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Arson: Man sets store on fire to keep Arabs out
Florida police charge 64-year-old man with arson after he attempted to set shop ablaze to ‘run the Arabs out of our country’. Richard Leslie Lioyd faces a first degree arson charge after attempting to set a convenience store ablaze because he thought it was owned by Muslims. Lloyd told police…
Read More »Impeached South Korean president returns to private home
Impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye returned to her private residence Sunday evening, two days after Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld her impeachment. Maintaining her innocence, she waved and smiled to supporters who crowded outside her home in southern Seoul. But hundreds of thousands of anti-Park protesters had also celebrated over…
Read More »Court sacks Korea’s President Park
South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye has finally lost the battle to stay in office as the Constitutional Court on Friday upheld her impeachment by the parliament. President Park was indicted over a graft scandal involving big business, including Samsung,that has gripped the country for months. Park, the first woman to…
Read More »Lufthansa celebrates International Women’s Day with all female crew
German airline, Lufthansa Group is celebrating the International Women’s Day with all female crew. The airline said on Wednesday morning that six crews from Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines and Brussels consisting only of women will make their morning flights from the Lufthansa Group hubs to Berlin. The jets according to…
Read More »Trump’s wiretap charge has no evidence- intelligence chief
The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee said on Tuesday he had seen no evidence to support President Donald Trump’s allegation he was wiretapped by then-President Barack Obama during the 2016 presidential campaign. Republican Representative Devin Nunes said if Trump’s assertion were true, the leaders of Congress…
Read More »$60m deal: Obamas strike gold in publishing
Immediate past first family of the US, Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle have landed more than $60 million in a publishing deal. Penguin Random House, a publishing outfit said Tuesday, it will publish two forthcoming memoirs by the former U.S. President Barack Obama and the former first lady, Michelle…
Read More »Thousands resort to eating weeds and water lilies to survive famine
Thousands of South Sudanese families have resorted to feeding on weeds and water lilies from the swamps and islands of the river Nile in a bid to survive famine. Reuters reported that, the families were caught up in the swamps after escaping gun men. Sara Dit and her 10 children…
Read More »Bilden rejects Trump’s Navy secretary offer
President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of the Navy withdrew from consideration on Sunday, in what he termed “government conflict-of-interest rules”. Trump last month nominated Philip Bilden, a private equity executive and former military intelligence officer, to lead the Navy, which the president has pledged he will expand. But, Bilden,…
Read More »PWC apologises for Oscars’ blunder
PricewaterhouseCoopers, (PWC), Oscars accountants has apologised for last Sunday’s blunder at the Academy Awards show at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, US. At the awards, which is the 89th, presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced La La Land as the winner of Best Picture when, in reality, Moonlight…
Read More »Hate crime: Man charged for killing two people
A Kansas man was on Thursday charged with shooting to death an Indian man and wounding another Indian man and an American in a bar. Adam Purinton, 51, was charged in Johnson County, Kansas, with one count of premeditated first degree murder and two counts of attempted premeditated first degree…
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