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RABAT — A Moroccan television show has been suspended for allowing a celebrity guest to boast on air of "beating his wife", the country media authority said on Wednesday."Whoever doesn't beat his wife is not a man," popular singer Adil El Miloudi said in June on a Chada TV show, Kotbi Tonight, drawing laughter from a fellow guest, actor Samy Naceri, and host Imad Kotbi."In Morocco, this is normal, anyone can do what he wants with his wife, hit her, kill her," he insisted after Kotbi jokingly said: "It's forbidden to hit one's wife all over the world."Miloudi's remarks amounted to "justification for violence against women, an express incitement to violence, presented in a positive way as a sign of virility... or even recommended...
September 18, 2019
Morocco TV show censured for guest's boast of 'beating wife'
September 18, 2019
Let me take you down: Strawberry Field opens to public
September 18, 2019
Scientists release sterile mosquitoes in Burkina to fight malaria
WASHINGTON - When Brad Pitt called the International Space Station (ISS) Monday to talk to American astronaut Nick Hague, the conversation turned to the unexpected consequences of weightless life."The calluses on my feet have basically gone away because I don't walk on the bottoms of my feet," said Hague, who is currently living on the ISS with two other Americans, two Russians and an Italian."But now I have calluses across the top of my foot, around my big toe, because I'm constantly hanging on things with my big toe," he added."That's incredible to see," said Pitt, who held the 20-minute video call via split-screen from NASA's Washington headquarters.The call, which was broadcast on NASA TV, was part of Pitt's promotional tour for his...
September 17, 2019
Brad Pitt talks weightlessness and calluses on phone call to ISS
September 17, 2019
New cars, tattoos: the lifestyles of India's kabbadi millionaires
September 16, 2019
Buzz off! Angry bees delay Air India flight
September 16, 2019
In Ivory Coast, telemedicine revolution proves blessing for heart patients
FRANCEVILLE, GABON - The sky turns from indigo to ebony as the tropical night falls, and the train patiently thrusts through the jungle towards its destination, still hundreds of kilometers away.The trek has the hallmarks of one of the world's Great Forgotten Train Journeys -- a voyage through 648 kilometers of lush equatorial forest.The train is the brainchild of Gabon's former president, Omar Bongo, who ruled for 42 years until his death in 2009.In the 1970s, he dreamed of linking the central African state's resource-rich interior to the Atlantic coast -- and he saw it through, despite being rebuffed by the World Bank, which refused to fund it on the grounds that it was not economically viable.Today, the "Bongo Train", as it is affectionately known, remains the...
September 16, 2019
Gabon's sole train a lifeline for its people and economy
September 16, 2019
Booming Bollywood comes home for 'Oscars' 20th edition
September 16, 2019
'This is our home': Kenya islanders demand say in foreign-backed projects
