A Texas school district has fired a high school teacher who tweeted to US President Donald Trump to ask for help reporting illegal immigrant students. Georgia Clark, an English teacher in Fort Worth, complained on 17 May about “illegal students from Mexico”, adding: “I need protection from recrimination”. She told …
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More than $267m (£210m) belonging to a former Nigerian dictator has been seized from a Jersey bank account. The money was “derived through corruption” during the presidency of Sani Abacha in the 1990s, according to Jersey’s Civil Asset Recovery Fund. A shell company called Doraville held the funds, which were frozen …
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Kevin Simonyi, a Kenyan man, was caught defiling the hen after its owner investigated the strange noises coming from the coop area. According to Kevin, his fear of approaching women drove him to commit this sexual taboo. He confessed to having sex with the hen and pleaded for a reduced …
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The UN mission in Kosovo (Unmik) has expressed “great concern” after two of its members were held in a police raid on suspected organised crime gangs. It said “any harm” to its staff would have serious diplomatic consequences. The two members were detained on Tuesday in northern Kosovo, an area …
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A knife-wielding man has attacked a group of schoolchildren waiting for a bus in the Japanese city of Kawasaki near Tokyo. At least 18 people were injured in a residential area. Two of them, an 11-year-old girl and a 39-year-old man, have died. The suspect, a man in his 50s, …
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The UN mission in Kosovo (Unmik) has expressed “great concern” after two of its members were held in a police raid on suspected organised crime gangs. It said “any harm” to its staff would have serious diplomatic consequences. The two members were detained on Tuesday in northern Kosovo, an area …
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Four people have been killed at a Catholic church in the north of Burkina Faso – the latest in a series of attacks the government blames on Islamist militants.A government minister told the BBC that eight armed men targeted the church in the town of Toulfé during Mass on Sunday.Earlier …
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Penalties smiled at Egyptian giants Zamalek to grab their first ever CAF Confederation Cup title, and end a 16-year of continental drought. The White Knights defeated Moroccan side RS Berkane 5-3 on penalties after the return leg of the 2018-19 Total CAF Confederation Cup final ended with 1-0 victory for …
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Taylor Swift had no time for a question she deemed sexist, refusing to answer a query about whether she wants to have children someday. In a conversation with Germany’s Deutsche Presse-Agentur published on Friday, the interviewer mentioned that Swift will be turning 30 years old in December. “Is this a …
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Gunmen burst into a church in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday and shot dead four people, a security source said – at least the fourth attack on Christians in the past month. Other worshippers were wounded in the assault on the morning service at the church near the town of …
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