{"id":25476,"date":"2010-05-23T11:39:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T11:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/05\/23\/catching-up-on-the-news\/"},"modified":"2010-05-23T11:39:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T11:39:46","slug":"catching-up-on-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/23\/catching-up-on-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up on the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harakat Al-Shabab is a militant Islamic youth movement engaged in the Somali war.  Yesterdaythey mortared the presidential palace in Omgadishu, setting off a<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/world\/africa\/10143792.stm\"> fight killing 14 people. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A landslide caused by heavy rains and a flooding river on the slope of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/01\/nyamulagira_volcano_and_human.php\">Nyiragongo<\/a> killed <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/world\/africa\/10132384.stm\">over 50 people <\/a> in the DR Congo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A gay couple in Malawi has been sentenced to 14 years (max) at hard labo for &#8220;gross indecency and unnatural acts.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>The judge said he wanted to protect the public from &#8220;people like you&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Monjeza, 26, and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, have been in jail since they were arrested in December after holding an engagement ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The case has sparked international condemnation and a debate about homosexuality in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The British government, Malawi&#8217;s largest donor, expressed its &#8220;dismay&#8221; &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/world\/africa\/10130240.stm\"><br \/>\nRead the story here, be dismayed like the British Government.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Freetown Hotel made iconic by Graham Greene (eg in: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143039725?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0143039725\">Journey Without Maps (Penguin Classics)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0143039725\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>) has been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/from_our_own_correspondent\/8696384.stm\">torn down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup stadium has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/world\/africa\/10142089.stm\">opened<\/a>!  Sales are said to be down, but I think that won&#8217;t last long.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian voting underway:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Polls have closed in Ethiopia&#8217;s first election since a 2005 contest which was marred by protests that led to the deaths of 200 people. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/world\/africa\/10142318.stm\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harakat Al-Shabab is a militant Islamic youth movement engaged in the Somali war. Yesterdaythey mortared the presidential palace in Omgadishu, setting off a fight killing 14 people. A landslide caused by heavy rains and a flooding river on the slope of Nyiragongo killed over 50 people in the DR Congo. A gay couple in Malawi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/23\/catching-up-on-the-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catching Up on the News<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[49],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6CU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}