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Sara claims Ashton told her he was already separated from wife Demi, 48, who was 2,500 miles away in New York.

Rumours of the one-night stand have been putting a strain on their A-list relationship. But now Sara has finally broken her silence to The Sun.

Her claims threaten to end their marriage for good and spark a £200million Hollywood divorce.

Sara claims Ashton told her he was already separated from wife Demi, 48, who was 2,500 miles away in New York.

Rumours of the one-night stand have been putting a strain on their A-list relationship. But now Sara has finally broken her silence to The Sun.

Her claims threaten to end their marriage for good and spark a £200million Hollywood divorce.

Made in Africa…, imported to UK

… according to Christine Beddoe, director of the anti-trafficking charity Ecpat UK, a cultural belief in the power of human blood in so-called juju rituals is playing a part in the demand for African children.

“Our experience tells us that traffickers can be anybody. They can be people with power, people with money or people involved in witchcraft,” she explains.

“Trafficking can involve witch-doctors and other types of professionals in the community who are using those practices.”

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Testimonies from many of these children have revealed that once they arrive in Britain, they are exposed to violent and degrading treatments, often involving the forced extraction of their blood to be used for clients demanding blood rituals.

Some of these victims agreed to share their experiences on the promise of anonymity because they still fear their abusers.

One boy explained how witch-doctors took his blood to be used in such rituals: “The traffickers or witch-doctors take your hair and cut your arms, legs, heads and genitals and collect the blood. They say if you speak out I can kill you.”

Another victim feared for her life, saying the “witch-doctor told me that one day he would need my head.

AGREED (AGRI) good venture!

At the ministerial meeting on the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector (AGRI) project in Bucharest, representatives of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania and Hungary expressed their full support to AGRI, which provides the delivery of Caspian gas in liquefied form via the Black Sea coast of Georgia in Eastern Europe.

“Representatives of the four countries stood for rapid start of the preparation of the AGRI project’s feasibility study (FS) at the ministerial meeting,” Vitaly Beylarbeyov, member of the AGRI LNG Co managing team, told Trend on Wednesday.

He mentioned that during the ministerial meeting the representatives were introduced the presentations of commercial companies in Japan, Norway, Turkey, Korea and France, which expressed a desire to prepare a feasibility study for AGRI.

Stranger than fiction… IT takes 2 to tangle (tango)

The husband of the woman Suleiman Bello through his lawyers, UB Darazo, Auwal Ibrahim and Jibrin Sa’id Jibrin filed a direct criminal complaint before the court against the accused.

Bello alleged that sometimes in July 2010, Umar Sade started wooing his wife Mars Munira Mohammed in an unlawful way suggestive of his intention for a love relationship and she reported the matter to him.

Bello told the court that when he heard the complaint, he approached the man and warned him to desist from any kind of interaction with his wife, and moved his wife from their former house at Danjuma Goje to Federal Low cost in order to blocked him from her.

He said in spite of the preventive measure, the accused went out of his way, got her mobile phone number and put calls to her on Monday September 26, 2011.

Dignity at stake!

The authorities in Georgia plan to move hundreds of people displaced in past conflicts out of the capital to new homes in the west of the country, ignoring their protests that they will lose their livelihoods if they are forced to leave

Under a new strategy for refugees, the government wants to clear 20 buildings of around 500 refugee families who currently live there.

Most are people displaced by conflict in South Ossetia and Abkhazia in the early 1990s. Others arrived after the brief conflict with Russia in 2008.

Both groups say that they have adapted to life in the capital, and argue that forcing them to leave would infringe their civil rights.

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Spot the connection

Russia’s S-300 air defense systems, which Moscow refused to deliver to Iran under the pretext of a new round of UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic, could be sold to Venezuela instead, a Russian arms trade expert said on Friday.

Russia signed a deal to deliver five battalions of S-300PMU-1 air defense systems to Iran in 2007 but banned the sale in September, claiming the systems, along with a number of other weapons, were covered by the fourth round of the UN Security Council sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is currently on a visit to Russia, earlier said his country was interested in buying different types of Russian-made air defense systems to create a multilayered air defense network. Venezuela has already purchased 12 Tor-M1 air defense systems, a number of ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft guns and Igla-S portable short-range air defense systems from Russia.

stop flogging that horse … bigotry at its best.

Ahmadinejad in no uncertain terms said that the “world must know the Zionists are to be gone.” He them praised the citizens of Bint Jbeil for making “the Zionists taste the bitter taste of defeat.” He went on to say that the Jewish people must surrender “to the will of the people and to return to their first homes.” The Iranian leader continued praising Lebanon for battling Israel. The crowd responded positively by applauding the President heavily. Ahmadinejad said that the Israeli’s “must know Bint Jbeil is holding its head up and will stand until the end against enemies.”

Men and women packed the speech location hours prior to the event, which quickly turned into a sea of people showcasing the flags of Lebanon and Iran. As one of the few world leaders that sides with Lebanon in their battle against Israel, Ahmadinejad is seen as a hero to the Lebanese. Ahmadinejad and Iran gave Lebanon most of the aid they needed following the 2006 war with Israel to rebuild the state’s infrastructure and buildings.

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Ahmadinejad also meet with Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah. The meeting took place in Beirut’s Iranian Embassy. It was reported that Nasrallah gave Ahmadinejad a weapon that was taken from a soldier from the Israel military. Ahmadinejad thereafter called out the United States and its allies on the wars in the Middle East. The Iranian President said, “What have the Western countries done in Afghanistan? Ask them where are those terrorists. Where in Afghanistan are they hiding? Everything has been ambiguous. But through propaganda and through the media, they have portrayed themselves as liberators.”

dividend! NO???

A new agreement between global energy company BP and the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR) was signed last week in Baku for the exploration and development of yet another offshore gas field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea.

It is estimated that the Shafag-Asiman field contains between 300 billion and 500 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas plus gas condensate that may also be recovered. A production-sharing agreement (PSA) between the two partners sets up a joint venture on a parity basis with a time horizon of 30 years.

The deal further boosts Azerbaijan’s already considerable gas production prospects, which include the 16 bcm/y planned for Shah Deniz’s Phase Two development, the gas in the deepwater Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) development now being exploited for oil that flows through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) export pipeline, and several other offshore gas fields. BP holds a 25.5% share in the consortium developing Shah Deniz Two, and the company in August increased its share in ACG to 39.8% from 34.1% with its purchase of the stake owned by Devon Energy.

Hardcore peace… WONDERS!

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The two men — Kiro Manoian, one of the party’s deputy chairs, and Mario Nalbandian, a member of its governing board — were traveling at the invitation of the Social Democrat Party of Azerbaijan to attend an October 11-12 conference in Baku of the Socialist International, a worldwide alliance of left-wing parties. Public interest in the conference had been minimal; initial news of the two politicians’ arrival came from Armenian media outlets.

For many Azerbaijanis, the surprise lay more in the identity of the visitors than in the visit itself. Despite the ongoing hostility between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Armenian officials and politicians occasionally visit Baku to participate in international conferences and meetings. But members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutiun (ARF), who are often called Dashnaks, have a particular reputation among Azeris. Media outlets in Baku regularly characterize the party as a “terrorist organization.”

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Fielding a question as to the possibility of classifying MEND  as  a terrorist  group it said : “No, we will not brand MEND a terrorist group. The EU would continue to support the amnesty programme. Members of MEND have come out to support the amnesty and condemned the bombings. That is certainly not for now…as for our support in the fight against corruption, we have been behind the EFCC, strengthening the operational capacity and we have seen that its investigative capacity has improved and we can only strengthen the EFCC, the judiciary and all the other anti-corruption agencies. The government of Nigeria still has the political responsibility to ensure that best practices prevail.”

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