YouTube has issued a statement concerning the shooting which left 3 people wounded and the suspected shooter dead. Nasim Najafi Aghdam had been fingered as the suspect who opened fire in the company’s headquarters, believing the video streaming platform had a vendetta against her. YouTube, in a statement released on Google Communication’s Twitter, has thanked the San…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is recovering in a Los Angeles hospital after undergoing heart surgery. The 70-year-old former California governor had a scheduled procedure to replace a pulmonic valve on Thursday, according to Schwarzenegger’s spokesman, Daniel Ketchell. He was in stable condition on Friday. “His first words were actually ’I’m back,” so he is in good spirits,”…
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Winnie Madikizela Mandela, former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, has passed away. Winnie, who was also an anti-apartheid campaigner, died at age eighty-one (81) in a Johannesburg hospital after a long illness on Monday afternoon,. According to a statement by Victor Dlamini, a family spokesman: “She died after a long illness,…
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The suspect in a gun attack at YouTube’s HQ in California had expressed anger over its treatment of her video postings, media reports say. Police have named Nasim Aghdam, 39, as the suspect but say they are still investigating a motive. US media say Aghdam was angry that YouTube was filtering her videos and reducing…
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Russian businessman and founder of the MMM Pyramid scheme, Sergey Mavrodi has died from a heart attack. According to Premium Times, the 62-year-old was rushed to the hospital late on March 25 with pain in his chest and died several hours later. Mavrodi’s MMM financial pyramid was a typical Ponzi scheme in which earlier investors receive their profits from subsequent…
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A first-generation Ghanaian-American Virgil Abloh has been named as the next artistic director of one of the oldest and most powerful European houses in the luxury business- Louis Vuitton menswear. Abloh, the founder of the haute street wear label Off-White and a longtime creative director for Kanye West, becomes Louis Vuitton’s first African-American artistic director, and one of the…
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Facebook took out full-page ads in 3 U.S. newspapers and 6 UK newspapers to apologise for the misuse of user data. The ad, signed by founder Mark Zuckerberg, took responsibility and apologised for Cambridge Analytica obtaining data of over 50 million users and using it in the favour of Donald Trump in the 2016 elections. “This was a breach…
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Hundreds of thousands from all over the United States took to the streets of Washington in the “March For Our Lives” protest to demand an end to gun violence. Young activists from Parkland, Florida, had formed the March For Our Lives movement after a school shooter opened fire in Marjory Stoneman Douglas and killed 17 of their friends in…
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French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy was detained for questioning on Tuesday over allegations that late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi financed his 2007 election campaign, including with suitcases stuffed with cash. Sarkozy was taken into police custody early Tuesday morning and was being questioned by officers specialising in corruption, money laundering and tax evasion at their office…
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Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has won won a fresh term of office, following a landslide victory of 73.9% of the vote, defeating the closest competitor, according to exit poll. With the victory, Putin will lead Russia for another six years. According to BBC, the main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was barred from the race. The…
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