At least 13 people were killed and more than 50 injured on Thursday when a driver deliberately slammed a van into crowd on Las Ramblas regarded as Barcelona’s most popular and busiest street. The Catalan police said they had arrested one suspect in what is regarded as a “terror attack”, and denied earlier reports that the perpetrator was…
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Birmingham’s move for Trabzonspor midfielder Ogenyi Onazi is off after the Nigeria international was denied a work permit, according to Sky sources. Manager Harry Redknapp had hoped to make the 24-year-old his sixth signing of the summer transfer window and revealed last week that a deal was close. However, Sky Sports News understands the Football Association rejected…
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The hunt for survivors of the deadly mudslide in Sierra Leone continued Tuesday as the official death toll rose to 245, with numbers expected to grow and hundreds still missing. “More bodies have been discovered. The number rose from 205 to 245, the search continued this morning, and we expect that number to rise,” Abu Bakarr, spokesman…
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President Donald Trump, in a staggering, impromptu news conference in New York on Tuesday, blamed the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend on both sides of the conflict — equating the white supremacists on one side with the “alt-left” on the other side — after his top White House aides spent days trying to…
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Grace Mugabe, 52, the wife of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has allegedly gone into hiding after she was accused of assaulting a 20 year-old model, Gabriella Engels with an extension cord. This is contrary to an earlier report that she handed herself over to the police over allegations of physical assault on Engels, who she met at a hotel where…
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No fewer than 312 people have lost their lives to a mudslide on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone capital. According to the local Red Cross Spokesman, Patrick Massaquoi, the toll could rise further as his team continued to survey disaster areas in Freetown, where heavy rains have caused homes to disappear under water and triggered…
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Thousands of protesters lined New York streets as Donald Trump returned to the Trump Tower in the city for the first time since he was elected President. According to the New York Times, Trump arrived New York by helicopter, before riding in the presidential limousine to the Trump Tower. “Shame. Shame,” protesters chanted, forming dissenting voices to his…
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A hillside in the Regent area of Sierra Leone collapsed early on Monday following heavy rains, leaving many houses covered in mud and at least 179 people killed, BBC News reports. Sierra Leone’s Vice-President Victor Bockarie Foh confirmed that the disaster was “so serious that I myself feel broken”. He confirmed the total number of casualties may likely…
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Cristiano Ronaldo was hit with a five-match ban by the Spanish football federation (RFEF) on Monday for pushing the referee after being sent-off in Real Madrid’s 3-1 Spanish Super Cup, first leg win over Barcelona. The World Player of the Year received an automatic one-match ban for his dismissal on Sunday and an extra four…
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Kenyan police killed 11 people in a crackdown on protesters as anger at the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta erupted in the western city of Kisumu and slums around the capital. Rueters, quoting a security official, revealed that the bodies of nine young men shot dead overnight in Nairobi’s Mathare slum had been brought to…
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