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Former United States President Barack Obama has named Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o as one of his best African writers.
Obama, in a Facebook post on Friday described Ngugi's book "A Grain of Wheat" as compelling.
“Over the years… I’ve often drawn inspiration from Africa’s extraordinary literary…
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The US government has maintained that it will continue to detain children and parents found entering the country illegally.
In a court filing on Friday, the Trump administration said it has the right to incarcerate children and parents for the period of their immigration proceedings.
A 1997 court…
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Britain's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle, now the Duke and Dutchess of Sussex, are officially husband and wife.
Harry and Markle were pronounced husband and wife on Saturday in a ceremony presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Markle, 36, walked unescorted in a pure white,…
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Forbes Magazine has named Chinese President Xi Jinping as 2018 world's most powerful person.
Jinping unseats his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who drops to number two, having been named world most powerful individual for four consecutive years; 2014-2017.
One year into his term, United States…
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(AP) Kevin Kamenetz, a Democratic candidate for governor of Maryland who was a fixture in state politics for nearly 25 years, has died.
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz died early Thursday, following a cardiac arrest, Baltimore County police said in a news release. He was 60.
The two-term…
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A woman was killed by stoning in Somalia after an Al Shabaab-run court found her guilty of marrying several husbands, the terror organization said.
BBC reports that the woman, identified as Shukri Abdullahi Warsame, had been charged with marrying 11 times, without having divorced her previous…
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Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has edited her Twitter bio following her interview with Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at a literary event in New York.
During the interview at the PEN World Voices festival last month, Adichie said she was upset with Clinton’s bio…
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Dr Ronny Jackson, the embattled Veterans Administration Secretary nominee and current Physician to the President is nicknamed “Candy Man” by the White House for casually dishing out prescription drugs.
Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana) told CCN’s Anderson Cooper that about 20 military sources have…
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World's first ever complete transplant of a penis and scrotum has successfully been carried out on an American soldier.
The delicate procedure was performed by a team of surgeons at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, after the military man was wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan.…
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King Mswati III of Swaziland has announced the change of the country's name to eSwatini.
Mswati, one of the world’s few absolute monarchs, announced the move on Thursday when he presided over the ceremony to mark the country's 50 years of independence.
eSwatini is a Swazi language name which means…
