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Teen throws boy from UK gallery, says ‘told of plan to kill’

A British teenager who threw a six-year-old French boy off the 10th floor of London’s Tate Modern art gallery had said he planned to push someone off a high building, the BBC and Daily Mail reported Friday. The two news groups obtained a recording of Jonty Bravery, who has autism, reportedly telling care workers a […]

Germany pledges to help Angola investigate ‘Africa’s richest woman’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on Friday pledged to help Angola investigate corruption allegations against Isabel dos-Santos, the daughter of former long-term President Jose dos-Santos and reportedly Africa’s richest woman. Isabel dos-Santos has recently come under investigation and international scrutiny after being accused of embezzling millions of dollars of public money from a state oil company […]

Court orders church to pay $77,000 damages to rape victim

A court in Poland has ordered the Catholic dioceses in the cities of Wroclaw and Bydgoszcz to pay $77,000 in damages to a former altar boy. The boy who was raped and molested by a priest 10 years ago,a local media reported on Friday. The plaintiff, now 21, demanded damages from the church, claiming that […]

Kenya to hold state funeral for ‘iron fist’ ex-President, Moi

Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, who ruled the country with an iron fist between 1978 and 2002, will be honoured with a state funeral on February 11, the government said Thursday. Moi died on February 4 aged 95. Moi’s body will lie in state for public viewing from Saturday until Monday, before a memorial […]

Coronavirus: first Canadians repatriated from Wuhan arrive in Canada

A plane bringing home the first Canadians from Wuhan, epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic, landed Friday at a Canadian military base where they will be quarantined. The government-chartered jetliner landed at Trenton air force base east of Toronto at around 6:30 am (11:30 am GMT), after a refueling stopover in Vancouver. It carried 176 passengers. […]

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