France raises risk level on bird flu to ‘high’
Reuters, Paris
France raised to “high” the risk level across the country after the detection of several cases of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian flu strain in Southwestern France farms and in wild ducks in Northern France, the farm ministry said on Tuesday.
The decision was also motivated by the “rapid change in the… situation in France and in several European countries,” the statement said.
France, which has the largest poultry flock in the EU, is still recovering from a severe bird flu epidemic in southwestern France earlier this year which led to a total halting of duck and geese output in the region and import restrictions from trading partner
Man strangles his 5 children, commits suicide
Dawn.com, Junjab
A man strangled his five children to death before committing suicide in Punjab’s Chiniot district on Tuesday, police said.
Hussain, a resident of Chiniot’s Lalian Tehsil, strangled his five children, including one daughter and four sons, before committing suicide, said District Police Officer (DPO) Chiniot Mustansar Feroz.
Amongst the children killed were his 10-year-old daughter Iqra and sons, Waqas, Shehzad, Subhan and Nouman, aged eight, six, five and and three respectively.
Cambodia upholds drug sentences for 3 foreigners
AP, Cambodia
Cambodian appeals court on Tuesday upheld the prison terms of a Frenchwoman, an Australian woman and a Nigerian man for trying to smuggle heroin to Australia.
Judge Pol Sam Ouen said the sentences given by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in May 2014 to then-19-year-old Frenchwoman Charlene Savarino, 41-year-old Ann Yoshe Taylor of Australia and 23-year-old Precious Chneme Nwoko of Nigeria were correct and accorded with the law.
The lower court had sentenced Savarino to 25 years in prison, Taylor to 23 years and Nwoko to 27 years.
