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A mum from Brisbane, Australia, shared a heartbreaking video of her son crying and saying he wants to die after being bullied at school yet again. Yarraka Bayles shared the emotional video of her son crying hysterically after.... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/32kuYJ6 Get...

Students at a Catholic school have walked out in protest at the resignations of two teachers who allegedly resigned because they were gay. Paul Danforth and Michelle Beattie quit Kennedy Catholic High in Burien, Seattle, soon after getting engaged to their same sex partners... Read more via...

The United States Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the Village of Walthill in Nebraska for alleged religious discrimination against a church.... Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/37HYucF Get more World News

Donald Trump’s longtime ally Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison for impeding a congressional investigation, in a case that ignited a firestorm over the US president’s political interference in the justice system... Read more via Channels Television –...

Two passengers on the coronavirus-stricken cruise docked in Japan have died, the country’s state-owned broadcaster reported Thursday. The passengers were an 87-year-old man and an 84-year-old woman, according to.... Read more via Time – https://ift.tt/2P8Rnnf Get more World News

An anti-malarial drug widely used in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, Chloroquine phosphate, has been found to be effective on coronavirus patients, according to China’s Ministry of Science and Technology.... Read more via Olisa.tv – https://ift.tt/32cp1xS Get more World News

Billionaire and owner of Bloomberg TV, Mike Bloomberg, has announced he plans to sell off his $60 billion media company if he gets the Democratic party nomination for the presidential elections and beats President Trump.... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2V9Csgj Get more...

A top Pentagon official resigned Wednesday at the request of Donald Trump after becoming indirectly tied to the Ukraine scandal that led to the US president’s impeachment.... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/37HGbob Get more World News

Two cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Iran by the Iranian authorities on Wednesday, February 18. According to the Associated Press, this is the first two cases reported in the Islamic country..... Read more via Legit.ng – https://ift.tt/3bMY8oq Get more World News

The Queen has banned Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from using the ‘Sussex Royal’ brand in the future, according to a report. The monarch and her palace aides reportedly concluded that the word ‘royal’ must be removed from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s branding. … Read more via Welcome...

When Kem Senou Pavel Daryl, a 21-year-old Cameroonian student living in the Chinese city of Jingzhou, contracted the coronavirus he had no intention of leaving China, even if that were possible... Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2V3xUb8 Get more World News

The first case of coronavirus has been diagnosed in London, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to nine. The patient, understood to be a woman, contracted the illness in China but was... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/39vVxgA Get more World News

China’s official death toll and infection numbers from COVID-19 epidemic spiked dramatically on Thursday, with Hubei, the epicentre reporting 242 new deaths.... Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/2vpM8Zs Get more World News

The Senate is set to pass a bipartisan resolution this week to limit President Donald Trump’s authority to launch military operations against Iran weeks after the U.S. killed a top Iranian general.... Read more via Politico News – https://ift.tt/31KKCgm Get more World News

The number of cases of COVID-19 has surged nearly 10-fold from the previous day in China’s Hubei Province, the epicenter of the outbreak. The number of new deaths also increased dramatically, to 242..... Read more via TIME – https://ift.tt/2SEa6rQ Get more World News

Samsung hosted its annual launch event, Unpacked 2020, in San Fransico on Tuesday, 11 February 2020. The tech giant took to the stage to announce a plethora of new and exciting devices and gadgets.... Read more via IT News Africa – https://ift.tt/3byIMUi Get more World News

Nearly 10 months after Vice President Mike Pence directed NASA to return astronauts to the moon by 2024, the space agency has estimated how much its Artemis Program will cost.... Read more via Wired – https://ift.tt/2Hh55jJ Get more World News

The Archbishop of Canterbury has told of his sorrow and shame at the Church of England’s history of racism, as a vote was taken to apologise for its decades-long failures towards black and minority ethnic people since the... Read more via The Independent – https://ift.tt/31LizgQ Get more...

There’s a new folding phone in town. Another folding phone. The thing we’re not entirely sure people want yet. No matter! Samsung has just released its second smartphone with a flexible display.... Read more via Wired – https://ift.tt/2HgjVH4 Get more World News

Pope Francis is on Wednesday to release a much-anticipated text about the Amazon, which is not expected to open up the priesthood to married men in the region despite an appeal from a historic Vatican meeting.... Read more via Daily Monitor – https://ift.tt/2OLlbWU Get more World News