#POWER9TWELVE #RECAP #TRENDING Prince Harry will join with other celebrities as he bares secrets on video to support a campaign for World AIDS Day. The 30-year-old will share some of his worst fears and guilty pleasures as part of the #FeelNoShame campaign for the Sentebale charity he co-founded, which aims to raise awareness of the stigma and shame which prevents people with HIV from seeking support. Celebrities including singers Nicole Scherzinger and Paloma Faith and former boxer Ricky Hatton are also taking part. Prince Harry launched the campaign from the microsite FeelNoShame.Today and will release a video later this afternoon sharing his own secret. ------------ A World Health Organisation deadline to halt the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa has only been met by Guinea, according to latest figures. In October, the organisation launched its plan to isolate 70% of those infected and safely bury 70% of the victims in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by 1 December. But in Liberia, only 23% of cases are isolated and 26% of the needed burial teams are in place. In Sierra Leone, around 40% of cases are isolated and 27% of burial teams are operational. The Ebola outbreak was first reported in Guinea in March, and has spiralled out of control since a public health emergency was declared in August. ----------- Thousands of pro-democracy activists forced the temporary closure of the Hong Kong governments headquarters on Monday after they clashed with police outside, defying orders to retreat after more than two months of sustained protests. Chaos erupted as commuters made their way to work, with hundreds of protesters surrounding Admiralty Center, which houses offices and retail outlets, in a tense stand-off with police. The central government offices and the legislature were forced to close in the morning, as were scores of shops. The latest flare-up, during which police charged protesters with batons and pepper spray, marked an escalation in the civil disobedience movement. It also underscored the frustration of protesters at Beijings refusal to budge on electoral reforms and grant greater democracy to the former British colony. ------------- The white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, in August got no severance deal when he resigned from the force, the mayor of the St. Louis suburb said on Sunday. The officer, Darren Wilson, announced his resignation late Saturday, saying he feared for his own safety and that of his fellow police officers after a grand jury decided not to indict him in the fatal Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. There will be no severance or extension of benefits for Darren Wilson following his resignation, Mayor James Knowles told a news conference. Knowles also outlined new incentives to bring more African-Americans into the Ferguson police force. Browns death galvanized critics of the way police and the criminal justice system treat African-Americans and other minority groups. Protests in Ferguson have taken place for months and erupted into violence when the grand jury decided last Monday not to charge Wilson. The protests have spread around the country. Over the past week there have been demonstrations in more than 100 cities, on public roadways, in shopping malls, and government buildings. --------------- Protests erupted at universities across Egypt on Sunday, condemning a court decision to drop criminal charges against Hosni Mubarak, the president whose ouster in the 2011 uprising raised hopes of a new era of political openness. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at Cairo University, waving pictures of Mubarak behind bars and demanding the fall of the regime, the rallying cry of the Arab Spring uprisings that shook governments from Tunisia to the Gulf in 2011. Police stood ready at the gates to bar students that sought to take their demonstration into the streets. An Egyptian court on Saturday dropped its case against Mubarak over the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule. --------------- Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema will not be welcome at Zanu-PF’s conference to be held in Harare this week. “We do not recognise the EFF, we only work with the ANC,” Zanu-PF youth secretary for external relations Mpehlabayo Malinga said. He said Zanu-PF was also not invited to the EFF’s conference. “Zanu-PF is a revolutionary party, and all revolutionary movements of southern Africa operate as one, because they are all sister parties. “Our revolutionary party that is in South Africa is only the ANC.” He said the party had not been in touch with Malema since he left the ANC.
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