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Burundi’s ruling party youths threaten to ‘impregnate’ opposition women

Apr 6, 2017 topnews

The Imbonerakure youths of Burundi’s ruling party have threatened to impregnate opposition women in a video that has gone viral. Hundreds of the youths known as Imbonerakure — “those who see from afar” in the local Kirundi language — are shown in military-like formation singing “impregnate the opposition so that they give birth to Imbonerakure”. The ruling CNND-FDD initially said the video which began circulating three days ago had been faked by the opposition, but was on Wednesday forced to admit its authenticity after it sparked outrage on social media…

Jay-Z’s new A2 Champagne sells for $850 a bottle

Apr 4, 2017 topnews

Armand de Brignac’s Blanc de Noirs Assemblage Two, aka A2, from the centuries-old house owned by the rapper Jay-Z, is scheduled to hit the market on April 18. The release of its predecessor A1, in its eye-catching gun-metal-coated bottle with a hand-hammered pewter label, generated serious buzz in 2015. People noted its $760 price tag, one of the costliest for a nonvintage Champagne, and wondered how much Jay-Z and his friends and family might hype it. Would it feature in a video the way the brand’s blanc de blancs featured…

Match fixing suspicion: Coach arrested following 12-0 defeat to Barcelona B team

Apr 4, 2017 topnews

Filippo Di Pierro, coach of third division Spanish side Eldense was arrested by police investigating suspicions of match-fixing after his side’s 12-0 defeat to Barcelona’s B team on Saturday. Di Pierro was “arrested and questioned” a police source said on Tuesday, adding that the investigation is ongoing. Eldense player Cheikh Saad was the first to point the finger at a number of his teammates and coach. Saad told radio station Cadena Copa that certain players stood to make “huge sums” of money from bets placed on the match. The club’s president…

Antonio Banderas quits smoking after heart attack

Apr 3, 2017 topnews

Since suffering a heart attack in January, Spanish film star Antonio Banderas says he has quit smoking and will work at a slower pace from now on. “If there is something good that came from all of this, it is that I suddenly stopped smoking, without needing pills or anything like that. It’s over!” the 56-year-old said in an interview at his home in the southern city of Malaga. “I’m going to keep working but I’m going to do it at another rhythm. I am going to give myself space,…

Ousted South Korean president Park Geun-hye now prisoner 503 in jail

Apr 1, 2017 topnews

Park Geun-Hye, ousted South Korean president is now just prisoner 503, incarcerated in a spartan cell while prosecutors decide whether to indict her over a corruption scandal that precipitated her fall from grace. The former head of state spent her first night in solitary confinement at Seoul Detention Centre after a court Friday ordered her to be held pending charges. Reports has it that she had her mugshot taken and was given a prison kit including toiletries, a meal tray and a quilt. After being processed like any other prisoner,…

US attorney general demands cities get tough on illegal migrants

Mar 28, 2017 topnews

The united States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, has warned US cities that turning a blind eye to illegal migrants could jeopardize billions in federal funding, as the administration doubled down on tough immigration policies. Jeff Sessions demanded so-called “sanctuary cities” — from Boston to Chicago to Los Angeles — do more to turn illegal immigrants over to the federal authorities for deportation. “The Department of Justice has a duty to enforce our nation’s laws, including our immigration laws,” he said from the White House. “Unfortunately, some states and cities have…

UK police identifies Parliament attacker as Khalid Masood

Mar 24, 2017 topnews

52-year-old former convict Khalid Masood, has been identified by police as the man who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a policeman in Wednesday’s deadly assault outside Britain’s parliament. Known by “a number of aliases”, London’s Metropolitan Police said he had been convicted for a string of offences but none of them terror-related. Born on Christmas Day 1964 in Kent in southeast England, Masood had been living in the West Midlands where armed police have staged several raids since the attack, storming properties in the city of Birmingham. Over the course…

President Buhari condemns London parliament attack

Mar 23, 2017 topnews

The terrorist attack near the United Kingdom Parliament Building at Westminster, London has been condemned by Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari. The President, who sympathized with the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, assured her that the government and people of Nigeria “stand with Britons at this sad and trying moment in their country.” According to President Buhari, “terror attack anywhere in the world is condemnable,” adding that the whole world must join hands to defeat the perpetrators of terrorism. The President, in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media…

Blogger found guilty in Australia for deception over cancer cure

Mar 15, 2017 topnews

Belle Gibson, has been found guilty by a Court in Australia, of deceiving and misleading people on using natural remedies and nutrition to cure cancer. The disgraced health personality, who made tens of thousands of dollars selling books and a mobile app about her miraculous recovery, was taken to court by Consumer Affairs Victoria after it was revealed that she never had the disease. Justice Debra Mortimer said during the judgment that Gibson, 25, may have “remained under some kind of delusion that she had cancer.” “She may have had…

Brazilian President claims ghosts chased him out of official residence

Mar 12, 2017 topnews

Michel Temer, the Brazilian President has blamed bad vibes and even ghosts for driving him from his sumptuous official residence in the villa. A Brazilian news weekly reported that Brazil’s President Michel Temer surprised Brazilian politics watchers this week with the revelation that he has decamped from the Alvorada Palace in the capital Brasilia. He moved with his former beauty queen wife and their seven-year-old son down the road to the smaller vice presidential residence. The modernist Alvorada, which means Dawn and was designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, would be a…