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New Zealand aid money going into the Pacific is making a real difference, but there are still huge challenges in the region, Foreign Minister Murray McCully says. McCully has just led the annual Pacific Mission, which visited Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tuvalu. |
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ANTIOCH, Calif. — A small-town crowd chuckled as Bill Clinton's warmup act mused about the unique role he's poised to play in American history. They were reminded that the man approaching the stage could inaugurate a new term in the country's political vocabulary — one for the husband of a U.S. president. |
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HARARE – One of President Robert Mugabe’s Cabinet ministers recently pleaded with Pope Francis to pray for Zimbabwe as the economic turmoil takes its toll yet again on long-suffering Zimbabweans. Health minister David Parirenyatwa, who last month attended a meeting on ending paediatric Aids, in the.... |
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Writhing in agony, Jessica Madden cries for help to make the pain go away - but she’s been told she could waiting six months. The 22-year-old, from North Belfast, suffers from a rare genetic disorder which means she has severe learning difficulties and epilepsy. |
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Chaplain Kevin Weaver White Mountain Independent 0 comments To the wonderful folks at the New Living Church, I just wanted you all to know that I truly appreciated the opportunity to share my heart with you. I truly believed we were to become a part of your church family. The rejection of the plan was not my doing (ask Pastor . |
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Husband, 63, accidentally shot his 62-year-old wife in the head He told police that he was cleaning his gun when the accident occurred No charges have been filed against him as police continue investigating By
A Florida woman died after her husband accidentally shot her while cleaning his gun. |
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INDEPENDENT MEDIA Material wealth without enlightened masculinity can be dangerous to society, especially given the increasing prevalence of HIV/Aids, says the writer. Picture: Chris Collingridge Showering young women with material gifts in return for sexual favours is not a blessing, it’s exploitation, says Ray McCauley. |
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Minutes after Criminal Court 'C' released both 'bishop' Manaseh Conto and 'pastor' Steve Kettor on a US$468,336 bail following their detention at the Monrovia Central Prison on allegation of duping Korean investor Hungchi Choi of US$155,797, prosecutors began pushing the court to deny the bond and allow the defendants to go back to jail. |
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Fifty-eight days have passed since Prime Minister Perry Christie announced that the second constitutional referendum in an independent Bahamas will take place today. In the weeks that followed that announcement, the debate has been spirited. Voters have heard from the ‘vote yes’ camp. They have heard from the ‘vote no’ camp. |
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Co-Executive Director of the YES Bahamas campaign and former Free National Movement (FNM) Senator Heather Hunt yesterday encouraged voters to vote without emotions in today’s gender equality referendum. With thousands of people registered to vote, Hunt encouraged voters to make an educated decision. |
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INDEPENDENT MEDIA Material wealth without enlightened masculinity can be dangerous to society, especially given the increasing prevalence of HIV/Aids, says the writer. Picture: Chris Collingridge Showering young women with material gifts in return for sexual favours is not a blessing, it’s exploitation, says Ray McCauley. |
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Another pastor I know highly prioritises his meetings with people and clear communication with the congregation. Part of this communication is a simple principle: if we don't have the people to staff a ministry, it won't happen. I have seen pastors struggle to keep up with their schedules as they call around trying to staff an event. |
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By Privilege Musvanhiri. Camping out in central Harare, protesters of the 'Occupy Africa Unity Square' group are raising their voices against Zimbabwe's government under President Robert Mugabe. During Zimbabwe's cold winter nights there are only a handful of people occupying the small park in central Harare. |
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Controversial social commentator and daughter of a former governor of Oyo state, Kemi Olunloyo, has stated that there is more to the death of wives of Nollywood actor, Jide Kosoko, following the death of his third wife, Henrietta, alleging that the women may have been used for ritual by the actor. She said, “Actor Jide third wife just died. |
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The photo above trended online on Monday, showing a 'sacrificial giving form' given out by the pastor in charge of Region 14 of the Redeemed Christian Church of God to members. The move sparked outrage on social media, with many criticizing the respected church. Anyway, RCCG headquarters has reacted to the saga. |
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Natore (AsiaNews) - This morning Bangladesh police found the lifeless body of Gupal Ganguli, the Hindu priest of the Noldanga temple, in Jhenaidah district (in the southwestern part of the country). The priest was lying on the ground with his throat cut and his head almost severed from his body. |
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An evangelical Christian MP has admitted to having an affair with his assistant and apologised for his "completely inappropriate" behaviour. Steve Double, 49 and MP for St Austell and Newquay, told the Cornish Guardian he had an affair with his 26-year-old married assistant, Sarah Bunt. "It wasn't a one-off but it was only a few weeks," he said. |
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STEVE DOUBLE•FACEBOOK Tom Parfitt Double (left, with wife Anne) is accused of having an affair with Bunt (right) Tory backbencher and former pastor Steve Double, 49, is accused of having a "tryst" with Sarah Bunt, who is also married. The MP, who has been married for almost 30 years, issued a vague.... |
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Actress Bibi Bright, who's the founder of Carridad Films in Ghana, just turned 30 and to mark her day she decided to hit the internet ...
After 10 years of unresolved marital crises, an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday dissolved the marriage between a 42-year-old... |
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A 70-year-old Hindu priest is hacked to death in western Bangladesh (representational image) MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images.
A 70-year-old Hindu priest identified as Ananda Gopal Ganguly was found slaughtered in western Bangladesh on 7 June, Tuesday, according to the police. |
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"This is a tragedy that no community should have to experience," said Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen at the first news conference late that night. "It is senseless and it is unfathomable that somebody in today's society would walk into a church when people are having a prayer meeting and take their lives," he said. |
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A Cornish MP has been accused of having an affair with an office assistant after issuing an apology to his wife for "inappropriate" behaviour". St Austell and Newquay MP Steve Double sent out the apology yesterday without giving any indication of what he had done. |
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Berlin (AFP) - German President Joachim Gauck said Monday that he would not stand for a second term, creating a political headache for Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of an election year. The popular Gauck, 76, who has held the largely ceremonial post of head of state since 2012, made the.... |
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A POLYGAMOUS pastor with two ‘sister wives’ has become a dad for the twelfth time, after his ‘bride’, who’s 41 years his junior, gave birth to a baby girl. Reba Miller, 20, who ‘married’ Thom Miller, 61, with his wife Belinda’s permission, gave birth to her first child, Catherine Angelica, last month. |
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PanARMENIAN.Net - DreamWorks has hired Krysty Wilson-Cairns to write the screenplay for its adaptation of Gay Talese’s “The Voyeur’s Motel” with Sam Mendes directing and producing, Variety reports. Steven Spielberg is also producing. It’s the fourth movie that Mendes, who directed the James Bond.... |
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