Upon boarding this floating hotel, the local Namibian staff greeted me with a welcome song, along with friendly smiles and a genuine warmth.

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Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama's chief of staff, softened the president's previous insistence on such a plan by floating a compromise.

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The brief inquest hearing was told the pair were found floating face down at about 19:30 BST, and efforts by staff and paramedics to save them failed.

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