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  Sex Scandal in Madhya               Pradesh As layers peel off the Madhya Pradesh sex scandal, more dark details are emerging. A dozen top bureaucrats and eight former ministers of Madhya Pradesh are being investigated in a notorious extortion racket in which over 1,000 clips of sex chats, explicit videos and audios have been found from computers and mobile phones. The scandal primarily targeted top politicians and bureaucrats and involves five women who used sex workers and young college girls. More than 40 call girls, including a few B-grade actresses from Bollywood were engaged to honey-trap bureaucrats and politicians, including a former Chief Minister and Governor of Madhya Pradesh. Currently, 92 high-quality video clips, depicting bureaucrats and politicians in a compromising position, have been recovered from two laptops and several mobile phones of five women arrested on charges of a sex-blackmail and extortion racket wh...

Deux anciens employés de Twitter ont servi d'espions à l'Arabie saoudite Deux anciens employés de Twitter, ainsi qu un autre individu, ont été inculpés mercredi pour avoir prétendument espionné des utilisateurs de Twitter critiquant la famille royale saoudienne, a annoncé le ministère américain de la Justice. Selon Washington, des fonctionnaires saoudiens auraient recruté des employés sur Twitter pour consulter les données privées de milliers de comptes Twitter et retirer certains contenus de la plate-forme de médias sociaux. Les trois suspects ont été arrêtés pour avoir accédé frauduleusement à des informations privées et avoir agi comme agents illégaux d un gouvernement étranger. Selon la plainte, entre novembre 2014 et mai 2015, les autorités saoudiennes ont convaincu les deux anciens employés de Twitter d utiliser leurs références d employé pour accéder à des informations privées sur des individus derrière certains comptes Twitter, en particulier ceux qui ont cr...

Worlds fastest car unveiled The ‘world’s fastest straight-line car’ has been unveiled in South Africa’s Hakskeenpan desert. The car, which has been developed by the Bloodhound Land Speed Record (BLSR) team, can travel at staggering speeds of over 500 miles/hour, and could break the world land speed record in 2020. It’s powered by a EJ200 Eurofighter Typhoon jet engine and features precision machined solid aluminium wheels, which are designed to withstand the stresses of travelling at supersonic speeds. The BLSR team will put the car through its paces at the Hakskeenpan desert racetrack, before attempting to break the world land speed record next year. One of the key objectives of the tests will be to see how the car behaves when slowing down and stopping, having reached such huge speeds. Mark Chapman, Bloodhound LSR Engineering Director, said: “Newquay was all about getting up to speed and finding out how quickly we could get the engine to full power and accelerate using ma...

Gunmen free El Chapo's son in fierce gun battle Heavily armed cartel members overpowered security forces and freed the son of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a fierce gun battle that rocked the western city of Culiacan in Mexico on Thursday. Images carried on Mexican television showed army and police personnel under assault by men armed with heavy weapons. The battle, which broke out in the afternoon near the state prosecutors office, raged late into the night, bringing the city to a standstill. Masked gunmen blocked traffic and opened fire, causing panicked drivers to abandon their cars in the middle of the street. The fighting then spread to several other parts of the city. Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said Ovidio Guzman, one of the sons who assumed partial control of the notorious cartel run by their father until he was extradited to the United States in 2017, had been arrested during an operation but a decision was taken to withdraw to protect the...

Tanzania billionaire speaks about his kidnapping Tanzanian billionaire Mohammed Dewji, who was kidnapped and held for 10 days in October last year, says he was ready to die, having been disoriented by his captivity. 43-year-old Dewji, who is widely considered to be Africa’s youngest billionaire, told the BBC he asked his kidnappers to shoot him. He was speaking to mainstream media for the first time since he was abducted outside a hotel gym in the country’s main city, Dar es Salaam. Why I asked kidnapper to shoot me Dewji said he was disoriented and blindfolded at the time he asked the kidnappers to end his life. You get disoriented, youre tired, because its a form of torture. “I was blindfolded and there were times they kept on threatening me with guns to my head and five days, six days into it I was thinking I was losing my eye sight,” Dewji narrated. “[The kidnapper] was like ‘I’m going to shoot you’ and I was like ‘you can shoot me and kill me’, because I was losing it. You get dis...

Burundi : 4 journalistes inculpés de "complicité d'atteinte à la sécurité intérieur" Quatre journalistes burundais et leur chauffeur, arrêtés alors qu’ils couvraient l’incursion de rebelles burundais venus de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) voisine, ont été inculpés de “complicité d’atteinte à la sécurité de l‘État” et écroués samedi, a-t-on appris de source judiciaire et de témoins. “Le procureur de Bubanza, Clément Ndikuriyo, a accusé les quatre journalistes et leur chauffeur de complicité avec le groupe armé qui a attaqué mardi et vient de les inculper de complicité d’atteinte à la sécurité intérieure de l‘état”, a annoncé à l’AFP une source policière sous couvert d’anonymat. “Les cinq ont ensuite été conduits à la prison centrale de Bubanza où ils ont été écroués”, a-t-il poursuivi, ajoutant qu’un “procès doit être organisé très rapidement suivant la procédure de flagrant délit”. Deux témoins ont confirmés à l’AFP ces informations. Les quatre journalistes et...

Ethiopia's Sidama people to vote on self-determination Polls opened on Wednesday for Ethiopia’s Sidama people to vote on self-determination in a referendum closely watched by other ethnic groups also seeking more autonomy since reforms by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed shook up the national power balance. The special vote for the Sidama, mostly based in the south and comprising about 4% of Ethiopia’s 105 million people, comes ahead of a general election next year and has brought fears of renewed violence. At least 17 people died in clashes in July between security forces and Sidama activists after the government delayed the poll by five months. Voters lined up before dawn at a polling station in Hiteta, a neighbourhood in the city of Hawassa, women carrying babies, elders wrapped in white, handwoven blankets, the gabi, and young men with traditional Sidama scarfs tied around their heads. Many waived their voting cards in celebration as they waited to cast their ballots when ...