Day: 7 December 2022
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Sunny Balwani: Former Theranos executive gets nearly 13 years in prison
Second-in-command Sunny Balwani receives a heavier sentence than the start-up’s founder Elizabeth Holmes.
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Pedro Castillo: Peru leader seen with police after impeachment
President Pedro Castillo was impeached after he tried to dissolve Congress in a move denounced as a coup.
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D’banj: Nigeria Afrobeats star arrested for youth fund fraud
Investigators say millions of dollars, intended to help unemployed youths, has gone missing.
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Ukraine war: Animal eye packages sent to embassies from Germany
Ukraine says bloody packages sent to its embassies bore the address of a German Tesla dealership.
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Putin: Nuclear risk is rising, but we are not mad
The Russian leader insists his country would only use its nuclear arsenal in response to a strike.
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Janusz Walus: Killer of South African anti-apartheid hero Chris Hani freed
Janusz Walus was stabbed last week by another inmate, delaying his release in South Africa.
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Nigerians warned of TikTok video challenge virus
Officials say a social media trend is being used to infect devices with a dangerous malware.
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Volodymyr Zelensky is Time Magazine’s 2022 Person of the Year
The nomination of Ukraine’s president is “the most clear-cut in memory”, the magazine’s editor says.
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Taliban conduct first public execution since return to power
The execution is carried out before a crowded sports stadium after the man confesses to murder.
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Reichsbürger: German ‘crackpot’ movement turns radical and dangerous
Members of the Reichsbürger movement are increasingly becoming a headache for the German authorities.