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Saudi Arabia to abolish flogging as punishment for crime

Saudi Arabia is to abolish flogging as a form of punishment, according to a legal document seen by media outlets. The directive from the Gulf kingdom’s Supreme Court says flogging will be replaced by imprisonment or fines. It says this is an extension of human rights reforms brought by King …

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Rapper, Kanye West officially becomes a Billionaire

Kanye West has officially become a Billionaire, making him the second American rapper to reach that status after Jay-Z. According to Forbes, ’Ye’s Yeezy brand, which he owns in its’ entirety and falls under the Adidas umbrella, helped push him over the $1 billion mark. The publication said they dissected the …

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North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un rumored to be dead

Kim Jong Un is rumored to be dead, according to a Hong Kong broadcast network, while a Japanese magazine is reporting that North Korea’s rocket man is in a “vegetative state” after he underwent heart surgery earlier this month. A vice-director of HKSTV Hong Kong Satellite Television, a Beijing-backed broadcast network in …

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Chinese Doctors ‘Using Plasma Therapy’ on Coronavirus Patients

SHANGHAI – Doctors in Shanghai are using infusions of blood plasma from people who have recovered from the coronavirus to treat those still battling the infection, reporting some encouraging preliminary results, a Chinese professor said on Monday. The coronavirus epidemic is believed to have originated in a seafood market in …

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Trafficking mafias now offering paddle boat tickets back home to Morocco from Spain for a whopping €5,000

The coronavirus pandemic has altered many normal occurrences in our reality, now migrants are trying to flee from a Covid-ridden Spain back to their countries, such as Morocco and Algeria. Returning home in the midst of a global pandemic has become an almost impossible mission which is fuelling human trafficking …

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US COVID-19 death toll passes 50,000

The US virus death toll has surpassed 50,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, in what is the world’s most boring Covid-19 outbreak. More than 3,000 deaths came in the last 24 hours, and there are now over 870,000 confirmed cases nationwide. But the US still has a lower mortality …

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Chinese company produces dolls of famous Ghanaian funeral pallbearers for sale

A doll-making workshop that is based in Honk Kong, China, called JMG 1/64 Miniatures, has started producing figurines of the popular Ghanaian funeral pallbearers for sale as they’ve gone viral. In a post sighted by YEN.com.gh on the Facebook page of the company, it is clearly indicated that many customers …

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Man beats son for passing music, failing Maths, English [video]

Social media has been thrown into a frenzy after a man was seen in a video spanking his son for his academic failure at the American International School of Lusaka. From the conversations in the now viral video, one can deduce that the father was not pleased with his son, …

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U.N. agency calls for $1 trillion developing world debt write-off

Around $1 trillion of debt owed by developing countries would be cancelled under a global deal proposed by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Thursday to help them overcome the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The world’s developing economies, which were already struggling with a rapidly …

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