Muhamad Yehia ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Monday ordered the immediate release of 29 children facing the death penalty after being arraigned for allegedly participating in protests against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. Under growing pressure from activists, Tinubu also directed an investigation of the law enforcement …
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Who is Kemi Badenoch, the first Black woman to lead Britain’s Conservative Party?
Muhamad Yehia LONDON (AP) — The first Black woman to lead a major U.K. political party, Kemi Badenoch is an upbeat and outspoken libertarian who thinks the British state is broken — and that she’s the one to fix it with smaller government and radical new ideas. The new leader of …
Read More »Mpox cases in Congo may be stabilizing. Experts say more vaccines are needed to stamp out virus
Muhamad Yehia GOMA, Congo (AP) — Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be “stabilizing” — a possible sign that the main epidemic for which the World Health Organization made a global emergency declaration in August might be on the decline. In recent weeks, Congo has reported about 200 to 300 …
Read More »Muhamad Yehia RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia judge has signed off on a prosecutor’s request to withdraw charges against two people charged in the 2023 death of Irvo Otieno, a young man who was pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes while being admitted to a state psychiatric hospital. …
Read More »US backs 2 permanent seats for African nations on the UN Security Council
Muhamad Yehia UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States announced Thursday that it will support the addition of two new permanent seats for African countries on the powerful U.N. Security Council — and a first-ever non-permanent seat for a small island developing nation. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the …
Read More »All eyes on Pennsylvania as candidates spend final day campaigning
Muhamad Yehia Some Republican-led states say they’ll block the Justice Department’s election monitors from going inside polling places on Election Day, pushing back on federal authorities’ decades-long practice of watching for violations of federal voting laws. Officials in Florida and Texas have said they won’t allow federal election monitors into polling sites Tuesday. And on Monday, …
Read More »The US-Russia battle for influence in Africa plays out in Central African Republic
Muhamad Yehia BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Hours after Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin rebelled against his country’s top military leaders, his private army’s biggest client in Africa panicked, turning for help to his foe in the West. Officials from Central African Republic, where some 1,500 of Prigozhin’s shadowy Wagner Group mercenaries were stationed, wrote a …
Read More »Harris appears on ‘Saturday Night Live’ as mirror image of Maya Rudolph with election looming
Muhamad Yehia NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in the final days before the election, playing herself as the mirror-image double of Maya Rudolph’s version of her in the show’s cold open The first lines the candidate spoke as she …
Read More »Bill Gates Reads 50 Books A Year Read more at: https://www.blinkist.com/magazine/posts/most-ceos-read-60-books-per-year?utm_source=cpp
Muhamad Yehia Bill Gates reads 50 books per year — and he’s not alone! Gates shares his love of reading with a host of successful people who know that reading is essential for learning new things, thinking differently, and becoming wiser day by day. This, in turn, means they can …
Read More »Attack on central Israel injures 11 as Iran’s leader promises a punishing response
Muhamad Yehia JERUSALEM (AP) — An attack on a central Israeli town early Saturday injured 11 people as Iran’s supreme leader vowed a punishing response to Israel’s attack last week. The predawn strike on Tira, which followed air raid sirens across central Israel, was one of several barrages fired from …
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