PUTIN WOOS AFRICAN LEADERS AT SHOWCASE SUMMIT, SAYS RUSSIA IS BETTER PARTNER THAN 'COLONIAL' WEST. (PHOTO).
Putin woos African leaders at showcase summit, says Russia is better partner than 'colonial' West President Vladimir Putin told African leaders on Wednesday that Russia was their best partner, accusing what he cast as a colonial West of still trying to exploit the continent's resources and using debt to hold back development, Reuters reported. The Kremlin chief was speaking at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, a two-day event attended by African leaders and government delegations from 48 countries, during which he will hold one-on-one talks with many of the 22 individual African leaders attending on everything from trade to security, arms deals and grain supplies. "Africa is increasingly asserting itself as one of the key players in the global economy and politics. However, the emergence of a multipolar world is, of course, no easy task; it faces resistance from countries that are not prepared to accept this reality: those who are accustomed to thinking i...
As adapted from an international article.Medical experts have called for a permanent ban on selling cigarrattes to anyone born in this century in a bid to eradicate smoking from Britain entirely.The radical plan would see the age limit for buying tobacco.Currently set at 18 rise every year until the last cigarette smokers died out,at which point smoking would be illegal for everyone.Doctors have asked the powerful British medical Association to lobby the Government for a ban on tobacco sales to people born after the year 2000.Smoking causes diseases such as lung cancer and emphesyma. 
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