Friday, February 12, 2010

World Watch: The end before the beginning

* Georgia: Roughly twelve hours before the 2010 Winter Games opening ceremonies Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died after crashing during a practice run.

* North Korea: Discussions over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions may resume soon implied a U.N. envoy on Friday.

* Kenya: An inquiry by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that the Kenyan government misspent over $26 million originally designated to feed the country’s poor.

* Australia: An annual government report on Australia's natives concluded that indigenous children under five were twice as likely to die compared to non-indigenous infants.

Image – Guardian UK (“Nodar Kumaritashvili, of Georgia, died during practice for the luge at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Photograph: Elise Amendola/AP.”)
Online Sources- USA Today, Reuters, BBC News, MSNBC

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