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South Africa’s highest court on Tuesday ordered the imprisonment of Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa, for 15 months on contempt charges, after he defied an order to appear before a corruption inquiry examining the…
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A pair of South African brothers who ran a cryptocurrency investment platform called Africypt have gone into hiding along with investors funds worth $3.6 billion in Bitcoin. The two brothers named Ameer Cajee who acted as the Chief…
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Israel’s parliament has narrowly voted in favor of a new coalition government, ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic 12-year rule. Naftali Bennett, a former ally of Netanyahu turned bitter rival, becomes prime minister,…
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A Nigerian man accused of stealing about $700,000 from the city of Fort Worth, Texas, through a phishing email scam, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Gbenga Fadipe, 50, had pleaded guilty to theft of property greater than…
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Israeli airstrikes hammered the Gaza Strip on Monday after a week of violence that has killed more than 200 people, the large majority Palestinian, despite international calls for de-escalation. Before dawn, in the space of just a few…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before the Knesset: To Ismail Haniya, and the leaders and operatives of Hamas: We, the people of Israel, owe you a huge debt of gratitude. You have succeeded where we have failed.…
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Egypt opened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza Saturday to allow 10 ambulances to transport Palestinians seriously wounded in Israeli air strikes to Egyptian hospitals, medical officials said. Egypt “exceptionally opened the Rafah…
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Barely two days after the burial of Chadian President Idriss Deby, his family and leading political players are at loggerheads over the new leadership of the country. According to the constitution, the speaker of parliament ought to take…
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ISTANBUL (AFP) – Turkish prosecutors on Thursday (April 22) launched an investigation after the Istanbul-based founder of a cryptocurrency exchange froze trading and fled the country with a reported US$2 billion (S$2.7 billion) in…
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Former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin was last night taken to a maximum-security prison and placed on suicide watch after being found guilty on all three counts of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Derek…
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