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Sir Mick Jagger turns 80 in July, but he's still prancing round the stage with the Rolling Stones . Yet, I hear that the singer's daughter, Jade Jagger, is already giving up her career - at the tender age of 51 Jade has been a designer of fine jewellery for three decades. However, yesterday she declared: 'Today is the first day I decided to stop working at jewellery. I think it will bring new light, new love and new opportunities. 'Thank you to all that supported me. Change is good.' The news may come as a relief to Kate Moss, who received a necklace from Jade in 2002. When the supermodel inspected it closely, she was shocked to discover one word spelled out in decorative stones: 'SLAG'. Jade — whose mother is Sir Mick's first (and only) wife Bianca — had been going out for two years with Dan Macmillan, the louche model son of the Earl of Stockton, when she reportedly discovered that he had also been enjoying a relationship with Moss, 49. Jade: No more … [Read more...] about EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: While Mick, 79, rocks on, daughter Jade Jagger, 51, packs in her day job as she gives up designing fine jewellery

The Ugandan parliament has passed a bill setting out jail terms of up to 10 years for offences related to same-sex relationships, forcing rights groups to condemn the legislation as 'appalling'. The Bill was passed late on Tuesday inside a packed parliamentary chamber in the capital Kampala. A roll call was ordered by the House speaker who had repeatedly warned it was necessary to identify those who might oppose the legislation. It was supported by nearly all of the 389 legislators present. Speaker Anita Among said: 'Congratulations. Whatever we are doing, we are doing it for the people of Uganda.' An earlier version of the Bill enacted in 2014 was later nullified by a court on procedural grounds. The east African country is notorious for its intolerance of homosexuality - which was criminalised under colonial-era laws. Amnesty International subsequently urged Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni to veto the anti-gay bill, warning it was 'a grave assault' on LGBTQ people. But he … [Read more...] about Uganda passes bill to jail all gay people: Rights group condemn ‘appalling’ law in country where homosexuality is already illegal

LONDON — Victor Ehikhamenor remembers the first time he was called an artist. Born in 1970 in a small village in Edo State in Nigeria, Mr. Ehikhamenor was given a plastic camera when he was 9. Trying to mimic one of his uncles who had emigrated to the United States in the 1960s to study photography, he would line up his friends and pretend to take pictures of them. Mr. Ehikhamenor would go home and draw the scene on pieces of paper and then hand the drawings out to those friends. “Some would pay me; some would allow me to play football with them,” Mr. Ehikhamenor, 53, said with a chuckle. An older schoolmate soon started calling him an artist, a term he had never heard. “I was like, ‘What is that?’” Mr. Ehikhamenor, who splits his time between Lagos, Nigeria, and the United States, said during a video call from his studio in Maryland. “He said, ‘What you are doing means you are an artist.’ So, then I went back to my friends and said, ‘Don’t call me anything else; call me an … [Read more...] about History and Humor Inspire Victor Ehikhamenor’s Art

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for March 22 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. In Nigeria's teeming city of Lagos, children in the Makoko area swim and play in filthy water surrounded by garbage. In Ivory Coast's largest city, Abidjan, thousands of families must fetch water from streams for their daily needs. In Mozambique and Malawi the recent destruction and flooding caused by Cyclone Freddy have displaced more than 500,000 people and the lack of clean water has seen a dramatic rise in cholera cases. March 22 is the United Nation’s World Water Day, marked annually since 1993 to raise awareness about the pressing need for billions of people around the world to have access to clean water and sanitation. According to the UN, 1 in 4 people – 2 billion people worldwide – lack safe drinking water and 1.4 million people die annually of diseases related to poor water, sanitation … [Read more...] about UN World Water Report 2023 highlights African children’s lack of access to clean water

next Image 1 of 3 In this photo taken Sunday, March 19, 2017, children take water from a well at a camp for those who were previously displaced by fighting, near a church in Rajaf, South Sudan. As the world marks World Water Day on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 more than 5 million people in South Sudan do not have access to safe, clean water, compounding the problems of famine and civil war, according to UNICEF. (Matthieu Alexandre/Caritas Internationalis via AP) (The Associated Press) prev next Image 2 of 3 In this photo taken Sunday, March 19, 2017, Rosa Lyo eats fruit at a camp for those who were previously displaced by fighting, near a church in Rajaf, South Sudan. As the world marks World Water Day on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 more than 5 million people in South Sudan do not have access to safe, clean water, compounding the problems of famine and civil war, according to UNICEF. (Matthieu Alexandre/Caritas Internationalis via AP) (The Associated … [Read more...] about African governments urged to spend more on water safety

next Image 1 of 3 In this photo taken Sunday, March 12, 2017, a girl Abuk walks home with her brothers and friends after collecting clean water from a water point four kilometers away from her home, in Aweil, in South Sudan. As World Water Day approaches on March 22, more than 5 million people in South Sudan, do not have access to safe, clean water, compounding the problems of famine and civil war, according to the UNICEF. (Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin/UNICEF via AP) (The Associated Press) prev next Image 2 of 3 In this photo taken Saturday, March 11, 2017, women walk across parched and burned former farmland on the outskirts of Aweil, in South Sudan. As World Water Day approaches on March 22, more than 5 million people in South Sudan, do not have access to safe, clean water, compounding the problems of famine and civil war, according to the UNICEF. (Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin/UNICEF via AP) (The Associated Press) prev Image 3 of 3 … [Read more...] about Daily hunt for water affects millions of Africans

A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta   ● Wed, March 22, 2023 2023-03-22 19:19 0 5fceed71997e5776a1634d25dc30fdb4 1 Middle East and Africa diplomacy,occupation,Palestine,Indonesia,US,Jordan,Israel Free Indonesia has issued a strong condemnation of a recent comment by Israel’s right-wing finance minister Betzalel Smotrich “who denies the existence of Palestine and denounces the existence and territorial sovereignty of Jordan”, the Foreign Ministry tweeted on Wednesday in the first of two posts. In its second post , the ministry reaffirmed the country’s stance: “Indonesia continues to consistently support the struggle of the Palestinian people and respect Jordan’s territorial sovereignty.” Abdul Kadir Jailani, the ministry’s director general for Asia, Pacific and African affairs, also took to Twitter on Wednesday to express Indonesia’s unwavering support for the Palestinian people, referring to the stance as a constitutional mandate. … [Read more...] about Indonesia condemns Israeli minister for denying Palestine’s existence