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Sunday, February 9th, 2014
Two owners of a Bangladesh garment factory where 112 workers died in a fire two years ago have turned themselves in to the authorities. Delwar Hossain and his wife were charged with homicide in December. The couple arrived at Dhaka magistrates court, and have now been jailed after their plea for bail was rejected. Although […]
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah Emirates Airline has received approval from the Federal Ministry of Aviation to increase its daily passenger flights route to include Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano. The airline, in a statement, said the approval would assist the company to further meet the […]
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Sunday, February 2nd, 2014
Over 100 people were arrested in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, during a protest against this summer’s World Cup which will be hosted in the country. Around 2,500 people took to the streets on Saturday for the demonstration which ended in clashes with police late in the night. In some of the most dramatic […]
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Sunday, February 2nd, 2014
Views: 1853 A British man sentenced to death in Pakistan for allegedly claiming to be the Prophet Muhammed has appealed the sentence. Muhammed Asghar, 69, who is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, was handed the sentence a week ago by a court in Rawalpindi after he was accused of claiming to be the Prophet Muhammed in […]
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Saturday, February 1st, 2014
Nigeria will provide $2m to support reconstruction and development in African countries emerging from conflicts, the Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed, has said. Mohammed made the disclosure on Saturday in Addis Ababa at the inaugural Africa Solidarity Conference aimed at mobilising support from within Africa for countries emerging from conflicts. The News […]
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Saturday, February 1st, 2014
| credits: www.upi.com An 80-year-old Iranian man has been tagged as the world’s dirtiest man. It is claimed that the man who lives in isolation hasn’t taken a bath in six decades, according to the Huffington Post. Amou Haji is also known to eat rotten porcupine meat with relish and smoking animal poop. The […]
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
It has now been revealed that the most heart-breaking of Gaddafis victims include hundreds, possibly thousands of teenage girls who, throughout his 42-year reign, were beaten, raped and forced to become his sex slaves. Many were virgins kidnapped from schools and universities and kept prisoner for years in a specially designed secret sex lair hidden […]
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
Views: 95 Benjamin Netanyahu has been criticised by right-wing politicians in Israel who have accused the country’s prime minister of failing to set an example for the Jewish people by not preventing his son from dating a non-Jewish girl. Yair Netanyahu, a 23-year-old student, is thought to be dating a Norwegian woman after the pair […]
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Sunday, January 26th, 2014
EDGAR Arias Tamayo took 17 minutes to die. The 46-year-old Mexican national was taken into the Texas execution chamber, strapped down and given a lethal injection which would eventually kill him. He didn’t have any final words to say, instead choosing to remain silent. Tamayo, who was convicted of the 1994 shooting and killing […]
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Sunday, January 26th, 2014
Nine people were killed and 30 others injured in a grenade attack on a wedding party. The bride suffered a broken thigh after she was hit by shrapnel while the groom was injured in his hand. Source: Supplied. A GRENADE was lobbed at a wedding party in Cambodia, killing nine people and wounding 30 […]