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Assange refused arrest warrant suspension for mentor’s funeral

The Swedish prosecutor’s office on Friday said it had rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s request to temporarily suspend an arrest warrant so he could leave the Ecuadoran embassy in London to attend the funeral of mentor Gavin MacFayden.
The 45-year-old Australian — wanted for questioning in Sweden over a 2010 rape accusation — has been holed up in the embassy since June 2012.
He had wanted to attend the funeral in London of MacFayden, a US investigative journalist and Assange defender who has died at the age of 76.
“The prosecutor has rejected the request, as there is no grounds in Swedish legislation to make an exemption from a court?s decision of detention in absence or from a decision on a European Arrest Warrant, neither by granting a leave nor by any other means,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadoran embassy four years ago after exhausting all his legal options in Britain against extradition to Sweden.
He has refused to travel to Sweden for questioning over the rape allegation, which he denies, due to concerns that he would then be extradited to the United States over WikiLeaks’ release of 500,000 secret military files on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Assange said in a WikiLeaks statement that he would appeal the decision to Sweden’s Attorney General, Anders Perklev.
“I am heart-broken that this official has rejected my request to attend Gavin’s funeral,” he said.
“Her rejection is consistent with the corrupt and frankly wicked manner in which she has exercised her ‘discretion’ over me,” Assange said about the Swedish public prosecutor Marianne Ny.
In September, a Swedish appeals court ruled against his request to lift the arrest warrant, the eighth time a Swedish court has ruled against him.

Younger tennis players still on the way

Even without Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova, the changing of the guard in women’s tennis still seems a little way off.
At the WTA Finals in Singapore this week, the four oldest and most experienced players in the tournament filled the semi-finals spots at the expense of their younger opponents.
Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova, the tournament’s oldest player at 31, was the first player to qualify for the knockout phase.
She was joined by newly crowned world number one Angelique Kerber, who is 28, and Dominika Cibulkova and Agnieszka Radwanska, both 27.
The elite season-ending competition is reserved for the top eight female tennis players but with Williams and Sharapova missing, it was ripe for one of the younger qualifiers to make their mark but that never transpired.
Just 23, French Open winner Garbine Muguruza came with high hopes. She made the semis last year but lost her first two matches this week and was the first player eliminated.
“It was very emotional for me to be here, and then the way the matches went I couldn’t make it,” Muguruza said after winning her third and final match.
“I was just happy that I’ve been through it and I won the match and I’m like done. Yeah, it’s been a hard year for me for sure.”
Simona Halep, who on her third outing to Singapore is the most experienced of the four younger players, came agonisingly close to the semis but was knocked out after her loss to Cibulkova on Thursday.
US Open finalist Karolina Pliskova, who played both singles and doubles, put her losses down to inexperience.
“Right now I know how is it here to play. I got used to it, the system, and I’ll be more experienced next year. Hopefully I’ll be back,” she added.
Madison Keys, who is widely seen as the next big thing in American women’s tennis after the Williams sisters, had her qualifying hopes dashed after Thursday’s defeat by Kerber.
Keys said after the match: “I think it just shows that tennis is evolving a little bit. People aren’t winning slams at 21 anymore. It’s later. Angelique made number one in the world at 28, so that wasn’t happening before.
“That just gives me a little bit of a sense of relief. It feels like I don’t have have to figure it all out tomorrow.”

Valbuena sex-tape ‘mastermind’ released from detention

One of the suspected blackmailers in the Mathieu Valbuena sex-tape scandal has been released from prison, his lawyer said on Friday.
Mustapha Zouaoui was released on Thursday according to his lawyer Serge Money as French law prevents suspects being held in pre-trial detention for longer than four months.
He was re-arrested in July after failing to respect the terms of his original release in January, when a first four-month detention came to an end.
Zouaoui is one of the men accused of attempting to extort money from France international Valbuena in a sex-tape scandal that has seen several high-profile footballers suspected of involvement, including Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema.
Five men have been charged in the case.
The France international is suspected of having acted as an intermediary between the presumed blackmailers — including one of his childhood friends — and Valbuena.
Zouaoui is accused of being the mastermind behind the extortion attempt.
Benzema and three of the other suspects, including Zouaoui, have asked for the case against them to be dropped.
They say police used “dishonest” methods by acting as a friend of Valbuena’s in a telephone conversation with one of the accused.
A decision on their request will be made in December.

Iceland seeks ‘closure’ over stalled EU membership talks

A possible victory for Iceland’s leftwing and centrist opposition in Saturday’s snap election has brought the issue of stalled European Union membership talks back to life.
Although most Icelanders are sceptical about their country’s future within the EU, they seek a closure on the matter by supporting a referendum.
Britain’s vote to leave the EU has not inspired 332,000 Icelanders to change the status quo in their country, which overcame the 2008 financial crisis and whose GDP is expected to rise by more than 4 percent in 2016.
“There is no indication that Brexit is having any influence whatsoever… those who are hardliners on the ‘no’ side, they are of course kind of joyful,” Olafur Hardarson, professor of political science at the University of Iceland, told AFP.
“But for the ordinary voter, I don?t think it makes a difference,” he added.
“I don’t want to go in the (European) Union… when the British are going out,” said Nanna, a 60-year-old customs officer who did not give her family name.
“I don’t know what the union stands for now that the British are out.”
After the financial crisis, Iceland, which is heavily reliant on its fishing industry, launched EU membership negotiations in 2009 amid a perceived need for political and monetary security.
But a “mackerel war” between Reykjavik and Brussels saw Iceland unilaterally increase its catch quota at the end of 2010, prompting rising pressure from the European Commission, which accused the island nation of overfishing.
In 2015, the eurosceptic rightwing Progress Party and Independence Party officially ended Iceland’s accession talks in a letter to the European Commission.
The island nation has been almost entirely governed by conservative and nationalist parties since its independence from Denmark in 1994 and has attracted anglers from continental Europe to its rich waters for countless centuries.
A poll released in September by Icelandic research company MMR showed 64 percent of respondents were against its future membership in the EU while 36 percent supported it.
However, more than two thirds of Icelanders — 68 percent — want to hold a EU referendum, according to a survey by RUV public television which interviewed 33,400 people — about a tenth of the Nordic nation’s population.
“They feel it’s a democratic process that should be completed, it was undemocratic to stop the process,” said Eirikur Bergmann, political science professor at the Iceland University of Bifrost.
“I don’t really have a strong opinion that we should be in or out of the European Union but I think it’s good to ask, rather than the previous government just decided that we shouldn’t which was, I think, against the will of people,” 32-year-old parking officer Mikhael Oskarsson told AFP.
“It’s fair to have a referendum,” he said.
Talks with Brussels made good progress between 2011 and 2013, though the sensitive fisheries portfolio was never broached before the membership bid was suspended.
Birgir Armannsson, a lawmaker with the Independence Party defended the decision to abandon Iceland?s future in the EU.
“We didn’t (think)… that it was fair for a government that was strongly anti-EU, with a strong majority in parliament that was anti-EU… to continue, even if a referendum would show some support for continuing the accession talks,” Armannsson told AFP.
But for every party in opposition, including the anti-establishment Pirate Party, which is leading in the latest polls ahead of Saturday’s vote, and the Left-Green Movement, the question needs to be put to the people.
“We have been talking about the EU ever since we became members of the EEA (European Economic Area) agreement in the 90s, we think that we should have a referendum on it and seek the guidance of the Icelandic people,” Katrin Jakobsdottir, president of the Left-Green Movement, which traditionally opposes EU membership.
Even if the referendum resulted in an unlikely “yes” vote, the EU would still need to agree to resume the accession process, Olafur Hardarson said.
Asked about the possible revival of Iceland’s membership talks, a European Commission spokesperson in Brussels refused to comment on the matter, saying it was “a matter for Icelanders”.
“Icelanders have always been sceptical about the EU, especially because of the fishing industry,” Heidrun Lind Marteinsdottir, CEO of Fisheries Iceland told AFP.
“Looking at the complications that are now within the EU with the UK exiting,” Marteinsdottir said.
“I’m not afraid of a referendum and I think Icelanders are still very sceptical.”

Luo man who spent Sh1.2 million on son’s birthday party kicked out over rent arrears

Apparently the rich Kisumu man owes his landlord Ksh118,000 which he has not delivered since July. The wealthy guy had rented an office space at at Polyview Estate and was expected to pay Sh 35,000 per month but the businessman never delivered. The last time he paid his rent was in July which he did not pay in full.
The man has not been seen since then and his landlord, Dan Aguko has since seized his office equipments which include furniture and documents. The agent however says that the seats and documents cannot amount to the money Doughlas Otieno owes them.
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Doughlas has been making empty promises for months now and his office has been rented out to someone else as the agent expects to make money at the end of the day.
 
 
 
According to the Nairobian who highlighted the story, Doughlas is apparently a CEO and having him spend millions on his son’s, Rayan Tyron, birthday was no issue. He however cannot afford to pay his office rent and we are yet to find out whether he paid his workers.

Guardiola worried by City slump

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola admits he is worried as he tries to halt the longest winless run of his managerial career.
Guardiola has gone six games without a victory as he prepares to take his team to West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League on Saturday.
The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager’s worst run before this came in the spring of 2009, during his first season in Spain, when he went five matches without winning.
Guardiola still ended that campaign by leading Barca to a treble of La Liga, the Copa Del Rey and the Champions League.
But the Spaniard conceded going so long without a victory seven years ago concerned him and that he has the same feelings now.
“It was a long time ago. I think it would have been a worry, like the same worry now,” Guardiola said on Friday.
“I don’t remember what I thought when I went five games at Barcelona without winning. I think the same right now -? you have to win right now.
“You have to do it for the minds for the players. They deserve to win because they didn’t play any game without intention, without passion. Until the last minute, they fight.
“We are in a period like that now. Many circumstances didn’t help in 2009. First of all our performance was not good enough to win the games.
“But many decisions and situations in the game didn’t help. They influenced our heads and we have to change that as soon as possible. We have to not give up.
“Maybe this situation will make us stronger for the future. I’m pretty sure of that. For the next period, not just this season but the next season as well. Maybe we will learn from that and be stronger.”
Meanwhile, Guardiola has played down concerns about Vincent Kompany’s long-term future at City after his injury-plagued captain came off at half-time during Wednesday’s League Cup defeat at Manchester United.
Amid speculation Kompany could be sold, Guardiola said only that the centre-back’s position will be decided on merit.
“What is the problem now about Vincent and the future? He is a Manchester City player and the reason why he didn’t play the last two seasons regularly was because he was injured many, many times,” Guardiola said.
“We are trying to give him faith to play regularly. When he’s fit he is going to have the same options to play as his team-mates. Then it depends on my decision -? his quality, performance, everything.”
Kompany missed the end of last season, and the beginning of this one, after having a thigh operation, then limped off with a groin problem on his comeback at Swansea in the League Cup in September.
Guardiola is keen to avoid taking risks with his captain, who played 72 minutes in the Premier League against Southampton last Sunday.
“At Swansea it was a little injury, two or three weeks. That is a good thing. But in the game against Southampton, after 72 minutes he said ‘I’m tired’. In the last game against United, it was 45,” Guardiola said.
“So we are trying to handle the situation in that way until I hope we arrive at the moment he can play 90 minutes. It was just three days later after Southampton, so maybe that is the reason why he was tired.”
Guardiola, meanwhile, insists that there is no chance of him managing Real Madrid, although he did not deny reports that he was approached for the job last November, before Rafael Benitez was sacked and Zinedine Zidane appointed.
“I’m a follower of Barcelona. I don’t think Real Madrid needs a manager like me and I wouldn’t fit there either,” he added.

Betty Kyallo reveals her mother’s personality

Betty Kyallo’s mother, turned a year old yesterday October 27 and her daughters couldn’t hide the joy they had.
Friday Briefing anchor congratulated her mother as she praised her for what she did while she was bringing her up as a child.
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The KTN anchor also revealed her mother’s personality; she says her mom was a no nonsense woman who beat her a lot when she made mistakes.
But Betty also made it clear the Ms Ngii only disciplined her out of love and for correcting her behavior, and not to cause harm.
Betty posted on Instagram.
Her sister, Mercy Kyallo, also took to the social media to wish her mom a happy birthday.
 
 
 

Guinea-Bissau ex-navy chief eyes job back after US jailing

A former Guinea-Bissau navy chief convicted in the US of drug trafficking has asked to resume his military career after returning home having purged his sentence, sources said Friday.
Jose Americo “Bubo” Na Tchuto was sentenced to four years in jail by a New York federal court this month but was released for time already served.
Na Tchuto, who returned home on October 22, asked President Jose Mario Vaz about resuming his military career during an audience with the West African nation’s head of state, sources said.
“I have returned from a trip which took me away from the country for three years. It’s normal that on my return that I come and see the armed forces’ commander in chief,” he told reporters.
“I discussed my return to the army with (Vaz). Now everything depends on the president. I am a veteran of this country’s war of independence, I gave everything for this country,” he added.
Asked about his case, Prime Minister Baciro Dja said Na Tchuto was “a son of the nation, a veteran of the war of independence,” adding: “He is always welcome in his country”.
“I don’t know the circumstances of his release, so I can’t make a declaration on his case,” he added.
A new navy chief, Carlos Alfredo Mandungal, was appointed in July to succeed Sanha Kluce, who died in May.
Na Tchuto was captured off the West African coast by agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration in April 2013. He pleaded guilty at his trial in May 2014 and was detained in the US until his sentencing on October 4.
His arrest, and the US indictment two weeks later of General Antonio Indjai, head of the Guinea-Bissau army, highlighted the rise in drug trafficking in West Africa, and the country’s role as a transit point for the cocaine trade.
Guinea-Bissau has been plagued by military coups and instability since its independence from Portugal in 1974, and in recent years has become a cocaine-trafficking hub.
But last November the UN’s special representative for West Africa Mohamed Ibn Chambas praised the country’s progress in fighting drug trafficking since President Vaz’s election in 2014.

Rebels in Aleppo attack, Putin cautious on new Russian raids

Syrian rebels launched a major assault Friday aimed at breaking a months-long siege of opposition-held districts of Aleppo, as regime ally Russia held off on renewed air strikes.
The European Union said late Friday its top diplomat Federica Mogherini was heading to Iran and Saudi Arabia for talks on Syria’s five-year conflict.
Rebel groups including the Ahrar al-Sham faction and former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front fired rockets into government-held western Aleppo, killing at least 15 civilians, a monitor said.
The rebels also targeted government positions east of Aleppo city and in the coastal province of Latakia, including the Hmeimim military base used by Russian forces allied with the regime.
Moscow says it has not bombed Aleppo since October 18, but senior Russian military official Sergei Rudskoi said Friday the military had asked President Vladimir Putin for authorisation to resume air strikes.
But the Kremlin said Putin did not agree to the request.
“The Russian president considers it inappropriate at the current moment to resume strikes on Aleppo,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that Putin thought it necessary to “continue the humanitarian pause” in the war-ravaged city.
“The Russian side retains the right in case of extreme necessity to use all the troops and facilities it has to carry out support of the Syrian armed forces at the necessary level,” he added.
Mogherini will visit Tehran on Saturday and Riyadh on Monday for “senior level talks” continuing the EU’s “outreach to key actors in the region on the Syrian crisis”, an EU statement said.
Friday’s rebel assault comes more than three months into a government siege of eastern Aleppo, where more than 250,000 people live, and several weeks after the army began an operation to retake the rebel-held east.
Rebel groups “announce the start of the battle to break the siege of Aleppo”, said Abu Yusef Muhajir, a military commander and spokesman for Ahrar al-Sham.
The assault “will end the regime occupation of western Aleppo and break the siege on the people trapped inside”, he told AFP.
“The breaking of the siege is inevitable,” said Yasser al-Yusef, a member of the political office of the Nureddine al-Zinki rebel group.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said at least 15 civilians, including a woman and two children, had been killed, and more than 100 wounded in rebel fire on western Aleppo.
The monitor reported fierce clashes on multiple fronts on the western and southern outskirts of west Aleppo, with three suicide car bombs targeting a checkpoint in the Dahiyet al-Assad neighbourhood.
Fighting was continuing in the area near a military academy, it said, but had no immediate toll.
An AFP correspondent in east Aleppo said the assault had boosted morale there, with mosques broadcasting “God is greatest” from loudspeakers.
He said residents burned tyres to create smoke and provide cover against air attack.
Heavy rain put out the fires but also hampered Syrian air operations, creating what one rebel dubbed “a divine no-fly zone”.
The Observatory said rebels had also fired rockets at the Nairab military airport and Aleppo international airport, both east of the city and government-controlled.
Rebels also fired rockets from Idlib province into the government stronghold of Latakia, killing one person and wounding six.
Rockets struck close to the Hmeimim military airport, as well as near President Bashar al-Assad’s ancestral village Qardaha, the monitor said.
State television said “the army has foiled an attempt by terrorists to attack Aleppo city from several axes with suicide bomb attacks”.
State news agency SANA said government planes were carrying out strikes south and west of Aleppo.
Once Syria’s economic powerhouse, Aleppo has been ravaged by the conflict that began in March 2011 with anti-government protests and has since killed more than 300,000 people.
Aleppo has been divided between government control in the west and rebel control in the east since mid-2012, and in September the army announced an operation to recapture the whole city.
The UN’s aid chief Stephen O’Brien this week said Aleppo had become “a kill zone”, adding that “nothing is actually happening to stop the war”.
Last week, Russia implemented a three-day “humanitarian truce” intended to allow civilians and surrendering rebels to leave the east.
But few did so, and a UN plan to evacuate the wounded failed because security could not be guaranteed.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused UN agencies Friday of “not being professional enough” over Aleppo, saying “their inaction allowed the medical evacuation to be sabotaged”.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon, meanwhile, condemned an attack on a school in west Aleppo on Thursday that killed at least six children, according to state media.
“Such attacks, if deliberate, may amount to war crimes,” he said in a statement.

Danish editor behind Mohammed cartoons clashes with paper

The Danish ex-editor who commissioned the Mohammed cartoons that triggered deadly protests a decade ago on Friday accused the Jyllands-Posten newspaper of trying to silence him, saying it had let “the jihadists” win.
In a book to be released on Monday, titled “De besatte” (“The obsessed”), Flemming Rose accuses the paper’s management of hypocrisy, claiming it backed him in public while doing everything it could to silence him in private.
“The drama and tragedy is that the only ones who have won are the jihadists,” he told the weekly Weekendavisen newspaper.
Rose said that rules for what he could say and write about the controversial cartoons and related subjects had been outlined in a 2011 agreement proposed by former editor-in-chief Jorn Mikkelsen, the former chief executive of the company that owned the paper, Lars Munch, and the company’s former chairman Jorgen Ejbol.
Among the rules were a ban on taking part in TV and radio programmes and refraining from commenting on the cartoons.
Rose, who left the paper last year, also said he had been accused of being “deeply disloyal” and “obsessed” with the debate prompted by the cartoons.
“You have grandchildren, don’t you think about them?” Ejbol is alleged to have said in 2015 after Rose agreed to interview the Dutch and anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders at a public event.
Jyllands-Posten’s owner, JP/Politikens Hus, did not comment on the book, but Munch, now the group’s chairman, said in a statement that “it wasn’t about Flemming Rose, it was about the safety of more than 2,000 loyal employees.”
Rose was the culture editor of the right-wing Jyllands-Posten in 2005 when he commissioned 12 satirical cartoons of the Islamic prophet, triggering deadly protests in some Muslim countries.
The cartoons were also published in 2006 in French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, where Islamist gunmen killed 12 people last year.
Rose, 58, still lives under police protection because of death threats made against him, and there have been numerous foiled terror plots against Jyllands-Posten, which has had to take extensive security measures.

Severe southern African drought to worsen: UN

The impact of the most severe drought to hit southern Africa in 35 years is expected to worsen in the coming months, a UN climate envoy warned Friday.
“The crisis has yet to peak,” Macharia Kamau, special envoy on El Nino and climate, said at the end of a four-day trip to Mozambique.
The devastation, which has affected some 18 million people across the southern African region, will be at its worst around January next year, he said.
Mozambique, with 1.5 million people reeling from the drought, is one of the worst-hit countries, along with Zimbabwe, Malawi, Lesotho and southern Madagascar.
“For many children, women and the elderly, the next few months will be about looking at survival straight in the face,” Kamau told reporters in Maputo after visiting water-starved districts a few hours’ drive from the capital.
“Frankly, what I saw there saddened and shocked me. We saw stretches of land, bone dry and desolate,” he said.
Some parts in Mozambique have not seen rains for three years, according to the country’s natural disaster management agency.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) in August launched an emergency aid appeal for $2.9 billion (2.7 billion euros).
For Mozambique, $200 million is required “immediately” but only 57 percent of that has been secured, said Kamau.
Drought in the region has been blamed on the El Nino weather phenomenon which occurs every two to seven years, affecting rainfall patterns by causing both drought and flooding.

EU’s Georgieva resigns to join World Bank

EU budget commissioner Kristalina Georgieva of Bulgaria has resigned from her Brussels job to become chief executive officer of the World Bank, her employers said Friday.
“It is with great regret that I have accepted Kristalina Georgieva’s decision to resign from the European Commission,” Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said.
Juncker said he has asked Guenther Oettinger, the European commissioner for digital economy, to assume the role of budget commissioner to replace Georgieva when she moves into her new job, which she will start at the start of January.
Georgieva, a 63-year-old economist and former World Bank vice president, had been in the running for the new secretary general of the United Nations. But she was beaten in that race by Antonio Guterres, a former Portuguese prime minister.
In Washington, the World Bank welcomed her new appointment.
“Kristalina is a globally recognized leader with a proven track record in improving the lives of those most in need,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim.
“She will be the strongest possible champion for the work of our dedicated staff in addressing the complex challenges faced by our partner countries. I am proud to welcome Kristalina back to the World Bank family.”
Juncker will launch talks with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on possible candidates from his country for a new commissioner — under EU rules, each of the bloc’s 28 member states must be represented on the executive.
Borisov told public TV channel BNT on Friday that Bulgaria would propose “an appropriate candidate” who was up to the job of succeeding Georgieva in Brussels.
According to local media, the candidate could be Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev, whose term in office ends on January 20.

Russia seeks to stop jihadists from fleeing Mosul

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday called for cooperation to prevent Islamic State jihadists from leaving Mosul and heading to Syria during the offensive under way to recapture the Iraqi city.
“We are interested in cooperation with our Iraqi colleagues to take measures to prevent the outflow of terrorists from Mosul with their weapons, which of course will exacerbate the situation in Syria,” Lavrov said following talks in Moscow with his Iranian and Syrian counterparts Mohammad Javad Zarif and Walid Muallem.
“We will discuss this with the United States and other members of the coalition,” he said.
The offensive to recapture Iraq’s second city, launched on October 17 and backed by a US-led coalition, is seeing tens of thousands of Iraqi troops advance on Mosul in a bid to retake the last major Iraqi city under IS control.
Russia’s defence ministry last week urged the coalition not to “drive terrorists” from Iraq to Syria during the offensive, warning it of the risk of “freely roaming” IS jihadist gangs.
The United States said Thursday that up to 900 IS jihadists have been killed in the offensive so far as Iraqi forces allied with Kurdish peshmerga fighters have taken a string of towns and villages in a cautious but steady advance.
Western leaders have meanwhile accused Moscow of committing possible war crimes in the Syrian city of Aleppo through indiscriminate bombing in support of a brutal government offensive to retake the city’s rebel-held east.
The Russian defence ministry has said that neither Syrian nor Russian warplanes have bombed Aleppo for 10 days.
Russia has meanwhile denied any role in deadly air strikes on a Syrian school in the rebel-held province of Idlib that killed 22 children.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strikes had been carried out by “warplanes — either Russian or Syrian.”
Lavrov on Friday repeated Moscow’s denial of involvement in the attack, saying that the defence ministry has published “information with facts that refute these claims and show the fabricated nature of this disinformation.”

Yazidi survivor of IS slavery aims to be ‘voice’ of her people

A Yazidi teenager who escaped the Islamic State group after nearly two years of enslavement said Friday the prospect of one day becoming a “voice” for her community saw her through the nightmarish ordeal.
Lamia Haji Bashar, who on Thursday won the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize with another Yazidi survivor, told AFP she had long envisioned fleeing her jihadist captors, who had repeatedly raped, tortured and sold her.
“I had in front of my eyes how to escape from all these criminal people, (from) what was happening with all the women and girls,” she said in an interview in Germany where she has been receiving medical treatment.
“To give my voice and be the voice of all these victims and get out — this was the big driving force for me to escape,” she said, speaking Kurdish on the sidelines of an aid conference through a translator.
Bashar, who has deep facial scars and lost an eye due to horrific burns from a landmine during her escape, said the Sakharov prize had given her strength.
“I feel more powerful because now I feel that people are behind me. There are many people who have sympathy with what I am trying to do,” she said, adding that she hoped to become a schoolteacher as well as an activist.
Bashar, 18, will share the honour with Nadia Murad, who was also abducted and enslaved by IS and has since become a global advocate for the Yazidi people.
The prize, worth 50,000 euros ($55,000), will be presented at a ceremony on December 14 in Strasbourg.
“It is so important for me — not for me personally — it is important for those women and girls, victims of IS, whether they are still in captivity or have escaped,” Bashar said.
“I will accept this award in the name of all these victims.”
Yazidis are followers of an ancient religion with more than half a million believers concentrated in northern Iraq.
According to UN experts, around 3,200 Yazidis are still being held by IS, the majority of them in war-ravaged Syria.

Qatar could move Summer Games date, says Coe

Sebastian Coe said on Friday that Qatar could move the Summer Olympics to later in the calendar year if the Gulf country ever successfully bids to host the Games.
Speaking in Doha, where he met heads of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA), Coe said athletics had to prove flexible if it wanted new countries to host the showcase event.
Asked if the Summer Olympics could be moved if Qatar hosted, Coe said: “Yeah, we have to be realistic about this.
“We have to recognise that the world wants sport and it’s not always going to be bidding from areas where there aren’t going to be challenges.
“And those challenges are not just geographical or climatic, they are social, cultural, they are political.”
Qatar is controversially hosting the World Cup in 2022 when, for the first time, games will be played in November and December because of concerns over the country’s fierce summer temperatures.
It was originally scheduled to be played during Qatar’s summer months when temperatures regularly the high 40s Celsius (115-plus degrees Fahrenheit).
Doha has publicly stated that it will bid for future Olympics, with 2028 being a likely contender.
Earlier this year, a senior member of Qatar’s Olympic committee said the country had a “vision and target” to host an Olympics “one day”.
Qatar previously unsuccessfully bid to hold the 2020 Summer Olympics, which will be hosted in Japan.
Doha was strongly expected to bid for the 2024 Games but in the end decided against running.
Energy-rich Qatar is busy building facilities which could be used at an Olympics, despite the recent slump in oil prices hitting economic returns.
As well as the expected eight stadiums to be used for the 2022 World Cup, Qatar will host the World Athletics championships in 2019 and the 2023 FINA world swimming championships.
It hosted the world handball championships in 2015, the paralympic world championships last October and recently the cycling world road race championships, although there were complaints about the heat and lack of spectators.
Coe added that it was “not unusual” to move the date of the Olympics.
He pointed out that the Sydney games in 2000 were held later in the year, in September and October, as were the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
The 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha will be held in late September and early October, when temperatures can still approach 40 degrees Celsius, (104 Fahrenheit).
The 2017 edition of the championships will be held in London during August.
The 2015 world championships were hosted by Beijing, again in August.
The decision to move the 2022 World Cup met with opposition from some television broadcasters and national football federations.

“I cook and feed him but with no positive results” Chantal trolls Eric Omondi’s weight

However even after putting in so much work, her efforts seem to pay no fruits. In her recent video she is seen preparing Eric Omondi some vegetable soup but the caption used sarcastically reveals her concern about his weight.
 
 
As much as she wants him to gain wait the lass has been feeding him with some healthy food. She prepares broccoli and other vegetables to keep his heart still functioning.
 
Her followers however think that she needs to try giving junk stuff that might help him. Others think that Eric Omondi’s body is made to look skinny despite how much food he consumes.
This same body has enabled him come up with the best jokes that have seen him top as one of the biggest comedians in Africa. Anyway you can checkout the video

Ban to open Cyprus land-for-peace summit in Switzerland

UN chief Ban Ki-moon will launch crunch Cyprus talks in Switzerland next month that could determine whether a peace deal is achievable to end decades of division on the island.
United Nations envoy Espen Barth Eide said Friday that Ban will open the November 7-11 talks at which rival Cypriot leaders will discuss territorial adjustments for the first time.
Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart Mustafa Ak?nc? decided this week to move their negotiations launched 17 months ago to Mont Pelerin, near Geneva.
EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini, on a visit Friday to Nicosia, said a Cyprus settlement would amount to a “game changer” for the region at large.
“This would be a game changer not only for all Cypriots, not only the island also the European Union but also obviously for the entire southeast Mediterranean and for the Middle East,” she told reporters.
“It?s a regional but also global responsibility to try and do this last mile in the most positive way,” Mogherini after talks with Anastasiades and Cyprus Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides, whose country has been an EU member since 2004.
Eide said the UN-brokered peace summit will “concentrate on the chapter of territory, as well as all other outstanding issues interdependently”.
“The two leaders have jointly expressed their hope that the meeting in Switzerland will pave the way for the last phase of the talks, in line with their shared commitment to do their utmost in order to reach a settlement within 2016,” said Eide.
“It is the first time that the two leaders are negotiating the issue of territory directly, marking a critical juncture in the current process,” he added.
Due to the make-or-break nature of the territory issue, the leaders agreed to hold talks outside Cyprus. The talks in Switzerland will be the first time that maps are brought to the table since the negotiations began.
The two leaders will seek to agree on the internal boundary between two future constituent states allowing for the return of some areas in Turkish-held northern Cyprus to the Greek Cypriots.
Without an agreement on territory there can be no decision on how many refugees can return to their former homes or how the plans for restoration, exchange or compensation of property will work.
Territorial adjustments are essential for any peace deal for the EU member state.
The long-stalled peace talks — in what is seen as the last best chance to reunify Cyprus after four decades of division ?- were launched in May 2015.
Any agreement reached will need to go to a vote in simultaneous referenda on either side of the divide.
Talks have failed previously due to a lack of agreement on property compensation, territorial adjustments and the security set-up of a post-settlement Cyprus.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops occupied its northern third in response to an Athens-inspired coup seeking union with Greece.

London borough opens doors to ‘Jungle’ migrant children

Horrified by the desperate plight of traumatised children in the “Jungle” migrant camp in France, one London borough is seeking to provide a new life in Britain for unaccompanied youngsters.
As bulldozers raze the sprawling camp in the northern French port city of Calais this week, busloads of children have been arriving in Britain.
With the UK promising to take in hundreds more, local authorities face the challenge of resettling these youngsters — many of whom have fled war and poverty in countries like Afghanistan, Eritrea and Sudan.
But media reports say one in four local authorities have refused to take in any children of the Jungle.
One London borough, Hammersmith and Fulham, has been at the forefront of efforts to bring them to Britain under the so-called Dubs Amendment passed in May, vowing to accommodate 15 in total.
While children with family ties in Britain have the right to claim asylum here, the Dubs legislation allows vulnerable youngsters with no such ties to seek refuge.
Taking 15 of the 1,500 children housed temporarily in shipping containers in the Jungle may not seem like many.
But Hammersmith and Fulham hopes its example will encourage other local authorities to follow suit, as Paris and London squabble over who is to blame for their plight.
Stephen Cowan, the borough council’s leader, visited Calais in August with other London officials and was shocked by what he saw.
“You had this acute urine stench that hit you in the back of the throat,” he told AFP, describing the “dusty, intimidating environment”.
One child in particular struck him: a nine-year-old boy from Afghanistan who was “shivering” despite the summer heat.
“He looked overcome with stress. I asked the interpreter why he was shivering and he said: ‘This boy has been driven mad by fear’.”
The boy told Cowan: “I want somewhere where I will be safe at night and I will not be hurt anymore.”
Moved by the experience, Cowan pledged that his plush west London borough would find homes for such vulnerable children — though not all residents have supported the initiative.
A week before the camp was razed, the borough allowed 13 social workers to go to Calais to assess the needs of unaccompanied minors.
Social worker Rebecca Harvey recalled “chaotic” scene on arriving the day after police used tear gas during clashes at the camp.
She and her colleagues worked with an interpreter to take down key details: where the children were from, their state of mind and health, and hopes for the future.
One 13-year-old boy said he had left his home in Afghanistan after his father was beheaded and his mother shot dead in front of him by jihadists.
At the camp, “he was living in a tent with a man he didn’t know and crying all the time.
“He said he just thought every day ‘maybe it would be better if I threw myself under a truck and I didn’t have to suffer anymore’,” Harvey told AFP.
“His story was not unique by any stretch of the imagination.”
Since mid-October, more than 200 children have arrived in Britain from Calais and more transfers are due in the coming days, the Home Office interior ministry says.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said all minors “with proven family links in Britain” will eventually be transferred there, and that London has committed to reviewing all other cases where it is “in the child’s interest” to settle across the Channel.
On Thursday, the first five of Hammersmith and Fulham’s quota — boys aged 11 and 12 — arrived in London to register for asylum and were placed immediately into foster care.
With foster places scarce in the area, the authority has secured them homes, using government funding, outside the borough where carers are more readily available.
There they will be provided with access to education, health care, and support services including English language tuition, a council spokesman said.
The challenge now is to find “safe houses” in Britain, France or elsewhere in Europe for “every single one” of the 1,500 children remaining in Calais, said Cowan.
“Those children can’t be allowed to get lost.”

Koeman offers Everton escape route for Rooney

Everton manager Ronald Koeman says he would love to bring Wayne Rooney back to Goodison Park if the England star can’t revive his flagging Manchester United fortunes.
United captain Rooney has been relegated to the bench by boss Jose Mourinho in recent weeks after a dip in form that prompted speculation he could be on the verge of leaving Old Trafford.
Koeman was asked on Friday if he would be interested in offering Merseyside-born Rooney a return home to Everton, who he left in 2004 to join United after starting his career with the Toffees.
“First of all, I think it is a great player, and he has still not finished his career,” Koeman said.
“I do not know how his situation is, and I need to respect that situation. That’s not my problem.
“But even when we get one time the possibility that Rooney is an option for Everton, I’m very pleased.”
Rooney, who scored 17 goals in 77 appearances for Everton, was dropped by England interim manager Gareth Southgate for their last World Cup qualifier, but Koeman remains a big fan of the 31-year-old.
Asked if he was surprised by some of the criticism Rooney has endured this season, Koeman added: “That is part of football.
“He is enough of an experienced person in football that he knows what can happen and everybody gets periods of critics.
“It is part of football and of the business, and you need to stay calm — that is the best thing you can do.”

US man gets 18 months in ‘Celebgate’ nude photo hack

A US man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for hacking the accounts of Hollywood stars, which led to the online release of private nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and other celebrities.
Ryan Collins, 36, was sentenced Wednesday in US District Court in Pennsylvania for a felony violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The computer hacking charges were related to illegally accessing “over 100 Apple and Google email accounts, including those belonging to members of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles,” the US Justice Department said.
The “Celebgate” hack led to the online publication in 2014 of hundreds of nude photos of celebrities including Rihanna, Avril Lavigne and Gabrielle Union.
The statement did not refer to the victims by name, but several of the victims spoke publicly about the pictures.
In May, Collins entered a guilty plea in connection with hack, and admitted to a “phishing” scheme to obtain passwords, in order to then get nude pictures from the victims’ cloud online storage accounts.
However, officials said there was no evidence that Collins published the pictures online.
“Hackers violate federal law whenever they access private information stored online and in digital devices,” said Eileen Decker, US attorney for the central district of California.
Decker said that her office will hold hackers accountable, “even when they do not sell or distribute the stolen data.”
By gaining illegal access to the email accounts, “Collins accessed at least 50 iCloud accounts and 72 Gmail accounts, many of which belonged to female celebrities.”
Collins would sometimes also download the entire contents of the victims’ Apple iCloud backups.
Collins also “ran a modeling scam in which he tricked his victims into sending him nude photographs.”
In September, Edward Majerczyk agreed under a deal with federal authorities to plead guilty to one felony count of unauthorized access to a protected computer in the same “Celebgate” case.

Jealousy provokes Guardiola critics – Luis Enrique

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique believes former teammate Pep Guardiola will succeed at Manchester City and that criticism of his methods are borne out of jealousy.
Guardiola is in the midst of the worst run of results in his managerial career having not won in six games, including a 4-0 thrashing by Luis Enrique’s men on his return to Barcelona last week.
“To the critics of Guardiola it is very easy — don’t worry because he will win for sure,” Luis Enrique said on Friday.
Guardiola’s City still top the Premier League on goal difference thanks to a 10-game winning run to start his reign in English football.
However, on top of their Champions League struggles, City were also dumped out of the League Cup by Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United on Wednesday.
“There is no doubt he will win titles this year and do it playing the same football as the start of the season,” continued the current Barca boss.
“The critics have to appear because there is nothing worse than watching someone always win. This always generates a lot of jealousy.
“Pep will continue winning and with the arms he considers best, which is playing good football.”
Guardiola, who won 14 trophies in charge of Barcelona between 2008 and 2012, and Luis Enrique go head-to-head once more when Barca travel to Manchester on Tuesday.
However, the Spanish champions first host La Liga’s bottom side Granada at the Camp Nou on Saturday.
Barca have been ravaged by injuries in recent weeks with Andres Iniesta, Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba set to miss the trip to City.
Yet, Luis Enrique insists there are no excuses as Barca look to remain hot on the heels of La Liga leaders Real Madrid.
“I don’t see any problem with the squad that we have,” he added.
“We can win the upcoming games, which is the objective. Looking for excuses is not how we do things.”

Man burns his wife with boiling water on her private part

A 30-year-old woman in Meru County was burnt on her private parts by her husband following domestic quarrels.
 Catherine Wakere checked in at Mbeere Sub-County Hospital on Wednesday October 26 with burnt wounds on her thighs and private parts.
The nurse who attended to her noticed her wounds had become infected; the woman confessed she had been burnt two weeks ago by her husband.
 
The Standard reports thatWakere’s husband threw a sufuria of boiling water on her on the fateful day; apparently the victim had quarreled with her husband earlier and he returned home still harboring the anger in him, which eventually saw him burn his wife.
 
The hospital contacted authorities after hearing Wakere’s story; the suspect was arrested and would be arraigned in court once the investigations are complete.
Meanwhile Wakere is still recuperating at Mbeere Sub-County Hospital; she is in a stable condition and will be discharged in a few days time.

Seb Coe admits concerns over WADA Rio findings

World athletics boss Sebastian Coe admitted on Friday that reports from the World Anti-Doping Agency alleging serious drug testing failings at the Rio Olympics made for “uncomfortable reading”.
But speaking in Qatar — where he received backing from the heads of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA) for his IAAF reform agenda, including drug testing changes — Coe said it was right the failings were made public.
“The only thing I would say is I welcome reports like that, sometimes they are uncomfortable reading, but I would rather have those sorts of observations,” said the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
Although Coe added that he had not seen the report himself yet, the former middle-distance runner said such “intelligence” was vital so athletics can catch drug cheats.
The report, by independent observers sent to the Games by WADA and published on Thursday, uncovered “serious logistical failings” in Olympics’ anti-doping efforts.
It found cases where athletes targeted for testing “could not be found”, and a lack of adequately trained anti-doping personnel.
Coe is pushing for an independent drugs testing regime as part of his overhaul of world athletics at an IAAF extraordinary congress on December 3.
He is proposing an “independent Athletics Integrity Unit”, which will be responsible for doping matters, taking powers away from national associations.
“The testing itself is independent,” he said.
“I think where we have fallen foul is around results management. That all too often has had national interest involved.”
He added that he “cared little” for the rights of cheating athletes.
“We cannot survive as a sport unless clean athletes absolutely feel that they have the full force of a federation behind their legitimate attempts to be the best they can possibly be.
“That’s non-negotiable.”
Other mooted reforms include a restructuring of the IAAF council, the organisation’s sports decision-making body, so that it has 50 per cent female membership, new checks and balances on the president, and new vetting procedures on individuals.
The proposed changes need a two-thirds’ majority to be passed at December’s vote.
They have been brought about by the scandal which has engulfed athletics in recent times.
Coe’s disgraced predecessor Lamine Diack faces corruption charges in France, among them that he accepted bribes to cover up doping cases in Russia.
The IAAF then enforced a ban on Russian athletes in international competition after a WADA report unveiled systematic state-sponsored doping.
The double Olympic champion is on a global tour of athletics associations in an attempt to drum up support for his reform agenda – and he got the backing of the AAA on Friday
“We are fully supportive of the president,” said Dahlan Al-Hamad, head of the AAA.
“There are some issues which we will first discuss, I am sure that these issues will be resolved.”
It was Coe’s first visit to Doha since he was cleared by the IAAF ethics board over claims he had discussed rumours that Qatar had tried to bribe officials to secure the 2017 world athletics championships.
Coe denied having ever such discussions and said Friday he had nothing more to say following the decision.
Qatar will host the 2019 world championships.

Art star Basquiat showcased in Italy retrospective

New York’s Eighties art scene is coming to Milan with a show dedicated to the late Haitian-American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose works now sell for phenomenal sums.
From his child-like skull and crown paintings to his poetic and enigmatic anatomical depictions, the Museum of Culture in the north Italian city is holding a retrospective until February into the works of the art prodigy who died from a drug overdose aged just 27.
Born in 1960 in Brooklyn to a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother, the young, handsome Basquiat became one of the most celebrated and influential artists of his generation, leaving more than 2,000 drawings or paintings.
“Basquiat conquered the world” with his “genius”, said Gianni Mercurio, who co-curated the exhibition with Jeffery Deitch, who had been one of the painter’s friends.
The retrospective, which runs near chronologically, exhibits works executed between 1980 and 1987, largely on loan from the private collection of prominent New York art dealer Jose Mugrabi, who also knew Basquiat.
Some 140 paintings, drawings and ceramics await visitors, from street art to the youngster’s collaboration with pop art master Andy Warhol, who he met and formed a close relationship with in 1980.
Basquiat, who was a regular museum-goer as a child but dropped out of school at 16, first rose to prominence in the 1970s with graffitied statements across SoHo, done with friend Al Diaz and signed “SAMO” (“same old, same old bullshit”).
His work then began to evolve into colourful paintings, using acrylics, oils, pastels and creating collages on paintings, tables or doors.
Many of his creations feature words and have been described as bridging traditional tribal art and socio-political missives.
His friendship with Warhol would mark him forever.
“The relationship between Warhol and Basquiat was a very close one: Basquiat regarded Warhol as his spiritual father, and Warhol saw in Basquiat the son he never had,” Mercurio told AFP.
But the fruits of their collaboration, exhibited in Zurich and New York, “met with a negative reaction in the press”.
“Some critics said it was a commercial ploy to revitalize Warhol and consolidate Basquiat’s success, others said Warhol did what he wanted with Basquiat, criticisms which deeply hurt the already fragile” New York artist, he said.
Basquiat broke off the collaboration but appeared to suffer his decision. Warhol’s death in 1987 worsened his depression and his heroin addiction spiralled, leaving him dead a year later of an overdose.
“Basquiat was an artist full of contradictions. His personality was based on pride. He wanted to be a famous artist, not just a famous black artist,” said Mercurio.
“He said 80 percent of his work was done in anger. But at the same time, he was a sweet, hesitant person. His fragility came from his fear of losing his success from one moment to another,” he added.
He need not have worried: his paintings and drawings today regularly beat the expected price at auctions. Between July 2015 and June 2016 his works were sold for a total of $139.4 million, according to specialists Artprice.
And a new record was set in May at Christie’s in New York, with a huge self-portrait going for $57.2 million to a Japanese billionaire.
According to Artprice, between January 2000 and October 2016 the value of works of Basquiat rose a whopping 506 percent.

Wales rugby skipper Warburton signs national dual contract

Wales and Cardiff Blues star Sam Warburton has re-signed his national dual contracts, the Welsh Rugby Union announced on Friday.
Warburton, his back-row colleague Dan Lydiate, prop Samson Lee and back Hallam Amos have all put pen to paper on the new deals.
Wales captain Warburton, 28, became the first player to sign a national contract with the WRU in January 2014, which then evolved into a national dual contract with his regional team Cardiff.
Lydiate joined the Ospreys from French club Racing 92 on a dual contract, while Newport Gwent Dragons’ Amos first signed in December 2014 and Scarlets forward Lee a month later.
The contracts are 60 per cent funded by the WRU, with a player’s region paying the rest.
The WRU’s announcement comes just eight days before Wales kick off their series of Test matches with a clash with Australia in Cardiff, which is followed by fixtures against Argentina, Japan and South Africa.
“Having our best players playing here in Wales is vital to the future health of our game,” WRU chief executive Martyn Phillips said.
“The close working relationship and ambition shared with the regions is crucial in our ability to retain players. Together, we believe we are creating an environment that players want to play in and will get the best out of them on the field.
“Seeing international players re-sign these contracts highlights the success of the programme as we continue to work hard to drive the game forward.”

‘Phenom’ Ronaldo deserves Ballon d’Or – Zidane

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane backed Cristiano Ronaldo’s case for a fourth Ballon d’Or on Friday despite the Portuguese superstar’s current struggles in front of goal.
Ronaldo won both the Champions League with Real and Portugal’s first ever major tournament at Euro 2016 to make him the favourite to land the award for the world’s best player on January 9 next year.
“He clearly deserves the Ballon d’Or,” said Zidane ahead of Saturday’s trip to Alaves in La Liga.
“Not just at an individual level, but above all on a collective level…he knows everything he is achieving is thanks to his hard work and the work of those around him.”
Ronaldo is expected to face competition from five-time winner Lionel Messi, Madrid teammate Gareth Bale and Atletico Madrid and France forward Antoine Griezmann for the award.
However, his form has slumped since his return from a two-month injury layoff after suffering knee ligament damage in the Euro 2016 final.
“What Cristiano has done is raise the bar so high that every time he doesn’t score it is a problem,” added Zidane.
Ronaldo has netted just four times in nine appearances for Madrid so far this season, by a distance his worst return at this stage of the campaign in seven seasons with the European champions.
“He is angry (about not scoring), but there is no bigger worry than that,” continued Zidane.
“Every time he doesn’t score there is a furore, but he has to live with these things. He is a phenom.”
Ronaldo is expected to be partnered by Bale and Karim Benzema once more in the Madrid front line despite the fine form of Alvaro Morata.
The Spanish international came off the bench to score the winner against Athletic Bilbao last weekend and bagged a double in a 7-1 rout of Cultural Leonesa in the Copa del Rey on Wednesday.
However, captain Sergio Ramos, Luka Modric and Casemiro remain out injured.

Sudden spike in violence kills six in east Ukraine

Six people died in clashes between government forces and pro-Russian insurgents in Ukraine’s separatist east, officials said Friday, the highest death toll since international peace talks held 10 days ago.
The flare-up in the two-year conflict followed German Chancelor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande’s efforts to breathe fresh air in a stalled peace process during talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko in Berlin.
“Over the past 24 hours, as a result of fighting, one Ukrainian serviceman was killed,” Kiev’s military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters, accusing the rebels of “a sharp intensification” of attacks.
The rebels’ news agency said two of their fighters were killed and another six wounded on Thursday.
They also reported the death of three civilians in Ukranian shelling near their de facto capital of Donetsk.
The Berlin summit failed to resolve one of Europe’s bloodiest conflicts since the Balkans wars of the 1990s, with the leaders only agreeing to come up with a “roadmap” for peace by the end of next month.
The fighting has claimed nearly 10,000 lives and raised alarm across parts of eastern Europe that were once Moscow’s control.
Russia, which annexed Crimea from pro-Western Ukraine in 2014, denies either sending troops or weapons across its border to fuel the conflict, despite eyewitness testimony to the contrary.
But it openly back the separatists’ cause at international venues such as the UN Security Council.

West Ham violence could damage safe standing campaign: Wenger

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger fears the crowd trouble that marred West Ham United’s League Cup victory over Chelsea and left 200 fans facing banning orders could damage the campaign for safe standing areas in stadiums.
Rival fans threw coins, seats and bottles inside West Ham’s London Stadium on Wednesday and were involved in clashes in the streets around the east London ground.
Seven arrests were made and West Ham have pledged to hand out up to 200 banning orders after scanning video footage of violent scenes that dragged football back to the dark days of the 1970s and 1980s when hooligans ran amok in England.
Wenger doesn’t believe England will see a resurgence in hooliganism, but he is concerned the ugly clashes might ruin the chances of clubs introducing safe standing areas in stadiums.
Terracing was banned in England following the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans.
Scottish Premiership club Celtic installed 2,900 seats that can be made into standing sections before the start of this season and English Championship club Brighton and Hove Albion are considering a similar scheme.
“I’m surprised even more than disappointed, because West Ham is usually a very strong fan base,” Wenger said on Friday.
“Personally I am in favour of the resurgence of standing opportunities behind the goals. I feel the closer you are to the positions of the players, the more passionate you are about it.
“As well because it would allow lower prices because you could get more spectators inside the stadiums, and maybe a more passionate atmosphere.
“It (the violence) gives an argument to people who are against it.
“It is not a very good advert to come back to standing opportunities. Hopefully West Ham will get rid of the problem very quickly.
“Basically I don’t believe there is a problem with hooliganism in England. You cannot say that one minor incident — I heard about 200 people — is a general problem in the country.”
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic was keen to turn his focus to this weekend’s Premier League fixture against Everton, but he conceded the violence had left a scar.
“It does hurt, of course it does. The club didn’t deserve it, the players don’t deserve it definitely, the fans didn’t deserve it — the majority of them of course. The big majority, the vast majority,” Bilic said.
“I have said enough, I want to talk about the game on Sunday. I have a big game. I said what I said and that’s it. I want to talk about football and the game.
“There is no point talking about it because I would only repeat what I said. I am a football manager, not a police officer or whatever, so that is it basically.”
Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew, who spent three years in charge at West Ham, condemned the mindless thugs who ruined his old club’s reputation in the latest outbreak of violence since the Hammers left Upton Park for the London Stadium in the close-season.
“They are scenes that you don’t want to see,” he said. “The mindless thugs that spoiled that game are spoiling it for everybody over there, because they’re all trying to settle into a new stadium.”
“I think West Ham’s move this morning (the banning orders) was probably the right thing. Get rid of these people and let the genuine West Ham fans enjoy the game.”

Global migrant deaths up 20 percent: IOM

Migrant deaths worldwide this year have surged above 5,200 — a 20 percent increase on 2015 — driven by record fatalities in the Mediterranean, the International Organisation for Migration said Friday.
In total, 5,238 people have perished since January 1, or 951 more than at the same point in 2015, the Geneva-based IOM said in a statement.
The Mediterranean Sea route, used by nearly 330,000 people in 2016 seeking a new life in Europe, remains the world’s deadliest.
The UN refugee agency said this week that Mediterranean migrant fatalities had hit a record 3,800.
IOM put the number of dead and missing on that route at 3,930 for the year, but the two partner agencies often have different figures.
Migrant deaths also rose to 500 this year in Latin America, with people on the move killed by a range of causes including dehydration, vehicle accidents and murder.
IOM noted that in 60 percent of cases the bodies of migrants who perish are never recovered.

Party Lovers, Here’s all the Beers You will be enjoying at The Oktoberfest starting Today

The Oktoberfest is never complete without beer. And huge doses of it for that matter.
Beer actually is the man spine of the whole event which started in Germany and has been gaining mad traction all across the World and especially in Kenya where it has been gaining mad momentum and attracting hundreds of thousands of fanatics.
As you prepare to show up at The Hub, Karen for the fest , either today or tomorrow, with your gang of beer-loving friends, we took the time to break down for you just what is really on offer – and you’ll be thrilled.
Everyone loves a frothy, cold beer washed down with some burgers and hotdogs or whatever snack or food you fancy as you while time away and chill courtesy of Picasso, Art Caffè and Ocean Basket .
And the Oktoberfest organizers have made sure that you not only get to get yourself properly drunk and satiated but also get the best of the beers this sin City can offer.
At the venue, you will be spoilt for choice as there will be over 11 different types of beers on tap. All different sizzling flavors to help you party your weekend away as you should – Like a Boss.
The ten brews on tap are
I have a personal liking for the   brew that I had the pleasure of tasting earlier this week. Someone tells me they can’t do without the brew and my boys will do anything to grab a glass of the brew which they swear is better than cheese and butter.
All of these brews will be readily available in the huge tents erected across the arena…With many different types of wines and Champagnes also spread out for the girls and the Instagram hunnies.
 
What’s new? Happy Hour! Yeah right! This is the most coveted hour of the party . And is starts at 5pm and runs right into 7pm. Here, you buy one mug of whatever brew you like and get an extra serving absolutely free! How’s that for a party huh? And the Happy Hour is both days. Today and Tomorrow evening. BAM!
Besides that, Dj Marc Vedo , will also be at the Brew Bistro Rooftop in Westlands for the maaaad after party that will end late into the night.
You’ve got your whole weekend plans covered now, haven’t you?
One thing I cant miss is the Happy Hour. Cuz God knows I love me some beer….Properly brewed and chilled and ready for just me.
See you at the party fellas! And girls! Whoop Whoop!
Grab your tickets at Kenya Buzz. By clicking

Britain could hold second EU vote, says ex-PM Blair

He called on fellow “Remain” supporters to “mobilise and to organise” against proponents of Brexit, writing in The New European newspaper that “we’re the insurgents now”.
“There is absolutely no reason why we should close off any options,” he later told BBC radio.
“We are entitled to carry on scrutinising, and, yes, if necessary, to change our minds. This is not about an elite overruling the people.
“If it becomes clear that this is either a deal that doesn’t make it worth our while leaving; or, alternatively, a deal that is going to be so serious in its implications that people decide they don’t want to go, there’s got to be some way, either through parliament, or through an election; possibly through another referendum,” he added.
Blair, who was prime minister from 1997 to 2007, called Brexit as “catastrophe”, and revealed that he had recently held talks with French President Francois Hollande that had highlighted the challenges Britain faces in upcoming negotiations to set the terms of the break-up.
“It convinced me that it’s going to be very, very tough,” he said in The New European.
“We are not going to be conducting this negotiation with a group of European businessmen who may well decide that what they want is the maximum access into the UK, and they may be prepared to be quite forgiving.
“The people we will be conducting this negotiation with will be the political leaders of the European Union, and their parliaments, so this is going to be a negotiation, in my view, of enormous complexity.”
He said that Britain would either have to accept obligations in return for access to the single market of face “severe” economic consequences.
Conservative MP Maria Caulfield, a member of parliament’s Brexit scrutiny committee, said Blair was partly responsible for Brexit by encouraging “uncontrolled immigration” while prime minister and that he was now unable to “come to terms with the decision of the people of the UK”.
“Instead of desperately trying to find ways to thwart the will of voters and talking down Britain’s prospects, Labour should be concentrating on helping to make a success of Brexit,” she added.

Restaurant boss suspected of kidnapping Nice hotelier

The former manager of a gourmet restaurant in the French resort city of Nice is suspected of ordering the kidnapping of a hotel magnate, who was found bound in the back of a van, investigators said Friday.
A police source confirmed a report in Le Parisien newspaper, which said the former boss of the Michelin-starred La Reserve was among nine people arrested over the abduction.
Kidnapping victim Jacqueline Veyrac, 76, is the millionaire owner of La Reserve on the Nice seafront and the luxury Grand Hotel in nearby Cannes.
She was already the victim of a kidnapping three years ago, the motive of which was never discovered.
Le Parisien identified the main suspect in the latest affair as Giuseppe S., an Italian, and said he was believed to harbour a grudge against Veyrac.
On Monday, she was snatched as she was getting into her SUV in a busy part of Nice and bundled into a waiting van.
She was found alive and well two days later, in a white van with false number plates parked in the hills above the Riviera resort.
The local prosecutor described the case as “complex” and said it appeared not to be linked to any ransom demand but “something very personal”.
Veyrac, whose husband died five years ago, co-owns the Grand Hotel and La Reserve with one of her sons.
The Grand Hotel is one of the establishments on the palm-lined Croisette boulevard that roll out the red carpet each May for movie stars attending the Cannes Film Festival.

McIlroy sets sights on tour double as Willett falters

Rory McIlroy says his burning desire to win a fourth Race to Dubai crown in five years is keeping him fired up and focused down the final stretch of a long season.
McIlroy leapt into contention at the WGC-HSBC Champions with a second-round six-under par 66 Friday which took him to seven-under par for the tournament, six behind runaway leader Hideki Matsuyama of Japan, but only three shots off second place.
McIlroy is looking to take home sizeable chunks of the huge prize funds available in his final three events in Shanghai ($9.5 million), Turkey next week ($7 million) and the season-ending Tour Championship in Dubai ($8 million).
With more than a million ranking points available to the winner of each event, third-placed McIlroy can still overhaul the 1,055,971-point gap in the standings to leader Danny Willett and the 643,243 points between the Northern Irishman and second-placed Henrik Stenson.
He has made a good start to his quest by outscoring both by the halfway mark in Shanghai.
Stenson lies three shots adrift of McIlroy, but the out-of-sorts Willett has major damage limitation to do at the weekend as he is 15 shots behind the Northern Irishman after a 74 was followed by a disastrous six-over 78 on Friday.
“I want to finish the season off well. I have a good record here, good record in Dubai and let’s see how it goes in Turkey,” McIlroy told AFP.
“If I play the way I know that I can hopefully I can get it done. There’s a target in your sights and that’s the Race to Dubai for me — I’ve won it three of the last four years. Trying to go four out of five I think that’s a big motivation and a big key for me.”
The Northern Irishman has enjoyed another great season, despite not adding to his four majors.
He won the European Tour’s Irish Open, which was hosted by his charitable foundation. He then triumphed at big-money Deutsche Bank Championship and Tour Championship to gain the title of number on the US PGA Tour by winning the FedEx Cup.
Now he has the double of Race to Dubai and FedEx Cup in his sights, something only achieved once before — by Stenson in 2013.
“I want to try and do the double. I want to try to win the Race to Dubai as well as what I’ve already achieved this year,” he said.
“There’s a lot to play for still for me and that’s why I feel like it’s pretty easy to get motivated for the next few weeks.”

Sweden refuses to suspend Assange’s arrest warrant for funeral

The Swedish prosecutor’s office on Friday said it has rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s request to temporarily suspend an arrest warrant so he could leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London and attend a funeral.
“Julian Assange has requested that the Swedish prosecutor should grant him leave from the detention order and the European arrest warrant in order to go to a funeral,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
The prosecutor dismissed Assange’s request, saying that Swedish law does not allow permission or exemption to a court decision on issuing of a European arrest warrant.
The prosecutor’s office did not specify whose funeral Assange wanted to attend or where it would be held.
The 45-year-old Australian has been holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London since June 2012, seeking refuge there after exhausting all his legal options in Britain against extradition to Sweden.
Assange has refused to travel to Sweden for questioning over rape allegations, which he denies, due to concerns that he would then be extradited to the United States over WikiLeaks’ release of 500,000 secret military files on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In September, a Swedish appeals court ruled against his request to lift the arrest warrant, the eighth straight time a Swedish court has ruled against him.
A lawyer for Assange said he would go to Sweden’s highest court after the ruling.

Students caught having a drug party in a matatu

Students schooling around Tharaka Nithi county were nabbed yesterday 27 October, 2016 after they were caught doing hard drugs in a matatu. The students were heading home after they closed school when they decided to smoke some Marijuana and get intoxicated.
According to reports going around, it took the police some time before they arrested the students as most were already wasted and confused. However 12 students were taken to Chuka police station where they spent the night.
 
 
The police also arrested the driver and conductor for allowing this activity to take place in front of them. They also believe that the driver and his conductor were paid by the students to avoid them from meddling in their little party.
Early this year some students were arrested for having an orgy in a matatu as they were heading home from school. This behavior has become among students who are having a hard time controlling their hormones due to adolescent. As for now parents are advised to keep a close eye to their teenage kids to avoid indulging in barbaric behaviours.

Meet driver who received 346 million NYS loot but has still refused to quit his 15k job

National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee is still grilling suspects implicated in the loot of Kes 971 million from National Youth Service (NYS).
Yesterday October 27 was John Kago’s turn to shed light on the stolen money. Mr. Kago is a driver at Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) who earns a salary of Kes 15,000 a month.
He shocked MPs who were grilling him when he revealed that was still on a payroll at KBC, despite plucking millions from NYS.
“I am a driver at KCB, but I am on suspension and half salary due to the NYS scandal in which my name has been mentioned,” Kago was quoted by Daily Nation.
 
Daily Nation further revealed that Kago owns a fleet of luxury motor vehicles, including a posh 23 million Range Rover, a Mercedes Benz, Toyota Landcruiser and a Toyota Fielder, all which he uses in his car hire business.
He defended his wealth acquisition saying he only received 60 million shillings of the lost NYS money which was given to him by Josphine Kabura Irungu, another key suspect in the NYS scandal.
Kago told Public Accounts Committee that he saved enough money in a merry-go-round to start his car hiring company.
The committee however noted that Kago was blatantly lying since investigations by Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission had indicated that he received Kes 156 million from Josphine Kabura and Kes 130 million from Benson Gethi.
 

Headstone unveiled at Peres grave

Israel unveiled Friday a headstone at the grave of ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres who died last month, at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The unveiling, which took place at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl national cemetery and was also attended by President Reuven Rivlin, is a ceremony held in line with Jewish tradition 30 days after a person’s death.
Peres was buried on September 30, two days after he died aged 93 following a major stroke, and a long list of world leaders including US President Barack Obama attended his funeral.
Among many quotes and epitaphs inscribed on the headstone was a verse from the Old Testament’s Book of Isaiah in tribute to the late Nobel Peace laureate.
“And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more,” it reads.
Next to the headstone stands a plaque with a biography of the many achievements and roles of Peres, who was considered the last of the Jewish state’s founding fathers.
“Statesman, lover of literature, poetry and art, Nobel Prize laureate, a man of vision and action,” it reads in English and Hebrew.
In a career spanning seven decades, Peres held nearly every major office, serving twice as prime minister and lastly as president from 2007 to 2014.
He won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for his role in negotiating the Oslo peace accords, which envisioned an independent Palestinian state.
Peres was also an architect of Israel’s nuclear programme, with the country now considered the Middle East’s sole nuclear-armed nation, although it has never declared it.
Netanyahu has said Israel’s nuclear reactor is to be renamed in honour of Peres.

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Car bombs, rockets as rebels battle to break Aleppo siege

Car bombs and rocket fire shook Aleppo Saturday as rebels battled to break a suffocating siege by the Syrian regime, accused by Washington of using starvation as a “weapon of war”.
The offensive, launched Friday, aims to break through a three-month encirclement of the battered city’s eastern districts, where more than 250,000 people live without access to food or humanitarian aid.
“In just a few days, we will open the way for our besieged brothers,” rebel commander Abu Mustafa told AFP from the frontline district of Dahiyet al-Assad, on the southwestern outskirts of Aleppo.
Fighting and air strikes pounded nearly all of Aleppo’s western outskirts, with the most intense clashes reported in the districts of Al-Zahraa and Dahiyet al-Assad.
Yasser al-Youssef of the Noureddin al-Zinki rebel faction said opposition fighters opened a new front in Al-Zahraa on Saturday with a massive car bombing.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said rebels and allied jihadists have unleashed a barrage of rocket fire and at least 10 car bombs since their assault began.
The Britain-based group said two days of fighting have killed at least 30 regime forces and allied fighters as well as 26 Syrian rebels, but it did not give a toll for foreign militants battling alongside the opposition.
At least 21 civilians, including two children, have been killed in rebel bombardment since Friday morning.
Syrian state news agency SANA said rockets fired by opposition groups on Saturday wounded six people including a child in two regime-held districts.
The offensive has seen more than 1,500 rebels from the provinces of Aleppo and nearby Idlib amass along a front stretching for 15 kilometres (nine miles) down the city’s western edges.
Their aim is to work their way east through a sprawling military complex, then to the district of Al-Hamdaniyeh to break through government lines.
Fighting on Saturday was so fierce around Al-Zahraa and Dahiyet al-Assad that the explosions and gunfire could be heard across Aleppo’s eastern half, AFP’s correspondent there said.
“There have not been clashes this intense in Al-Zahraa since 2012,” when opposition fighters seized Aleppo’s east, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
He said pro-government forces launched a counter-attack on Saturday and managed to recapture several positions in Dahiyet al-Assad, where rebels had scored a major advance.
An AFP correspondent who visited the district saw deserted streets and extensive damage to buildings battered by air strikes and artillery fire.
Syria’s second city, Aleppo has been devastated by some of the heaviest fighting of the country’s five-year civil war that began with anti-government protests and has since killed more than 300,000 people.
Much of the once-bustling economic hub has been reduced to rubble by air and artillery bombardment, including barrel bombs — crude unguided explosive devices that cause indiscriminate damage.
Last week, Russia implemented a three-day “humanitarian truce” intended to allow civilians and surrendering rebels to leave the east, but few did so.
Russia, whose intervention in September 2015 with air strikes in support of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces was seen as a game-changer, says it has not bombed Aleppo since October 18.
The Observatory said Saturday that Russian raids have been battering Aleppo’s western battlefronts, but confirmed the halt to Moscow’s aerial bombing of the city itself was holding.
The Russian military said Friday it had asked President Vladimir Putin for authorisation to resume the raids.
But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin “considers it inappropriate at the current moment”, adding that the president thought it necessary to “continue the humanitarian pause” in Aleppo.
The United States on Friday accused the regime of using starvation as a weapon of war — a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
Rejecting Kremlin claims that attacks on Aleppo have stopped, a US official told AFP that “the regime has rejected UN requests to deliver aid to eastern Aleppo — using starvation as a weapon of war”.
Aleppo’s front line runs through the heart of the city, dividing rebels in the east from government troops in the west.
It lies at the crossroads of key transport routes, making it a strategic prize for both sides and a potential bargaining chip for both opposition and regime forces if UN-brokered peace talks are resumed.

Wenger fumes over Perez injury

Arsene Wenger says Lucas Perez will be out of action for up to eight weeks after the Arsenal striker was targeted by a “stupid” challenge from Reading’s Danzell Gravenberch.
Gunners boss Wenger is furious that Gravenberch clattered Perez in Arsenal’s 2-0 League Cup victory at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday.
Perez will now miss a significant portion of Arsenal’s campaign with an ankle problem and Wenger is frustrated that Dutch defender Gravenberch avoided punishment for the challenge.
Wenger likened Gravenberch’s tackle to the incident that led to a red card for Arsenal’s Granit Xhaka in a 3-2 win over Swansea earlier this month.
“It’s very frustrating, of course he (Perez) is absolutely gutted. It’s an injury coming from nowhere, and a stupid one, because it was a deliberate kick,” Wenger said on Friday.
“It’s a similar tackle to Xhaka, but there was no red card. But the red card would not have helped Perez.
“What is most important is that he’s out for six to eight weeks.
“It was not needed. I think it was a more frustrated reaction from the player.
“He had no chance to get the ball like that, but you have to deal with that.
“Sometimes you get away with it, sometimes you get a bad injury. In this case it’s unfortunate.”
There was better news for Wenger about the fitness of Olivier Giroud and Aaron Ramsey, who will both be available for Arsenal’s Premier League trip to Sunderland on Saturday.
France striker Giroud has finally recovered from a long-term toe problem, while Ramsey will feature for the first time since the opening day of the season after hamstring trouble.

These Kenyan ladies can give competition to the Tanzanian Women twerking in the famous Chura song (Video)

If you watched Snura’s video Chura, then you must be among the two million people who got amazed and perhaps thrilled by the sight of voluptuous ladies shaking their booty like no one’s business. T
he Tanzanian ladies booty shaking in such teasing and sexual way had the video and song banned in Tanzania but it went viral online.
Now, there is an equivalent video for Kenya by coastal music big wig, Susumila. Fresh from enjoying the positive response his song with Avrial Wewe has received, the artist has gone for the daring.
He has worked with a troupe of beautiful and dancers with great gyrating skills and much like Snura’s Chura, the ocean shores provides a great background to show off their ass shaking skills.
 
Given the Kenya Film Classification Board recent initiative to crack down on anything they view as moral degrading, you can be sure the video too will be banned from out televisions.
However, the Kenyan public likes sleazy videos and Susumila’s Ngoma Imezima video is the closest a Kenyan video gets to Chura.
In fact the song does the video much justice laced with deeper meaning and Susumila’s commendable lyricism.
Here is the video,
 

Italy quake survivors head for the coast

There was no relief for residents in Italy’s quake-centre on Friday, where survivors with their nerves frayed by hundreds of aftershocks were packing up their few belongings and moving to the Adriatic coast.
Following two powerful 6.1 and 5.5 magnitude quakes on Wednesday which left almost 5,000 people homeless, Italy’s national geophysics institute (INGV) has recorded almost 700 tremors, with experts saying they could go on for weeks or months.
Italy’s civil protection agency has offered financial support to those whose houses were damaged, allowing them to relocate on their own, take a room in designated residences nearby, or move to hotels on the coast some 80 kilometres (50 miles) away.
Many “have chosen the latter, using their own vehicles or buses made available to them by civil protection,” the agency said.
In the town of Ussita, one of the areas most affected by the quakes, some 260 people took refuge in the local campsite, moving into the small wooden bungalows on site.
Lara Manzoni, who works at a frozen pizza company the premises of which were damaged in the quake, has come to help out at the campsite bar instead.
“I sent my children to my mother in Bergamo (in northern Italy) to keep them safe, but I could not see myself leaving all these people in trouble,” she said.
Some in the area had invested in motor-homes following the deadly August 24 quake so they would have somewhere mobile to live if fresh tremours hit, she said.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi visited the area on Thursday, promising those affected that “Italy does not abandon its citizens”.
“The earthquake has tested us, but we are stronger,” he said, unlocking 40 million euros ($44 million) for the emergency and ruling out survivors spending the winter in tent camps.

5 tips to naturally bleach your skin permanently

However, there are a few natural tips one can use to get that flawless skin without putting their health at risk. This tips are not just to naturally lighten your skin but to give you a healthy glowing skin complexion.
Oranges have Vitamin C which is good for your skin. Apart from consuming this fruit, you can blend it then use the juice to make your facemask. All you need is about 2 to 3 table spoons of the orange juice and some turmeric powder. Mix it then apply it on your face, hands, legs and leave it for 30 minutes. It is advisable to do this before going to bed. In one week or less you will have your skin glowing and soft with no blemishes.
 
 
Most ladies use this to get the glowing look. It often used by Asian ladies before they get married in order to make them look stunning during their wedding. Anyway, by applying natural turmeric powder and honey on your face it is believed that it lowers the melanin levels in your skin. Due to its bright yellow color, turmeric helps brighten the skin.
 
Lemons have a natural bleaching agent that helps bleach/lighten your skin naturally. It is not advisable to use it every day as the citric acid which bleaches the skin has an uncomfortable stinging feeling.  However lemon juice can also be used to clear scars, spots and blemishes on your skin.
 
This fruits is not only good for your health but can also be used to whiten your skin complexion. One can mix it with honey which comes in handy to make the skin softer and fair.

Raw potatoes are good at regulating melanin production. When used as a face mask one notices the charge in 3 to 4 days. Potatoes also help in shedding off the dead skin since they are deeply rich in Vitamin C. However, just like the lemon this ingredient has stinging effect on the skin. But what makes it special is that it has a bleaching agent unlike the rest.
 
 

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