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Facebook founder and CEO of Meta Platforms Inc, Mark Zuckerberg, lost $71 billion, a big loss due to Meta’s price crash, the Capital website reported. From the 6th to the 20th place in the ranking of the richest people on the planet. His fortune is almost exclusively based on Meta …

New York prosecutor launched legal proceedings against the former US president, three of his children and also executives of Donald Trump’s real estate group for malicious financial practices. The lawsuits come after a two-year investigation during which dozens of witnesses were interviewed and millions of documents were analyzed, Jeune Afrique …

US President Joe Biden has said US forces will defend Taiwan if China attacks it, as US-China tensions have risen in recent days over Nancy Pelosi’s latest visit to the island from Taiwan. Nancy Pelosi angered Chinese people after visiting Taipei on the island of Taiwan on an unofficial visit. …

A second death linked to monkeypox has been recorded in the United States, health authorities announced on Tuesday, as new infections are falling in the country. The first recorded death of a person with monkeypox was announced in late August in Texas, but authorities then said they were continuing to …

Amanda Booth, a Canadian jeweler, started her jewelry business using bodily fluids and ashes, breast milk, cremated remains of loved ones or pets, fur and strands of hair, spoon coffee sperm and polymer clay, all to make bracelets and jewelry. It all starts with an unusual request from a TikTok …

Former US President Donald Trump on Thursday gave his “fullest support” to the re-election campaign of Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro, whom he called a “great man”. “Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the ‘Trump of the Tropics’ as he is nicknamed, has done a great job for the wonderful people of Brazil,” …

A French woman is in serious condition after being bitten by a shark in Hawaii on Saturday afternoon, CNN reported. It was in Paia Bay, north of the island of Maui, that this 51-year-old woman was bitten while she was diving. Local police say in a statement released hours after …

A retired New York police officer was sentenced to ten years in prison in Washington for his participation in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the longest sentence handed down to date against one of the attackers. Thomas Webster, aged 56, attacked a police officer with the …

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will meet his US counterpart Joe Biden on September 16 to hold talks on a number of issues including trade and energy, the White House announced. “The leaders, building on their productive call in April and the US-South Africa Strategic Dialogue in August, will discuss …

Police in Childersburg, Alabama State in the United States arrested Michael Jennings, African-American pastor of the local Vision of Abundant Life church, for watering his neighbors’ flowers. According to the pastor, his neighbors had commissioned him for this mission during their holidays in the mountains in the north of the …