Good evening, from soweto on the streets where so much blood was shed in a long and bitter battle against apartheid. Streets tonight have been a place of celebration for the life of Nelson Mandela. Much more on that in a few moments. But our top story tonight comes from california, where an 85yearold american man is home after a sevenweek ordeal as a prisoner in north korea. The end of a tense standoff came suddenly, the north korean government saying Merrill Newman, a korean war vet with a heart condition was released for humanitarian reasons. Nbcs mike taibbi is in palo alto with more for us. Good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. The north korean officers say they deported Merrill Newman, others say he was freed after a detention that never should have happened. Bottom line, the 85yearold the exmarine for a trip that lasted much longer than it should have is home. It happened quickly without any prior announcement, the flight from pyongyang to beijing, and Merrill Newman final
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Deputy Minister of International Relations Candith Mashego-Dlamini has told MPs that the government is discussing the closure of Israel’s embassy in Pretoria.
Mashego-Dlamini participated in the EFF-sponsored parliamentary debate which called for SA to close the Israeli embassy in Pretoria and cut all diplomatic ties with that country.