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Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania took on similar themes to an event the day before that he himself described as a ‘dark speech’.Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has escalated his personal attacks on his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, by repeating an insult that she was “mentally impaired” while also saying she should be “impeached and prosecuted”. Trump’s rally on Sunday in Erie, Pennsylvania, took on similar themes as an event the day before that he described as a “dark speech”. He claimed in front of a cheering crowd on Sunday that Harris was responsible for an “invasion” at the United States-Mexico…

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Adams attends church day after arraignment NYC Mayor Eric Adams took his case to church. Adams told a Queens congregation that he is praying a lot at this time. FOX 5 NY’s Jessica Formoso shows us what fellow churchgoers think about his appearance. NEW YORK CITY – Just 24 hours after NYC Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges, he visited a church in Queens. Adams attended the Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York in Jamaica, Queens, on Saturday where he was scheduled to speak at the pastoral inauguration.  When Adams walked in, he avoided reporter…

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Wendy Craigg, consultant to the Ministry of Finance in The Bahamas and In-country consultant for The Bahamas Project, NASSAU, The Bahamas – Public debt management, or how a government manages debt incurred by the state to fund development, is under scrutiny, increasingly tested for transparency, and continuously challenged by technological advancements. The Bahamas has bucked the trend and built a debt management framework that sets it apart in terms of effective market development and policies that have bolstered its capacity to manage sovereign debt. In 2021, the Commonwealth Secretariat developed its ‘Strengthening of Public Debt Management Framework and Developing Government…

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A Tunisian judge has detained a prominent activist and former president of the Truth and Dignity Commission, Sihem Bensedrine, apparently in retaliation for her work on accountability for decades of human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. Tunisian authorities should immediately release her. An investigative judge of a Tunis court ordered Bensedrine detained on August 1, 2024, after a hearing connected to her work as head of the Truth and Dignity Commission between 2014 and 2018. The judge rejected her release request on September 20. Bensedrine, 73, is detained pretrial in Manouba prison and faces prosecution in four other cases related to her…

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The Buffalo Bills are statistically good at keeping games close. Sunday night, however, they did anything but.In a 35-10 thumping, the Baltimore Ravens (1-2) welcomed undefeated Buffalo (3-0) into M&T Bank Stadium and dropped the largest margin of victory (25 points) the Bills have suffered since Nov. 21, 2021.On that date the Indianapolis Colts defeated Buffalo by a 41-15 score (36 point difference). Since then, Buffalo had managed to not lose a game by more than six points for an NFL-record 43-week regular-season streak until it ran into Baltimore’s buzzsaw on Sunday. Ravens running back Derrick Henry stampeded all over…

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London, United Kingdom – An outspoken 44-year-old who counts Margaret Thatcher as her hero, an ex-immigration minister who quit after claiming the controversial Rwanda scheme did not go “far enough”, a former soldier who jokes that he “invaded a country” when he served in Iraq, and a gaffe-prone Brexiteer who made a bad-taste remark about a date rape drug, In that relative order, Conservative politicians Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly are vying in the United Kingdom for what has been dubbed the worst job in politics: leader of the opposition. The hopefuls will make their cases at…

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North Carolina officials pledged to get more water and other supplies to flood-stricken areas by Monday after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across the U.S. Southeast and the death toll from the storm rose to at least 88, according to NBC News. A North Carolina county that includes the mountain city of Asheville reported 30 people killed. Gov. Roy Cooper predicted the toll would rise as rescuers and other emergency workers reached areas isolated by collapsed roads, failing infrastructure and widespread flooding. Supplies were being airlifted to the region around the isolated city of Asheville. Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder pledged that she would…

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By John Elliott Should the Commonwealth be concerned about its member countries increasingly coming under the influence of China? The question is not new. Back in 2013, the Round Table carried an article that said “China is very much the Elephant in the Commonwealth room”. But it is pertinent just before next month‘s biennial Commonwealth heads of government meeting because of the risk that China’s persistent inroads into the nations surrounding India may be increased following recent regime changes. If that happens, it will pose questions that have arisen across the Commonwealth about short-term advantages in terms of investment and economic…

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Nota Addresses R*pe Allegations Made By “Mayibabo” Vocalist Itumeleng Bokaba. SA Music industry executive Nota Baloyi has responded to serious allegations of r*pe made against him by Itumeleng Bokaba. Itumeleng Bokaba recently came out lamenting that she got paid 59 cents for her contribution to Kwesta’s hit song “Mayibabo” and Nota was Kwesta’s manager then. Nota Addresses R*pe Allegations Made By “Mayibabo” Vocalist Itumeleng Bokaba Following her exposé of being dwindled her rightful royalties for her contribution to the song, the former Rythm City actress reportedly opened a rape case against music mogul Nota Baloyi. To address the r*pe accusations,…

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