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Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian PM, dies at 86

By:brightwebtv Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian PM who bounced back from sex scandals and corruption allegations, has died aged 86. He died at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, according to Italian media. In April, Berlusconi was treated for a lung infection linked to a previously undisclosed case of chronic …

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Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Apple has been fined 25 million euros (£21m, $27m) for deliberately slowing down older iPhone models without making it clear to consumers. The fine was imposed by France’s competition and fraud watchdog DGCCRF, which said consumers were not warned. In 2017, Apple confirmed that it did slow …

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Ivory Coast’s former rebel leader to run for president

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Guillaume Soro Former Ivory Coast rebel leader, Guillaume Soro, has announced plans to run in the West African state’s presidential election scheduled for next year. Guillaume Soro led the rebels that tried and failed to oust former President Laurent Gbagbo in 2002, dividing the country for nearly …

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Taadi Girls were used for rituals, accept the DNA results – Eagle Prophet to families

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The General Overseer of the God’s Crown Chapel, Prophet Reindolph Oduro Gyebi, has asked families of the missing Takoradi girls to accept the results from the DNA test in good faith. The man of God told Kwabena Agyapong on Frontline on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that the families …

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A Kenyan school is under fire for turning a young girl away from school because of her hair.

  By Nana Asare Barimah Makeda Ndinda, a Rastafarian student who wears her hair in locks, says she was forced to pick between “hair or books” by the deputy principal of Olympic High School in Kibera when she showed up for class wearing hear hair in a wrap. She was …

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Ivory Coast ex-President Gbagbo goes free at ICC court

  The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has acquitted Ivory Coast ex-President Laurent Gbagbo.   He had been charged with crimes against humanity in connection with violence following a disputed 2010 election that left 3,000 dead and 500,000 displaced. Mr Gbagbo was captured in 2011 in a presidential …

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Zimbabwe deploys riot police to control violent fuel price hike protests

Zimbabwe police were deployed in Harare to patrol and stop and search citizens after protests erupted over a sharp increase in the price of fuel. Picture: Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo   Harare – Zimbabwe police were deployed in Harare on Monday to patrol and stop and search citizens after protests erupted over …

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