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Long Island police official Keechant Sewell, picked as 1st woman to lead NYPD

YoopyaDec 15, 2021June 13, 20230

A Long Island police official will be New York City’s next police commissioner, the first woman to lead the nation’s largest police force. Mayor-Elect Eric

US COVID death toll hits 800,000, a year into vaccine drive

YoopyaDec 15, 2021June 13, 20230

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 topped 800,000 on Tuesday, a once-unimaginable figure seen as doubly tragic, given that more than 200,000 of those lives

Black artist Josephine Baker honored at France’s Pantheon

YoopyaNov 30, 2021June 13, 20230

The voice of Josephine Baker, speaking and singing, will resonate Tuesday in front of the Pantheon monument in Paris, where she is to symbolically be

Elon Musk offloads $5 bn in Tesla shares days after Twitter poll

YoopyaNov 11, 2021June 13, 20230

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offloaded company shares worth $5 billion, days after setting off a Twitter poll — in which millions voted — asking

S.Africa’s last apartheid president FW de Klerk dies

YoopyaNov 11, 2021June 13, 20230

FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, who freed anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela from jail, died on Thursday aged 85, his foundation announced. De Klerk

Ye’s Yeezy pays nearly $1M to settle slow-shipping lawsuit

YoopyaNov 9, 2021June 13, 20230

Rapper and fashion mogul Ye’s high-end clothing company Yeezy agreed Monday to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by four California district attorneys over

Key defendant in Burkina’s Sankara trial pleads not guilty

YoopyaNov 9, 2021June 13, 20230

General Gilbert Diendere, a key defendant in a trial over the 1987 assassination of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, pleaded not guilty at the

Over 90 killed in Sierra Leone fuel tanker explosion

YoopyaNov 6, 2021June 13, 20230

A massive fireball sparked by a fuel tanker explosion killed 92 people in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, the West African country’s vice president said on

US orders diplomats out of Ethiopia as rebels approach capital

YoopyaNov 6, 2021June 13, 20230

The US said on Saturday it had ordered all of its non-essential diplomats and their families to leave Ethiopia, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed urged

Sports: African players in Europe: Proud Zaha, outrageous Khazri

YoopyaNov 1, 2021June 13, 20230

Ivorian Wilfried Zaha scored for Crystal Palace in a stunning 2-0 Premier League triumph over Manchester City at the weekend, then endured online racist abuse.