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Just In: Ex-President Jacob Zuma Sentenced To 15 Months In Prison

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2021

Agency Reports Jacob Zuma, former president of South Africa, was found guilty of contempt of court on Tuesday, and sentenced to 15 months in jail. South Africa’s Constitutional Court gave the sentence after Zuma failed to appear at the inquiry led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo in

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Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation

Daily Dispatch June 23, 2021

Warren Buffett is resigning as a trustee from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The announcement comes weeks after Bill and Melinda Gates announced that they were divorcing after 27 years of marriage but would continue to jointly run the foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in the world. Gates was formerly the world’s […]

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Gbagbo files for divorce, to end 30-year marriage

Daily Dispatch June 21, 2021

Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo filed for divorce on Monday from his wife of three decades, his lawyer said, days after his highly anticipated return to the country. Gbagbo’s lawyer Claude Mentenon said in a statement that after years of “rejected requests for Simone Ehivet to consent to an amicable separation”, the ex-president had […]

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Pastor dies while casting out demons from a tree

Daily Dispatch June 16, 2021

A popular Ugandan pastor died after he was killed in a bizarre circumstance while performing prayers for a family at their homestead. The incident which left the residents and the family of the pastor distraught is said to have happened while church members were cutting a tree situated in the middle of the compound. It […]

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US recovers over half of ransom paid to pipeline hackers

Daily Dispatch June 8, 2021

The US Justice Department announced Monday that it had recovered more than half of the $4.4 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to Russia-based ransomware extortionists Darkside, who had forced the shutdown of a major fuel network. “Today, we turned the tables on Darkside by going after the entire ecosystem that fuels ransomware and digital extortion […]

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Breaking: UK government website down as media sites hit

Daily Dispatch June 8, 2021

The UK government’s main website was unavailable on Tuesday morning, as several international media platforms went down, including The Guardian and the Financial Times newspapers. The portal gov.uk and the newspaper sites all showed error messages. The BBC was also temporarily inaccessible but later returned. Details later…