Section: Africa&ME
FBI raids offices of Trump’s personal lawyer
FBI agents raided the offices of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, seizing documents related to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006 © GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / MANDEL NGANWashington, United States, Apr 10 – A furious Donald Trump blasted the investigation led by special...
PICS: Topless protester a former ‘Cosby Show’ actress and activist
NORRISTOWN – The topless protester who leaped over a barricade and ran toward Bill Cosby at the start of his sexual assault retrial on Monday is an actress who appeared on the comedian’s family sitcom “The Cosby Show” as a child. Nicolle Rochelle, a member of European feminist group Femen, which is known for staging...
African Migrants in Limbo After Israel Nixes Resettlement Plan
Uncertainty reigns for African migrants in Israel a week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abandoned a plan to resolve the country’s refugee crisis, just one day after announcing it. In the agreement with the United Nations’ refugee agency, half of Israel’s roughly 32,500 African migrants would have remained in the country...
Nord Stream 2 Going Full Throttle Despite Ukraine’s Protests, US Threats
Ukraine’s efforts to prevent the implementation of Nord Stream 2 appears to be nothing more than a tempest in a teapot as the project continues to move forward. On April 5 Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution “on the inadmissibility of construction of the North Stream 2 gas pipeline and the Russian Federation’s monopoly...
Finance: Russian markets are getting slammed as fresh sanctions take hold
The benchmark MICEX index lost as much as 10% at one point on Monday Russian markets are getting slammed on Monday, with the country’s RTS Index losing more than 11% by 4.2o p.m. BST (11.20 a.m. ET; 6.20 p.m. in Moscow). “The US sanctions imposed on Russia last Friday have caused turmoil in Russia’s markets today and financial...
Poroshenko Proposes to Increase Gas Transit Via Ukraine Instead of Nord Stream 2
“There is a Ukrainian transit pipeline, which is much cheaper. It can be easily and profitably modernized … One can significantly modernize the transit line through Ukraine without huge investments,” Poroshenko told the Handelsblatt German newspaper. On April 5, the Ukrainian parliament endorsed a statement calling on the legislatures and...
Putin and Merkel discuss Syria, Ukraine, energy by phone
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Ukraine slams German-Russia gas pipeline, calls for project cancellation
The Ukrainian president says a second Russia-Germany gas pipeline has no economic justification. …read more Source:...
MAREKANI YAWAWEKEA VIKWAZO ‘MABILIONEA WA PUTIN’
WASHINGTON, MAREKANI MAREKANI imewawekea mabilionea saba washirika wa Rais wa Urusi, Vladimir Putin, hali inayozidi kufufua kile kinachoitwa Vita Baridi mpya. Waliolengwa ni pamoja na mfanyabiashara wa vyuma Oleg Deripaska, anayeelezwa kufanya kazi kwa niaba ya Serikali ya Urusi pamoja na Alexei Miller, mkurugenzi wa kampuni kubwa ya nishati...
Sports highlights – April 9, 2018
Kenya’s Starlets advance to Women’s Africa Cup of Nations second round Kenya’s Harambee Starlets moved to the second round of the African Women’s Cup of Nations Qualifier after holding Uganda to a barren draw. This was during a return leg hosted in Kampala. The Starlets progressed with a 1-0 aggregate win. The ntional team...
