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http://ift.tt/2qjXFlw Authorities arrested a 24-year-old man last night in Rusholme, an inner-city area of Manchester, it said in a statement. / AFP PHOTO / NIKLAS HALLE'N British police said Saturday they had arrested a new suspect in the May 22 terrorist attack at a pop concert in Manchester, bringing to 11 the number of men in custody. Authorities arrested a 24-year-old man last night in Rusholme, an inner-city area of Manchester, it said in a statement. “He was arrested on suspicion of offences contrary to the terrorism act,” police added. Twenty-two people, including seven children, were killed in the attack at a concert by US singer Ariana Grande. The new arrest follows the evacuation Friday afternoon of an area in Rusholme after police identified a car they said “may be significant to the investigation”. Seventeen arrests have so far been made in the UK and six people have since been released without charge. Bomber Salman Abedi’s father and brother are also in...

http://ift.tt/2ru8ZMT Japanese Princess Mako leaves her home in Tokyo on May 18, 2017. The upcoming engagement of Emperor Akihito's granddaughter to her college sweetheart has brought joy to Japan but is highlighting the vulnerability of the male-dominated imperial family at a sensitive time for the ancient institution. / AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS / STR / Japan OUT Emperor Akihito’s granddaughter’s upcoming engagement to her college sweetheart, a commoner, will cost the princess her royal status in a move that highlights the male-dominated nature of Japan’s monarchy as it faces a potential succession crisis. Public broadcaster NHK broke the story of Princess Mako’s engagement late Tuesday, sending the country into a tizzy with the news dominating television chat shows and newspaper coverage ahead of an expected official announcement in coming weeks. Her reported fiancé, Kei Komuro, a telegenic 25-year-old commoner once named “Prince of the Sea” in a tourism promotion contest, br...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Emma Amaize WARRI—THE Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI, Delta State, stirred a fresh controversy between the Ijaw and Bini ethnic groups, yesterday, when it declared that Ijaw people had settled in the present-day Edo State before the Bini. It claimed that the Ijaw currently proclaiming ownership of the Gelegelegbene community in the state, came from Egypt after a short stay at Sudan and Ile-Ife. National president of the group, Austin Ozobo, in a statement, challenged the Edo Forum of Patriots and Bini Solidarity Movement, both of which it said alleged that Bini owned Gelegele, an Ijaw community, with misleading information, to prove their case with historical facts. The group asserted: “Our attention has been drawn to statements credited to Edo Forum of Patriots and Bini Solidarity Movement, where they alleged that Gelegele, an Ijaw community, belonged to the Bini, citing some distorted and contorted black market court judgments. It is impera...