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More?than?100?schoolgirls?in?northeastern?Afghanistan?havebeen?taken?to?hospital?with?suspected?poisoning?aftercomplaining?of?severe?nausea,?headaches?and?dizziness.?Thehealth?director?of?Takhar?province?said?the?girls?fell?ill?shortly?after?drinking?from?water?fountains?attheir?school?in?a?remote?district?of?the?province.?A?local?official?suggested?that?people?opposed?toeducation?for?girls?were?responsible.Youre?listening?to?World?News?from?the?BBC A?former?London?shop?worker?who?became?governor?of?one?ofthe?wealthiest?states?in?Nigeria?has?been?jailed?in?Britain?formoney?laundering?and?fraud.?James?Ibori?admitted?stealingnearly?$80m?from?(the)?Delta?state.?Angus?Crawford?reports.The?total?amount?James?Ibori?stole?is,?according?to?the?prosecution, unquantifiable.?The?courtwas?told?that?he?went?from?working?in?a?DIY?shop?in?west?London?in?1991?to?governor?of?the?oil-rich?Delta?state?in?Nigeria?just?eight?years?later.?But?he?fell?from?political?favour,?was?extradited?backto?the?UK?and?pleaded?guilty?to?10?charges?of?money?laundering?and?fraud.?In?sentencing?Ibori,the?trial?judge?described?him?as?a?man?of?corruption?lining?his?own?pockets?with?his?single-mindeddevotion. Egypts?election?commission?has?confirmed?the?disqualificationof?candidates?in?the?presidential?election.?These?include?three?ofthe?leading?contenders:?President?Mubaraks?former?intelligencechief,?the?Muslim?Brotherhoods?candidate?and?a?radical?Islamist.?Ammar?Dharak,?the?secretarygeneral?of?the?Muslim?Brotherhoods?Freedom?and?Justice?Party,?told?the?BBC?that?the?decisionwas?politically?motivated.Im?actually?more?disappointed?from?the?fact?that?the?old?regime?seems?to?be?still?in?control?of?thesituation?in?Egypt.?Its?very?clear?that?the?decision?is?political,?and?the?intention?was?to?make?it?lookas?if?the?committee?is?neutral?that?it?banned?Omar?Suleiman,?same?way?it?banned?Khairat?Shaterand?Hazem?Ismail.?The?real?candidate?of?the?old?regime?is?someone?else. BBC?News?with?Jerry?Smit