Jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela is dead

Jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela is dead

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Anti-apartheid activist and ‘the father of South African jazz’ has died aged 78. We look back at his life and music. Also, Alaska tsunami fears lead to brief evacuation, plight of civilians in Damascus after years of bombardment, new report says UN peace-keeping needs a rethink, how two babies in India were accidentally swapped at birth, and singer Neil Diamond announces his retirement.