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$2.61-m bid for Buffett or the internet but raising roosters and White House statement referring to
lunch hens. the Islamic State.
Billionaire Warren Buffett's annual "It's pretty clear to me that just about There were two bombings in two
lunch auction drew a top offer exceed anyone who's living in extreme poverty bombings overnight in Baghdad in a
ing $2 million with more than half a is better off if they have chickens," he busy shopping area as residents cel
day remaining in the fundraiser, beat said this on his website ebrated Ramadan. The attack is the
ing last year's pace. The highest offer GatesNotes.com. deadliest since U.S. backed Iraqi forces
in the charity event was $2.61 million last month scored a major victory when
in San Francisco, according to EBay The world's richest person, who made it dislodged Islamic State from their
Inc's website. That compares with a his $75 billion fortune pushing for a stronghold of Falluja, an hour's drive
winning bid of $2.35 million in last Microsoft computer in every home, west of the capital. It is also the dead
year's event. said his Bill & Melinda Gates Founda liest so far this year.
tion has partnered with the global de
The winner will get to bring seven velopment group Heifer International Holocaust survivor, Nobel
friends to share a meal with the billion to donate some 100,000 chickens to laureate Elie Wiesel dies
aire at New York's Smith & Wollensky families in subSaharan Africa living on at 87
steakhouse. less than $2 a day. The goal, he said, is
to get 30 per cent of the rural families Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the
Buffett, 85, raised more than $20 mil in the region to raise improved breeds World War Two death camp survivor
lion in the first 16 years of the auction of vaccinated chickens, compared with who won a Nobel Peace Prize for be
to benefit Glide. That San Francisco the current 5 per cent. coming the lifelong voice of millions of
based organisation serves about 2,000 Holocaust victims, died on Saturday
meals a day to the homeless, hosts White house says 2nd July. He was 87.
support groups through its women's Baghdad attacks streng-
centre for abuse victims and provides then US resolve in Iraq Wiesel was a philosopher, speaker,
treatment for drug addiction. playwright, and professor who also
The White House condemned Baghdad campaigned for the tyrannized and
Chickens, not computers, bombings in which nearly 120 people forgotten around the world. He died at
can eradicate poverty, says were killed and 200 wounded, saying his home in New York City.
Bill Gates the attack only strengthened the
United States' resolve to confront ISIS. The Romanianborn Wiesel lived by the
Bill Gates, the founder of the world's credo expressed in "Night," his land
largest software company Microsoft, "We remain united with the Iraqi mark story of the Holocaust "to for
says the best thing to improve the lives people and government in our com get the dead would be akin to killing
of the worlds poorest is not computers bined efforts to destroy ISIL," said the them a second time."
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