Many cautiously hoped that the southern African nation of Zimbabwe would find its way from dictatorship to democracy this year. However, the election commission declared Mugabe's enforcer and vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, nicknamed "the Crocodile," president, leading to violent oppression. 
"Game of Thrones" actress Sophie Turner celebrated Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra's official engagement on Instagram. Turner, who is engaged herself to Joe Jonas, said she was excited to welcome Chopra to the family and have "such an beautiful, inside and out, future sister-in-law." 
The bodies of a Northern Italian couple and their daughter, and a 30-year-old Albanian man who worked in Italy, were found in the rubble of the Morandi bridge collapse on Saturday, the same day that a state funeral was held for 19 of the victims. 
Jim Crow, the system of laws that advanced segregation and black disenfranchisement, began in the North — not the South, as most Americans believe. Long before the Civil War, northern states had legal codes that promoted racial segregation and black disenfranchisement. 
Simona Mangiante, the wife of George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser on President Donald Trump's campaign, is trying to scrap her husband's plea deal with the special counsel Robert Mueller. advertisement
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