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SOUTH AFRICA: A ranger and two Kruger National Park staff have been arrested on suspicion of poaching rhinoceroses, the National Parks Service said yesterday.
Acting CEO Abe Sibya said: “It is unfortunate that those trusted with the wellbeing of these animals are alleged to have become the destroyers of the heritage they have a mandate to protect.”
South Africa is struggling to combat a surge in poaching due to demand for their horns, which is falsely believed to have medicinal purposes in some parts of Asia.
CHINA: Three explosions in Luntai county, Xinjiang, have killed at least two people and injured more, local authorities said yesterday.
The attacks came a day after regional Communist Party leaders punished 17 local officials for their handling of two terrorist attacks in July, firing a local police chief and the deputy party secretary of Shache county and demoting the party secretary.
JAMAICA: An ambitious plan to plant 5,000 breadfruit trees at schools across the country aims to “provide 200,000 youngsters with breakfast and lunch,” Education Minister Ronald Thwaites has revealed.
Breadfruit trees are known to thrive without much attention and produce great quantities of the fruit, which is highly nutritious.
Authorities say the initiative will fight hunger in schools.
VENEZUELA: US cleaning products firm Clorox said yesterday it will pull out of the country.
It will close its Venezuela subsidiary and sell off its assets there, it said, claiming government price controls aimed at keeping basic products affordable for ordinary Venezuelans were harming the business.
Repeated meetings with government officials had not allowed the firm to raise prices by as much as it wanted.
