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Fans of Megan Thee Stallion are trying to shift the public’s attention away from what they believe to be a misogynistic narrative around the current trial against Tory Lanez, who is accused of shooting the rapper in the foot. Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, was charged in 2020 with assault with a semi-automatic […]
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The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
Black women rallied in full force after Megan Thee Stallion went to Instagram Live on Thursday to blast fellow rapper Tory Lanez , who allegedly shot the artist last month. Using #ProtectBlackWomen as a rallying cry, Megan's supporters applauded her for speaking up and condemned hatred against women. In her Instagram Live video, the 25-year-old rapper said Lanez's publicity team has been lying about the incident. “Tory shot me," she said. "You shot me and you got your publicist and your people going to these blogs lying. Stop lying. Why lie? I don’t understand.” Megan's Live Part 1 pic.twitter.com/rR9Za3x54L — Alex Ocho (@thealexocho) August 21, 2020 The shooting happened after the two rappers and Megan's friend, Kelsey Nicole, left a pool party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills home, as Blavity previously reported . Lanez is accused of firing shots while the two women were exiting the car after an argument, striking Megan in the feet twice. In her latest video, Megan said...
Tyrone Rowe called ‘Cobra’ was yesterday released from prison after completing his sentence for the 2010 killing of Troy Collymore, who he shot after a robbery at a Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, pharmacy.
Just over a year ago, Rowe, who was initially indicted for murder, pleaded not guilty to the capital offence but threw himself at the mercy of the court as he admitted instead to the lesser offence of manslaughter.
Justice Navindra Singh would later sentence Rowe to 15 years for the killing and nine years for the armed robbery.
Expressing his remorse to Justice Singh, Rowe had begged the judge for lenience, while stating that he was truly sorry for what had happened, and wanted to be given an opportunity to care for his mother, whom he said had been diagnosed with cancer.
Noting the lengthy time Rowe had been behind bars, Justice Singh had asked him his plans once released.
LENNY HENRY has told The Guardian that the new BBC chair should be someone who...
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Rescue efforts continue after the collapse of a dilapidated building in Central Alexandria, Egypt, killing 3 people on Wednesday.
Civil defense agents are hoping to rescue survivors in the rubble of the residential building in the Moharram Bek neighborhood.
Alexandria Governor said the building was earmarked for demolition.
\"In Fardous street in the district of Moharram Bek, on this building there were three floors. The building had be subject to demolition orders on separate occasions. There were two families and there are approximately nine people trapped in the rubble. We rescued a child and are waiting for the rest. Civil protection workers are here and we have the necessary equipment prepared. God help their families, we will be here with them until the rest are rescued\", Mohamed El-Sherif said.
Central Alexandria and Cairo, is home to most of these dilapidated buildings, which dates back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. Several buildings have collapsed in recent years in Egypt, claiming many victims, due to the dilapidation of buildings and non-compliance with legislation in terms of urban planning.
Calls are intensifying for the removal of twin Emancipation memorials in Washington, D.C., and Boston that depict a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet — optics that jar and offend many in a nation confronting racial injustice through a fresh lens.
“I’ve been watching this man on his knees since I was a kid,” said Tory Bullock, a Black actor and activist leading the campaign to get the Boston memorial removed.
Black donors paid for the original in Washington; white politician and circus showman Moses Kimball financed the copy on a downtown square a block away from Boston Common.
But Blacks weren’t part of the design process, and the memorial’s central visual takeaway — a Black man with broken shackles kneeling before his white savior, with a whipping post and chains in the background — has had people cringing for years.
“We haven’t reached peak insanity, but setting an appointment to tear down an Abraham Lincoln statue known as the Emancipation Memorial in the name of racial equity has to be getting close,” conservative commentator Rich Lowry said on Twitter.
The family of Paul Rusesabagina, the former hotelier portrayed as a hero in a film about Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, has called on the international community to appeal for his release from prison.
Rusesabagina, a political dissident who lived in exile in Belgium and the United States, was charged with terrorism and other offences last month after he returned to Rwanda in August.
His case has attracted widespread international attention partly because his story of protecting Tutsi guests during the genocide was made into a popular Hollywood film.
Rusesabagina, who says he was tricked into returning to Rwanda, has been denied his choice of defence lawyers, according to his family. Instead, his defence team was appointed by the government of Rwanda.
\"This is unprecedented,\" said Peter Robinson, an American lawyer who has previously defended people accused at the International Criminal Court and international war crimes tribunals for Rwanda. \"They are preventing Paul from being defended by lawyers of his choice.\"
Robinson said the family had appointed him and six other lawyers to defend Rusesabagina. But their local lawyer - one of the six - has not been permitted to see Rusesabagina and his government-appointed lawyers have not communicated with Rusesabagina's family, he said.
Robinson urged the United States, Belgium and European Union to put pressure on the Rwandan government to free Rusesabagina, who is a Belgian citizen and permanent resident of the United States. He received the United States’ highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 2005.
Meanwhile a court in Rwanda will on Friday afternoon decide on an appeal filed by Paul Rusesabagina against his 30-day remand.
Rusesabagina, 66, faces 13 charges including terrorism and murder linked to activities of National Liberation Front (FLN), a militia group that claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in Nyungwe forest in 2018 in which lives were lost and properties destroyed.
A Change.org petition calling for Tory Lanez's deportation has gotten thousands of signatures.
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The United Nation. Commission on Narcotic Drugs voted Wednesday to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from a category of the world's most dangerous drugs, which could impact the global medical marijuana industry.
“The vote today is the result of the Commission’s intensive and detailed consideration of these very complex recommendations during the last two years”, as the Chairperson, Ambassador Mansoor Ahmad Khan of Pakistan pointed out.
Following a critical review of cannabis by the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence, WHO submitted in January 2019 to the Commission eight recommendations on cannabis and cannabis-related substances. After intensive considerations, the Commission decided today (by 27 votes to 25 and with one abstention) to delete cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule IV of the 1961 Convention. These substances remain in Schedule I of the 1961 Convention and thus remain subject to all levels of control of the 1961 Convention. The Commission decided not to follow the other recommendations made by the WHO, so that the schedules regarding the respective substances will otherwise remain unchanged.
The Vienna-based U.N. agency said in a statement that it had voted 27-25, with one abstention, to follow the World Health Organization's recommendation to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule IV of the 1961 Convention on Narcotic Drugs, where it was listed with heroin and several other opioids.
The drugs that are on Schedule IV are a subset of those on Schedule I of the convention, which already requires the highest levels of international control. The agency voted to leave cannabis and cannabis resin on the list of Schedule I drugs, which also include cocaine, Fentanyl, morphine, Methadone, opium and oxycodone, the opiate painkiller sold as OxyContin.
Wednesday's vote therefore does not clear U.N. member nations to legalize marijuana under the international drug control system. Canada and Uruguay have legalized the sale and use of cannabis for recreational purposes, but many countries around the world have decriminalized marijuana possession.
The schedules weigh a drug's medical utility versus the possible harm that it might cause, and experts say that taking cannabis off the strictest schedule could lead, however, to the loosening of international controls on medical marijuana.
Megan Thee Stallion accused hip-hop star Tory Lanez of shooting her in the feet more than one month after the incident. On Thursday, Aug. 20, […]
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Boston city officials have offensive statue removed of Abraham Lincoln and a former enslaved man.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard arguments while reviewing Bill Cosby's sexual assault case as his lawyers worked to have his conviction overturned.
Fourteen people have gone to trial in Paris for their alleged involvement in the 2015 attacks on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket.
The suspects, going to the docks on Wednesday, are accused of providing logistical support to the gunmen and could face 20-year sentences.
Three are being tried in absentia as they are believed to have fled to Iraq and Syria, where the Islamic State group at the time declared their \"caliphate\".
The attacks spanning three days in January 2015 started at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which regularly depicts the Prophet Muhammed, which some Muslims find blasphemous.
The brothers Said and Chérif Kouachi opened fire on their editorial meeting on January 7.
They killed 12 people, including France's most famed cartoonists and police officers.
A day later Amedy Coulibaly shot and killed a police officer and killed four Jewish men at a kosher supermarket.
The three gunmen were killed in separate police standoffs.
The slogan, Je suis Charlie, (I am Charlie) went viral and a wave of anti-terror marches took place.
The biggest rally was in Paris, with global leaders showing their support.
Six African heads of state were at the march.
But with Boko Haram and more frequent jihadist attacks in Africa, some questioned why their leaders did not show the same support back home.
By BRIAN LOWRY CNN Ever since Netflix helped launch the modern true-crime docuseries craze with Making a Murderer five years ago, networks and services have been seeking stories with similar heft. Trial 4 [...]
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St. Louis County’s prosecutor announced Thursday that he will not charge the former police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a dramatic decision that could reopen old wounds amid a renewed and intense national conversation about racial injustice and the police treatment of people of color. Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell’s decision marked […]
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The Boston Art Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to remove from Park Square a statue that represents Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves. The decision came at the end of a second hearing to collect opinions on the memorial after a petition for its removal gathered more than 12,000 signatures in less than a month. Tory []
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The Worthen family moved into their new Habitat for Humanity home on Sept. 22. ST. PETERSBURG — Last month, a St. Pete family celebrated the completion of the Habitat for Humanity homeownership program. The Worthen family partnered with Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas and West Pasco Counties to build their home in the Childs Park […]
The following is a speech given by Frederick Douglass on July 5th, 1852. He was initially asked to give the speech when the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Association invited him to speak at their July Fourth Independence Day Celebration in Rochester, N.Y. He refused to speak on that day and instead gave his speech on the []
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If he had lived long enough to have his day in court, Jeffrey Epstein would have been acquitted or triggered a mistrial, his former lawyer says. 'It was foolish of him to kill himself because [...]
Tory Lanez is still covered in struggle juice but is trying his best to take it off. He has answered The Boss but his response is falling on deaf ears. As spotted on TMZ all signs are pointing to the fact that Daystar is making the Canadian performer more unpopular by the day. Upon the […]
