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Apple removes Nazi anthem from iTunes
BERLIN – Apple removed a notorious anthem of the Nazi Party from the German version of its iTunes online music store yesterday, a German spokesman for the firm said.
Named after a young party activist killed in 1930, the marching song Horst Wessel Lied was the unofficial anthem of the Nazis until it was banned in Germany at the end of the second World War.
The availability of Nazi anthems on iTunes and Amazon’s German website was first reported by the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung daily. – (Reuters)
Colombian mine blast kills 20
BOGOTA – An explosion at a small underground coal mine in northeast Colombia killed 20 workers yesterday, officials said, in the latest accident to hit Latin America’s mining industry.
Colombia is the world’s fifth biggest coal exporter, with an industry dominated by major players with open-pit mines, but smaller mines in the central part of the Andean nation are usually dug underground, where methane gas build-ups can cause accidents.
The latest blast, in Norte de Santander province, was probably caused by methane gas. – (Reuters)