According to media reports, founder of the MMM series of financial pyramid schemes, Sergei Mavrodi, has died in Moscow. Mavrodi was taken to a city hospital from a bus stop overnight Monday after he felt weakness and pain in the chest area, reports Moskovsky Komsomolets. The emergency team has failed to save his life. “He […]
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Three people were killed in southwestern France on Friday when a gunman held up a car, opened fire on police and then took hostage in a supermarket, screaming “Allahu Akbar”. Police later stormed the supermarket in the small town of Trebes and Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said on Twitter that the attacker had been killed. A source […]
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No fewer than 17 people were killed and eight others injured in an explosion on Thursday outside a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. A spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Security, Abdiaziz Ali Ibrahim, told the media that the wounded were being treated at the city’s hospitals. “Seventeen people died including a young girl, […]
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The UK has no proof of Russia’s role in the ex-spy poisoning as evidenced by its reliance on allies for support, the Russian Embassy in Washington said. The British government rushed to blame Russia for the March 4 poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter with what was identified as nerve […]
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Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that the social media company made mistakes that allowed data about users to end up with the analytics firm Cambridge Analytica and vowed the company would make changes. Zuckerberg, in his first comments since the company disclosed on Friday the misuse of personal data, said in […]
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Three people, including the assailant, were critically injured in a shooting at a high school in the eastern US state of Maryland on Tuesday, officials said, just days before a nationwide student-organized march against school violence. The shooting occurred shortly after 8:00 am (1200 GMT) at Great Mills High School, located about a 90-minute drive southeast of […]
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The planet earth will soon witness a decline in water supply if the report by the United Nations (UN) is anything to go by. The UN after release of the 2018 edition of World Water Development Report, warned that the water shortage is imminent as the global population expands and the planet warms. It expressed concern […]
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Vladimir Putin was Monday set for another six years in power after winning a record victory in Russia’s presidential election but so far only allies have congratulated him as Moscow’s relations with the West disintegrate. Putin, who has ruled Russia for almost two decades, recorded his best ever election performance with 76.67 percent of the […]
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Two people were injured late Sunday in an explosion at a home in Austin, Texas, the fourth mysterious bombing in the city this month, police said. The blast came just hours after police made a direct public appeal to the unknown bomber or bombers suspected of other recent bombings. An exploding package killed a 39 […]
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The Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS has appointed Hajiya Aisha Buhari, as UNAIDS Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Promotion of Treatment for Children living with HIV in Nigeria. Communications and Global Outreach Officer, UNAIDS Nigeria, Charles-Martin Jjuuko, made this known in a statement issued on Saturday in […]
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