmen attacked a compound held by a United States-backed warlord alliance outside the lawless Somali capital, Mogadishu, witnesses said. ”It was difficult to know the identity of the attacker or attackers,” a commander in the compound told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity.
Jackie Botten, former South African, North Eastern Transvaal and Northern Transvaal pace bowler, died on Sunday following complications after colon operations at the age of 77. A product of Pretoria High School for Boys, Botten played for Northerns during the period 1957/1958 through to the 1971/1972.
A South African Press Association (Sapa) reporter was treated for a wound in the thigh after being assaulted by striking security guards during their rampage through Cape Town’s city centre on Tuesday. The journalist, Wendell Roelf, was also hit on the head by a sjambok and in the ribs with a rock.
Talks aimed at resolving the violent strike by security guards deadlocked again on Tuesday, when employers and the guards’ negotiators could not agree on certain terms. Meanwhile, police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse striking guards who went on the rampage in central Cape Town.
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday rejected a constitutional amendment that would have allowed President Olusegun Obasanjo to run for a third term in office in 2007. ”By this result, the Senate has said clearly and eloquently that we discontinue further proceedings on this amendment Bill,” Senate President Ken Nnamani said after the vote.
The European Union is considering helping Iran to acquire a light-water nuclear reactor, but Tehran would have to give up enriching uranium on its soil as part of guarantees that it will not make atomic weapons, diplomats told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday. Under the deal being readied by European powers, Russia would enrich uranium on Iran’s behalf.