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Former Vice President Joe Biden is set to launch his third run for the White House today. Biden is due to finally announce his bid by video followed by his first public appearance as a candidate on Monday at an event in Pittsburgh, a key constituency. A moderate Democrat, Biden wants to appeal to the […]
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Shamed R&B singer R Kelly has failed to turn up in court to hear allegations that he sexually abused a woman. This means that the woman, whose name has not been released, won a default judgement and will return to court next month to detail Kelly’s alleged abuse in her civil suit. Cook County Judge […]
Continue ReadingThree hours after the federal election was called, Bill Shorten addressed the national media from the backyard of a house in Mitcham in the dead centre of the almost-marginal electorate of Deakin in eastern Melbourne. It seemed an underwhelming place to launch a campaign that, if the polls hold true, could put Shorten in the […]
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byMusa Binda for GroundUp. Residents from Ezakheleni informal settlement in Umlazi, south of Durban, closed off the Mangosuthu Highway with burning tyres on Wednesday. This follows flooding and serious damage to their shacks. Heavy rains hit the Durban area on Monday night and over 30 people died in the flooding. The protesters told GroundUp they had been […]
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Jewellery-to-watch maker Titan Company shares gained a percent to hit a record high of Rs 1,160 in the morning trade on April 25, taking its market capitalisation to Rs 1 lakh crore. In last one year, the stock has rallied 25 percent on good earnings growth and management outlook. It was quoting at Rs 1,158.30, […]
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Liberia is home to the second-established Black American settlement in Africa, Monrovia, the nation’s capital city. It was founded on April 25, 1822 by the American Colonization Society (ACS), an organization that cleared a path for Black Americans to return to the nation of their birth, but their motives were not always benevolent. ACS members […]
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Two unidentified militants were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Thursday, police said. Acting on inputs, a cordon and search operation was launched at Bagender Mohalla in Bijbehara area by the police and the security forces, a police official said. The militants fired upon the search […]
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By AYUMBA AYODIMore by this Author Three-time Berlin Marathon champion Kenya’s Gladys Cherono has predicted that the Women-only World Record (WR) could go down on Sunday during this year’s London Marathon. Cherono, who made her London debut last year to finish fourth, disclosed on Wednesday that Mary Keitany’s Women-Only World Record of 2 hours, 17 […]
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The only interest in Gareth Bale as things stand in from one club – and it’s not Manchester United . Just one team in China are making moves to try and sign the Welsh wonder. But that will change the moment the season ends as United try and do whatever it takes to lure the […]
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Dear Charlie, Dana, Michael, Lee, Danny, Francie, Brian, Sanaa, Dennis, and Brett, Together, as a united front, we stand with Jussie Smollett and ask that our co-star, brother and friend be brought back for our sixth season of Empire. We understand the past months have been difficult to process—sometimes the headlines brought more confusion than […]
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