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Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones drummer for over 50 years, died on Tuesday in London. He was 80. His death, in a hospital, was announced by his publicist, Bernard Doherty. No other details were immediately provided. The Rolling Stones announced earlier this month that Mr. Watts would not be a part of the band’s […]
Former Chadian president Hissène Habré, who was serving a life term in Senegal for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has died, Senegalese Justice Minister Malick Sall said Tuesday. He was 79. “Habré is in his Lord’s hands,” Sall told the television channel TFM, while local media said he had died of Covid-19. Habré’s […]
Senegal’s Interior Minister Antoine Felix Abdoulaye Diome is up to his knees in water, in a suburb of the West African country’s capital, surveying flood damage. He’s inspecting a home in the eastern Keur Massar district: The first floor and courtyard have been submerged in brown water for three days. Dragonflies hover over the […]
Barcelona president, Joan Laporta, has said the club will have a female president in the next 10 years. The Laliga club elect a new president every six years. Laporta was elected in March to return for a second spell in the role. All the 41 people who have presided over the club since it […]
The Taliban declared an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join their government Tuesday, trying to calm nerves across a tense capital city that only the day before saw chaos at its airport as people tried to flee. The comments by Enamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban’s cultural commission, represent the first […]
Thousands of Afghans rushed onto the tarmac of Kabul’s international airport Monday, so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto an American military jet as it took off and plunged to death in chaos that killed at least seven people, U.S. officials said. The crowds of people rushing […]
Beijing authorities on Monday approved the arrest of Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu over allegations of rape, in a scandal that has drawn widespread condemnation on social media. The saga has evoked China’s #MeToo movement, which saw a wave of women come forward in 2018 voicing experiences of sexual harassment — sometimes involving powerful […]
Kenyan civil servants have until late August to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or risk disciplinary action, according to a government document made public this week. The order comes as parliament is due to consider a motion to bar unvaccinated people or those without negative Covid certificates from certain public and private spaces. Kenya is […]
After several delays, the first phase of the sex trafficking trial of R&B hitmaker R. Kelly started Monday with jury selection in New York City. Lingering health threats caused by the coronavirus pandemic and a shakeup of Kelly’s defense team pushed the trial into the summer, nearly two years after he was charged with […]
The U.N. panel on climate change sounded a dire warning on Monday, saying the world is dangerously close to runaway warming – and that humans are “unequivocally” to blame. Already, greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are high enough to guarantee climate disruption for decades if not centuries, scientists warn in a report from […]
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