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 After weeks of explosive testimony and three days of deliberations within the blockbuster defamation case between actors johnny depp and his ex-wife amber heard, the jury delivered a break up verdict largely in favour of depp on wednesday. And whereas the jury discovered that every had defamed the opposite, depp celebrated the decision as a victory and heard declared herself dissatisfied “past phrases”. Listed here are a few of the key moments from the trial, which featured blistering claims and counterclaims of home abuse: 1) mutual abuse allegations Depp sued heard for libel over a december 2018 op-ed through which she described herself as “a public determine representing home abuse”. His attorneys mentioned he was defamed by the article regardless that it by no means talked about his identify. Whereas the case was ostensibly about libel, many of the testimony centered on whether or not heard had been bodily and sexually abused, as she claimed. Heard detailed greater than a doze...

The canadian army has accused chinese language warplanes of harassing its pilots throughout united nations sanctions patrols alongside the border with north korea to observe evasions. Canadian armed forces mentioned in a press release on wednesday the chinese language planes have at occasions flown so shut they compelled canadian pilots to shortly change course to “keep away from a possible collision with the intercepting plane”. It mentioned the incidents occurred between april 26 and could 26. “in these interactions, plaaf [people’s liberation army air force] plane didn’t adhere to worldwide air security norms,” the assertion mentioned. “these interactions are unprofessional and/or put the protection of our rcaf [royal canadian air force] personnel in danger.” The army added that interactions in worldwide airspace throughout un-sanctioned missions had been turning into extra frequent, including that “these occurrences have additionally been addressed by way of diplomatic channels.”be...

Enter the mysterious world of magic and wizardry in Myanmar. Within the mild of a full moon on the outskirts of Yangon, a bunch of individuals collect round a glittering shrine, chanting incantations. They imagine this ceremony will convey magical safety. Throughout Myanmar, a whole lot of hundreds of individuals observe the teachings and practices of wizards thought to have supernatural powers. They imagine within the magic of the Buddhist occult to treatment sickness, inform fortunes and shield folks from hurt. Buddhism and magic are uniquely linked in Myanmar, and plenty of influential folks observe these practices. However with Myanmar as soon as once more underneath brutal army rule, a few of these customs have been pressured underground. From candlelit rituals to magical potions, 101 East goes inside the magical world of the weizza, Myanmar’s wizards.

 Gilberto rodriguez orejuela, the infamous former chief of colombia’s drug trafficking cali cartel, has died in a us jail on the age of 83, his lawyer has stated. Rodriguez orejuela was serving time at a federal jail in butner, north carolina. Typically identified by his alias “the chess participant”, he was thought-about to be one of many world’s greatest drug lords following the 1993 loss of life of pablo escobar, the chief of the rival medellin cartel. Alongside together with his youthful brother miguel – who can also be imprisoned in the usa – rodriguez orejuela ran the cali cartel out of the western colombian metropolis of the identical title. After his seize in 1995, rodriguez orejuela was sentenced to fifteen years in jail in colombia, however was launched after solely seven. He was then arrested once more in 2003 and held in a colombian jail till being extradited to the usa in december 2004. “we had been very unhappy to find out about his passing final night time. Our ideas...

 The displacement is because of a senegalese navy operation towards rebels in casamance who’re preventing for independence. Stray bullets whistled previous senegalese villager modou badjie and his household as they ran by means of a cashew forest in the course of the evening to achieve neighbouring gambia. Badjie, his three wives, many youngsters and prolonged members of the family are amongst greater than 690 individuals who have crossed the border to flee a flare-up in preventing between troopers and separatists in senegal’s southern casamance area, in line with authorities figures.“their pictures may have hit one among us,” badjie stated within the gambian village of upert, some 4 kilometres (three miles) from the border, the place the household took shelter in march. “individuals ran away due to the preventing and left all their belongings behind,” he stated. “we misplaced the whole lot and are very drained.” On march 13, the senegalese navy launched an operation towards rebels...

Kyiv, ukraine – because the a hundredth day of the russia-ukraine battle approaches, many issues have turn out to be crystal clear. Russian president vladimir putin’s idea of “the russian world”, or the kremlin’s proper to “shield” ethnic russians and russian-speakers wherever they’re has failed abysmally in ukraine.Putin’s claims that russians and ukrainians are “one individuals” are actually rejected by practically all ukrainians – nearly a decade after 85 p.C of them mentioned they “felt good” about russia, and 16 p.C needed each nations to merge, in line with a 2013 ballot by the kyiv worldwide sociology institute.Ukrainians are adamant that putin’s plan to “de-nazify” kyiv and substitute president volodymyr zelenskyy with a pro-kremlin puppet won’t ever come true.Some on each side got here to a easy but overwhelming conclusion that the battle is usually about their beliefs that might simply be seen as “non secular”.Russia invaded ukraine due to the latter’s “conversion” to the ide...

Yenagoa, nigeria – on a sweltering friday afternoon final april, kenneth omokahire sat near 4 neighbours exterior his home within the anibeze group within the southernmost nigerian state of bayelsa, lamenting to the lads about coastal erosion within the city.“what else can we do?” requested 65-year-old omokahire, whose former home was fully submerged virtually 4 many years in the past. “this downside just isn’t what we are able to remedy as a group.  We now have [sought] for presidency’s assist a number of instances, however nothing has been completed to avoid wasting the group from the issue.”On july 4, 1985, the four-bedroom condominium the place omokahire and his household used to reside was washed away into the river. Now, they lease a smaller condominium in a close-by constructing with a leaky roof.In nigeria, coastal areas, which lengthen 853km by seven southern states bordering the atlantic ocean, are repeatedly affected by erosion, the lack of land brought on by the removin...