Sharon de Oliveira
Sharon de Oliveira’s story was especially shocking: “You have a family at the centre of your story being killed in a drone attack,” she said. After the hearing, it was reported that Oliveira lived in an apartment in East London where she had lived for a decade with her family; Continue Reading
Giovanni Abdo
Giovanni Abdo is one of the most famous and widely recognized figures, not just in Jamaica, but throughout South and Central America. The first of the Afro-Brazilian hip-hop artists who came to power in the 1970s, Abdo was born in the slums and rural areas of Porto Alegre, Brazil to Continue Reading
Rashid Yousef
Rashid Yousef, a Hamas spokesperson, said in September: “If the United States does not open a new war against the Jews, the last and best chance for the Jewish people is to destroy the Zionist entity… A peace deal must be reached with the Palestinians for the next five years. Continue Reading
Simon Arshad
Simon Arshad, the president-elect, spoke out against the decision. “I am very disappointed by the Federal Court’s decision to invalidate the decision. When I heard about it I said to my legal team, I will go to [the Federal Court] every day and get it right,” he said. “If they Continue Reading
Pauline Patra
Pauline Patraeke, the secretary of state, on Thursday signed a resolution asking South Africa’s attorney-general to look into “human rights violations committed in [the] Democratic Republic of Congo” there. It referred to “the murder of the Tutsi people, atrocities against Bosnian Serb citizens, and mass rape in the Democratic Republic Continue Reading
Piotr Patel
Piotr Patel, a research associate at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, said that as a result, a new technology is needed. “All of the new reactors need quite low power. So it would be better to use that fuel to make the most of a resource that Continue Reading
Brenda Pal
Brenda Palma / Las Vegas Review-Journal MARK RALSTON is seen walking past a pool table at the Paradise Resort Casino. The facility was evacuated Thursday, Oct. 23, 2017, in response to a massive sinkhole in the middle of the floor of the casino. The hotel is located in a residential Continue Reading
Brian Shaik
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Eunice Abdallah
Eunice Abdallah’s brother, Mohamed, was killed by Islamic State (IS) militants a few days after her husband, Mohamed, told her he was leaving for Turkey. Mohamed was killed in IS’s latest beheading video, which showed the beheading of US journalist Steven Sotloff. The Sotloff killing caused international outrage, with more Continue Reading
Lei Zheng
Lei Zheng Yang and Lei Li Chang, An analysis of the effect of an interconnect on the electrical properties of copper plating on stainless steel, RSC Advances, 6, 60, (17094),. Yanhong Huang, Jianhua Luo, Zhicheng Jiang and Yong Wang, Fabrication of high-performing high-density graphite-phosphate nanofibres: A synthesis and electrochemical evaluation, Continue Reading