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•Planes are grounded at the airport following the
discovery of the device
London City Airport shut as WW2 bomb found in Thames
LONDON CITY Airport has
been closed after a 500kg
World War Two bomb was
found nearby in the River
Thames.
The airport will be shut all
day and all flights cancelled, affecting
up to 16,000 passengers,
a spokeswoman said.
The bomb was found at
George V Dock on Sunday
during planned work at the east
London airport, police said.
Families in the area have
been evacuated with the exclusion
zone set to be widened
when specialists begin removing
the device.
The airport was shut at
22:00 GMT on Sunday. The
Met Police said it was working
with the Royal Navy to remove
the bomb.
A statement issued by the
Met said: "The timing of removal
is dependent on the
tides, however, at this stage we
estimate that the removal of
the device from location will be
completed by tomorrow morning.”
According to the airport's
website, a total of 261 arrivals
and departures had been scheduled
for Monday. BBC
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Trump warns Israel that settlements 'complicate' peace hopes
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump
has said Israeli settlements "complicate"
the peace process with
Palestinians and urged "care"
over the issue.
He also told an Israeli newspaper
that he did not believe the
Palestinians, and possibly Israel as
well, were ready to make peace.
President Trump angered
Palestinians in December when
he recognised Jerusalem as Israel's
capital.
He also threatened to withhold
aid unless Palestinians
agreed to talks.
The US leader's latest comments
came in an interview published
on Sunday with the
conservative newspaper Yisrael
Hayom.
Asked by editor-in-chief Boaz
Bismouth when the US would
present its peace plan, Mr Trump
said: "We will see what happens.
Right now the Palestinians are
not into making peace, they are
just not into it. Regarding Israel, I
am not certain it, too, is interested
in making peace so we will
just need to wait and see what
happens."
Asked whether Israeli settlements
would form part of the
peace plan, he said: "We will be
talking about settlements. The
settlements are something that
very much complicates and always
have complicated making
peace, so I think Israel has to be
very careful with the settlements.”
BBC
•President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital
was strongly welcomed by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
ANC leaders expected to ask
President Zuma to resign
Leaders of South Africa's
governing ANC party
are meeting to decide the
future of President
Jacob Zuma.
The National Executive Committee
(NEC) is likely to ask him to
step down, says BBC Africa correspondent
Andrew Harding.
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa
acknowledged on Sunday that the
issue was causing "disunity and discord".
Mr Zuma, 75, faces a number of
corruption charges after nine years
in power.
There are 112 members of the
NEC, and many may want to share
their views during the meeting in
Pretoria - meaning it they may not
finish until late on Monday.
"We know you want closure," Mr
Ramaphosa said on Sunday, addressing
supporters who had gathered to
mark 100 years since the birth of
the country's first black president,
Nelson Mandela.
He told the crowd in Cape Town
that "our people want this matter to
be finalised" and that the African
National Congress (ANC) would
comply.
He acknowledged the ANC was
going through "a period of difficulty,
disunity and discord", and said
he was seeking "a new beginning".
He pledged to tackle the corruption
that has marred Mr Zuma's
time in office. BBC
•Many in the ANC hope that removing Mr Zuma will boost the party's chances in the 2019 elections
•Alexanda Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh were the last
two members of the cell at large
S Sudan opposition figure
sentenced to death
A FORMER opposition
party spokesman has been
sentenced to death for treason
by a court in South
Sudan.
James Gatdet Dak, of the
SPLA-IO, has been in detention
since November 2016
when he stated his party’s
support for the removal of
the UN’s peacekeeping force
commander in South Sudan
on Facebook.
The UN troops, led by a
Kenyan general, had been accused
of failing to protect
civilians during the war.
At the time, he was living
in Kenya, where he had been
granted refugee status. After
the post was published, he
was expelled from the country.
Back home in South
•James Gatdet Dak of the SPLA-IO
Sudan, he was brought before
a court and accused of treason,
among other charges.
Last month, his lawyers
said the trial was in violation
of a ceasefire agreement between
the government and
rebels, which states that all
political detainees should be
freed.
Despite repeated truces
between both warring parties,
South Sudan’s conflict has
continued.
Even fresh talks aimed at
bring peace to the country are
in jeopardy. This morning,
delegates representing the
rebels walked out of the discussions
taking place in
Ethiopia claiming government
forces attacked their
troops last night. BBC