Loatinover Pounds Expresses Gratitude Following SAMA Loss. Hip-hop artist Loatinover Pounds took to social media to express his gratitude following the recent South African Music Awards (SAMA) ceremony. Though he didn’t take home an award, he emphasized how honoured he was to be nominated among other talented artists. Loatinover Pounds Expresses Gratitude Following SAMA Loss His message also included a shout-out to the SAMAs for recognizing his work and warm congratulations to fellow rapper Priddy Ugly, who won in the Best Hip Hop Album Award category. In his post, Loatinover Pounds wrote, “Wanna thank everyone that voted for me at…
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Alexander Ovechkin may have recently turned 39 years old, but his quest for Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal record is definitely on. Ovi scored his 860th career goal on Sunday in the 4-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes to move within 34 of The Great One. Despite the loss, Ovechkin has scored in four consecutive games for the 8-3-0 Capitals, and has seven assists to go with his seven goals on the young season. “He’s one of the best goal-scorers in the league,” said former teammate turned opponent Dmitry Orlov after the game. “He’s a legend. It stinks that he scored today, but he’s…
Rosalyn LaPier still shudders when she thinks of the abandoned, windowless Victorian manor that sat next to a tiny chapel on the Montana reservation where she grew up. Some weekends, as a child, LaPier would pass by the gloomy estate on her way to a local cemetery to pay respects to deceased relatives. Along the way, her grandparents would tell stories of the atrocities they endured and witnessed inside the foreboding property. “Think Addams Family. Think death,” LaPier, an environmental historian and lecturer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, told Al Jazeera. “Fear is the way people thought of those…
As he lay on a subway floor with a stranger’s arm around his neck, Jordan Neely reached and tapped a bystander on the leg, video showed Monday at the manslaughter trial surrounding Neely’s death. The bystander bent down to Neely, who gestured urgently with his right hand for about 15 seconds. Then a third person who was already holding Neely’s left arm grasped his right arm and folded it across his chest. All the while, Marine veteran Daniel Penny continued gripping Neely by the neck from behind for over three minutes as Neely tried to roll free, briefly pried his…
Co Founder and CEO, Project Starling, Minh-Thu Pham By Minh-Thu Pham Despite being an inherently political institution, the United Nations is not a place where we like to talk about politics – at least explicitly. And yet politics – which determines how our societies are governed, what the rules are, who determines them, and how we manage relations – plays a major role in whether we solve problems together and achieve the aims laid out in ambitious UN agreements. Those of us focused on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals or addressing climate change, or any number of global challenges must…
It’s always a beautiful moment when musicians find love in each other, and that was the case this past weekend as rapper Lil Shaker and singer Rashelle Blue tied the knot. The intimate ceremony was attended by close friends and fellow artists, including Ghanaian rap talent Kojo Cue, who served as one of the groomsmen, along with EL, PAQ, Joey B, Jayso, DWP Academy dancers and other industry friends. The newlyweds radiated joy throughout the day, especially Rashelle Blue, a UK-based singer, songwriter, commercial model, and actress, who looked overjoyed in videos shared online as they danced and celebrated their…
Around and around Ja Morant goes. The electrifying Grizzlies guard scored four of his 21 points through three quarters on Monday night against the Nets on two incredible 360-degree layups. On his first, Morant dribbled toward the basket and was met near the rim by Nets center Nic Claxton.Morant spun in the air with the ball in his right hand, switched it to his left and sunk the layup. He added a second circus layup in the third quarter with the Grizzlies trailing, 57-56.Forward Jaren Jackson Jr. found Morant cutting toward the basket at the free-throw line, and he avoided…
The Iranian-made satellites, Kowsar and Hodhod, were successfully placed into orbit by a Russian Soyuz-2.1 spacecraft.A Russian rocket carrying a payload of satellites into orbit – including two from Iran – blasted off successfully, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said, in a move seen as reflecting the growing cooperation between Moscow and Tehran. The Soyuz-2.1 spacecraft lifted off as scheduled from the Vostochny Cosmodrome launchpad in far eastern Russia and put its payload into a designated orbit nine minutes after the launch on Tuesday. Roscosmos said that two Russian Ionosfera-M satellites – designed to monitor the space weather around Earth –…
Rudy Giuliani cleared out valuables from his Manhattan apartment weeks before a court deadline to surrender his belongings as part of a $148 million defamation judgment, according to a letter filed in federal court Monday. Lawyers for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss — the two former Georgia election workers who were awarded the massive judgement — also said in their Manhattan court filing that Giuliani and his lawyers have refused to answer basic questions about the location of most of the valuables subject to the court order. “That silence is especially outrageous given the revelation that Defendant…
National Accounts Section, Department of Statistics, Directorate General of Budget, Accounting & Statistics (DGBAS) October 31, 2024. TAIPEI, Taiwan – Based on advance estimates by DGBAS, the real gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 3.97 percent on a year-on-year basis (yoy) in 2024Q3 and 4.38 percent on a quarter-on-quarter seasonally-adjusted annualized basis (saar). “Due to the thriving of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and the strong demand of Information and Communication Products, real exports of goods and services grew by 8.67 percent (yoy). Imports also grew by 13.33 percent (yoy). “Real private final consumption expanded by 1.92 percent…