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  • Shakira Says Not Planning to Marry

    Shakira Says Not Planning to Marry

    Shakira has said she has no plans to marry the father of her child.

    The singer has a 17-month-old son, Milan, with 27-year-old Spanish footballer Gerard Pique, who she met in 2010.

    She told Glam Belleza Latina’s summer issue : “We already have what’s essential, you know? We have a union, a love for each other, and a baby.”

    She added: “I think that those aspects of our relationship are already established, and marriage is not going to change them. But if I’m ever going to get married, he’s the one.”

    She said she loved being a mum, telling the mag: “I love teaching him something new every day.”

    Shakira, who recently left The Voice USA, said that she was playing tennis to stay toned, but that she eats ” whatever I want”.

    “I don’t believe in depriving myself or being a slave to diets. I generally eat healthy, but I indulge too,” she said.

    “And when I have to, for a video or a performance, I pull back a little. But it’s all about balance.”
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  • Victoria Beckham Wants to Empower

    Victoria Beckham Wants to Empower

    Victoria Beckham has said she aims to empower women with her fashion designs and that she’s not afraid of failure.

    The former Spice Girl, whose band were famous for their “girl power” slogan, has posed for the cover of Elle magazine in Singapore.

    She told the mag: “I want to make a woman feel her best. I want to empower women.”

    And she added that she was 100 per cent involved in her business, the Daily Mirror reported, saying: “My name is on the label, I have a point of view. And it’s important that it comes from me. I don’t want to hand that over to anybody else. I wouldn’t know how to…”

    The mum-of-four, 40, who appears on the cover of Elle wearing a tan trench coat, added that she never worries about the prospect of her business failing.

    “I’m not afraid. I think you can learn from everything. I don’t ever think of the negatives, I think of the positives. I’m not competing with anybody else out there; I’m just competing with myself,” she said.

    “I think if you’re too afraid of failure then you won’t challenge yourself, then you won’t move forward. I like to challenge myself.”

    She said of her personality: “People are probably surprised that I have a sense of humour. I like to take the mickey out of myself. As much as I take what I do very seriously, I also want to have fun.

    “I like to poke fun at myself… And I think that surprises people.”

    The full interview appears in Elle Singapore’s July 2014 issue.
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  • U.S. Captures Suspected Benghazi Ringleader

    U.S. Captures Suspected Benghazi Ringleader

    The United States says it has captured a suspected ringleader of the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, a raid that killed four Americans including the U.S. ambassador.

    This ignited a political firestorm in Washington. Now, the Pentagon press secretary says they’ve captured a suspected ringleader.

    Ahmed Abu Khatallah was captured in Libya Sunday, with a team of U.S. special operations forces and law enforcement personnel.

    No photo of him was immediately available. During an event in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Obama said he had made his capture a priority:

    The Pentagon declined to go into detail about his capture. But they say there were no civilian casualties in the operation and all U.S. personnel involved had safely left Libya.

    A U.S. official said Khatallah would be charged and prosecuted through the U.S. court system.

  • Seven Killed Ebola outbreak in Liberia

    Seven Killed Ebola outbreak in Liberia

    The deadly Ebola virus has killed seven people in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, health officials have said.

    These are the first deaths reported in the city since the outbreak of the contagious virus in several West African states.

    Among the dead are a nurse and four people from the same household, including a baby, officials said.

    Guinea has been worst-affected by Ebola, with 208 deaths since the outbreak was first reported in March.

    There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola – one of the world’s deadliest viruses.

    Liberia’s Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said the nurse died on Saturday at the state-run Redemption Hospital in the densely populated township of New Kru Town, west of Monrovia.

    “When we knew that the nurse was confirmed [to have] the disease, we isolated her and started to provide protective treatment and supportive treatment and all of that to her. But unfortunately she died,” Mr Nyenswah said on local radio.

    A woman who came from Sierra Leone had also died in Monrovia of Ebola, he said.

    She “infested some people in the household”, causing the deaths of the baby and two other people, Mr Nyenswah said.

  • South Africa’s Zuma Under Pressure in Major Policy Speech

    South Africa’s Zuma Under Pressure in Major Policy Speech

    South African President Jacob Zuma delivers the first State of the Nation address of his second term on Tuesday, under pressure to outline plans for reviving growth and creating much-needed jobs in Africa’s most advanced economy.

    A double blow from ratings agencies last week underlined the precarious state of the economy, which contracted in the first quarter.

    South Africans will also be closely watching Zuma himself after he was hospitalised this month with fatigue.

    The 72-year-old was quickly discharged after “routine tests”, his office said a week ago.

    However, he handed over the reins to his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa for five days to give himself time to recover from the rigours of preparing for the May 7 election.

    Zuma’s African National Congress (ANC) won a 62% majority in the vote, the fifth since the end of apartheid in 1994, but the ruling party has had little to cheer about since the result.

    A five-month strike in the platinum mines is dragging the economy towards recession and the impact on broader growth and government finances prompted Fitch to put South Africa on a negative outlook and Standard & Poor’s to cut its credit rating on Friday.

    Hitherto, Zuma had relied almost exclusively on a National Development Plan (NDP) drawn up in his first term as his broad blue-print for promoting long-term growth.

  • Destruction of Franco-Rwanda Cultural Centre Starts

    Destruction of Franco-Rwanda Cultural Centre Starts

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  • Police Seizes Large Consignment of Fraudulent Equipment

    Police Seizes Large Consignment of Fraudulent Equipment

    Police in Kigali has this afternoon seized a large consignment of fraudulent HP Electronic products.

    The unspecified Products were impounded from two different shops including GENETRASCO Ltd shop at Rubangura shopping complex and Shinning Investment Ltd located at Quartier Commeciale.

    A police truck and Police staff Bus were seen parked near the shops where the fraudulent products were seized and police officers were seen loading the products onto the truck.
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  • Egypt Swears in New Government

    Egypt Swears in New Government

    Egypt’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb was sworn in on Tuesday at the head of a new government that retained key economic and security ministers but created a new investment post to attract funds to an economy racked by years of political turmoil.

    Mehleb, followed by his ministers, took the oath of office in front of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief who re-appointed him after Sisi won a landslide election victory in May.

    Trying to project a sense of urgency and purpose in the new government’s mission, the early-rising former military president had summoned the ministers to a palace in northern Cairo at 6 a.m. for a ceremony that began promptly, an hour later.

    His prime minister echoed the need to move quickly, promising an energetic, focused and better coordinated regime.

    “There is no time for rest,” Mehleb was quoted as saying on the front page of the state’s Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper.

    “We will start our work from the early hours of the morning as there is a strict plan and new technique of work to tie all the ministers to work together and not work as if they were isolated islands,” he added.

    Egypt’s economy is forecast to grow at just 3.2 percent in the fiscal year that begins on July 1, well below levels needed to create sufficient jobs for a rapidly growing population of 86 million and to ease widening poverty.

    The turmoil of the last three years, when two presidents were overthrown, hundreds of people were killed and tourism and investment were battered, have contributed to high unemployment and a widening budget deficit.

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  • Female Mutilation a Means of Male Power Over Women-UN Rights Chief

    Female Mutilation a Means of Male Power Over Women-UN Rights Chief

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  • Iran, 6 Powers Restart Talks on Nuclear Deal

    Iran, 6 Powers Restart Talks on Nuclear Deal

    Iran and six world powers re-launched talks on Tuesday to rescue prospects for a deal on Tehran’s nuclear activity by a July deadline, striving to prevent a long-time standoff from descending into a wider Middle East war.

    With time running short if a risky extension of the nuclear talks is to be avoided, negotiators face huge challenges to bridge gaps in positions over the future scope of Iran’s nuclear programme in less than five weeks.

    The talks, coordinated by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, stumbled during the last round in mid-May.

    Both sides accused the other of lacking realism in their demands and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the negotiations had “hit a wall”.

    Although such rhetoric may in part be a negotiating tactic, it also underlines how far the sides are from resolving a dispute that could unleash war in the region. Israel sees a nuclear-armed Iran as an existential threat and has in the past suggested it could carry out air strikes on its installations.

    The powers want Iran to significantly scale back its uranium enrichment programme, denying it any capability to move quickly to production of a nuclear bomb. Iran denies any such ambition and demands that crippling economic sanctions, eased slightly in recent months, be lifted entirely as part of any settlement.

    The sides also must resolve other complex issues, including the extent of U.N. nuclear watchdog monitoring of Iranian nuclear sites, how long any agreement should run and the future of Iran’s planned Arak research reactor, a potential source of plutonium for atomic bombs.

    “We don’t have illusions about how hard it will be to close those gaps, though we do see ways to do so,” a senior U.S. official said on Monday, signalling the pace of diplomacy would intensify in the days and weeks ahead.

    However, sounding a cautiously hopeful note after a bilateral U.S.-Iranian meeting in Geneva last week, the official said that “we are engaged in a way that makes it possible to see how we could reach an agreement”. He did not elaborate.

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