Eight people died in three Indian states on Monday as tens of thousands of lower-caste Indians demonstrated violently against a recent Supreme Court ruling that they say dilutes protections for the Dalit community. Protesters halted railway traffic, forced shops to close and made their presence felt in at least 10 states. As the day began, protests were peaceful, but they quickly turned violent, with local media reporting clashes between police and protesters in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere. Violent protests were reported in at least seven states. According to…
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Nelson Mandela’s Ex-wife, Winnie, Dies At 81
Winnie Mandela, the former wife of South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, died on Monday aged 81, triggering an outpouring of tributes to one of the country’s defining and most divisive figures. She died in a Johannesburg hospital after a long illness, family spokesman Victor Dlamini said in a statement. Winnie Mandela, who was married to Nelson Mandela for 38 years, played a high-profile role in the struggle to end white-minority rule but her place in history was stained by controversy and accusations of violence. “It is with profound sadness…
Read MorePresident Obama ‘made the best decisions he could’ about Russia, says Valerie Jarrett
As a senior White House advisor for all eight years of Barack Obama’s presidency, Valerie Jarrett says Obama used to ask his staff, “When are you going to bring me the easy decisions?” “And we’d go, ‘Oh no, we took care of those,’” Jarrett said on the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher. “‘You get the tough ones.’” One of those tough decisions that has fallen under retroactive scrutiny was how Obama reacted to early emerging evidence that Russian-backed actors were attempting to sway the 2016 U.S….
Read MoreQatar pays $1m to Gaza healthcare sector
The Qatar Red Crescent announced on Sunday that it is funding a full healthcare programme worth $1m in the Gaza Strip, Felesteen.ps has reported. “The programme is going to be carried out over two years and is aimed at improving the quality of healthcare services,” the organisation explained. The core of the aid programme is based on promoting the abilities of Palestinian physicians and contracting with highly qualified foreign doctors with specialisms not found in Gaza’s hospitals. It also includes sending Palestinian doctors from Gaza specialising in urinary tract disorders…
Read MoreNigerian oil firms have more important role in economy than IOCs – IPPG
Mr. Ademola Adeyemi-Bero, who is the Managing Director of First Exploration and Petroleum Development Company Limited (First E&P) and Chairman of Indigenous Petroleum Producers Group (IPPG), has said in an interview that indigenous oil companies need to be encouraged because of their important role in Nigeria’s economy, Daily Trust reports. He said that Nigerian indigenous upstream exploration and production companies were most likely to want to send the oil and gas they produce to the domestic market. He said; “I don’t have a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant to export…
Read MoreJonathan’s aide attacks Nigerian govt., releases list of alleged looters in Buhari’s cabinet, APC
Reno Omokri, a spokesperson for former President Goodluck Jonathan, has launched a blistering attack on the Nigerian government and the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, over two lists of alleged looters released by the administration. Mr. Mohammed had on Sunday circulated a statement containing a list of individuals undergoing trials for alleged corruption. He had earlier on March 30 released a first list of members of the past administration he said looted the Nigerian treasury while the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in power. The government released the lists…
Read MoreResults of Egyptian Presidential Elections Not Contested
Egypt’s National Election Authority (NEA) is scheduled to announce next Monday the results of the presidential elections pitting President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and Mousa Mostafa Mousa. On Friday evening, the deadline for contesting the results of the elections ended in the absence of any petition. Mahmoud Helmy el-Sherif, deputy chairman of the National Election Authority and its spokesman, said that the committee did not receive any petition to contest the results of the pollds, adding that the final result will be announced on April 2. According to preliminary counts, Sisi has…
Read MoreHow a Scots immigrant became the star of musical
Great Scot: The star of Hamilton’s legacy began in Scotland. Matthew Murphy / cropped From the first few notes from a piano, the audiences of another sold out performance of Hamilton are reminded of the main character’s tough start in life. The man who would go on to be the Treasury of the State had come from nothing, born on the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis to a married woman of half-British and half-French Huguenot descent. The fourth son of Laird Alexander Hamilton of Grange, Ayrshire, James A. Hamilton had…
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NY Judge challenges US Govt wire fraud allegations in LIBOR-rigging case
Judge Colleen McMahon wants more arguments from the Government in order to agree that former Deutsche Bank traders have committed wire fraud. The United States Government should do more to convince Judge Colleen McMahon of the New York Southern District Court that Matthew Connolly and Gavin Campbell Black, former derivative product traders at Deutsche Bank, have committed wire fraud. In a document, presenting her thoughts on the case, captioned USA v. Connolly (1:16-cr-00370), the Judge outlined the areas where the Government’s argumentation is insufficient and more work needs to be…
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