Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday as a hostile and corruption-tainted congress voted to impeach her. In a rowdy session of the lower house presided over by the president’s nemesis, house speaker Eduardo Cunha, voting ended late on Sunday evening with 367 of the 513 deputies backing impeachment – comfortably beyond the two-thirds majority of 342 needed to advance the case to the upper house. (more…)
A former senior director at a British firm says that it employed mercenaries from Sierra Leone to work in Iraq because they were cheaper than Europeans and did not check if they were former child soldiers. James Ellery, who was a director of Aegis Defence Services between 2005 and 2015, said that contractors had a “duty” to recruit from countries such as Sierra Leone, “where there’s high unemployment and a decent workforce”, in order to reduce costs for the US presence in Iraq. (more…)
When your love for Pizza brings you down, lol... A mafia boss in southern Italy has been arrested by detectives disguised as pizza boys who delivered food to his home as he was watching a football match. Roberto Manganiello, 35, a major player in Naples’ notorious Camorra mafia, had been on the run since 2013. (more…)
Rescuers in Ecuador raced to dig out people trapped under the rubble of homes and businesses on Sunday, following a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed at least 233. Vice President Jorge Glas called it the "worst seismic movement we have faced in decades." (more…)
Badgal Rihanna was spotted at Coachella casually chatting it up with friend Leonardo Dicaprio while sporting a pair of $1,190 Gucci Oversized Square Frame Gold Rhinestone Detail Sunglasses. Her Italian crafted square stunners feature Swarovski Austrian crystal pavé at frame front and gradient lenses. (more…)
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