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The parents of an obese British teenager who died aged 16 at the family home in particularly squalid conditions were sentenced on Wednesday to more than six years in prison for manslaughter by gross negligence. Kaylea Titford, 16, was found in conditions described in court as “unbecoming of any animal”, …

Bulgarian justice went on Wednesday against a judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) by refusing to issue a birth certificate to the stateless daughter of a lesbian couple. The Supreme Court overturned the decision of the Administrative Court of Sofia dated May 2022, which obliged the …

A Ugandan pastor who has been on remand on allegations of raping a Latvian tourist has finally been granted bail. Pastor Joseph Collins Twahirwa was on Wednesday granted a cash bail of Shs1 million by the High Court deputy registrar Mr Festo Nsenga who ordered him to deposit his passport …

Ugandan musician Jose Chameleone, real name Joseph Mayanja, has apologized for kissing his brother on the lips while he was on stage at a concert Friday in the capital, Kampala. Jose Chameleone’s kiss with his musician brother Weasel saw an influential preacher registering a complaint with the Uganda police against …

The world is not sufficiently prepared to face disasters, to which governments too often only react after the fact, deplores a report published on Tuesday which calls for a rethinking of risk management. In 2015, the international community adopted the Sendai targets aimed at reducing the number of victims and …

At least 32 people died and 85 were injured on Tuesday evening in a collision between a freight convoy and a passenger train traveling from Athens to Thessaloniki, Greece, firefighters said on Wednesday. “Thirty-two passengers were found dead,” said Vassilis Vathrakogiannis, the spokesman for the Greek firefighters during a brief …

A 35-year-old man has drowned in a river at Ayerdo in the Central Region of Ghana as he left behind seven children, according to reports. The death of the young man has been declared sudden by his family and residents in the area. “The deceased was discovered dead in the …

A 50-year-old woman has been busted and nearly lynched for attempting to bury her dead husband in a bush at Mankessim in the Central Region, Ghana, according to reports. “The deceased suffered from an undisclosed illness, his wife knowing nothing about his family members tried her best to get him …

Billionaire Elon Musk called the American media “racist” on Sunday after several newspapers decided to stop the publication of the comic strip “Dilbert”, the author of which compared in a video the black population to a “group of hate”. “For a very long time the American media was racist towards …

The White House in the United States on Monday ordered federal agencies across the country to ban the use of the TikTok app from their devices. They will have to ensure that their devices are no longer equipped with the application of videos within 30 days, ordered Monday the Office …