An Israeli-Christian man is accused of stabbing his teenage daughter to death because authorities say, he didn’t approve of her relationship with a Muslim man. Prosecutors say Sami Karra, 58, killed his daughter in their family home in the central Israeli town of Ramle, a day after she graduated from …
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US President Donald Trump has arrived in Europe for the second time in a week, a trip meant as a pomp-filled celebration of transatlantic ties at a time of anxiety on both continents. Air Force One landed at Paris Orly airport, south of the city center, early Thursday morning. From …
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A 56-year-old United States-based Nigerian pastor has been jailed 15 years for raping two teenage girls who were part of his congregation. Aside serving jail time, Reuben Chizor, of the Hope Restoration Ministries Worldwide Inc. Will also have 10 years of post release supervision. According to the District Attorney of …
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Former top football official Chuck Blazer has died at the age of 72, his lawyers say. Blazer, whose evidence to US investigators helped trigger the Fifa corruption scandal, had been suffering from cancer. He was a larger-than-life character, and formerly the general secretary of Concacaf, the governing body of North …
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President Muhammadu Buhari is “recuperating fast” and will return home “very soon”, says Nigeria’s acting head of state Yemi Osinbajo. He made the announcement at a press conference on Wednesday morning, after visiting Mr Buhari at the London hospital where he is being treated for an unspecified illness. Mr Osinbajo, …
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The salaries of Kenya’s president and MPs will be slashed after next month’s fiercely contested elections in a move aimed at reducing the wage bill in the public sector, according to a government gazette signed by the chairwoman of the independent Salaries and Remunerations Commission. The president’s gross salary will …
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Senility is not funny. We have all experienced the pain of watching a loved one struggle with the loss of faculties from age, and the luckiest among us will confront those challenges sooner or later. Because we have all seen it, we should also all agree that people in the …
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Demonstrations turned violent late Thursday ahead of a tricky first G20 summit for US President Donald Trump, as German police clashed with a hard core of masked anti-capitalist activists hurling bottles and stones. What should have been a peaceful march by around 12,000 people in Hamburg protesting against globalisation was …
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US President Donald Trump has called on Russia to stop “destabilising” Ukraine and other countries and end support for “hostile regimes” such as those in Syria and Iran. Speaking in the Polish capital Warsaw, Mr Trump urged Russia to “join the community of responsible nations”. The Kremlin rejected his comments. …
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Nigerians are now the top nationality rescued after attempting to cross the Mediterranean sea, according to European coast guards. Ewa Moncure from Frontex, the European border and coast guard agency, told Focus on Africa that the second largest nationality that they have been seeing are Bangladeshis who fly in to …
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