Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
China shuts down Apple's online book and movie services
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China has shut down Apple's online book and movie
services as it imposes strict rules governing what can be published on the net.
Regulations were unveiled in March that outlawed foreign
ownership of online publishing services.
The rules also required that all content shown to Chinese
people must be stored on servers based on the Chinese mainland.
Apple said it hoped access to the services would be
restored soon.
Online threat
Currently, anyone in China who visits the iBooks store or
tries to use iTunes Movies service is greeted with a message in Chinese saying
the services were "unusable", reports Reuters.
Both services have only been available in China for about six months.
The move has widely been seen as a blow to Apple which is
keen to ensure its products are popular and sell well in China, because the
region is the second biggest market for its products. The shutdown comes only
days before Apple reports its second quarter financial results.
The services were shut down on the orders of China's
media watchdog - the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film
and Television. The action is believed to be part of a wider attempt by China's
government to consolidate its control over the internet and media
organisations.
China has defended the restrictions saying online
publishing had to be monitored to combat terrorism and foreign ideas that could
prove harmful.
The strict rules are also seen as a way to foster the
success of indigenous net Chinese firms such as Huawei, Alibaba and Tencent.
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