Morning Globalist readers- this is Krish, your Magazine Editor-in-Chief, coming at you with a bowl of Special K, a pretty vicious flu and some international headlines I read this morning:
Oscar Pistorius trial draws to a close as athlete is sentenced for 5 years, and a 3 year suspended sentence for the culpable homicide of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp: a middle ground between the 10 year minimum sentence demanded by prosecutors and the house arrest demanded by defence.
Nigeria is declared free of Ebola virus by WHO after six weeks without new recorded cases, and has been considered a “spectacular success story” in light of the fact that the disease has killed 4,500 people in West Africa, Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. This comes further to the declaration that Senegal is Ebola-free on Friday.
Suspected serial killer found in Indiana, US: Darren Vann confesses to the murder of one woman, but further leads police to discovery of three other bodies, with a further three found over the weekend.
Shahidullah Shahid– previously spokesman for the Pakistan Taliban- has been sacked for pledging allegiance to ISIS; this comes in the midst of five other commanders from the TTP also defecting.
New Banksy mural appears in Bristol (where last we saw Banksy’s ‘Mobile Lovers’) – a parody of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. Local council immediately attempted to claim ownership for the piece, though the issue was resolved when Banksy personally wrote to the Broad Plain Boys’ Club declaring it theirs. The piece was promptly sold to a private collector.
Students protests for democracy in Hong Kong (now in their fourth week) meets some success as government agrees to meet student leaders of protests for talks, though having declared that a free vote in the election for the territory’s chief executive in 2017 (the primary goal of protestors) was imposssible.
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