Coup leader Oligui Nguema wins poll by huge margin

Paul njie BBC News, Libreville AFP Gen Brice Oligui Nguema has been handed a seven-year mandate by an electorate relieved that the Bongo era is now past Gabon’s military leader Gen Brice Oligui Nguema – who in 2023 led a coup that ended a near-60-year dynasty – has won Saturday’s presidential election with more than 90% of the vote, provisional results show. Ahead of the vote, critics argued that the new constitution and electoral code were designed to give Oligui Nguema a comfortable ...

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Jean Marsh, Actress Who Co-Created ‘Upstairs, Downstairs,’ Dies at 90

Jean Marsh, the striking British-born actress who was both the co-creator and a beloved Emmy-winning star of “Upstairs, Downstairs,” the seminal 1970s British drama series about class in Edwardian England, died on Sunday at her home in London. She was 90. The cause was complications of dementia, the filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg, her close friend, said. “Upstairs, Downstairs” captured the hearts, minds and Sunday nights of Anglophile PBS viewers decades before “Downton Abbey” was even a gleam ...

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Tigers' Jackson Jobe, son of ex-pro golfer, gets 1st MLB win

APR 13, 2025, 06:25 am and That Detroit Tigers prospect Jackson Jobe earned his first major league win on Masters weekend fits as perfectly as a green jacket. The 22-year-old right-hander is the son of former professional golfer Brandt Jobe, who played in the Masters three times, with a young Jackson tagging along for the Par 3 contest in 2006. On Saturday, it was Jackson’s turn to put up a low number, pitching six shutout innings as the Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 4-0. Jobe (1-0), the third ...

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Israel military says missile launched from Yemen was likely intercepted

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli military said on Sunday an attempt to intercept an incoming missile launched from Yemen was likely successful after air raid sirens sounded across Israel. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Sirens could be heard in Jerusalem around 1816 local time (1516 GMT). The military had initially said two missiles were believed to have been launched from Yemen but shortly afterwards said only one had been fired. Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi movement has launched ...

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