MIAMI, Oct 6 (APP/AFP): Deadly Hurricane Matthew was roaring through the central Bahamas early Thursday after leaving a trail of destruction in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba, a US-based monitor reported. “Matthew (is) pounding portions of the central Bahamas,” the latest bulletin from the National Hurricane Center said, adding the storm was expected to […]
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Hurricane Matthew pounds portions of central Bahamas: US monitor
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Thriller’ songwriter Rod Temperton dies aged 66
LONDON, (APP/AFP): The British songwriter who penned Michael Jackson’s hit “Thriller” in the back of a taxi, having started his working life in a frozen fish factory, has died aged 66. Rod Temperton, who also worked with artists including Aretha Franklin and Mariah Carey, died last week after a “brief but aggressive battle with cancer,” […]
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Six killed in suspected Shabaab attack in northeast Kenya
NAIROBI, Oct 6, (APP/AFP) – Six people were killed in a suspected attack by Shabaab militants on a residential compound in the restive northeastern Kenyan town of Mandera, police and local authorities said Thursday. The attack targeted a gated residential building which mainly housed non-ethnic Somalis and non-Muslims, less than a kilometre from the volatile […]
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Samsung to ‘review’ US hedge fund plan to split firm
SEOUL (APP/AFP) – Samsung Electronics responded warily Thursday to a plan submitted by the US activist hedge fund Elliott Management for splitting the South Korean electronics giant into a separate holding and operating company. “We will carefully review the shareholders’ proposals,” the technology conglomerate said in a terse one-line statement, with its spokesmen declining any […]
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‘Peace in Colombia is close and we will achieve it’: Santos
OGOTA, (APP/AFP) – President Juan Manuel Santos voiced optimism Wednesday that Colombia can end a half-century war with the FARC rebels, after meeting the top opponent of a peace deal rejected by voters in a referendum. “Peace in Colombia is close and we will achieve it,” Santos said after meeting his predecessor and nemesis, Alvaro […]
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Texas conducts first execution in six months
WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP): The southern US state of Texas on Wednesday executed an inmate sentenced to death for murder, amid a nationwide decline in the use of capital punishment. The authorities carried out the scheduled execution of Barney Fuller, 58, after he dropped all appeals and asked to be put to death for murdering his neighbors […]