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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered the interim release “under specific conditions” of Jean-Pierre Bemba, the ex-vice president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following his acquittal last week on war crimes charges. The 55-year-old was acquitted on Friday and his 18-year sentence was overturned, but he remained in custody because he is awaiting a final sentencing in ...

MANCHESTER UNITED star David De Gea isn’t the right signing for Real Madrid, Sergio Ramos has reportedly told the club. The Spanish giants are expected to splash the cash this summer, with Florentino Perez keen to land a new Galactico. Real, who are currently without a manager following Zinedine Zidane’s shock departure earlier this month, are ready for a summer ...

Tanzanian prosecutors on Wednesday charged two chief executives of mobile phone companies and four other suspects with fraud as part of a crackdown against tax evasion in the East African nation. The executives charged were Le Van Dai, 35, managing director of Halotel Tanzania, owned by Vietnam-based telecoms operator Viettel, and Sherif El Barbary, managing director of Zantel. Dai is ...

Why did Kwesi Nyantakyi finally resign on Friday? After weeks of turmoil, the Ghana Football Association announced that its President was leaving the position he had occupied for 13 years. The decision by the 48-year old was expected, but still was a stunning development. In an audio recording, reportedly done after the decision was made, he explains. “When I think ...

Google has promised not to use AI for weapons, following protests over its partnership with the US military. A decision to provide machine-learning tools to analyse drone footage caused some employees to resign. Google told employees last week it would not renew its contract with the US Department of Defense when it expires next year. It has now said it ...

A Fortnite player in Croatia has completed one of the game’s hardest achievements – getting back to its starting point. YouTuber OrangeGuy posted a video showing how he managed to reach “spawn island” where players gather before each round of the survival game starts. He reached the island using a massive bridge and one of the shopping trolleys recently introduced ...

The medical license of Dr. Windell Boutte, whose dancing operating room videos made her a YouTube sensation, has been suspended pending multiple malpractice allegations. “My daughter said it looked like a shark bit me,” Gloria Slater told Inside Edition, showing the scars on her abdomen from what was supposed to be tummy tuck. Another alleged victim, Mitzi McFarland, said she ...

The fight against a deadly Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is giving reason for cautious optimism, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. “It’s stabilizing. We’re optimistic, cautiously optimistic,” he told Reuters. He said he would travel to Congo on Sunday to check on progress a month into the outbreak, and would also go to ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday assured the white Afrikaner community that it should not view his government’s land reform plans as a threat, but as a way to harness the country’s economic potential and heal divisions from the past. Ramaphosa, who replaced scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma in February, has promised to redistribute land to the black majority to address ...

Thousands of Malians marched through the capital Bamako on Friday against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who will seek re-election next month. A similar protest last Saturday was broken up by riot police firing teargas but this time the demonstrators, blowing horns and waving Malian flags, marched without incident from Place de la Liberté toward Place de l’Independence about 1.5 km ...