A Japanese court has ordered a woman to pay damages to the wife of the man she accused of sexual assault since their relationship may have breached the country’s civil code. Meiko Sano filed a lawsuit against her professor for sexual assault after ending a decade-long relationship with him. Sano …
Read More »Bandits attack Sokoto villages, kill 37 over refusal to pay ‘levies’
About 37 people have reportedly been killed and many others injured in attacks on three communities in Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State over their alleged refusal to pay the ‘levies’ imposed by the terrorists. Sources in one of the communities said the terrorists also dispersed sympathisers who …
Read More »As Game of Thrones Rages in Sudan, the Neighbors Pay the Price
Long wait at the border between Sudan and Egypt. Credit: Hisham Allam/IPS by Hisham Allam (cairo) Thursday, May 25, 2023 Inter Press Service CAIRO, May 25 (IPS) – The conflict in Sudan is impacting the economy in Egypt, and those who make their living moving goods across the borders have spent …
Read More »Manchester City report: Bayern Munich target City forward – and could pay £100m
Manchester City are bracing themselves for a bid from Bayern Munich for one of their forwards. The Premier League champions are still on course for a historic treble and dispatched Bayern Munich with ease en route to their second-ever Champions League final, beating them across two legs in the quarter-final. …
Read More »David Zaslav Commencement Address Drowned Out By ‘Pay Your Writers’ Chant
Boston University hosted Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav as its commencement speaker on Sunday and, well, let’s just say that selection didn’t go over well with the school’s new graduates. While the invite was certainly made months ago, it happened to fall during the middle of the Writers Guild …
Read More »Deutsche Bank agrees to pay $75M to victims of sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay US$75 million to victims of sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein to settle a federal lawsuit . The lawsuit alleged that Deutsche Bank knew about Epstein’s network of underage girls and enabled his sex trafficking scheme as the German bank managed Epstein’s money until June 2019 …
Read More »China’s cash-strapped local governments can’t pay workers on time
Hu Mingdan, a civil servant in eastern China, prided herself on landing a job known as an “iron rice bowl” – the kind where you don’t worry about being laid off or chasing payment. That is until late last year when, for the first time in more than 10 years …
Read More »Reparations 2.0: White-Owned Businesses Pay Extra Taxes to Minority-Owned Businesses
The push for reparations went from a slow creep many years ago to the full-steam-ahead pace of today, thanks in part to the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. While reparations have always stalled nationally, progressives have found a more welcoming environment for this ‘social justice’ …
Read More »Donald Trump found guilty of s**ually abusing E Jean Carroll; ordered to pay her $5m damages
A New York jury found on Tuesday that Donald Trump s**ually abused the advice columnist E Jean Carroll in a New York department store changing room 27 years ago. The verdict was read out in a Manhattan federal court on Tuesday afternoon, just hours after jurors began deliberating following …
Read More »You pay the least for electricity and still default, FG updates Nigerians
The federal government said Nigerians pay the least for electricity consumption compared to any other country in the globe. According to the Federal Government, the cost of electricity consumption in the country is the cheapest and most defaulted by consumers in the world.
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