Category: News
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Rescue workers link courage to Ogogoro
From the Daily Sun, Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids: Even as the entire neighbourhood stank offensively, the rescue workers told Sunday Sun that they were hired by the Local Government officials to help bury the 127 bodies in a mass grave dug in the sandy beach. He, however, failed to disclose how much they were…
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3rd term: Marry a two-time divorcee?
From the Daily Sun, Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids: Temitope Kolaru No! Take a good look at me. Do I look like somebody who would go into a relationship with a man who has been there two previous times? A two-time divorcee? I mean, not even a second-hand man, a third-hand man for that matter.…
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Why insist on the surrender of Ratko Mladic
From The New York Times: Rather than linking talks to one arrest, the European Union should ask if a deeply brutalized society like Serbia’s is a worthy partner for integration, regardless of the disposition of any one war criminal. Making General Mladic a totem for what Europe really needs — Serbia’s transformation — stunts the…
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Farmer's gallows sales attacked
From the BBC: David Lucas, of Mildenhall, Suffolk, said he had been selling execution equipment to countries including Zimbabwe for about 10 years. Amnesty said the export of gallows, which will be made illegal by an EC regulation in July, was “appalling”. But Mr Lucas said the trade was not sick and “business is business”.…
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Amputee Arrested for Burglary
From the Daily Sun, Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids: Timothy, who gained entry into the house at about 10am, was said to have thrown one of his crutches into the compound and used the other one to leap over the fence. Having succeeded in jumping into the compound, the suspect allegedly broke the bulglary proof…
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Bloody Liar
From the Daily Sun, Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids: Asked about how the tongue was chopped off, Abdul explained that it was possible that the nails of Paulina did the damage while she was struggling to pull out her fingers from Chinyere’s mouth. “The tongue is a soft tissue. It could have been chopped off…
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Zuma sorry for not using condom
From the BBC: Mr Zuma remained composed as he answered journalists’ questions. But he became visibly upset when a journalist challenged him on his admission made in court and widely reported in the media, that he had showered after sex to reduce the risk of HIV infection. “If you’ve been in the kitchen, my dear,…
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Heavy fighting for Somali capitol
From the BBC: “Every corner of the city, the militias of the same rival groups have taken up positions to prepare for more lethal fighting… there is no cold place in an inferno.” The Islamic courts have restored order to some parts of the city by providing justice under Sharia – Islamic law. The alliance…
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African Union Official Is Hacked to Death in Darfur
From The New York Times: “Janjaweed, janjaweed!” the crowd shouted, grasping at a Sudanese man who works for Oxfam, the British aid organization, as he tried to flee the melee in a car. They were using the local term for the Arab militias who have aligned with the government and carried out brutal attacks on…
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Wedding Reception Ends in Tragedy
From the Daily Sun, Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids: He also denied killing young Tope Alawoya in a fit of anger. According to him, trouble started when the victim gave him a blinding slap across the face, for casting aspersions on his parents. He said: “ I know something was behind what happened to me.…
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Who Exhumed my Mother's Corpse?
From the Daily Sun, Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids: The whole tomb was upturned, the marble tomb stone unearthed and the corpse exhumed in broad day light by some persons, who were allgedly accompanied by thugs meant to silence any oppositions. The corpse was accordingly taken to unidentified place. Here.
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Cheney Switches From Scowls to Smiles
From the Washington Post: A day after scolding Russia for retreating on democracy, Vice President Cheney flew to oil-rich Kazakhstan yesterday and lavished praise on the autocratic leader of a former Soviet republic (Nursultan Nazarbayev) where opposition parties have been banned, newspapers shut down and advocacy groups intimidated. Here.
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In Afghan Poppy Heartland, New Crops, Growing Danger
From the Washington Post: On a recent day in April, when U.S. aid officials flew to Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, with several journalists, they were greeted on the tarmac by a commando-style security team that instructed the visitors on what to do if their vehicles were shot at or bombed, issued everyone flak jackets…
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McClellan Sticks to Message Till the End
From the Washington Post: “This country is on a solid track under this president because of his leadership.” “We’re more interested in looking at the results, not the polls.” “We are winning in Iraq.” Here.
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The Fix-It Man Leaves, but The Agency's Cracks Remain
From Dana Priest, Pulitzer prize winner at the Washington Post: One senior European counterterrorism official, asked recently for his assessment of Goss’s leadership, responded by saying, “Who?” Goss, then the Republican chairman of the House intelligence panel, was handpicked by the White House to purge what some in the administration viewed as a cabal of…
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Goss Forced Out as CIA Director; Gen. Hayden is Likely Successor
From the Washington Post: Members of Congress privately predicted that Hayden, who once enjoyed tremendous support on the Hill, would face a contentious confirmation process over the Bush administration’s domestic spying program. Other sensitive issues, such as the existence of secret prisons abroad for terrorism suspects, also are likely to arise. “The calculus is that…
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Some Saw Moussaoui as Bit Player, Juror Says
From the Washington Post: Brinkema replied with a smile, noting that Moussaoui had yelled “America, you lost! . . . I won!” after the jury delivered its verdict. “Mr. Moussaoui, if you look around this courtroom today, every person in this room when this proceeding is over will leave this courtroom, and they are free…
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In Image War, U.S. Shows Video of Bumbling Zarqawi
From The New York Times: As the camera rolls, Mr. Zarqawi is flummoxed by how to fire the machine gun until an aide walks over and fiddles with the weapon so it discharges. Another scene shows Mr. Zarqawi hand the weapon off to several other insurgents, who absent-mindedly grab it by its scalding hot barrel.…
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Race Attacks that Stain Russia
From the BBC: Yuri Belyaev is one of its authors. He describes himself as a racist. He claims widespread public support for his views. “Russians are fed up with being humiliated in their own country. Negroes have more rights here and immigrants own all the property,” he told me. He makes light of the current…
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Living with Race Hate in Russia
From the BBC: Standing in a Moscow Metro carriage for the first time, the young Gabonese man was thrown forward when the train started with a jolt and he grabbed a pole to keep his balance, brushing the Russian man’s hand. Without a word, the Russian withdrew his hand, produced a handkerchief and proceeded to…