Hurricane Nate has made its second landfall outside Biloxi in the U.S. state of Mississippi, the National Weather Service has confirmed. The storm moved ashore at 12:30 a.m. (0530 GMT) as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum winds of 140 kilometres per hour, the agency’s Jackson, Mississippi office said. The storm is currently moving north […]
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A former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has described the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan as “arrogant”, “flamboyant” and “widely disliked”. Campbell aired his opinion in a piece he wrote on Friday, titled ‘Nigerian President Buhari’s Sisyphean Efforts’, which he posted on Council on Foreign Relations’ website. “Patience Jonathan as the first […]
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday said Australians handed in 51,000 guns during a three-month amnesty, though he rejected calls to extend it following the weekend’s mass shooting in Las Vegas. “I am not suggesting we won’t have gun amnesties in the future, but this one has been very effective because it has, as I […]
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U.S. Republican Congressman Tim Murphy has announced his resignation after his affair with a young woman came to light, official statement said on Friday. “Upon further discussion with my family, I have made the decision to resign my position,’’ Murphy, an eight-term member of the House of Representatives, serving since 2003, said. The statement came […]
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British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. The novelist, according to BBC, was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. His most famous novels The Remains of the Day […]
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Following a new analysis of a 2013 hack, Yahoo has revealed that all three billion accounts at Yahoo were affected, triple the original estimate. The disclosure from Verizon, which acquired Yahoo’s online assets earlier this year, revised upward the initial estimate of one billion accounts affected. The statement said the estimate is based on “new […]
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A 1,000-year-old bowl from China’s Song Dynasty sold for US$37.7 million in Hong Kong on Tuesday, breaking the record for Chinese ceramics, auction house Sotheby’s said. The small piece — which dates from 960-1127 — stole the previous record of $36.05 million set in 2014 for a Ming Dynasty wine cup which was snapped up […]
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Eight people were shot dead during independence protests in the English-speaking parts of Cameroon. Rallies were held on the 56th anniversary of the incorporation of the regions into Cameroon. The mayor of the town of Kumbo said that five of the dead were prisoners shot after a jail caught fire. BBC reports that activists had called […]
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At least 58 people were killed and 500 injured when a heavily armed gunman opened fire from a 32-floor hotel room on an open-air concert on the Las Vegas Strip in the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The Islamic State group claimed the 64-year-old Nevada man behind the Sunday night massacre, Stephen Craig Paddock, […]
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Cameroon has deported 100,000 Nigerian refugees in the hope of stemming the spread of terrorist group Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch (HWR) said on Wednesday. The group said in its new report that the deportation defied a plea by UN refugee agency to not return anyone to north-eastern Nigeria, where Boko Haram killed thousands of […]
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