Breyten Breytenbach renowned anti-apartheid writer and activist jailed for his beliefs in South Africa in the 1970s, has died aged 85.The family disclosed that Breytenbach passed away in his sleep, with his wife Yolande by his side in Paris.The dissident poet, novelist and painter was “an immense artist, militant against apartheid, he fought for a better world until the end,” a statement from his family read.The activist sharp intellect earned him widespread admiration, prompting the British satirical television puppet show Spitting Image to describe him as “the only nice South African” in a song during apartheid’s darkest days.Born in the...
BLACKFOOT POLICE ARREST 18-YEAR-OLD IN CONNECTION WITH DEAD INFANT FOUND IN A BABY BOX
An Idaho teenager has been arrested in connection with the body of an infant found last month at a hospital in a box meant for people to anonymously give up a newborn, police said Friday.The Blackfoot Police Department said in a social media post that an 18-year-old from Twin Falls, about 130 miles (210 kilometers) southeast of Boise, had been arrested there and booked into the Bingham County Jail.She was arrested on a felony arrest warrant for failing to report a death to law enforcement officials and the coroner, police said.Associated Press reported that the Police in Blackfoot responded to a report...
Turkey’s ‘Trusted’ Doctor affirms In Newborn Baby Deaths Case, He Didn’t Bribe People In Emergency Medical Phone line.
Dr. Firat Sari, the Turkish doctor at the center of an alleged fraud scheme that led to the deaths of 10 babies told an Istanbul court Saturday that he was a “trusted” physician.Sari is one of 47 people on trial accused of transferring newborn babies to neonatal units of private hospitals, where they were allegedly kept for prolonged and sometimes unnecessary treatments in order to receive social security payments.“Patients were referred to me because people trusted me. We did not accept patients by bribing anyone from 112,” Sari said, referring to Turkey’s emergency medical phone line.The physician said to be the plot’s...
GEORGIA LABOR COMMISSIONER BRUCE THOMPSON DIES EIGHT MONTHS AFTER ANNOUNCING HE HAD CANCER.
Georgia Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson has died, eight months after he announced he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.Lt. Gov. Burt Jones said Thompson, a statewide elected Republican, died Sunday. He was 59.Georgia governor Brian Kemp in a statement applauded Thompson’s energetic spirit for being a fighter and a voice: “A successful businessman and respected leader of his community, Bruce was a passionate voice for what he believed in throughout his years of service to the people of Georgia.“We are thankful to that commitment to our state, and, like so many others, have been inspired the strength and courage he...
JURY DELIBERATES ON WHETHER MAN HELD DOWN TEEN WHILE HE WAS RAPED AT YOUTH CENTER IN 1990S
A jury began deliberating Friday on whether a New Hampshire man held down a teenage boy while he was raped at a youth detention center in 1998.Bradley Asbury, now 70, served as a house leader at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester. He’s accused of restraining 14-year-old Michael Gilpatrick on a staircase with help from a colleague, while a third staffer raped the teen and a fourth forced him to perform a sex act.It’s the second criminal trial to stem from a broad 2019 investigation into historic abuse at the center. Asbury is among 11 men who worked there or at an associated...
PHILIPPINE VICE PRESIDENT DEATH THREATS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT CONSIDERS NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE
In a public threat, the Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte on Saturday revealed that she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed.Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin referred the “active threat” against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to an elite presidential guards force “for immediate proper action.” It was not immediately clear what actions would be taken against the vice president. Associated Press reported.The Presidential Security Command boosted Marcos’ security and said it considered the vice president’s threat, which was “made so brazenly in public,” a national security issue.The presidential security...
Former German Chancellor Merkel Confesses Every Meeting With Trump Is A Competition, Expresses Sorrow Over His Presidential Victory.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel expresses “sorrow” at Donald Trump’s return to power and recalls that every meeting with him was “a competition: you or me.”The 70-year-old Merkel, a center-right Christian Democrat set to release her memoirs next week, in an interview with German weekly Der Spiegel published Friday, Merkel said that Trump “is a challenge for the world, particularly for multilateralism.”“What awaits us now is really not easy,” she said, because “the strongest economy in the world stands behind this president” with the dollar as a dominant currency.Merkel worked with four American presidents while she was German chancellor. She was in power throughout Trump’s first...
LEFTIST YAMANDÚ ORSI OUST CENTER-RIGHT CANDIDATE ALVARO DELGADO IN URUGUAY’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate, Yamandú Orsi, claimed victory in a tight presidential runoff Sunday, ousting the conservative governing coalition and making the South American nation the latest to rebuke the incumbent party in a year of landmark elections.Even as the vote count continued, Álvaro Delgado, the presidential candidate of the center-right ruling coalition, conceded defeat to his challenger.“With sadness, but without guilt, we can congratulate the winner,” he told supporters at his campaign headquarters in the capital of MontevideoFireworks erupted over the stage where Orsi, 57, a working-class former history teacher and two-time mayor from Uruguay’s Broad Front coalition, thanked his...
“TOILET INFECTION DO NOT EXIST” — Dr. Ogunsanya
Doctor Olufunmilayo Oluyemi Ogunsanya , a family practitioner based in the United Kingdom has point blankly stated that there is nothing like “Toilet Infection.”Ogunsanya known as OurFavOnlineDoc on X stated his on his handle while to educate and give tips on health issues, when one of the app users had complained of having caught toilet infection in school facility, the doctor pointed out that the germs in a public toilet or otherwise can’t survive the coldness of the surface like people generally thought.According to the family practitioner: “There is NOTHING like “Toilet Infection”. There is NO such medical diagnosis at...