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Robin Williams’ widow said the actor was suffering delusional fears and paranoia during the two days before his death.
In a piece for the Times, Susan william recalled meeting Williams in a store and later attending the same 12-step programme together. Both had attended rehab for drinking or drugs.
In an emotional interview last month, Susan said her husband was “living in a nightmare” in his final weeks because of Lewy Body Dementia, which he was diagnosed with after taking his life in August 2014. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease three months before.
Susan said it was not depression that killed him, but the progressive brain disorder that causes symptoms such as stiff limbs, tremors, confusion and mental decline.She went into more detail about the years leading up to his death as he began suffering with a number of symptoms including stomach pain, problems with his vision, anxiety, confusion and paranoia, which began in 2013.In 2014, Susan said Willams began suffering from ‘looping’ paranoia that could last up to two days.
Pope Francis travels Sunday to Central African Republic, making the final stop of his first trip to Africa in a country where violence between Christian and Muslim militants has forced nearly 1 million from their homes over the last two years and created a divided capital.
The precarious security situation in the capital of Bangui had raised the possibility in recent weeks that the pope could cancel his visit. Less than a year ago, mobs were beating Muslims to death in the streets, even decapitating and dismembering their victims. While sectarian clashes have left at least 100 people dead over the last two months, recent days have been relatively free of gunfire.
Many hope that the pope's message of peace and reconciliation can usher in a longer-term stability in a nation of 4.8 million. As part of his trip, the pope plans to visit a displacement camp where Christians have sought refuge. He also will venture into the capital's Muslim enclave, known as PK5, to meet with community leaders and the displaced.
Speaking at a group meeting of Commonwealth leaders on corruption chaired by Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, President Buhari said that corruption in the oil sector and outright theft of Nigeria’s crude oil had been exacerbated by the culture of impunity which reigned under previous administrations.
The President said that corruption in the sector had also thrived because of the ease of transferring illicit funds abroad and the institutional protection given to corrupt officials in the past.
“Now that we have the political will to stop impunity, we need the cooperation and assistance of the international community.
“We must all work together to compel multinational oil companies, international financial institutions and international shipping lines to stop aiding and abetting corruption in the oil sector in Nigeria,” President Buhari told the gathering which included the leaders of Australia, Canada, Singapore, Malta, Sri Lanka, Botswana and Trinidad and Tobago.
In his opening remarks at the meeting, Prime Minister Cameron said that the Commonwealth and the international community must do more to fight corrupt and promote good governance.
“We care passionately about this issue of fighting corruption. In my view, this issue needs to have a much higher billing on the international agenda, not just because fighting corruption is right in itself, but because all the other things we want to achieve as countries and members of the Commonwealth depend on our success in doing so.
“If we want fair economic growth, we need to reject corruption. If we want to see fair and sustainable development, we need to deal with corruption. I think this is an absolutely vital issue. It is an issue for all of us because so much of the money stolen from developing countries is hidden in developed countries.
“So dealing with money laundering, dealing with beneficial ownership and making sure we stop stolen money being hidden away in developed countries is absolutely vital,” the British Prime Minister said.
Around 1,000 people attended the service in central Paris, including President Francois Hollande, survivors of the attacks and victims' families.
A minute's silence was held and the names of all the victims read out.
Attackers with assault rifles and suicide belts targeted a number of sites in the capital. Islamic State later said it was behind the assault.
In his speech, President Hollande said France would "do all it can to destroy this army of fanatics".
"It will operate relentlessly to protect its children." he said.
He vowed that France would respond with more music, concerts and sporting events, after some of the attacks targeted a concert venue and a stadium.
Among those attending the service were the parents of British victim Nick Alexander, who said that they were now "intrinsically linked" to those who had also lost loved ones.
However, not all the victims' families accepted the invitation to attend the service at the grand Les Invalides complex that houses a military museum and Napoleon's tomb.
The family of one victim told French media they had refused, saying not enough had been done to protect the nation in the wake of other attacks earlier this year.
Turkish state media say six children have drowned when boats carrying migrants to Greece sank in two incidents off the Turkish coast.A wooden boat smuggling some 20 people to the island of Kos capsized in bad weather off the Aegean resort of Bodrum early on Friday. The state-run Anadolu Agency says most of the migrants made it to shore with the help of rescuers, but two sisters aged 4 and 1 drowned,. Their nationalities were not immediately known. The agency says a second boat carrying as many as 55 migrants from Syria and Afghanistan sank hours later off the town of Ayvacik, further north. Four Afghan children drowned in that incident, Anadolu reported. Ayvacik is a main crossing point for migrants trying to reach the island of Lesbos.
Niger’s government said on Thursday that Boko Haram militants killed 18 people, including a local religious leader, in an attack on a village in Niger’s southern border area of Diffa on the Nigerian border.
The Islamist militants rarely claim attacks but they are based in the north of Nigeria and often launch cross border attacks in Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
The gunmen arrived in the village of Gogone near the shores of Lake Chad on foot and fired indiscriminately on residents and attacked their homes, security sources said.
They also fired rockets in the attack, the sources said.
“Boko Haram has once again sent us into mourning,” said Justice Minister and government spokesman Marou Amadou in a statement. “Eighteen villagers were killed, including the chief imam for the village whose throat was slit by his own nephew.”
Niger’s Diffa region has suffered dozens of cross-border strikes this year by Boko Haram, whose stronghold in northeast Nigeria lies just a few kilometers (miles) away.
A state of emergency has been declared there in a bid to boost security. But the attackers often manage to flee across the River Komadougou, marking the border with Nigeria.
Beijing authorities have shut down an art exhibition celebrating attempts to combat violence against women, organisers said on Thursday.
The exposition, timed to coincide with the UN 's international day for the elimination of violence against women, was to open at Beijing’s Jinge Art Gallery on Wednesday. But when artists arrived hours before its planned opening, they found doors bolted shut.
The show’s closure was the latest of such episodes in the capital since president Xi Jinping came to power three years ago.
“The reason our exhibition was called off is pressure from higher authorities,” said Cui Guangxia, the Beijing-based artist curating the event.
Cui, who was among dozens of people arrested in mainland China last year after voicing support for pro -democracy protests in Hong Kong, said the exhibition was to show the work of 64 Chinese artists – 32 women and 32 men.
He said he believed authorities thought the event was too large and didn’t like the focus on domestic violence and gender equality.
Photographs taken inside the gallery show one installation featuring a bra sewed onto dozens of crumpled Chinese banknotes featuring the face of Chairman Mao.
A raging night inferno razed 118 shops at the Kabong market in Jos North on Thursday morning, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
Thick smoke billowing from the shops, making visibility very difficult.
The actual cause of the fire could not be ascertained, but Mr Christopher Jama, Chairman, Kabong Market Traders Association, who briefed the governor- when he visited the scene, said the fire started by 4:00am.
Jama claimed that the fire was caused by an electrical spark when public power supply was restored in the night.
He told Gov. Simon Lalong that 118 shops were completely burnt, and noted that goods destroyed included bags of maize, beans, rice, and poultry products.
He appealed to the governor to come to the aid of the affected traders ‘whose means of livelihood had been destroyed’.
Lalong, who expressed “deep shock” at the development, promised to remodel the market and also address the traders plight.
“Government was already working towards remodeling before the inferno,” he said.
He however, expressed gratitude to God that no life was lost.
Pope Francis made a plea for traditional values, saying "the health of any society depends on the health of its families".
The Pope earlier urged Kenyans to work for peace and reconciliation on his first trip as pontiff to Africa, amid a rise in militant violence.
He arrived in Kenya on Wednesday, the first stop on a three-nation tour.
Crowds in the capital, Nairobi, waited in the rain at the University of Nairobi sports ground since the early hours of Thursday morning. More than one million were expected to attend the Mass.
Pope Francis's five-day visit will also see him go to Uganda and Central African Republic, which has been hit by Christian-Muslim conflict.
Kenya's government has said that up to 10,000 police officers may be deployed during the visit.
Militant Islamists have carried out a series of attacks in Kenya - including the 2013 siege at Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre, which left at least 67 dead, and the killing of about 150 people during an assault on the Garissa National University College in April this year. See more pics below:
people reushed to get in the queue to hear the mass at the university.
Apparently, Kanye west is not the only celebrity interested in going into politics in the near future.
Will Smith in his interview with Hollywood reporter said he doesn’t like being in one place for too long and believes he is now at the stage in his life where he can be “useful in the world”.
“At this point, I’m elevating my ability to be useful in the world. I think that’s what my grandmother always hoped, that I would make myself useful to people in this lifetime."
The 47-year-old said it is the current political situation in the US which is prompting to him to enter the dialogue.
“As I look at the political landscape, I think that there might be a future out there for me. They might need me out there.
A court in Russia has banned Moscow's Church of Scientology, saying that it does not comply with federal laws on freedom of religion.
According to Russia's TASS news agency, the country's justice ministry brought the case against the church, which was heard in the Moscow City Court on Monday.
Government officials wanted the church shut down, arguing that because the organisation had tried to register "Scientology" as a trademark it could not, therefore, be a religious body.
A baby boy was successfully delivered last week from his heavily pregnant mother after she suffered severe injuries following a scooter crash on a Chinese highway.
The mother, Mrs Yang, from Suining in south-west China fell into a prolonged coma after toppling off her bike and hitting her head on the road on November 19.
She was discovered passed out in a pool of blood by a local policeman Deng Jie on the Yufeng section of the 318 National Route motorway.
Her baby, which was twelve days overdue at the time of the accident, was successfully removed by doctors via caesarian section after Mrs Yang was rushed to hospital.
The incident apparently occurred after Mrs Yang had an argument with her husband on the morning of November 19 and stormed off on her motorcycle.
En route back to her rural hometown in the countryside, she fell from her scooter and lay prone on the tarmac until she was discovered.
Two of every three South Africans distrust President Zuma, nearly as many disapprove of his performance and nearly half perceive him and the people around him as corrupt, according to an Afrobarometer survey. The last four years have seen a particularly sharp decline in citizens' assessments of him. President Jacob Zuma and local councillors in South Africa enjoy lower levels of trust than the country's nine provincial premiers and national members of Parliament
An attorney for the family of teen clockmaker Ahmed Mohamed is demanding 15million dollars from Texas officials, along with an apology for how Mohamed was treated when he brought his homemade clock to school.
Mohamed is the 14-year-old Texas ninth-grader-turned-celebrity who was arrested at school after a homemade clock he brought in was mistaken for a bomb. He has since been honored everywhere from Google to the White House.
Mohamed’s attorney sent letters to the City of Irving and the Irving Independent School District adding new details and accusations to the story, with the family alleging that authorities “sought to cover its mistakes with a media campaign that further alienated the child at the center of this maelstrom,” the Dallas morning news reports.
The Mohamed’s are asking for $15 million in damages, as well as apologies from key players—the school district, MayorVan Duyneand Police Chief Larry Boyd, alleging “They stoked the flames. They tried to push responsibility off on the victim—Ahmed.”
Lesley Weaver, spokeswoman for the Irving school district, said in a statement Monday that the school district’s attorneys “will review the information and respond as appropriate, as with any legal matter,” reports the Ft. Worthstar-Telegram.
Attorneys for the family said they would give the school district and the city 60 days to comply before filing a civil lawsuit.
MOROCCANS, Iranians and Pakistanis on Greece’s northern border with Macedonia blocked rail traffic and demanded passage to Western Europe yesterday, stranded by a policy of filtering migrants in the Balkans that has raised human rights concerns.
One Iranian man, declaring a hunger strike, stripped to the waist, sewed his lips together with nylon and sat down in front of lines of Macedonian riot police.
Asked by Reuters where he wanted to go, the man, a 34-year-old electrical engineer named Hamid, said: “To any free country in the world. I cannot go back. I will be hanged.”
Hundreds of thousands of migrants, many of them Syrians fleeing war, have made the trek across the Balkan peninsula having arrived by boat and dinghy to Greece from Turkey, heading for the more affluent countries of northern and western Europe, mainly Germany and Sweden.
Last week, however, Slovenia, a member of Europe’s Schengen zone of passport-free travel, declared it would only grant passage to those fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and that all others deemed “economic migrants” would be sent back.
That prompted others on the route – Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia – to do the same, leaving growing numbers stranded in tents and around camp fires on Balkan borders with winter approaching.
Rights groups have questioned the policy, warning asylum should be granted on merit, not on the basis of nationality.
“To classify a whole nation as economic migrants is not a principle recognized in international law,” said Rados Djurovic, director of the Belgrade-based Asylum Protection Center. “We risk violating human rights and asylum law,” he told Serbian state television.
Hundreds of people were gathered in Bunny Friend Park for the impromptu filming when the shooting broke out.
Sixteen people were injured after multiple gunmen opened fire while a music video was being filmed at a park in New Orleans.
Hundreds of people were gathered in Bunny Friend Park for the impromptu filming when the shooting broke out.
Witnesses told how two groups began firing at each other at around 7pm yesterday and then started to chase each other on foot.
They described how victims were left lying on the ground after the horrific shooting.
Three witnesses told the times picayune they saw a man with a silver-colored machine gun, and also heard more gunshots coming from within the crowd as he ran away.
New Orleans police superintendant Michael Harrison said multiple people had fired into a crowd of more than 300 people.
Up to 16 people were hospitalised and are now in a stable condition.
The New Orleans Police department said word of an impromptu music video being shot inside the park must have "circulated through social media".
"Detectives are still working to determine the extent of all of the victims' injuries," NOPD said in a statement.
