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In stark contrast to the high ceremony of French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Washington, which featured the French Tricolour flying from lampposts around town, President Trump’s first state dinner, and the French president’s well-received address to Congress, President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit on Monday will be subdued. The visit by the Nigerian president is more likely …
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South Africa became a “non-racial” democracy in 1994, twenty-three years ago. Nelson Mandela, who has always firmly been identified with the African National Congress (ANC) and the end of apartheid, died five years ago in 2013. Winnie Mandela, his wife during his imprisonment and the transition to non-racial democracy (he was married three times), died …
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Once again Donald Trump has stunned the world by doing exactly what he promised to do. Yesterday he withdrew the US from the agreement the Obama administration brokered with Iran to prevent it acquiring nuclear weapons. Although the other signatories, Britain included, say they will carry on, the absence of the US and the arrival …
There is something in that Kardarshian toto that is killing people. But first, it will make you go dangerously crazy, then lose yourself loseely, and then die. Forget Kanye, okay don't forget him. But think of all the guys that married into that family, and even those that don't. They just gbenshu and left. They …
Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West attend the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on August 28, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images) I’ve spent the last few days reeling from watching Kanye West commit Japanese ritual suicide with his career in what might be the saddest thing …
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