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Gates tops Forbes wealthiest American list, Trump’s fortune slides by $600m

Daily Dispatch October 17, 2017

America’s richest may be getting richer but President Donald Trump’s fortune has slid by $600 million to $3.1 billion, according to a list of 400 billionaires released by Forbes magazine on Tuesday. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates topped the list for a 24th consecutive year on a net worth of

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US strike kills dozens ISIS members – Pentagon

Daily Dispatch October 17, 2017

U.S. forces killed dozens of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS’) members in a strike on two ISIS training camps on Monday in Al Bayda Governorate, Yemen, Pentagon has said. The U.S. Department of Defense, in a statement, said the strike disrupted the terrorist organisation’s attempts to train new fighters, according to the News […]

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Obama picks Kehinde Wiley to paint official Presidential portrait

Daily Dispatch October 17, 2017

The Former President of the United States, Barack Obama, has picked Artist Kehinde Wiley, known for his paintings of African-Americans to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The 40-year-old is a New York-based portrait painter who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of black people in heroic poses. His wife, […]

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Ex-Hurricane Ophelia turns London’s sky yellow

Daily Dispatch October 17, 2017

As ex-Hurricane Ophelia battered Ireland and the UK, it also turned the sky a strange colour. Thick sand, dust and smoke in the atmosphere turned the sky an ominous shade of yellow and transformed the sun into a deep orange colour. People described the midday sky as looking more like sunset and reported street lights […]

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Zimbabwe bans fruit, vegetable imports as forex crunch deepens

Daily Dispatch October 17, 2017

Zimbabwe has banned imports of fruit and vegetables with immediate effect to preserve scarce foreign exchange, the agriculture minister said on Tuesday. The country which dumped its currency for the U.S. dollar in 2009 because it was wrecked by hyperinflation is now running short of dollars as well as quasi-currency “bond note” introduced last year […]

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Journalist gives first-hand account of deadly Mogadishu attack

Daily Dispatch October 17, 2017

Mohamed Sheikh Nor was relaxing and playing with his 10-month-old daughter when his home shook with the worst bombing Somalia’s capital had seen to date. “Then there was a huge blast,” the video journalist for The Associated Press said on Monday. “At first I thought it was directed at our house. We were covered in […]