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OVER the course of the five day event, we heard amusing snippets of conversations, hot takes, funny anecdotes, excited reactions and drunken ramblings. |
FOUR men who are in custody for other matters have been charged with a range of offences, including the alleged content of a phone inside a prison. |
A September 22 article for the New York Times highlights a host of problems with the relationship between the United States and Egypt with its headline: “Egypt’s New Leader Spells Out Terms for U.S.-Arab Ties.” Egypt — the most powerful nation to have its previous government swept away by an Islamist insurgency in the ... |
He suggested that Egypt would not be hostile to the West, but would not be as compliant as Mr. Mubarak either. |
“Successive American administrations essentially purchased with American taxpayer money the dislike, if not the hatred, of the peoples of the region,” he said, by backing dictatorial governments over popular opposition and supporting Israel over the Palestinians. |
Morsi’s retort comes in the midst of growing anti-American rhetoric and rioting sweeping through the Muslim world, and stands as proof that alliances purchased with taxpayer money are treacherous things indeed. For decades, Egypt has been the recipient of American largesse — only Israel receives more foreign aid on an ... |
Following statements made by Obama against a backdrop of clashes outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, several American officials tried to rectify the situation. The spokesman for the White House Jay Carney assured that Egypt was "a close and longtime partner to the United States," while his counterpart at the State Depar... |
America’s role in the Middle East is changing: Cold War alliances, the aftermath of the Iraq War, and the fallout of the “Arab Spring” have substantially reshaped the region. What remains to be seen is how the United States will react to the new "facts on the ground" in Egypt — and throughout the Muslim world. |
Captain Marvel star Clark Gregg has enjoyed a long career in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, transferring from films to television and back again. And he might have just come up with another great pitch to keep Agent Phil Coulson around in a brand new series. |
While speaking with Fandom about Coulson's future in the MCU, Gregg offered an idea that could be a wonderful change of pace for the upcoming Disney+ streaming service, documenting the formation of the Avengers Initiative out of the events of Captain Marvel. |
"My fantasy is that the idea of the Avengers Initiative is born here, but then [Captain Marvel’s] gone. So what kind of horrible superhero dates have me and Nick Fury been on with various clowns and clownettes from around the globe claiming to have powers?" Gregg said. "I really want to see that short. ‘So what does th... |
Gregg has more ideas for Coulson's journey in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including an awkward encounter with the Avenger he claimed was his own personal hero. |
Of course, we don't know what the future (or past) holds for Coulson, especially the character having passed away during the most recent season of Agents of SHIELD. However, if the suits over at Disney+ know what they're doing, they'd greenlight this Avengers Recruitment Drive series the second they hear it. |
While you can still buy actual physical cartridges of movies on DVD and BluRay, we wouldn’t be surprised to see the elimination of actual physical copies of content within the decade, as movies and games move more towards streaming. And reports now tell us that Apple and Comcast are currently working on a joint streami... |
As Variety and the Wall Street Journal tells us, if the companies end up working together, it could be what writer Andrew Wallenstein calls a breakthrough for Apple, because they haven’t been able to break into the TV business before. |
If all goes according to plan, Apple should also launch a new version of Apple TV, and they’ve been meeting with Time Warner about providing video content for the Apple TV service, which they’re hoping will be available by Christmas. So if this deal comes to pass, we’re definitely curious to see how it could potentiall... |
RECORD points haul but another season in the Europa League. Some glasses were half full, others half empty yesterday at White Hart Lane. |
Daniel Levy sacked Harry Redknapp for missing out on Champions League football last year but exonerated Andre Villas-Boas ahead of yesterday’s decisive game in light of his achievement in hauling in points if not prizes. |
“Andre and his coaching team have had a great first season and are now well settled at the club,” was the chairman’s end-of-term report. |
Those fans who sang “AVB’s blue-and-white army” during the lap of honour clearly still had their glasses half full, buoyed by one of the most emphatic performances of the season and yet another wonder-strike from Gareth Bale. |
A couple of hours after the whistle, their glasses were emptier and their songs from the pub in the shade of the stadium were about Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger – and a good deal ruder. |
Ultimately, though, on European judgment day, it was another manager who stood out in north London and stole everybody’s thunder. |
Paolo Di Canio had nothing but good words for Villas-Boas – many to his face in an intimate heart-to-heart in the press room as the pair passed each other on their respective road map of media commitments. |
However, he had a much sterner message for his players, in particular Phil Bardsley. Ahead of the game Di Canio had been dismayed to discover that his defender’s glass had been fully emptied, fully filled, fully emptied again and – why not? – one more for the paparazzi. |
That is if the pictures that appeared on a website are to be believed – but Bardsley denies being drunk. He remained at home after over-celebrating Wigan’s defeat at Arsenal on Tuesday which secured Sunderland’s safety. But he was the main target of the 2,500-word diatribe against ill-discipline which Di Canio gave aft... |
“Will players who don’t have the right mentality be at the club next season? No, not under me,” he said. |
Di Canio is concerned about the example seniors are setting to the youngsters and said: “I’m not here to be a priest but if we don’t punish this kind of behaviour, why are we bothering to talk about our fantastic academy? |
“How will they grow up? Thinking they can laugh about what they saw on a website? Maybe they think it’s fantastic to be like a gangster. But what mentality are we delivering? |
“In a week, I have handed fines to seven players. But when I do, the PFA call to say you have to let them explain why. They excuse people that behave like Phil Bardsley. I thought that at Swindon in League Two – arrogant, ignorant footballers. I found a worse environment in terms of discipline in this club. So the next... |
The war has raised questions about the role and objectivity of the media worldwide. |
The Iraq war has put the role of the media under close scrutiny and highlighted the stark differences in media perspectives across the world. |
What the American public saw on their TV screens was often vastly different to what audiences in the Middle East viewed on Arabic satellite channels. |
Critics say that the period of time between the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq represents one of the greatest collapses in the history of the US media. |
They claim that the American media effectively galvanised the public opinion that led the US and its allies to go to war. |
Six years into the war, questions are still being asked about whether the media has provided fair and objective reporting in Iraq. |
Our guests this week are Akiva Aldar, a senior columnist at Haaretz newspaper, American journalist Robert Dreyfuss and Nadia Abu Al-Magd, the bureau chief of The National newspaper. |
Gov. Nathan Deal and the Governor’s Office of Workforce Development (GOWD) recognize the Savannah Chatham County Public School System as one of six school districts across the state for having 100% of their high schools organized with a Go Build Georgia High School Team. As part of Gov. Deal’s Competitiveness Initiativ... |
To target the next generation of our workforce early on, Go Build Georgia began its High School Teams program in October 2012. The teams create an environment for educators, counselors and business leaders to act as a resource for students, promoting the opportunities available in key-growth sectors including: manufact... |
A few of these highly skilled and well-paying career options include positions such as welders, pipe fitters, truck drivers, electricians, plumbers, industrial maintenance, civil engineers and in ground utility contractors. The Go Build Georgia High School Teams will share data and informational resources with students... |
Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don’t they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia? If the sludge is as harmless ... |
WASHINGTON - Just over half of HIV-infected pregnant women in poor countries received crucial AIDS drugs to protect their unborn children last year, the World Health Organization reported Tuesday - one of a list of improvements in the global fight against HIV. |
Fifteen percent of infected pregnant women had access to that therapy five years ago, an important jump in the quest to eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission by 2015. |
Overall, Tuesday's "Towards Universal Access" report shows steady increases in the number of people taking lifesaving antiretroviral treatment last year, to a record 5.2 million in poor and middle-income countries. |
Still, only a third of people in need can get the drugs and most people living with HIV don't know it, the report concludes - and it warns that the economic crisis could imperil even these treatment gains if investments in the global fight from poor and rich countries alike falter. |
"It's an important moment. We need to sustain the momentum," WHO's AIDS director, Dr. Gottfried Hirnschall, told The Associated Press. |
The report comes ahead of a meeting next week about the budget of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an international group that also has been an important financer. |
-Fifteen countries - including particularly hard-hit South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland - provided most of their pregnant women medicines and services to prevent mother-to-child transmission last year. |
-Fourteen countries, including Brazil, Namibia and Ukraine, provided HIV treatment to more than 80 percent of their HIV-positive children in need. |
-Eight countries provided HIV treatment to more than 80 percent of adults in need. They are: Botswana, Cambodia, Croatia, Cuba, Guyana, Oman, Romania and Rwanda. Another 21 countries are getting close to that treatment target. |
The male worker died on Tuesday morning after what his colleagues said was "a short illness." |
Sources at the hospital on Tuesday told the Nation that at least 23 cases of the water-borne disease, eight involving staff, had been treated at the facility in April alone. |
A Nairobi Hospital staff has died and seven others are admitted following a cholera outbreak at the premier health facility in the Kenyan capital. |
The eight employees work in the hospital's catering department and offer services at the staff canteen. |
The hospital’s cafeteria has been closed indefinitely as the management battles to contain the spread of the outbreak. |
A source privy to the information and who requested anonymity because he is not authorised to issue press statements said they have been treating cholera cases on daily basis. |
“The hospital has been handling cholera cases day in day out but now there is an outbreak and the staff are affected. We are treating it seriously. The investigation is on,” said the source. |
He confirmed to the Nation that late last month, teachers from Riara group of schools were admitted to the hospital with symptoms of the disease. |
Three children from were also suspected to have cholera. |
Nairobi County health officials later directed referral hospitals within the city to reactivate their cholera treatment units following confirmation of the outbreak in the city. |
In a letter dated March 21 and addressed to all county medical superintendents, Nairobi County Director of Health Lucina Koyio said that all sub counties in the capital were on a high alert. |
“The county is experiencing a wave of cholera outbreak which was confirmed on March 20. In this regard, I am requesting all referral hospitals to reactivate their cholera treatment units to prevent the spread of the disease,” said Dr Koyio. |
“All sub-counties should be on high alert and treat all suspected cases of cholera as cholera cases. Please also reactivate your sub county response teams,” said Dr Koyio. |
In 2017, the city county faced a major cholera outbreak prompting the county government to call for closure of roadside food eateries and banning of food hawking. |
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has refused to support an imminent Turkish military operation which the government says will be against ISIL, claiming Turkey was given this task by the U.S. |
“We do not have ISIL on our borders. They are taking Turkish soldiers into the quagmire in Syria,” Kılıçdaroğlu said at his party’s group meeting. |
Turkey is susceptible to any external dangers, he stressed. |
Turkey had announced that a military operation against ISIL can commence in the coming days. |
“After Mr. President’s meeting with Mr. Trump, Turkish Armed Forces has undertaken the duty in the combat with ISIL. We will efficiently fulfill our duty in the days ahead,” the minister said on Jan. 1. |
The CHP leader also criticized the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) economic policies. |
“[Turkey] does not have a 10-year development plan. They did not plan what to do with the taxes to be collected from citizens in the next five to 10 years,” he said. |
“They say they are going to tax fairly. The government should first distribute income equally,” Kılıçdaroğlu added. |
He also asked whether the government will get financial support from the IMF after the upcoming local elections on March 31. |
What is your take on the Governor’s move to APC and are you moving with him? |
The short answer is No. Moving to APC is a mistake for him which has become inevitable. So I call it the inevitable mistake. The Governor boxed himself into that position almost deliberately and so if it looks like beer, smells like beer and taste like beer, then let us all acknowledge that it is what it is. He chose t... |
Very few people have the authority to talk on this matter like small me. I understood the internal working of Amaechi’s mind on this issue, I am very familiar with the President’s personal view on this matter, I have worked with the heads of the current APC family (Tinubu and Buhari) at close quarters and I understand ... |
People are wondering where you stand. Is it with PDP or PDM? |
They shouldn’t. I am in PDP. I have been there since 2010 and I am staying there. Many of them wonder because I speak for the people first before the party. Unlike most politicians, for me my state comes first. I will not blindly follow a party that does not have the interest of my state at heart. So if my views are se... |
If I take you through the new APC arrangement, the story is different. Since political parties have refused to have a unique ideology of their own, despite some of us coming close to insulting them on the subject, you are better of pitching your tent with a team going somewhere and with your people’s interests at heart... |
My committment to the youths has made me keep one eye on PDM and its progress. I believe the youth can use it to take control of their future. Their website pdm.ng is proof that they are the first political party in Nigeria to effect online registration. At the rate they are going with manual registration kicking off n... |
How is your relationship with Amaechi now? |
It is no longer what it used to be but that is also inevitable. I have supported him at my own expense and it was no longer wise to continue to do so. Each man to a box they say. Most of the negativity I get today was because I decided to support Amaechi’s government in 2007. Some accuse me of doing it for money, other... |
Amaechi was like aradite anyway so empowering me was not his first, second or third interest. I noticed this and went about my business. Many say I was involved in Silverbird, the 1000 bed hospital, waste management and many other things but the truth is not what it seems and one day it will all come out. In 2011, I en... |
My people supported him tooth and nail but yet they were not acknowledged. I asked and asked, they were promised and promised but even after he told them in public and on National TV that he likes to keep his word as an example to his children, he didn’t. Still I supported him. He removed our commissioners in his cabin... |
I saw my support as a stabilising force. The Riverine were agitating for a Governor after eight years of an Odili upland regime. People like me deciding to stand by Amaechi gave him credibility and soothed the Riverine / Upland divide that has dogged our state for so long. One day I sincerely hope that Amaechi looks at... |
Can you still be Governor in 2015 now? |
Why not? I am free of all encumberances. I have stood in Amaechi’s shadow for too long and now I am once again my own man, free to talk for me and free to speak for my people without worrying about relationships and allegiances. Even though I was still quite blunt, I was a lot more measured than I would like and a lot ... |
Rivers state will experience what it has never seen before. That I promise you. It will take an Obama to stop what we are coming with and I can’t see a Kenyan coming to win Rivers state, can you? No. Unless the One from above says “Don’t.” I will do. And I will not look back for anyone. 2015 is all the way or nothing. ... |
What is your view on Atiku and Jonathan? Who will you support for President? |
I will support the President for a continued four year term in office. Let me make that absolutely clear. As much as Atiku in my mind is a brilliant politician and a great Presidential material, I am afraid that his route to the Presidency is unclear to even a nuclear strategist like myself. He can’t get the PDP ticket... |
They are no better, they have a selfish agenda and do not mean well for my country either. I’d rather have four more years of this certainty than eight more years of their own version of it. |
Politics should be about compromise. Honour amongst thieves. Help Jonathan to go again for the sake of the country and help him rule. He needs all the help he can get because many good people are fooled into abandoning him so the bad people around him are gaining relevance. The President is a good man. I’ve seen many a... |
I rest my case. That is the kind of man you are dealing with. A GEJ/Atiku alliance would so gladden my heart. It would be a dream come true for my nation. If Mandela and de Klerk could work together, why not them? The answer is leadership and these elders God gave us. Ego and ambition cannot come before us the people. ... |
With PDP in such disarray, how can they win the Presidency in 2015? |
Because what you see as disarray is really just a cleansing. Those that leave were never meant to be there. Granted PDP has a structural problem highlighted by this recent drama but now PDP is free to address it without distractions. PDP is a formidable machine. I know. I have come up against it before and so I pity th... |
We have a string of memorials for PDP Chairmen who fell at the hands of the Governors but GEJ changed all that. How? You can trace it to the Governors forum election. A masterpiece in political slight of hand. Now you see it. Now you don’t. While all of us were complaining that 19 is more than 16 and quite rightly so, ... |
In the end the majority know that APC is no better than PDP and if they sense that PDP and Jonathan are ready to listen, they will give them another chance. If President Jonathan wants to come back in 2015, he has a lot of work to do. But he can do it. Some of us will help him do it. There are many young Nigerians that... |
Is the level of corruption in Nigeria today not an indictment on Jonathan? |
It is an indictment on all of us especially him. Yes. But Nigerians need to move beyond complaining to actually doing. We complained about Obasanjo assigning National assets to himself and what happened? Jonathan’s hasn’t done that. Did corruption end? Did it go underground? So why do we keep doing the same thing and e... |
Complaining about GEJ is not the solution. He has done a couple of things that suggest he can do more. The PDP Chairman’s son has been remanded in custody. Haba! That was never possible in Obasanjo’s PDP. But it has happened. Tambuwal complained the other day that Jonathan’s body language encourages corruption; Amaechi... |
Nigerians should be wise. The truth is bitter. There are no saints in the political space anymore; just serial sinners. Let us find the ones who accept they need help and see if we can save them. Jonathan needs help. He has only four more years. He is a much better option than a full eight years of these other ones. Th... |
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