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Moroccan rapper ElGrande Toto in custody after cannabis controversy

Moroccan rapper ElGrande Toto was taken into custody on Monday evening, following several complaints filed against him for public statements he made about using cannabis, a judicial source said.. A prosecutor of a Casablanca court on late Monday decided to place Taha Fahssi -- ElGrande Toto's real name -- in custody after complaints were filed by "three artists, a journalist, and a policeman", a judicial source told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 1 mins read

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Italy's PM is a trailblazer, just don't call her feminist

In her rapid rise through Italian politics, Giorgia Meloni has repeatedly shattered the glass ceiling and has now become the first woman premier in the still staunchly patriarchal country.. "I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian," Meloni said at a 2019 rally.

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 4 mins read

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Italy's new PM Meloni sets out programme to parliament

Giorgia Meloni will address Italy's parliament for the first time as prime minister on Tuesday, setting out her plan for government one month after her far-right party's historic election victory.. The lower house of parliament and the Senate will then each hold a vote of confidence in Meloni's government, the most right-wing in Rome since World War II. The votes, likely on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, are largely procedural, as her coalition has a comfortable majority in parliament.

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 2 mins read

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Brazilian suspect in murder of British journalist, Amazon expert, granted house arrest

A Brazilian judge has allowed one of the suspects in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira to be released on bail to house arrest, local media said Monday.. Ruben da Silva Villar, also known as "Colombia," was released last Friday, according to local press reports, after a ruling made three days earlier and which AFP gained access to on Monday. 

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 1 mins read

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Moscow theatre siege survivors haunted two decades on

Twenty years after Chechen separatists seized a crowded theatre in Moscow, spurring a hostage standoff that ended with more than one hundred dead, the survivors are haunted by the memories and plagued by unanswered questions.. But two years after the Dubrovka theatre siege, again Chechen separatists staged a hostage crisis, taking more than a thousand people hostage at a school in Beslan, a town in the Caucasus republic of North Ossetia.

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 3 mins read

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Megayacht sparks warnings Hong Kong could become Russia haven

The recent visit of a Russian megayacht to Hong Kong has sparked warnings from corruption investigators that the city could become a haven for oligarchs and officials hiding from Western sanctions.. David Webb, a Hong Kong activist investor, said the city will have "plenty of competition for being a safe haven, including Dubai and Singapore".

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 3 mins read

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Food shock: Crop-battering disasters highlight climate threat

Rolling crises linked to war, weather disasters and the pandemic have shaken global food systems and tipped millions into hunger and poverty.. Up to nine million people could be dragged into poverty by the disaster, the World Bank says.

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 5 mins read

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Four Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in West Bank: Palestinian ministry 

Four Palestinians were killed and nearly 20 others injured early Tuesday in raids by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. . These raids, often accompanied by clashes with the Palestinian population, have resulted in more than a hundred deaths on the Palestinian side, the highest death toll in the West Bank in nearly seven years, according to the UN.  Since the beginning of the month, more than 20 Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers have been killed, according to an AFP report.

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 3 mins read

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Sunak to be appointed UK's third PM this year

Rishi Sunak will on Tuesday be installed as Britain's third prime minister this year, replacing the humiliated Liz Truss after just seven weeks and inheriting a daunting array of problems.. The 42-year-old Hindu will be Britain's first prime minister of colour and the youngest in more than two centuries.

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 3 mins read

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Vote could hobble Biden foreign policy but Ukraine shift seen unlikely

Kevin McCarthy, who could soon be second in line to the White House, startled US allies when he warned that his Republican Party would no longer write a "blank check" to Ukraine.. - Majorities for Ukraine aid - Colin Dueck, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who has written on conservatives' foreign policy, saw the comments by McCarthy, the top House Republican, as an effort to accommodate a minority view on Ukraine.

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 3 mins read