Category: Foreign

Prop gun fired by Alec Baldwin kills woman on movie set

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US law enforcement officers on Thursday revealed that US actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that killed a cinematographer and wounded the director on a film set in New Mexico. The incident happened on the set of “Rust” in the southwestern US state, where Baldwin is playing the lead in a 19th-century western. Halyna Hutchins and Joel Souza “were shot when a prop firearm was discharged by Alec Baldwin,” the sheriff in Santa Fe said in a statement. Hutchins, 42, was transported to hospital by helicopter but died of…

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Sextape affair: Real Madrid star Benzema on trial

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Karim Benzema, Real Madrid forward, is currently on trial in France. He is accused of complicity in the attempted blackmail of former international teammate Mathieu Valbuena, a case known as the “sextape affair”. Benzema, 33, is suspected of helping a group of alleged blackmailers approach Valbuena in an attempt to extort money. Four other men are also on trial. The case cost both Benzema and 37-year-old Valbuena their places in the French national team, though Benzema was restored to the squad for this year’s European Championship. The case centres on…

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Colin Powell, First Black US secretary of state id dead

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US war hero and the first Black secretary of state, Colin Powell, is dead. He died on Monday from complications from Covid-19. The 84-year-old retired four-star general was fully vaccinated, his family said in a statement on Facebook, making him one of the most high-profile US public figures to die of a breakthrough infection. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” the family said. After engineering military victory in the 1991 Gulf War, Powell was so widely popular and respected that he was…

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Kenyan athlete found dead with stab wounds

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In a suspected homicide, record-breaking Kenyan distance runner Agnes Tirop was found dead on Wednesday with stab wounds to stomach, athletics officials said. Tirop, 25, was a fast-rising athlete — a double world 10,000m bronze medallist and 2015 world cross county champion who also finished fourth in the 5,000m at the Tokyo Olympics this year. Only last month, she smashed the women-only 10 km world record at the Road to Records Event in Germany, with a time of 30:01, slicing 28 seconds off the previous record, Athletics Kenya said. Tirop also…

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Saudi airport attacked, five persons injured

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An attack on an airport in the Saudi Arabian city of Jazan, near the border with Yemen, has left five people injured on Friday evening. The five people suffered only minor injuries when “a hostile projectile fell on King Abdullah Airport”, according to a statement from the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA). There have been a number of attacks against Saudi targets recently blamed on Huthi forces in Yemen fighting a Saudi-led coalition to reinstate the ousted government there. Four workers…

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Urhobo women celebrate Owho Day in UK

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The women wing of Urhobo Progressive Union in the United Kingdom, celebrated its maiden edition of Owho Day, a cultural event which was held on October 2, 2021. The event had a lot of activities to commemorate the celebration, and the highlight of the event was the cooking competition, in which the native Owho soup was prepared in the full glare of guests, in a colourful presentation. However, the Owho Soup cooking competition had Mrs. Juliet Okobaroh winning the 1st prize, and Ms. Valera Verere Obukohwo came 2nd. Mrs. Philo…

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Racism: US jury orders Tesla to pay ex-employee $137 million

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The jury at the federal court in San Francisco on Monday ordered Tesla to pay a Black former employee $137 million in damages for turning a blind eye to racism the man encountered at the firm’s Silicon Valley auto plant. “They awarded an amount that could be a wake-up call for American corporations,” civil rights attorney Larry Organ said on Tuesday. “Don’t engage in racist conduct and don’t allow racist conduct to continue.” Owen Diaz was hired through a staffing agency as an elevator operator at the electric vehicle-maker’s Fremont…

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Man granted bail on condition of washing Women Clothes for 6months over rape attempt

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Lalan Kumar, a 20-year-old Indian man, accused of attempted rape has been given bail on condition that he wash and iron the clothes of all women in his village for six months. Kumar will have to buy detergent and other items needed to provide six months of free laundry services to about 2,000 women in the village of Majhor in Bihar state, under the ruling made Wednesday. Kumar, who washes clothes for a living, was arrested in April on charges including attempted rape. “All the women in the village are…

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Brazilian model makes $600,000 bid for Messi’s tear-soaked tissue

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Luana Sandien, a Brazilian model and FC Barcelona fan, has bid a whopping $827,000 for the tear-soaked tissue Lionel Messi used when confirming he was leaving the club. Messi broke down in tears when it was time to say goodbye to Barcelona after more than two decades with the Spanish club “I don’t know if I’ll be able to speak,” he said while trying to compose himself during his farewell news conference at the Camp Nou Stadium. “It still hasn’t sunk in that I’m leaving this club, that my life…

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Boxing middleweight champion, Jermall Charlo arrested for robbery

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Jermall Charlo, undefeated World Boxing Council middleweight champion, was arrested on Wednesday on felony robbery charges from a July incident at a San Antonio bar. Charlo posted bond on three charges of second-degree robbery and was released. A police report said Charlo’s credit card was declined for a large bar tab on the morning on July 16, the eve of Charlo’s brother Jermell’s world title bout in San Antonio. A warrant accused Charlo of removing his identification and cash from his waitress’s possession before departing. Charlo’s attorney, Kent Schaffer, told…

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