Tag: minister
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Burkina Faso bans big buttocks beauty contest
The government of Burkina Faso has banned an annual beauty contest for women with the biggest buttocks, saying such events are sexist. Adverts for this weekend’s third edition of ‘Miss Bim-Bim’, carrying an image of two fully clothed women with exaggeratedly large behinds, provoked an outcry on social media. “Our role is to do everything…
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Italy grieves as state funeral held for victims of powerful quake
Amongst the 35 coffins laid out in a sports hall were small caskets holding the bodies of an 18-month-old baby and a nine-year-old girl, two of the 21 children who are known to have died when the quake hit central Italy early on Wednesday. “What we need is a reconstruction in record time.
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Canada’s Trudeau to legalize marijuana, but not smoke it
By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has admitted to smoking marijuana in the past, said on Thursday he has no plans to light up even after his government makes it legal to do so. “It was never my thing.” Trudeau, 44, said he does not drink much alcohol…
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Canada’s Trudeau to legalize marijuana, but not smoke it
By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has admitted to smoking marijuana in the past, said on Thursday he has no plans to light up even after his government makes it legal to do so. “It was never my thing.” Trudeau, 44, said he does not drink much alcohol…
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Denmark environment minister to step down, bringing coalition crisis to a head
Danish Environment and Food Minister Eva Kjer Hansen said on Saturday she will step down having lost support in parliament, potentially bringing to a head a crisis threatening the minority government after only eight months in office. The Conservatives, one of the ruling Liberal party’s coalition partners, said they could no longer support Hansen, who…
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Trump’s march stirs growing sense of dread among U.S. Republicans
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republicans in Washington are coming to grips with what many of them not long ago considered an unimaginable reality: Donald Trump is likely to be their presidential nominee and standard-bearer. The prospect of Trump winning the Republican primary had been the stuff of Washington jokes, whispered hallway conversations…