A car bomb killed at least nine people including five civilians near a pro-Turkey rebel post in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on Sunday, a British-based war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not clear who was behind the blast in the city, which was seized from Kurdish forces […]
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Police said on Saturday that 11 people including two children died and more than 90 were hospitalised after consuming a religious food offering at a temple in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The police said two people have been questioned in connection with the incident on Friday, after devotees fell ill when they ate […]
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Spanish prosecutors have filed charges against Colombian singer Shakira, accusing her of failing to pay 14.5 million euros in tax ($16.3 million) in the country where her Spanish footballer partner plays. The charges were filed Friday in the Catalonia region, where the singer is a regular presence at matches of her partner Gerard Pique’s team, […]
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A Southwest Airline flying to Dallas, Texas, from Seattle had to turn around after crew realized someone had forgotten to unload a human heart. The captain said the heart should have been left in Seattle and taken to a hospital, according to Yahoo News UK. The life-critical cargo shipment was reportedly unloaded after the aircraft […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says the country’s broadband penetration stood at 30.9 per cent as at November 2018, surpassing the 30 per cent target by the National Broad Band Plan. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, said this while speaking with journalists on Thursday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports […]
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Michael Cohen, the 52 year-old New York lawyer who once vowed he could take a bullet for US President Donald Trump, unleashed a blistering attack on his once-upon-idol, regretting the association. Cohen, who was jailed three years for multiple crimes including hush money payments implicating the US president, addressed the court before the sentencing. Pleading […]
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British Prime Minister Theresa May will retain her job at least till next year, after she won a confidence vote triggered by 48 Conservative rebel MPs, who hate the Brexit deal she worked out with EU in November. However, May won 200-117. After two hours of voting in Committee Room 14 in the House of […]
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A gunman opened fire inside the Catholic cathedral in the Brazilian city of Campinas on Tuesday and fatally shot four people praying in the pews before killing himself after police wounded him, authorities said. Police identified the shooter as Euler Fernando Gandolfo, 49, a systems analyst with no criminal record. Gandolfo entered the cathedral and […]
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British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday said she would delay a crucial vote on her Brexit deal scheduled for Tuesday, saying she had listened to the concerns of critics. May said she would seek “assurances” from other European leaders ahead of an EU summit later this week in a bid to try to win […]
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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State on Monday urged newly-inaugurated Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to focus on issues-based campaign ahead of the 2019 general elections. The governor gave the charge while addressing the council after its inauguration by the party’s chairman in the state, Kingsley Esiso, in Asaba, […]
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