> Good morning. This is send seven Wild News in seven minutes. I'm Judie at Martin and today is Thursday, the twenty seventh of November twenty twenty five. We start in Africa today in Guinea Bissau, a group of army officers claim they have seized power.
The results of the presidential election are due to be announced today. Yesterday, spokesperson Diniz Chama said in a statement that President Umaro Sisoso in Baalow had been deposed, the electoral process suspended, the borders closed and a curfew enforced. Says it has formed the High Military Command for the restoration of order. Kenya will appeal against a court ruling which blocked a trade deal with the European Union.
Trade Minister Lee Kinyangdri said the regional ruling risked one point five six billion dollars in annual exports. The ruling was made by the East Africa Court of Justice, Asia and Oceania. In Hong Kong, a fire in a high rise residential block has killed at least thirty six people. Two hundred and seventy nine have been reported still missing.
This is the deadliest fire in Hong Kong since nineteen ninety six when forty one people died in a commercial building. The cause of the fire is not yet known, but bamboo scaffolding and green construction mesh helped it to spread. According to reports, the building has two thousand apartments. In New Zealand, a woman has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering her two children.
Heking Lee admitted to killing her children in twenty eighteen and pleaded not guilty on the grounds of insanity. She will serve a minimum of seventeen years without parole. In Australia, two fifteen year olds are challenging the government's ban on social media for children under sixteen. The law will take effect in two weeks.
The challenge has been brought to the High Court of Australia by the Digital Freedom Project campaign Group Europe. In the United Kingdom, Finance Minister Rachel Reeves raised taxes in yesterday's budget. The plan freezes certain tax thresholds, including on pension contributions, and imposes new fees on property and dividends. Reeves said the higher rates of tax will be fairer for different types of income.
At landlord with an income of twenty five thousand pounds will pay nearly one two hundred pounds less in tax than their tenants with the same salary. Because no national insurance is charged on property dividends or savings income. It's not fair that the tax system treats different types of income so differently, and so I will increase the base sick and higher rate of tax on property savings and dividend income by two percentage points and the additional rate of tax on property and savings income by two percentage points. Even after these Even after these reforms, ninety percent of taxpayers will still pay no tax at all on their savings.
France's Cour de Cassascient has upheld former President Nicholas Sarkos's conviction of illegal campaign financing in twenty twelve. Sarkozi was convicted in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty four of the same charge. The court upheld his one year non custodial sentence. Sarkozi's lawyers have said he is considering bringing the case to the European Court of Human Rights.
The European Commission has said that Nineese retail platform Shean might pose a systemic risk to consumers in France. The Consumer watchdog found childlike sex dolls and banned weapons for sale on Shean's online marketplace. The Commission has now made a formal request for more information from Shean the Americas. In Peru, former president Martin Vizcara has been sentenced to fourteen years in prison for taking bribes before he took office.
The court said Viskara accepted six hundred and seventy six thousand dollars in bribes from construction firms while he was a regional governor between twenty eleven and twenty fourteen. He has denied the charges. In Mexico, the lower House of Congress has approved a bill to prevent, investigate, and punish extortion. The punishment could be up to forty two years in prison.
Extortion rose seven percent in the first half of this year, with five eight hundred and eighty seven registered victims, according to Reuters and A film shot on iPhones has been chosen to represent Taiwan at the twenty twenty six Oscars. Chi Ching TSU's Left Handed Girl is set in Taipei and took around twenty years to make. It is Tuo's first solo directorial project. That's your world news in seven minutes If you enjoy this podcast, please tell your friends about us.
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