COVID-19: 67 Italian Priests Have Died So Far
3017A total of 67 Italian priests infected with the novel coronavirus have died since the pandemic reached the Mediterranean country last month, the Avvenire newspaper said Wednesday. The youngest of those listed by the Catholic Church-affiliated paper was 53. “Priests get sick and die like everybody else, maybe even more than the rest,” the Avvenire wrote. The paper said 22 of the...
NYSC: We want skirts included in NYSC uniform – Serve with skirts movement protests
Serve With Skirts Movement, an advocacy group was on Wednesday, stage a peaceful protest at the Unity Fountain in Abuja to demand inclusion of skirts as part of the uniform for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Members of the group, comprising of young boys and girls, held banners with inscriptions like “there is a difference between the world and...
Isabel dos Santos: Africa’s richest woman eyes Angola presidency
Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, who is embroiled in a huge financial scandal, has suggested that she may seek to become the country's president. In a BBC interview, Ms Dos Santos pointedly declined four times to rule out running for the presidency. Her father José Eduardo dos Santos ruled Angola for 38 years. Prosecutors are seeking to recover $1bn (£760m) Ms...
Iran protesters demand leaders quit after they took responsibility for Ukrainian plane crash
Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday, increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic’s leadership after it admitted its military shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident, despite days of denials that Iranian forces were to blame. “They are lying that our enemy is America, our enemy is right here,” one group of protesters chanted outside a university...
Nigeria, India, Israel are Trump’s strongholds – Survey
A survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre has listed Nigeria as one of the strongholds of United States President, Donald Trump. This is as the survey found that support for President Trump remains largely negative around the world. The Centre discovered that across the 33 countries surveyed a median of 64 per cent said they do not have confidence in...
Iran protesters demand leaders quit after they took responsibility for Ukrainian plane crash
Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday, increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic’s leadership after it admitted its military shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident, despite days of denials that Iranian forces were to blame. “They are lying that our enemy is America, our enemy is right here,” one group of protesters chanted outside a university...
Nigeria, India, Israel are Trump’s strongholds – Survey
A survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre has listed Nigeria as one of the strongholds of United States President, Donald Trump. This is as the survey found that support for President Trump remains largely negative around the world. The Centre discovered that across the 33 countries surveyed a median of 64 per cent said they do not have confidence in...
BMW Tupac was shot dead in is being sold with bullet holes for $1.75m
The car Tupac Shakur was in when he was shot dead has been put up for sale for $1.75m. The legendary rapper was a passenger in a BMW 750 when he was gunned down in Las Vegas in 1996. The shooting took place while Tupac Shakur was being driven by his friend and notorious record producer, Suge Knight after watching a...
North Korean Mother faces jail for saving kids from fire instead of Kim Jong il’s portrait
A North Korean mother has been threatened with jail after saving her two children from a house fire but allowing portraits of North Korea's leaders to burn. The woman has been placed under investigation by the country's Ministry of State Security after a fire broke out in a home shared by two families in Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province, close...
BMW Tupac was shot dead in is being sold with bullet holes for $1.75m
The car Tupac Shakur was in when he was shot dead has been put up for sale for $1.75m. The legendary rapper was a passenger in a BMW 750 when he was gunned down in Las Vegas in 1996. The shooting took place while Tupac Shakur was being driven by his friend and notorious record producer, Suge Knight after watching a...