August 21, 2020

British government debt has exceeded £2.0 trillion for the first time following large state borrowing as the coronavirus pandemic pushed the UK economy deep into recession, official data showed Friday.

At the end of July, total accumulated debt hit £2.004 trillion ($2.61 trillion, 2.2 trillion euros), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement.

The debt increased by £227.6 billion compared with July 2019.

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Illinois has become the third state in the United States to keep off rapper Kanye West from the state’s presidential ballot in November.

According to the Chicago Tribune, West was booted off the ballot after an 8-0 vote by the State Board of Elections.

The Tribune said he was 1,300 signatures short of the 2,500 needed

West has also be taken off the ballot in Wisconsin and Ohio.

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The rapper announced in July he’s running for president on a ticket he calls the “Birthday Party.”

West has since …

African leaders, including Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Uhuru Kenyatta have strongly condemned Tuesday military coup in Mali during which President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was arrested by mutinying soldiers.

The leaders also from DR Congo, Rwanda and Mozambique, demanded the immediate release of Keita.

In a statement issued in Nairobi on Friday after a virtual meeting on Thursday evening, the leaders also called for the immediate release of senior members of his administration, among them the country’s Prime Minister Boubou Cisse.

Kenyatta urged for a “speedy, peaceful and democratic” resolution of …