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Hostage crisis in Tunis museum now over with both gunmen dead BREAKING NEWS #TunisiaAttacks

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TUNIS – Gunmen wearing military uniforms stormed the Bardot museum killing eight people and injuring six others. Both attackers are now reported to have been killed and one security official. Shots were also fired inside parliament which the museum is situated next to. Thirty people – including children – were reported to have been held hostage.

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Eight tourists killed after shots fired at museum in Tunisia BREAKING NEWS #TunisiaAttacks

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TUNIS – Shots fired at the Bardo museum which is situated within the parliament compound in Tunisia have killed eight. Shots also fired at parliament. Thirty tourists also taken as hostages – including children – at the museum by two gunmen.

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Serbia makes first arrests for Srebrenica massacre #Srebrenica

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BELGRADE – Seven men were arrested by Serbian police for their alleged part in the killing of a 1000 men and boys inΒ  warehouse at the outskirts of Srebrenica. Warlord Ratko Mladic, alleged mastermind behind the 1995 massacre, was handed over to the ICCΒ  in the Hague in 2011.

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πŸ—³ Why Labour will win the general election TEMPLATE ANALYSIS #UKGeneralElection πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

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ANALYSIS – One thing is certain asΒ  May 7 gets ever closer – that Labour will win the general election. The question is by how much – enough to govern or will they have form a coalition. This observation is not based on any obvious statistics – even though the polls give Ed Miliband’s Labour a lead or even on his approval ratings which if newspapers are to be believed aren’t great.Β  This is a simple statement based on what I am seeing on the street in a country where the ordinary person will not be able to get through another round of promised Tory austerity.Β  Put simply something’s going to have to give if Cameron and his ghastly Chancellor make it back into number 10.Β  George Osborne may be a darling in the business community and to the people he’s protected over the last five years – namely the rich and pensioners – but to the rest of the population his diet of cuts to public services, public sector jobs whilst giving tax breaks to the very rich has caused considerable pain without any obvious results. What’s more the aspiring classes the so-called Essex man and woman are finding that unless they started out in the eighties ala Alan Sugar there’s very little out there to mine unless you want to be a butler to the very rich.

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China remains leading holder of US debt despite recent scale backs #ChinaTreasuryHoldings

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REPORT – China currently holds $1.239 T of US treasury bonds down from $1.244 T five months ago. One reason for this scale back, according to some analysts, is the weakness of the Chinese Economy which is now at a 25-year low. China and Japan hold 40% of US debt, with Belgium third. European countries are also seeing the dollar as a safe haven as the European Central Bank has begun a quantitative easing programme. The US Federal Reserve has begun a two-day debate as to whether continue with the current direction of low interest rates which one critic has called ‘monetary heroin’.