Champions League: Real Madrid diehards believe a form of mysticism stalks the team’s European success
Mystic Uri Geller claims to have powers of psychokinesis – the ability to move objects without physical interaction with them – and over a 50-year career, has become involved in football on several occasions. He placed energy-infused crystals behind the goal to help Exeter City in 1997 – although they lost the game concerned 5-1, but swears to have helped Reading earn promotion in 2002. Most famously, he flew over Wembley in a helicopter during England’s Euro 96 match against Scotland, claiming he moved the ball just before Scotland’s Gary McAllister missed a crucial penalty.
Kenya, backed by EU, agrees to help Seychelles prosecute piracy suspects in Indian Ocean
On May 14, six suspected pirates were handed over to the Seychelles authorities for trial by Operation Atalanta, after being involved in an attack on the Marshall Islands-flagged Merchant Vessel Chrystal Arctic on 10 May.
Zambia’s former first lady and daughter friend arrested over properties worth over $2 million
Edgar Lungu was Zambia’s leader from 2015 to 2021, when he lost an election to current President Hakainde Hichilema, a longtime political rival. He has embarked on a political comeback
Army: Separatist gunmen suspected to be members of IPOB kill 11 in southeast Nigeria
IPOB campaigns for the secession of southeastern Nigeria where the majority belong to the Igbo group. The movement’s leader – Nnamdi Kanu, a British citizen arrested in Kenya in 2021 – is now on trial in Nigeria on terrorism charges.
Irate Trump mobs agitate for lynching of judges, violent uprising after New York finds him guilty of 34 crimes
Threats of violence and intimidating rhetoric soared after Trump lost the 2020 election and falsely claimed the vote was stolen. As he campaigns for a second White House term, Trump has baselessly cast the judges and prosecutors in his trials as corrupt tools of the Biden administration, intent on sabotaging his White House bid. His loyalists have responded with a campaign of threats and intimidation targeting judges and court officials.
World Bank approves $1.2 billion budget support for Kenya to help create competitive labour market
The funding had been agreed amid an improved macroeconomic environment following government efforts to address liquidity pressures
South Africa on course to ‘coalition country’ with fears President Ramaphosa is not sitting pretty in ANC
The ANC has had a clear majority for all 30 years of South Africa’s democracy since the party swept to power in a 1994 election which officially ended the apartheid system of white minority rule, leading Nelson Mandela to become the country’s first Black president. It has been the dominant political force and its slipping below 50 per cent would be a momentous change for Africa’s most advanced economy.
Opulence: Kenyan president defends use of private jet for US trip while calling for prudent spending
Ruto’s delegation of about 30 people including his family, musicians, actors and a comedian provoked an uproar back home over the cost even as he called for prudent spending. The president on Thursday said he was a very “responsible steward.”
One year-old Ghanaian toddler enters Guinness World Records as youngest male artist ever
The Guinness World Records confirmed the record in a statement and last week declared that “at the age of 1 year 152 days, little Ace-Liam Nana Sam Ankrah from Ghana is the world’s youngest male artist.”
Trump makes history as first ex-US president to be convicited of crime, faces four years in jail
Donald Trump, 77, was found guilty of falsifying his New York-based real estate company’s books to cover up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she alleges she had with Trump a decade earlier.
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