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By ROBERT BUMSTED and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Gone were the revelry and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that typify Times Square on New Year's Eve, replaced by empty streets and an eerie quiet as the final moments of 2020 ticked away. This was New Year's Eve in the age of COVID-19. Crowd control gave way to crowd prevention, as police closed the Crossroads of the World to vehicles and onlookers hoping to catch a glimpse of the glittering, crystal ball that still descended down a flagpole to mark the stroke of midnight. Would-be partygoers were urged to watch […]
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Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
Marcellis Stinnette, an unarmed Black teen, was killed and his girlfriend was critically wounded in a police shooting in suburban Chicago that has prompted more questions than answers.
Verzuz took a brief hiatus following its success through the spring and summer but now season two could bring two... View Article
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During the month of October, Chatham Parkway Toyota has transformed its showroom and parts department with pink balloons in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Through the end of October, Chatham Parkway Toyota will donate a portion of every sale to the American Cancer Society. By making a donation to the American Cancer Society, Toyota will be helping to educate … Continue reading \"Chatham Parkway Toyota Raises Breast Cancer Awareness\"
FORMER Zanu PF youth league political commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu (pictured) arrested last week on allegations of inciting public violence and attempting to unseat President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has been freed on $10 000 bail by High Court judge Justice Davison Foroma. BY HARRIET CHIKANDIWA/FAITH CHAPFIKA In granting bail, Justice Foroma said magistrate Ngoni Nduna had failed to substantiate claims that Tsenengamu was a flight risk and no evidence was provided by the State that his life was in danger. “The magistrate did not show how locking him up would make him safe,” Justice Foroma ruled. He ordered Tsenengamu to surrender his passport to the clerk at Harare Magistrate Court, reside at his given address and report twice a week at Waterfalls Police Station. The former youth league kingpin was expelled from Zanu PF after he accused senior party officials of being corrupt. Since being kicked out of Zanu PF, Tsenengamu has been involved in an anti-corruption crusade and has joined hands with civil society to push for an end to corruption.
Pritzker bans indoor dining in bars and restaurants in Kane, DuPage and Will counties Crusader Staff Report Country Clubs Hills, Thornton and Calumet City are among Black towns in the Chicago metro area that experienced big jumps in COVID-19 cases in the past two weeks, according to the October 4 report by the Cook County […]
The 48-year-old director was arrested by the Hawks for alleged fraud worth R4.8 million in the OR Tambo Municipality.
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Six current and former Russian military officers sought to disrupt through computer hacking the French election, the Winter Olympics and U.S. hospitals and businesses, according to a Justice Department indictment unsealed Monday. It details destructive attacks on a broad range of targets and implicates the same Kremlin unit that interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. The indictment accuses the defendants, all said to be officers in the Russian military agency known as the GRU, in hacks that prosecutors say were aimed at furthering the Kremlin's geopolitical interests and as retribution against its […]
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Unemployment claims nationwide reached 787,000 for the week ending Oct. 17, signaling a slow but steady economic recovery as the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic continues into the fall. According to the Department of Labor, [...]
THE MDC-T's extraordinary congress set for year-end faces a fresh hurdle with members who constituted the party’s Midlands provincial executive in 2014 demanding that MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa be among the candidates eligible for election.
The United States' coronavirus death toll will reach as high as 247,000 by Nov. 14, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected in an ensemble forecast published Thursday.
Naomi Campbell graces the cover of Vogue Magazine's November 2020 issue where she examines racial oppression as a society and from a personal point of view. Whatever you do, don't expect her to call it "racism."
Suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels freed more than 1,300 prisoners in an assault on a jail in Beni, eastern Democratic Republic Congo.
Only about 100 prisoners after the attack on Kagbayi prison on Tuesday morning.
The ADF are a Ugandan rebel group with bases in eastern Congo.
\"We had a count before the escape of 1,456 (prisoners), 110 (of them) stayed and I thank them for that. Some 20 (escapees) have already returned and I know that others are on their way back. We'll do a tally, and work out how many have come back\", said Modeste Bakwanamaha, the mayor of Beni.
Kagbayi prison is used to hold errant army soldiers and militiamen captured in fighting, including some from the ADF.
Jail breaks are common in Congo where conditions in detention facilities are said to be very bad.
A photo of an on-duty police officer in full uniform was going viral because the cop was wearing a pro-Donald Trump mask at a polling place in Florida as voters were casting their ballots early.
Observers from the African Union and the Economic Comunity of West African States (ECOWAS) have said Guinea was conducted transparently, despite opposition claims of irregularities.
On Monday, opposition leader Cellou Diallo declared himself winner, saying his own tally gave him a first-round victory over president Alpha Conde.
Diallo’s claim was swiftly rejected by the electoral commission, which called it “premature” and “void”.
Addressing journalists in the capital, Conakry, Augustin Matata Ponyo, the AU’s head of mission in Guinea, said on Tuesday the ballot was held “in transparency”.
\"The elections were held in a transparent, secure, calm and peaceful environment, once again demonstrating the maturity of the Guinean people and political actors\", he asserted.
Tension is building in the country ahead of the release of official results. Diallo's supporters have held celebrations in the capital.
Francis Behanzin, ECOWAS' Peace and Security commissioner urged candidates \"to resort to legal avenues\" if they are aggrieved.
A GROUP of Zambian women and children filed a suit against Anglo American Plc in South Africa, alleging the mining company caused widespread lead poisoning from a mine it owned until 1974 in the northern city of Kabwe. The case, which is demanding compensation and a clean-up of the area, was filed in a Johannesburg court on Wednesday by 13 plaintiffs on behalf of an estimated 100 000 people, according to law firms Leigh Day and Mbuyisa Moleele. The firms plan to apply for a class action suit. Anglo American will “defend its position,” the company said. “Generations of children have been poisoned by the operations of the Kabwe mine, originally known as Broken Hill, which caused widespread contamination of the soil, dust, water and vegetation,” the firms said in a statement. “The main sources of this poisonous lead were from the smelter, ore processing and tailings dumps.” The group lawsuit is the latest over its decades of mining in southern Africa. In 2018, Anglo and five other companies paid about US$390 million to settle a class action by former gold miners suffering from the respiratory disease silicosis. “Once the claim is received, the company will review the claims made by the firm and will take all necessary steps to vigorously defend its position,” Anglo said in an emailed response to questions, adding it was never the majority owner of the Kabwe mine. Anglo held an interest in the mine, at one stage the world’s biggest lead operation, from 1925 to 1974, when it was nationalised by the government. While the operation about 100km north of the Zambian capital, Lusaka, was eventually shut in 1994, output during Anglo’s ownership accounted for about two-thirds of the lead that now contaminates the area, the law firms said. Brain damage “Substantial emissions of lead into the local environment were due to deficiencies in the design and systems of operation and control of lead, which Anglo American South Africa failed to ensure were rectified,” they said. “Anglo American South Africa failed to ensure the clean-up of the communities’ contaminated land.” Lead poisoning can cause health problems ranging from learning difficulties to infertility, brain damage and, in some cases, death. In a 2019 report, Human Rights Watch said that a third of the population of Kabwe, or more than 76,000 people, live in lead-contaminated areas. The lawsuit was filed in South Africa because at the time of the mine’s operation Anglo was headquartered in Johannesburg. The company is now based in London. — Bloomberg
THE UK'S only black (Afro-Caribbean) female professor of Computer Science, Dorothy Monekosso, has been awarded...
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DAVID KLEPPER | Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The email from a political action committee seemed harmless: if you support Joe Biden, it urged, click here to make sure you're registered to vote. But Harvard University graduate student Maya James did not click. Instead, she Googled the name of the soliciting PAC. It didn't […]
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According to a new AP-NORC/SAP poll, 25% of U.S. workers considered quitting their jobs over concerns of contracting coronavirus. One-fifth of those surveyed say they have taken leave. Lower-income workers – those working less than $30,000 per year - were more likely to have considered quitting than those in higher-income households. Women are feeling the […]
AMY TAXIN | Associated Press The state Republican Party has removed their unstaffed, unofficial ballot drop boxes that state officials deemed illegal, California's secretary of state said Friday, and subpoenas are being issued to get more information about them as the state attorney general looks into possible election law violations. Republicans confirmed they had yanked […]
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The Gauteng Department of Education has said that a number of teachers at Vaal High School in Vanderbijlpark were under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct.
