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On Tuesday, a teenage human trafficking victim charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced in an Iowa court. She was sentenced to five […]
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Abiy's government and the regional one run by the Tigray People's Liberation Front each consider the other illegitimate.
\t There was no immediate word from the three AU envoys, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe. AU spokeswoman Ebba Kalondo did not say whether they can meet with TPLF leaders, something Abiy's office has rejected.
\"``Not possible,'' senior Ethiopian official Redwan Hussein said in a message to the AP. ``\"Above all, TPLF leadership is still at large.'' He called reports that the TPLF had appointed an envoy to discuss an immediate cease-fire with the international community ``masquerading.''
\t Fighting reportedly remained well outside the Tigray capital of Mekele, a densely populated city of a half-million people who have been warned by the Ethiopian government that they will be shown ``no mercy'' if they don't distance themselves from the region's leaders.
\t Tigray has been almost entirely cut off from the outside world since Nov. 4, when Abiy announced a military offensive in response to a TPLF attack on a federal army base.
That makes it difficult to verify claims about the fighting, but humanitarians have said at least hundreds of people have been killed.
\t The fighting threatens to destabilize Ethiopia, which has been described as the linchpin of the strategic Horn of Africa.
\t With transport links cut, food and other supplies are running out in Tigray, home to 6 million people, and the United Nations has asked for immediate and unimpeded access for aid.
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Born 1948 in Newark, New Jersey as Wayne B. Pray, Akbar Pray had a criminal career that started in the 1960s but saw his rise during the 1970s. The thing about Pray's criminal career and empire is that it isn't one of the more widely covered enterprises. Instead, he is often overshadowed by the operations ran by […]
Seniors also are finding themselves at a growing rate of homelessness. The coronavirus outbreak has only exacerbated the housing problem in unprecedented ways.
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The ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals was a complete repudiation of President Trump’s effort to halt Pennsylvania’s certification process. Mr. Trump committed to leave the White House in January if the electors vote, as expected, for President-elect Joe Biden on Dec. 14.
Not many people think of Arizona as the land of self-discovery, but it changed the course of the life of Donald Frazier, the recipient of this year’s Social Impact Award from East Bay Philanthropy. In 1989, after a childhood informed by poverty in Chicago and some time moving around the Southwest, Frazier enrolled at the […]
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By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — No country has been involved in Somalia's future as much as the United States. Now the Trump administration is thinking of withdrawing the several hundred U.S. military troops from the Horn of Africa nation at what some experts call the worst possible time. Three decades of chaos, from warlords to al-Qaida affiliate al-Shabab to the emergence of an Islamic State-linked group, have ripped apart the country that only in the past few years has begun to find its footing. The U.S. Embassy returned to Somalia just last year, 28 years after […]
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Some prisoners in California have racked up more than enough cash for a rainy day but the downfall is that... View Article
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Archbishop of Washington Wilton Gregory broke new ground by becoming the first US cardinal of African descent in a Vatican ceremony. Pope Francis also gave the title to 12 others and warned the group against corruption.
As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide the Supreme Court late Wednesday barred New York from enforcing certain limits on attendance... View Article
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Pope Francis has elevated 13 new cardinals to the Catholic hierarchy on Saturday and one of them is the first... View Article
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin finished a recount of its presidential results on Sunday, confirming Democrat Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump in the key battleground state. Trump vowed to challenge the outcome in court even before the recount concluded. Dane County was the second and last county to finish its recount, reporting a 45-vote gain for Trump. Milwaukee County, the state's other big and overwhelmingly liberal county targeted in a recount that Trump paid $3 million for, reported its results Friday, a 132-vote gain for Biden. Taken together, the two counties barely budged Biden's winning margin of about […]
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AMUSEMENT and pleasant surprises - and the laughter they can trigger - add texture to the fabric of daily life.Those giggles and guffaws can seem like just silly throwaways. But laughter, in response to funny events, actually takes a lot of work, because it activates many areas of the brain, areas that control motor, emotional, cognitive, and social processing.
By AFRO Staff Pope Francis elevated 13 new cardinals to the preeminent circle of the Catholic Church Nov. 28, including the first African-American to hold the rank. Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, D.C., made history as he received his biretta (red hat) and ring denoting his loftier status during the consistory – ceremony – […]
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VP Records has partnered with Jamaica's National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons (NATFATIP) on a campaign to raise awareness against human trafficking. The campaign features a reggae medley titledShadows After Dark,which encourages persons to be very careful of whom they trust. The song is produced by reggae star Alborosie and performed by Christopher Martin, […]
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LOS ANGELES — The City Council unanimously voted Wednesday to have “unaccompanied women” who are
Sunken relics plummet to the ocean floor and are often forgotten for eternity. Occasionally, some resurface, even after thousands of years. And once rediscovered, they […]
By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be? Ding, ding, ding: Merriam-Webster on Monday announced 'pandemic' as its 2020 word of the year. 'That probably isn't a big shock,' Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster, told The Associated Press. 'Often the big news story has a technical word that's associated with it and in this case, the word pandemic is not just technical but has become general. It's probably the word by which we'll refer to this period in the […]
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President-elect Joe Biden is reportedly considering Darrell Blocker for the role of director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Fox Newsfirst... View Article
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'Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers' will be the 35th season of the competitive reality television series 'Survivor'.
The teen was sentenced to 15 years for robbery and 20 years for the murder of his stepmother. The sentences will run concurrently.
As vice president in 2012, Joe Biden endeared himself to many LGBTQ Americans by endorsing same-sex marriage even before his... View Article
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By SUZAN FRASER and EREN GUVENDIK Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court sentenced hundreds of military and civilian personnel at an air base to life prison sentences Thursday, proclaiming them guilty of involvement in the 2016 failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government. A total of 475 defendants, including some generals and fighter jet pilots at the Akinci air base, on the outskirts of the capital, Ankara, had been on trial for the past three years, accused of directing the coup and bombing key government buildings, including a section of Turkey's parliament. The massive trial […]
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A man who was captured on CCTV driving over a security guard in Stellenbosch, has been sentenced for attempted murder.
