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American woman indicted after pouring drain cleaner into husband’s tea at their $2.7m home
A California dermatologist has been indicted on felony charges after allegedly poisoning her husband’s tea with Drano. Dr. Yue ‘Emily’ Yu was hit with one felony count of domestic battery with corpor…
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Nigerian court remands man for defrauding sex worker of phone, free sex
A Dei-Dei Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday, April 5, 2023, ordered that a 30-year-old man, Victor Emeka, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly swindling a commercial sex worker. Ac…
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World Bank says Ghana yet to make progress with G20 Common Framework Debt Treatment
Ghana is yet to make progress with the G20 Common Framework Debt Treatment with its bilateral creditors, the World Bank April 2023 Africa Pulse Report has revealed. This is contrary to government sou…
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Taiwan president set for historic meeting with US House Speaker in California
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is set to meet U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday in the first such meeting on U.S. soil, a plan that has drawn threats of retaliation from China, which c…
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[Photos] Trump charged with hush-money scheme to boost 2016 election chances, pleads not guilty
Former President Donald Trump was charged on Tuesday with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a historic case over allegations he orchestrated hush-money payments to two women before t…
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U.S. military drone struck and killed top ISIS leader in Syria
A drone strike carried out by the American-led coalition in northwestern Syria has killed a senior member of the Islamic State terrorist group who was responsible for planning attacks in Europe, the …
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Trump faces day in court, a first in U.S., several await mugshot sneak peak
Donald Trump, the ex-president and front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2024, will appear in court on Tuesday to be fingerprinted, photographed and formally charged in a watershed moment ahe…
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Landslide kills at least 20 in eastern Congo
At least 20 people were killed and several others are missing after a landslide in east Democratic Republic of Congo, the provincial government and a local official said on Monday. The bodies of eigh…
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Six dead, 64 missing after boat sinks in Congo’s Lake Kivu
Six people were killed and 64 others were missing after a boat capsized in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lake Kivu early on Monday, local authorities said. Mustapha Mamboleo, a local official at Idj…
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Trump to fly to New York ahead of arraignment; set for mugshot and fingerprints
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is set to fly from Florida to New York City on Monday, ahead of his scheduled arraignment related to hush money paid to a porn star before the 2016 election, as sec…