May 2018
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One day after abruptly pulling the plug on a high-stakes summit with North Korea, US President Donald Trump said Friday the meeting with Kim Jong Un could go ahead after all — and would “likely” happen on the originally scheduled date of June 12. Image: Donald Trump The summit would be an unprecedented meeting between…
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A boy asks his father, “Dad, are bugs good to eat?” “That’s disgusting. Don’t talk about things like that over dinner,” the dad replies. After dinner the father asks, “Now, son, what did you want to ask me?” “Oh, nothing,” the boy says. “There was a bug in your soup, but now it’s gone.”
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My niece made some food for another family at church. She prayed over it, asking the kids if they’d like to add anything. Her 3-year-old daughter, Boston, said: “Thank you, God, that we didn’t give them all of our food.”
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Radamel Falcao is facing a 16-month jail time and €9 million tax fine for an alleged non-declaration of income and payment of due charges. Image: Radamel Falcao Falcao, 32, was found guilty of the financial crime in Spain. According to Marca, the Spanish court handling Falcao’s tax evasion case said his sentence is immediately suspended as…
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President Trump has cancelled the upcoming summit between the United States and the North Koreans in a new letter released on Thursday. President Trump and Kim Jong Un’s doppelgangers Mr. Trump writes in the letter that he was “very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open…
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Detailed analysis of video images has established that the Buk missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came from a Russia-based military unit, according to an international team of investigators. Wilbert Paulissen of the Dutch National Police said Thursday that the missile was from the Russian military’s 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade, which is based in the Russian city…
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After a two-year spell at Paris Saint-Germain, Unai Emery has been appointed coach of Arsenal. The Spanish football manager enjoyed a trophy-laden career at PSG, winning Ligue 1, Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue with world class stars at his disposal. Their greatest disappointment, however, was an inability to prove themselves against opponents…
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has responded to the suggestion by President Muhammadu Buhari that the administration he (Obasanjo) led between 1999 and 2007 wasted $16 billion on power projects without anything to show for it. Image shows President Muhammadu Buhari and Chief Obasanjo Mr. Buhari had, while receiving a delegation of Buhari Support Organisation (BSO)…
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg apologised to the European Parliament on Tuesday (May 22) for the “harm” caused by a huge breach of users’ data and by a failure to crack down on fake news. Image: Mark Zuckerberg But Zuckerberg’s appearance failed to satisfy MEPs who accused him of dodging questions and criticised a format that…
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Grand man of American letters Philip Roth, a fierce and prolific talent who achieved fame with the sexually explicit Portnoy’s Complaint in 1969, has died at 85, US media reported Wednesday. Image: Philip Milton Roth The New Yorker magazine and the New York Times both reported the death of Roth, who won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for…
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After months of drama surrounding Kanye West’s mental illness, music and marriage, the rap icon made headlines with his recent statement that “slavery is a choice,” a perspective which angered or rather stirred pity in famous American TV host and actress, Wendy Joan Williams-Hunter. Wendy Williams, as she is popularly known, called out Kanye saying…
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The 2018 Billboard Music Awards was held on Sunday night at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, and celebrities like Bruno Mars, Kelly Clarkson, Camila Cabello, Pharrell Williams, Ariana Grande, John Legend, Demi Lovato and Jennifer Lopez graced the occasion in glam. Kelly Clarkson played host while Kendrick Lama led the way with…
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“Despacito” hit the airwaves on 13 January, 2017 and has been a successful music track widely acknowledged by music lovers around the globe prior to its record-breaking achievement at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards, where it was crowned the Most Award-winning Latin song. The 2017 summer hit by Puerto Rican pop artist Luis Fonzi featured…
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R. Kelly has been accused of false imprisonment, sexual battery and “deliberate” transmission of sexual disease. Image: R. Kelly The R&B icon whose full names are Robert Sylvester Kelly was the subject of a new lawsuit in a Manhattan court on Monday (21 May) following his alleged failure to disclose a sexually transmitted disease before…
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On matters relating to abortion laws in the U.S., President Donald Trump has long been an unlikely sweetheart for conservative and evangelical voters. Image: Donald Trump Now, in the lead-up to the midterm elections, the thrice-married former Democrat who used to describe himself as “very pro-choice” is offering catnip to conservative voters with a new…
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