P169 CEEFAX 169 Sat 19 Aug 22:58/53
|l4|l4|, |l4|,h4|h4|, 1/2
n1n1 j5,j5j5/| WORLD NEWS
/.%/.%/, j5pjuz5p IN BRIEF
#######################################
FRANCE Police have seized a huge anti-
nuclear banner that Greenpeace hoped to
unfurl on the summit of Mont Blanc,
Europe's highest mountain, to protest
at France's decision to resume nuclear
testing in the Pacific.
ETHIOPIA Officials say 44 people have
died and 2,500 are homeless after
flooding struck the town of Magete in
the Amhara region on Thursday night.
MOROCCO At least 136 people have now
been reported drowned after torrential
rains burst river banks and swept
through villages in a mountainous
region east of the city of Marrakesh.
Home 110 Politics 130 World 160
Newsround World Despatch Community