Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe, has been re-elected for a third term, electoral officials say. Togo’s electoral officials say Gnassingbe got 59% of the vote while his main opponent Jean-Pierre Fabre, took 35% of the vote. His family has been in power for 48 years.
Nicki Minaj was spotted out in LA yesterday flashing her underwear..:-)
According to Grazia, Beyonce has hired a private detective to keep their eyes on her hubby. Despite putting on a united front for recent outings together, sources tell the mag there is trouble in paradise.
“There are whispers Beyonce has hired a bodyguard to watch over Jay Z and report back to her,” a source told Grazia.”He’s there to take care of Jay, but part of his unofficial remit is to fill Beyonce in when she’s not there.
She carefully drove her Range Rover past the ten-deep crowd waiting at the gates and they cheered when they saw the car going onto the palace forecourt.
At about 9 am yesterday morning, Kate and her Husband Prince Williams surprised the fans by sending members of staff from the royal household to personally deliver ten cups of coffee and two boxes containing four croissants, two Danish pastries, an apple turnover and fruit bun. The two boxes of pastries and croissants were wrapped in pink ribbon, leading those desperately awaiting the royal baby’s birth to speculate it could be a girl.
A Kensington Palace spokesman confirmed that the breakfast surprise had indeed come from the couple themselves.
‘The Duke and Duchess have seen the news reports about these people camping out and they just wanted to let them know they were thinking of them,’ they said.
The 8 men chose to face their executioners and spent their last minutes on earth praising God and singing songs which included ‘Amazing Grace’.
On Wednesday morning, Pastor Christie Buckingham – who read Chan and Sukumaran their last rites – said the 8 death row inmates walked out onto the killing field singing religious songs in the moments before they were executed. Pastor Buckingham said the men conducted themselves with ‘dignity and strength until the end’. Another pastor, Karina de Vega, said it was a ‘beautiful experience’.
| Profiles: Drug smuggling convicts executed in Indonesia |
| Martin Anderson, 50, Nigeria, arrested in Jakarta in 2003 with 50g of heroin. Jamiu Owolabi Abashin, 50, Nigeria, arrested in 1998 at Surabaya airport with about 5kg of heroin. He was originally sentenced to life in prison, which was reduced to 20 years by the High Court, then changed to death by the Supreme Court on appeal by prosecutors. Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise, 49, Nigeria, arrested in 2003 on arrival at Jakarta airport from Pakistan with 1.2kg of heroin. Okwudili Oyatanze, 45, Nigeria, arrested in 2001 on arrival at Jakarta airport from Pakistan with about 2.5kg of heroin. Zainal Abidin bin Mahmud Badarudin, 50, Indonesia, arrested at his home in 2000 with about 59kg of marijuana. Rodrigo Gularte, 42, Brazil, arrested in 2004 on arrival at Jakarta airport with about 6kg of cocaine hidden in several surfboards. Myuran Sukumaran, 34, and Andrew Chan, 31, Australia, arrested in 2005 for attempting to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin to Australia as part of a group dubbed the Bali Nine. |
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| Execution ground |
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| The bodies being carried to be buried |
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| Families mourn |
A reddit user shared this resignation letter and it went viral immediately it hit the internet.
