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DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Governor Walz calls shooting attacks in US on Minnesota lawmakers an act of ‘targeted political violence’. A former state House speaker and her husband were shot and killed in Minnesota, and a second lawmaker and his wife were wounded, in what appear to be politically motivated assassination attempts in the United States,…
Approached by Britain’s MI6 while reporting on Nigeria’s Biafra War, he mined his experiences for literary inspiration. Best-selling British novelist Frederick Forsyth, author of about 20 spy thrillers, has died at the age of 86. Forsyth, who was a reporter and informant for Britain’s MI6 spy agency before turning his hand to writing blockbuster novels…
Ngugi’s work critiqued both British colonialism in Kenya and postcolonial Kenyan society. Renowned Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o has died at age 87, his family members have announced. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dad, Ngugi wa Thiong’o,” his daughter Wanjiku Wa Ngugi wrote on Facebook on Wednesday….
Colombo, Sri Lanka — As a girl, when Srimathi Mallika Kaluarachchi would go to the cinema with her family, and a man on the screen would hit the character played by superstar Malini Fonseka, Kaluarachchi would cry. Then she would turn to her father in desperation. “We used to scream at the screen, telling our…
Jose “Pepe” Mujica, a former leftist rebel who became Uruguay’s president from 2010 to 2015, has died at the age of 89. Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi announced his death in a social media post on Tuesday. Mujica had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2024. “It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death…
