Police in Thailand have arrested a Buddhist monk accused of stealing $3 million from his monastery and breaking his vow of celibacy with a female associate, who has also been detained.
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BLOOD TIES: DNA Proves Childhood Friends Are Actual Biological Sisters
Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen were both born in the early 1980s in Mumbai and adopted as infants by two separate Dutch families through two different orphanages. The women grew up in nearby areas of the Netherlands without knowing they were related.
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KENYA: Africa To Host 2029 World Athletics Championships In Nairobi
Kenya’s rich athletics heritage will play host to the World Athletics Championships after winning the bid for the 2029 edition, the first time in Africa.
The 48,000-capacity Kasarani Stadium in the capital Nairobi will host the event.
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FRANCE: Eiffel Tower Staff Strike Over Shocking Order That Exclude Female Workers
The Eiffel Tower in Paris was closed on Monday as employees went on strike to protest claims female colleagues were told to stay out of sight during a visit by a Hindu religious group, drawing criticism from French politicians.
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POLAND: Stricter AI Rules Protest By Robots In Warsaw
In Warsaw, marching robots waved flags and chanted slogans outside the digital affairs ministry, calling on Poland’s government to regulate AI before it costs people their jobs.
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Two Senior USCIS Official Arrested In Improper Green Card/Citizenship For Cash Fraud
Two senior former service immigration officers, Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu and Adeniyi Akeem Somoye, have been arrested in the United States over an alleged scheme to receive illegal payments in exchange for manipulating and expediting immigration applications – a charge they denied.
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PORTUGAL: Ex-F1 Boss Ecclestone Held For Possession Of Illegal Shotgun
Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone was detained in Portugal after police found a shotgun on his private jet.
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JAMAICA: PM Petition King Charles In Historic Reparations Push
A high-level delegation representing the Government of Jamaica were in the London to file a petition on slavery reparations with King Charles.
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EGYPT: Female TV Presenter Sentenced To Death For drug crime
An Egyptian court has sentenced a well-known security and crime female television presenter and 11 others to death for manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in a sprawling drug case.
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AFTER THE CARNIVAL, WHO WILL KEEP AFRICA’S LIGHT BURNING? By Dr Teju Kareem
For more than sixty years, The Africa Centre has kept a lamp burning for Africa in the heart of Britain.
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