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Former NFL footballer Aaron Hernandez has been found dead in his cell in Massachusetts, officials say. Hernandez hanged himself at the Baranowski Correctional Center and was pronounced dead later at hospital. The former New England Patriots tight end was serving a life sentence for killing a man who was dating his fiancee’s sister. Last week he was acquitted of a ...

Lagos – Nigeria’s defence minister has reportedly warned that it could take years to find all the Chibok girls who were abducted by the Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram about three years ago. According to Voice of America, General Manir Dan Ali said that the west African country’s defence forces were searching the insurgent group’s hideout at the Sambisa Forest, ...

Berlin – The UN’s top human rights official says he’s alarmed by what appears to be a “widespread pattern” of rallies in Burundi in which members of a pro-government youth militia sing about impregnating opponents. An online video emerged this month of an incident involving the Imbonerakure militia. Burundi’s ruling party criticized the song. The UN human rights office on ...

Abuja – Nigeria’s government says the international airport in its capital is reopening after six weeks of repairs to the runway, which experts had said was in shocking disrepair. Nigeria says the Abuja airport is opening on Tuesday, a day ahead of schedule. The closure of one of West Africa’s busiest airports had been another blow to Nigeria’s already suffering ...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans to call a snap general election on 8 June. She said Britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership following the EU referendum. Explaining the decision, Mrs May said: “The country is coming together but Westminster is not.” Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said his Labour Party wanted the election, calling it a chance ...

Supreet Kaur, a news anchor in India, was reporting on a deadly accident and later learned that her husband was one of the victims. Watch the video below:   Source:CNN Share on:

Parents in Zimbabwe can now pay the school fees of their children using livestock. That is the announcement from the country’s government. Zimbabwe’s Minister Lazarus Dokora has said that managers of schools must be willing to accept the new mode of payment. The Finance minister of Zimbabwe, Patrick Chinamasa has already told the country’s parliament this month that banks are ...

Dakar – A fire ripped through makeshift shelters at a Muslim religious retreat in Senegal, killing at least 22 people and triggering a stampede, firefighters said on Thursday. The blaze broke out on Wednesday afternoon as worshippers gathered in the town of Medina Gounass in the southeastern region of Tambacounda, a senior official with the firefighting service told AFP. The ...

US judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first black woman to serve in New York’s highest court, has been found dead in the city’s Hudson River. The 65-year-old is also widely reported to have been the country’s first female Muslim judge. New York police said they pulled her from the water and pronounced her dead on Wednesday after being alerted by an ...

Bulawayo – Doctors in Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo have managed to save a man who had an axe buried in his skull fractions of a millimetre away from vital blood vessels, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Sipho Ndebele, 31, was told that the “slightest mistake” during an operation to remove the axe at Mpilo Central Hospital could have killed ...