A popular South African radio and club DJ has been shot dead in the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, sending shockwaves across the nation grappling with entrenched crime. Warrick Stock, popularly known as DJ Warras, was gunned down in the city centre on Tuesday afternoon. Police said the 40-year-old media personality was approached by three suspects,...
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U.K. Gives Abramovich Last Chance To Give Chelsea Sale Proceeds To Victims Of Russia’s War In Ukraine
Britain on Wednesday said it was giving Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich a final chance to give Ukraine 2.5 billion pounds ($3.33 billion) from the sale of top English soccer team Chelsea or face potential legal action. Britain sanctioned Abramovich in a crackdown on Russian oligarchs after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, triggering a rushed sale of the Premier...
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WHO Chief Affirms Over 1,600 People Have Been Killed In Attacks On Health Centers In Sudan This Year
More than 1,600 people have been killed in attacks on medical facilities and health care centers in war-torn Sudan so far this year, the United Nations health chief said Wednesday — the latest daunting statistic in the devastating conflict in the African nation. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, said the agency has documented...
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Ohio University Fires Coach Brian Smith Over ‘Serious Professional Misconduct’
Football coach Brian Smith was fired Wednesday by Ohio University, which cited “serious professional misconduct.” Smith had been placed on indefinite leave on Dec. 1. The university said it terminated Smith’s contract for cause following an administrative review that found him “engaging in serious professional misconduct and participating in activities that reflect unfavorably” on the...
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Harvard Morgue Manager Who Sold Body Parts Like ‘Baubles’ Gets 8-Year Prison Term
A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue in Boston was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts “as if they were baubles.” Authorities said Cedric Lodge was at the center of a ghoulish scheme in which he shipped brains, skin, hands and faces to buyers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere after cadavers donated...
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France Probes ‘Foreign Interference’ After Remote Control Malware Found On Passenger Ferry
France’s counterespionage agency is investigating a suspected cyberattack plot targeting an international passenger ferry, authorities said Wednesday. A Latvian crew member is in custody facing charges of having acted for an unidentified foreign power, French officials said. But Interior Minister Laurent Nunez appeared to hint that Russia is suspected, saying: “At the moment, foreign interference...
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Ecuadorian Police Say Soccer Player Mario Pineida Has Been Shot Dead In An Apparent Attack
Ecuadorian police said on Wednesday that Mario Pineida, a 33-year-old Barcelona de Guayaquil defender, was shot dead in an apparent attack as violence escalates in the Andean nation. Another person who police did not identify was also killed in the incident, and a third was wounded. Ecuador’s Interior Ministry confirmed Pineida’s death without providing details....
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Correspondent Peter Arnett, Who Reported From Vietnam And Gulf War, Has Died
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage for The Associated Press,...
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STATEHOUSE PRESS RELEASE – PRESIDENT TINUBU MOURNS FORMER CJN, JUSTICE TANKO MUHAMMAD
PRESIDENT TINUBU MOURNS FORMER CJN, JUSTICE TANKO MUHAMMAD President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has received with deep sadness the news of the passing of former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad. Justice Tanko, 71, from Bauchi State, died on Tuesday in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He was the Chief Justice of Nigeria from...