World News Briefs For Friday, 1 April 2016
Good Morning Australia!! - Tons of concrete and steel come crashing down on a crowded city street, several people are killed - One of the most amazing and groundbreaking archietects of our time has died - Impeachment seems to close in on two world leaders - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
It's Cherry Blossom time in Tokyo! And a whale puts on a show near Redondo Beach near Los Angeles, California.
A highway bridge under construction has collapsed in the Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), and it appears that at least 20 people are dead. Video caught the moment that a concrete and steel blanket of death of untold tons fell upon unsuspecting commuters, taxis, and pedestrians. Rescuers are trying to cut through the heavy debris and free anyone who might have survived and is trapped underneath.
Noted architect Dame Zaha Hadid has died of a heart attack in hospital in Miami, Florida, where she was being treated for bronchitis. Born in Iraq 65-years ago, Ms. Hadid was the first woman to receive the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, and the first woman receive the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal in recognition of her work, which has been described as "neofuturism". Her sports stadiums and museums are usually very big, very expensive, and very inspiring.
UK Comedian Ronnie Corbett is dead at age 85. He's best known for his 1970s and '80s sketch comedy show "The Two Ronnies" with partner Ronnie Baker.
South Africa's Constitutional court has unanimously ruled that President Jacob Zuma acted unconstitutionally when he used public money to upgrade his home compound with a private theater and a swimming pool and refused to reimburse the tax payers. Justices gave the treasury 60 days to come up with a figure that Zuma must repay. The ruling African National Congress party says it ruling council - which includes Zuma - would meet to decide on its future course. The opposition plans to use the scathing ruling to push for Zuma's impeachment.
Two more Brazilian officials have resigned embattled President Dilma Rousseff's government: They are Sports Minister George Hilton and Public Security Colonel Adilson Moreira, who was organizing security at the Rio Olympics in August. The Tourism minister quit on Monday. Opponents want to impeach Ms. Rousseff for allegedly manipulating government accounts to cover up deficit spending, but they're really trying to crush the ruling Workers' Party programs of spending money on education and raising people out of poverty instead of financing tax cuts for the wealthy. Rousseff denies wrongdoing and says any attempt to impeach her without evidence of criminality would be an attempted coup.
Argentina's Senate approved a deal to pay US$100 Billion to US creditors labelled "vulture funds" by the previous administrations. Conservative President Mauricio Macri maintained that without giving in the the US billionaires, Argentina would remain locked out of international credit markets and growth would be stunted.
The White House is slamming fascist demagogue and Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump's suggestion that Japan and South Korea should obtain nuclear weapons, undoing 70 years of nuclear non-proliferation as US foreign policy. "It would be catastrophic if the United States shifted its position to somehow support adding nuclear weapons to additional countries," deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said. Trump's idiotic comments came in a televised townhall meeting in which he also declared that women should be punished for seeking abortion - which his campaign quickly backtracked.
US President Barack Obama met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geung-hye, presenting a unified front in the face of North Korean nuclear aggression: "Trilateral security cooperation is essential to maintain peace and stability in Northeast Asia, deterring the North Korean nuclear threat and the potential of nuclear proliferation," Mr. Obama told reporters. The US welcomed 50 world leaders to Washington for a nuclear security summit aimed at focusing global attention on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to terrorist groups and reducing nuclear stockpiles around the world.
Kenya will posthumously honor the Muslim hero who was shot while protecting Christians on a bus during an attack by Islamist militants last year. Salah Farah died in surgery a month after the attack.
Belgium has cleared terrorism suspect Salah Abdeslam for extradition to France, where he will answer for last year's 13 November terrorist attacks that killed 130 people.
Israeli prosecutors filed manslaughter charges against the soldier caught on video shooting a wounded Palestinian criminal suspect in the head as he lay prone on the ground.
A car bomb killed at least seven police officers in the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, in the country's southeast. It comes a day before a planned visit by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.